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KYIV - President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 29 he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary step in view of Russian tactics in their 40-month-old war. Ukraine ratified the convention in 2005. Other…

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Russian forces have launched more than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said on June 29, describing the attack as the biggest air strike on the country since the war began. “Almost all night long, air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine -- 477 drones were in our skies, most…

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A Russian drone strike killed a married couple overnight in Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa, local authorities said, as the country’s security service claimed it destroyed Russian helicopters and an anti-aircraft missile system in occupied Crimea. Ukrainian authorities said the Russian attack on June 28 left at least two people…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Moscow is ready for a fresh round of direct peace talks with Ukraine, even as both warring countries traded long-range drone attacks. Speaking to reporters in Minsk, during a visit to Belarus, Putin said Russian and Ukrainian officials are discussing the timing of…

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Four people were killed in the Ukrainian industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk amid a massive wave of Russia air strikes on Ukraine in the second deadly attack on the area this week amid a push by Moscow to take territory as the peace process stalls. Serhiy Lysak, the regional governor of…

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