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Exclusive: Ukraine accuses Russian snipers of abusing child, gang-raping mother

Exclusive: Ukraine accuses Russian snipers of abusing child, gang-raping mother

 UKRAINE has accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang-raping her mother at gunpoint in front of her father, as part of widespread allegations of abuse during the more than one-year-long invasion. According to Ukrainian prosecution files seen by Reuters, the incidents were among a spree of sex crimes Russian soldiers of the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade committed in four homes of Brovary district near the capital Kyiv in March 2022. Russia's Defence Ministry did not respond to a request for comment. Phone numbers listed for the brigade were out of order. Two officials at…
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Responding to Chinese ‘joke’, Russia says US is ‘invisible hand’ in Ukraine

Responding to Chinese ‘joke’, Russia says US is ‘invisible hand’ in Ukraine

RUSSIA said that the United States was driving the war in Ukraine, saying China's foreign minister was joking when he said an "invisible hand" was to blame. In effusive comments on China's stature in world affairs, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said Moscow was paying close attention to a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine that Beijing published last month. He was speaking after Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said the Ukraine crisis seemed to be driven by an invisible hand, pushing to extend and escalate the conflict and using it "to serve certain geopolitical agendas". "Here we can probably disagree with…
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Biden says he is crafting a plan for Russia-Ukraine crisis

Biden says he is crafting a plan for Russia-Ukraine crisis

TREVOR HUNNICUT U.S. President Joe Biden says he is developing comprehensive initiatives to make it difficult for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine and that he would not accept Moscow's "red lines," as fears mounted that the simmering conflict could erupt into war. A video teleconference between the two leaders is anticipated within days. More than 94,000 Russian troops are massed near Ukraine's borders, said Ukraine's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, who cited intelligence reports suggesting Moscow may be planning a large-scale military offensive for the end of January. Moscow, in turn, has accused Ukraine and the United States of…
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