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[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The EU’s energy war with Russia has entered a new phase — and there are signs that the Kremlin is starting to feel the pain. As of Sunday, it is illegal to import petroleum products — those refined from crude oil, such as…
[ad_1] The Oscars are wading into a Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical minefield. Of the five films shortlisted by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this year’s best documentary, one is about Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and another is “A House Made of Splinters,” about a Ukrainian orphanage in the war-torn east of…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WAREHAM, Dorset — Ukrainian fighter pilots will soon be trained in Britain — but Kyiv will have to wait a little longer for the modern combat jets it craves. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the U.K. Wednesday with a firm British commitment to…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Beijing’s top envoy to the EU on Wednesday questioned the West’s call to help Ukraine achieve “complete victory,” on the eve of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s possible arrival in Brussels. Fu Cong, the Chinese ambassador to the EU, also criticized the bloc for…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — Russia has launched extensive missile raids across Ukraine and is building up troops near the northeastern city of Kupyansk to test Ukrainian defenses, just as Kyiv is warning that Moscow is gearing up to launch a new offensive. Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, commander…
[ad_1] “I am wicked and scary with claws and teeth,” Vladimir Putin reportedly warned David Cameron when the then-British prime minister pressed him about the use of chemical weapons by Russia’s ally in Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and discussed how far Russia was prepared to go. According to Cameron’s top foreign policy adviser John Casson — cited…
[ad_1] NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg plans to step down from his post as planned in October, his spokeswoman Oana Lungescu told German news agency Deutschen Presse-Agentur, dismissing reports of another extension to his term. “He has no intention of seeking a further extension of his mandate,” she said. Welt am Sonntag reported earlier…
[ad_1] Poland’s President Andrzej Duda signaled his country may not be able to deliver Western fighter jets to Ukraine to help it fend off Russia’s invasion. “A decision today to donate any kind of jets, any F-16, to donate them outside Poland is a very serious decision and it’s not an easy one for us…
[ad_1] “Attention. The air alert is over. May the force be with you.” That voice reading that message, heard on the English version of an app signaling the end of Russian air raids over Ukraine, belongs to Luke Skywalker (well, the actor Mark Hamill). The app received a Star Wars-themed update last year, just one of…
[ad_1] Russia wants to stage a coup d’état in Moldova, the country’s President Maia Sandu said Monday. Sandu called for heightened security measures in Moldova after the pro-EU government resigned last week, following months of pressure from Moscow which is waging an all-out war on neighboring Ukraine. “The plan included sabotage and militarily trained people…