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The reality is that cooperation has deepened, but one side seems reluctant to acknowledge that with a formal deal.
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.
The U.S. has provided Ukraine more than $75 billion in military and other aid to support its war efforts.
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An analysis of over 1,000 headlines shows key differences in how US media portray the aggressors and victims in the two conflicts.
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.
Refugees from Ukraine arriving at the Polish border in 2022.
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More young Poles want the country to stay neutral in the Ukraine war than in 2022, a survey says.
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.
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Putin has progressively sickened Russian society, creating a toxic culture that celebrates xenophobia, nativism, and violence.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky attending a press conference with African leaders in Kyiv in June.
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Research shows Russian disinformation is often repeated in the media in the Global South, influencing public opinion.
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The NATO summit in Vilnius has kicked the prospects of Ukraine’s membership into the long grass. Kyiv, however, has other security tricks up its sleeve.
Police officers look at collected fragments of Russian rockets, including cluster rounds, that hit Kharkiv, Ukraine, in December 2022.
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Ideally, Russia would withdraw from Ukraine peacefully. Absent this, cluster munitions represent an effective way for Ukraine to defeat Russia’s invasion.
Many ordinary civilians are helping organise charity and supplies for those people who have crossed into Russia from conflict zones in Ukraine.
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Despite wanting the war to be over, ordinary Russians are rallying to ‘do their bit’ to support their country’s troops at the frontline.
Seeking divine help? Neither Moscow nor Minsk wants Wagner Group mercenaries stationed in Belarus to get out of control.
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Wagner Group mercenaries in Belarus remain a worrying wild card with possible consequences for the conflict and the wider region.
People walk the streets in Kyiv, Ukraine in July 2023.
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A scholar of Eastern Europe spent time talking with Ukrainians in Kyiv during a recent trip and observed that people are scarred from the war – but still determined to fight back against Russia.
Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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As my seat shakes from the stereo effects, nobody in the nearly-full cinema flinches. The teenagers to my right are as used to explosions as J. Robert Oppenheimer himself.
Fuel tanks burn after a shelling Russian officials said was conducted by Ukrainian forces at a fuel depot in Makiivka in Russian-controlled Donetsk region on July 5, 2023.
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Claiming the moral high ground in any war isn’t just about justifying a war effort — it’s also about how a war is fought. Both Ukraine and Russia, sadly, have plenty of civilian blood on their hands.
The grain deal allowed Ukrainian corn and other products to reach ports in Lebanon and elsewhere.
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Russia’s move, which it followed by bombing the key port city of Odesa and threatening to attack any ship sailing for Ukraine, sent global food prices skyrocketing.
A Ukrainian soldier prepares to fire a Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flame-thrower rocket launcher, captured by a Ukrainian army battalion, towards Russian positions on the frontline near Kreminna, Luhansk region, in July 2023.
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The slow pace of the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia doesn’t suggest military success for Ukraine is impossible.
Presidents Biden and Zelenskyy take to the stage.
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As Western leaders depart a crucial summit, a NATO scholar parses what went down.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska arrive for a dinner during the Nato summit.
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An aggressive Soviet strategy in Europe prompted the formation of Nato.
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The latest NATO summit has put the spotlight on the global reach of the regional alliance.