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(Reuters) – Fighters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group have captured two more areas of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday. Wagner has spearheaded Russia’s attempt to take Bakhmut since last summer in what has been the longest and deadliest battle of the war for both…

Natalia Rakk speaks with her 14-year-old daughters Dasha and Aliona, who went to a Russian-organised summer camp from non-government controlled territories and were then taken to Russia, after returning via the Ukraine-Belarus border in Volyn region, Ukraine April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoReuters By Anna Dabrowska and Anna Voitenko UKRAINE/BELARUS BORDER…

Soviet T-55 tanks in Poland during the 1981 martial-law crisis. Wikimedia Commons Having lost at least 2,000 tanks in its 14-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to source the high-tech components its needs to build new tanks, Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage hundreds of 60-year-old T-62s…

BEIJING: French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Thursday to "bring Russia to its senses" over Ukraine and urged him not to deliver weapons to Moscow. The French president, who arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking…

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the head of the E.U. said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine. In closely watched talks, European Union chief Ursula von der…

French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Thursday to “bring Russia to its senses” over Ukraine and urged him not to deliver weapons to Moscow. The French president, who arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking to…

Already have Rappler+? to listen to groundbreaking journalism. BASKETBALL. A basketball hoop is seen in a playground of School No. 134 in Ukraine that was destroyed by Russian military strikes in 2022. Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Kyiv estimates 19,544 children have been deported to Russia during the invasion, with only 328 of…

March 28, 2023 - 8:26PM Oovvuu Germany has confirmed the first delivery of eighteen Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine's Defence Minister has also said British tanks have arrived as well. Kyiv has been calling on its western partners to ramp up deliveries of weapons, to roll back Russia's military gains across Ukraine. FRANCE 24's Andrew Hilliar explains. Read More

BRUSSELS (AP) — Finland joined the NATO military alliance Tuesday, dealing a major blow to Russia with a historic realignment of the continent triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Nordic country’s membership doubles Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance and represents a major change in Europe’s security…

America’s booming solar industry has hit a major speed bump due to supply-chain disruption and the inflationary pressures driven by Covid, war in Ukraine, and trade restrictions with China. As a result, utility scale solar deployment dipped 40%, year-on-year, in 2022. April 4, 2023 Levent Gun Fortunately, all signs point…