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Ukraine war latest: Russia 'shoots down own fighter jet' during drone attack on Crimea, Sochi
Hi, this is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,332 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russia shot down its own Su-30SM fighter jet over Crimea while its air defense was trying to intercept Ukrainian drones flying to the occupied peninsula and deep inside Russia overnight,
Direct conflict between Russia and NATO was once unthinkable, but preparations and defense spending have been stepped up in nervous Baltic states.
Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting comes just months after the two presidents battled it out in the Oval Office in an explosive exchange that abruptly ended previous negotiations
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Trump claims India will stop buying Russian oil, escalating pressure on Moscow over Ukraine war
President Donald Trump says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil
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Hegseth tells NATO the U.S. War Department ‘stands ready to do our part’ to ‘impose costs on Russia’
When U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth sat down at Wednesday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, he jokingly chided his fellow defense ministers to adopt the Pentagon’s new nomenclature for the civilian head of the military.
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said “firepower” is coming to Ukraine through European nations’ purchases of US weapons, but whether that includes American-made Tomahawk missiles is still not clear.