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Ukrainian forces have “highly likely” recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said. In a new intelligence update, British officials said small advances have been made east from Krasnohorivka near Donetsk, which sits on the old Line of Control. “Recent multiple concurrent Ukrainian assaults throughout the
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said the long-standing tensions between the Russian army and Wagner mercenary group, which staged a 24-hour mutiny at the weekend, had been mismanaged. In his first public remarks since he brokered a deal between the Kremlin and Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, which halted the group’s advance on Moscow, Mr Lukashenko
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Vladimir Putin has thanked the Russian army for stopping “a civil war” from breaking out after the Wagner Group’s 24-hour mutiny at the weekend. Speaking at the Kremlin, the Russian president told up to 2,500 members of the military, the security forces, and the National Guard that they had saved the country from chaos. The
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The Wagner Group is responsible for a raft of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic (CAR), according to a new investigative report. The group had been spearheading Russian attacks in parts of Ukraine before appearing to turn on the Kremlin after falling out with the Russian military over the conduct
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Greece’s conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has secured another four-year term in power following a landslide victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. With 91% of votes counted on Sunday evening, his centre-right New Democracy party was leading with 40.5% of the vote and 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament. The figure is more than 20 points clear
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Billionaire technology rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Twitter owner Musk, 51, said on his social media platform he was “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, 39. The Facebook founder and Meta chief executive and chairman then captioned a post “send me location” to
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Belarus has started to receive tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, its leader has said. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian state TV that his country is taking delivery of the weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “We
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