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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘has already begun’ World War III. Photo: AFP
Ukraine war

Zelensky says he believes Putin has started World War III

Ukrainian leader says his country was preventing it from becoming a ‘broad full-scale third world war’.

China airliners

China’s C909 jet gets international uplift with funding for adoptive airline

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Russia

Iran in secret deal with Russia for shoulder-fired missiles: report

Ukraine war

‘Brutal terrorist act’: twin blasts rock western Ukrainian city

A police officer was killed, 25 other people were wounded in bomb explosions in Lviv.

The aftermath of an explosion that rocked a shop in Lviv on Sunday. Photo: AFP
The aftermath of an explosion that rocked a shop in Lviv on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Ukraine war

Russian barrage strikes Ukrainian infrastructure as war drags on

Kyiv has faced waves of overnight strikes in recent weeks as Moscow has intensified its winter assaults.

Russia

Bus with Chinese tourists crashes through ice on Russia’s Lake Baikal, killing 8

A criminal investigation has been launched after reports that the tour had been run by an unregistered operator.

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Ukraine war

10 arrested over Russian plot to kill top Ukrainian officials

Moscow promised to pay the assassins up to US$100,000, depending on the notoriety and influence of the potential victim, prosecutor says.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska pay tribute to those killed during the Euromaidan protests in 2014 in Kyiv on Friday. Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska pay tribute to those killed during the Euromaidan protests in 2014 in Kyiv on Friday. Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP
Ukraine war

Over 1,000 Kenyans recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine war: report

Russian embassy denied Moscow’s involvement in illegally recruiting, though it said ‌foreign citizens could voluntarily join its forces.

Russia

Russia demands ‘concrete’ proof that it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin

Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands claim Russia had the ‘means, motive and opportunity’ to kill its opposition leader.

Ukraine war

Ukraine war talks in Geneva wrap up in 2 hours with no sign of breakthrough

Neither side revealed what they discussed or whether any agreement had been reached, but both said the discussions had been ‘difficult’.

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Russia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky (centre) leaves after the second round of US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday. Photo:AFP
Ukraine war

Zelensky says Trump’s peace demands focused only on Ukraine ‘not fair’

The president said Ukrainians ‘can’t understand why’ they would be asked to cede additional land to Russia.

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A Ukrainian soldier fires at a Russian drone at an undisclosed location near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, on Tuesday. Photo: the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanised Brigade/AFP
A Ukrainian soldier fires at a Russian drone at an undisclosed location near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, on Tuesday. Photo: the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanised Brigade/AFP
Ukraine war

Ukraine and Russia meet in Geneva as Trump piles new pressure on Kyiv

Zelensky urged allies to press Russia for a ‘real and just’ ⁠peace deal via tougher sanctions and weapons supplies to his country.

Marco Rubio

Rubio says US not disputing report of Navalny’s fatal poisoning by frog toxin

Five European governments blamed Russia for killing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny while he was held in an Arctic penal colony.

European Union

‘Work to be done’: EU says it’s not ready to give Ukraine a membership date

Ukraine applied to join the ‌EU days after Russia’s invasion almost four years ago, seeking to anchor itself to the West.

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European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addresses the media in Brussels in November. Photo: AP
Ukraine war

Russia seized 12 eastern Ukraine villages so far in February: army chief

Valery Gerasimov’s words to Moscow’s forces fighting in Ukraine came days before US-mediated talks on ending almost four years of war.

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Valery Gerasimov (left), the Russian army’s chief of staff, visits soldiers amid the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry via AFP
Valery Gerasimov (left), the Russian army’s chief of staff, visits soldiers amid the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry via AFP
Russia

Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say

Epibatidine, a deadly chemical not found naturally in Russia, was detected in samples taken from the body of the late Putin critic.

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Ukraine war

Russia launches missile, drone barrage at Ukraine as peace talks stall

Massive air assault targets energy systems and hits buildings in the capital and elsewhere, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Russia

WhatsApp accuses Russia of blocking service to force users to state ‘super-app’

WhatsApp and Telegram sound the alarm as the Kremlin chokes off Western apps to promote MAX, a state-backed rival modeled after China’s WeChat.

Meta criticises Russia for erasing WhatsApp from national records, calling the shift to state-run MAX a setback for safety. Photo: Reuters
Meta criticises Russia for erasing WhatsApp from national records, calling the shift to state-run MAX a setback for safety. Photo: Reuters
Ukraine war

Russian losses in Ukraine now exceed recruitment, Western officials claim

Battlefield casualties outpaced replenishment in January as the war enters its fifth year of full-scale conflict.

US-China relations

Beijing dominant partner in Russia-China relationship: US congressman Fallon

Lawmaker admits both countries have had a long strategic partnership, but world has now ‘seen that senior partnership shift’ to China.

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India

‘Structural reality’: why US tariff deal cannot sever India-Russia defence ties

While the pact demands a halt to Russian oil imports, analysts say New Delhi’s military dependence on Moscow is non-negotiable.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (left) speaks with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi in December 2025. Photo: AFP
Russia

Russia says suspect in shooting of top general detained in Dubai

Moscow says Russian Lyubomir Korba was held in Dubai for a shooting, with two accomplices identified – one in Moscow, while one fled to Ukraine.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalised after being shot several times on Friday. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalised after being shot several times on Friday. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP
Ukraine war

Ukraine’s Zelensky says US wants deal to end Russia’s war by June

The president suggested that the Trump administration’s focus later in the year would be on the US midterm elections.

Ukraine war

Russia strikes Ukraine power grid despite ongoing US-led peace talks

Ukrainians have accused Moscow of deliberately targeting the grid, leaving hundreds of thousands without heating in sub-zero temperatures.

Russia

Deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence wounded in Moscow shooting

Several senior Russian officers have been assassinated since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev in 2023. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry via Reuters
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