Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking via video link at the 2023 Brics summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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As the Brics alliance signs up new members, Russia continues to win over more allies.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a Danish F-16 fighter jet. Denmark is supplying Ukraine with 19 F-16s.
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The first batch of US-built F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ warplanes should be ready for deployment early next year.
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The apparent death of the warlord in a plane shot down over Russia tells us much about the fragility that surrounds Russian politics.
Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rose through the ranks from Vladimir Putin’s caterer to the boss of Russia’s most powerful private military company.
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The Wagner Group boss had died in mysterious circumstances when his private jet crashed on August 23 2023.
Eight GOP candidates for president after they entered the debate hall in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023.
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From immigration and federal spending to Ukraine and the state of American schools, eight GOP presidential candidates had a lot to say.
A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin corridor.
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The 120,000 residents of the disputed region are being deprived of food and medicines after a crucial link to Armenia was cut off by Azerbaijan.
A Ukrainian flag is displayed in front of a destroyed house in eastern Ukraine in October 2022.
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An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, hands out medals to servicemen at a hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, August 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Slow but steady: Volodymyr Zelensky receives a briefing on the counter-offensive from officers in Zaporizhzhia.
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Updates from various frontline sectors suggest progress for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. But it’s slow progress.
A family member says her last goodbyes to 22-year-old Ukrainian soldier Oleksander Mykhailenko.
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A new history examines the failure of the Russian polity and Russian society to wean themselves off their colonialist frame of mind.
Ukrainian refugees settle into their hosted accommodation in Oxfordshire with a cup of tea.
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People who hosted Ukrainian refugees were motivated by emotional and cultural factors, not financial incentives.
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Drones are both a destructive battlefield weapon and deliver a psychological boost when used on Russian cities.
The town of Sviatohirsk in Ukraine’s Donbas Region. Just a few months ago, it was occupied by Russian forces.
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Russian and Ukrainian communists who in 1919 mapped out the border between Ukraine and Russia took as their starting point the former Russian empire’s provincial boundaries.
Ukraine’s diplomatic efforts have included specific representation to the Arab world.
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Ukraine was able to advance its plan for peace with an audience including China and other Brics nations.
A Ukrainian soldier on territory recaptured from Russia in July 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits the Kerch bridge linking Russian-occupied Crimea with the Russian mainland, after an attack damaged it.
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About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
The UN secretary general has recently released a New Agenda for Peace, recommending a special session on disarmament.
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A lack of political will has impeded any progress on disarmament for nearly four decades.
On the attack: a Ukrainian tank crew on the front line near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s summer push is now showing signs of real progress, but don’t expect an end to the war anytime soon.
Vladimir Putin is trying to repair the damage done by his decision to pull out of the grain deal which had supplied many African countries.
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Vladimir Putin is engaged in a bid to woo support among African leaders, but the summit masks the darker reality of Russian influence-seeking in Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shake hands with Chinese Presiden Xi Jinping.
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Following deteriorating relations with the West, Russia has shifted focus to Asia, and hold China to help expand its influence.