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Plane carrying detainees released by Russia lands in US
Reuters, Published on 02/08/2024
» WASHINGTON - A plane carrying detainees released by Russia landed in the United States late on Thursday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, media footage showed.
Russia frees US reporter in prisoner swap
Reuters and Bloomberg, Published on 01/08/2024
» Jailed American reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US marine Paul Whelan were among 26 prisoners from the United States, Russia and a number of their allies being freed in a multi-country prisoner swap on Thursday, the presidency of Turkey has confirmed.
Disappointment on Ukraine front line over NATO meeting
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» DONETSK REGION (UKRAINE) - From their boltholes in the trenches in the frontlines of Ukraine's battle to resist the Russian forces, Kyiv's troops expressed frustration that they could not join NATO immediately.
'Our hero': tributes to security guard killed in Belgrade shooting
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» BELGRADE - Dragan Vlahovic was known for remembering the students' names at Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in Belgrade and reminding them to wear their coats when it was cold.
'I cried all day': Serbia reels after deadly school shooting
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Serbia was in mourning on Thursday a day after a 13-year-old suspect shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard after allegedly drawing up a kill list.
'Forget the war': Ukraine ski slope offers respite from conflict
AFP, Published on 06/03/2023
» BUKOVEL (UKRAINE) - Far from the Ukraine war's frontlines, only the whirring of generator-powered ski lifts disturbs the calm at Bukovel in the country's west, a winter resort nestled in the pine-forested Carpathian Mountains.
'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut
AFP, Published on 13/02/2023
» BAKHMUT,Ukraine: An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.
Russian forces flee lightning Ukrainian offensive
Bloomberg and AFP, Published on 10/09/2022
» KYIV: Thousands of Russian troops have retreated in the face of a lightning Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv region that threatens to derail the Kremlin’s bid to cement control of Ukraine’s east.
Russia accused of bombing school sheltering hundreds in Ukraine
AFP, Published on 20/03/2022
» KYIV: Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that Russia had bombed a school sheltering 400 people in the besieged port of Mariupol, as Moscow claimed that it had again fired a hypersonic missile in Ukraine, the second time it had used the next-generation weapon on its neighbour.
'Dire' humanitarian situation in besieged Ukraine cities
AFP, Published on 20/03/2022
» KYIV: The humanitarian situation was deteriorating in besieged Ukrainian cities under relentless Russian bombardment on Sunday, as Kyiv called on Moscow's ally Beijing to "condemn Russian barbarism".