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MOSCOW - Ukraine struck a fuel pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar region overnight, hours before the start of 32-hour ceasefire for Orthodox Easter and a prisoner-of-war swop.  Kyiv’s forces hit the Krymskaya facility, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Telegram. Earlier, authorities of the southern Russian region reported on Telegram that…

A former top Russian Defense Ministry official was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a snowballing, politically charged corruption investigation that has rattled the top levels of Russia’s military amid the war on Ukraine. Pavel Popov, a former general who served as deputy defense minister until…

Each day at around 6.30 a.m., Oleg Betivu searches for traces of petrol on the surface of the Dniester River, near the northern Moldovan village of Arionesti. Dressed in camouflage trousers and a matching jacket, he bends over and points to a purple patch on the flat river surface. “The…

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Kyiv and Moscow pledged to halt fighting for 32 hours to mark Orthodox Easter, as US-backed peace negotiations to end Russia's four-year war falter and Washington focuses on its own war with Iran. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had repeatedly proposed a holiday truce and that it will "act accordingly"…

News World news Russia UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in March gave special forces the authority to capture the ships illegally ferrying oil to support Russia’s war in Ukraine but Moscow still sent a warship to escort tankers 03:05, 09 Apr 2026 Updated 06:29, 09 Apr 2026 Russia has…

Tom Cotterill Daily Telegraph UK · 8 Apr, 2026 11:59 PM 8 mins to read Vladimir Putin sent a warship to escort Russian vessels through the English Channel, defying Sir Keir Starmer's threat to seize them. Photo / Getty Images Vladimir Putin sent a warship to escort Russian vessels through…

Foreign interference targeting Hungary amounts to an attack on the country’s sovereignty, US Vice President J. D. Vance said on Wednesday at an event hosted by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest. Vance argued that some actors do not treat EU financial pressure and what he described as pressure…

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) says it will make cash payments to 116 of the country’s athletes who were not allowed to compete at the Winter Olympics. Athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports have been barred from many international sport competitions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But 13…

Ukrainian drone attacks on major Russian oil terminals on the Baltic Sea have disrupted exports and caused widespread damage, affecting facilities that handle two-fifths of Moscow’s seaborne oil exports and nearly 2 per cent of global oil supply, according to the International Energy Agency. Residents in St Petersburg have begun…