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DEFENSE Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday said Staff Writer, Reuters News June 22, 2023 PHOTO Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday said Ukrainian forces were decreasing their activity on the front line and regrouping, but still have potential for offensive actions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted…

HAVANA, Cuba — Cuba said Tuesday it is reaffirming its alliance with Russia through a series of agreements considered key for the island nation, including on the supply of oil, the sale of wheat and the resumption of flights between both countries that were halted by the war in Ukraine.…

Israel-UK relations are better than ever, UK Ambassador Neil Wigan said on Wednesday. Wigan spoke to The Jerusalem Post before he leaves Israel at the end of the month, after four years in his post. Looking back at his time in Israel and comparing it to his posting as a…

In eastern Ukraine, residents are still grappling with water contamination and hundreds of flooded homes nearly two weeks after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, which killed dozens and displaced thousands. As rescue personnel race to clean up the region, at least one Ukrainian worker was killed Tuesday and eight…

Tens of thousands of mercenaries who fought with the Wagner Group in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine have returned home, the private military company's (PMC) founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has said. Their return coincides with the murder rate in Russia rising for the first time in 20 years. With Wagner troops…

KYIV, Ukraine -- The Kremlin's spokesman said Monday that U.N. aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhovka dam collapse in southern Ukraine can’t go there because fighting in the war makes it unsafe. The United Nations rebuked Moscow on Sunday for allegedly denying aid workers…

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't actually antisemitic, former Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky said in an interview on Monday morning. According to Sharansky, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons as a refusnik, Putin “isn’t an antisemite, on the contrary.” He went on to add that in reality, “there are…

UPDATED from original 12:58 p.m. story with more details and full winners list: In the Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s documentary about Ukrainians fleeing war in their homeland, won the Grand Jury Award for International Competition tonight at the 30th Sheffield DocFest. . The film premiered in May at the Millennium Docs Against…

Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, British officials said Sunday. Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March,…

The Biden administration has agreed to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium shells to equip M1A1 Abrams tanks that the U.S. is sending there. Britain has already delivered tanks to Ukraine equipped with depleted-uranium shells. DU munitions, developed in the 1970s, are not nuclear weapons and do not produce a nuclear…