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Russian soldiers’ corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village

Russian soldiers’ corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village

THE road into the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Storozheve is lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. The grisly scenes bear witness to the ferocity of fighting as Ukrainian troops recaptured Storozheve and several other villages in the past few days as part of a counteroffensive in southern and eastern Ukraine. Some of the dead Russian soldiers lay on the dusty ground beside the husks of their vehicles when Reuters journalists reached the village on Wednesday. Others were crumpled in the grass and fields nearby where they died. Inside the village, the small one-storey houses that line…
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Moscow, Washington trade blame after Black Sea drone crash

Moscow, Washington trade blame after Black Sea drone crash

PHIL STEWART, IDREES ALI and OLENA HARMASH MOSCOW told Washington to keep well away from its air space after a U.S. drone intercepted by Russian jets crashed into the Black Sea - the first known direct confrontation between the superpowers since Russia invaded Ukraine. While battles between Ukrainian troops and Russian forces raged on in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin and Washington traded blame for Tuesday's incident, which took place in international air space near territory Russia claims to have annexed from Ukraine. "The Americans keep saying they're not taking part in military operations. This is the latest confirmation that they…
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Russia declares battlefield gains as Ukraine urges faster military aid

Russia declares battlefield gains as Ukraine urges faster military aid

RUSSIA said it had broken through two fortified Ukrainian defence lines on the eastern front, with Kyiv describing conditions there as difficult and Western allies announcing more military aid including artillery rounds. The Russian Defence Ministry said the Ukrainians had retreated in the face of Russian attacks in the Luhansk region, although it gave no details and Reuters was not able to independently verify this and other battlefield reports. "During the offensive ... the Ukrainian troops randomly retreated to a distance of up to 3 km (2 miles) from the previously occupied lines," the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. "Even…
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East Ukraine focus of new Russian assaults

East Ukraine focus of new Russian assaults

MARIA STARKOVA UKRAINIAN troops have repulsed several Russian assaults in the country's east, the focus of a new offensive by the invading forces, British intelligence said on Monday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said this week will be crucial to the course of the war. Austrian leader Karl Nehammer planned to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday and will call for an end to the conflict. It would be Putin's first face-to-face meeting with a European Union leader since Russia's invasion started on Feb. 24. Russian forces were also pushing their offensive to establish control over the southern…
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Ukraine: African students faced guns from guards

Ukraine: African students faced guns from guards

ABRAHAM ACHIRGA NIGERIAN medical student Oduola Adebowale said he and some friends were trying to get on a train to flee Ukraine when the soldiers pointed guns at them and ordered them back. The Ukrainian troops told him they were only letting pregnant women on the service from the city of Lviv to the Polish border, but he said he saw them stop some pregnant African women from getting on board. "When we asked why they were doing this, the soldiers pointed guns at us, endangering our lives," he told Reuters days later after he finally managed to complete his…
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