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KYIV: Multiple explosions were heard in KyivWednesday after air raid sirens sounded in Ukraine's capital and elsewhere across the country. The thunderous echoes of what sounded like repeated blasts rattled across the capital. Mayor…

ASTANA: Russia on Tuesday said it hoped Turkey would exercise "restraint" and refrain from "any excessive use of force" in Syria, where Ankara has carried out air strikes and is threatening to launch a ground offensive against Kurdish…

KYIV: Ukraine said on Monday that it had identified four places in the southern city of Kherson that Russian forces used to torture detainees before Moscow withdrew troops from the city earlier this month. The officeof the general…

MOSCOW: The Kremlinsaid on Monday it was not discussing calling up more Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine through a second round of mobilisation. Russia called up more than 300,000 reservists to support what it calls its "special…

WASHINGTON: Russia's surge in missile strikes in Ukraine are partly designed to exhaust Ukraine's supplies of air defenses, something Moscow hopes would allow its forces to achieve dominance of the skies above the country, a senior …

KYIV: At least 437 Ukrainian children have been killed as a result of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office said on Saturday. More than 837 children have also been injured in a tally officials said was "not final"…

MOSCOW: Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had executed more than 10 Russian prisoners of war with direct shots to the head. The defence ministry was responding to a video circulated on Russian social media which it…

BANGKOK: US secretary of state Antony Blinkensaid on Thursday that Russia bore responsibility for a deadly blast in Poland, where an initial probe pointed to Ukrainian air defences. Addressing reporters at an Asia-Pacific summit in…

KYIV: Ukraine said on Thursday that Russia was ultimately responsible for a deadly missile blast in Poland this week, after Washington announced it was likely fired by Ukrainian air defence. "We share the view that Russia bears full…

Investigators in Ukraine's recently liberated southern Kherson region have uncovered 63 bodies with signs of torture after Russian forcesleft the area, Ukraine's interior minister was quoted as saying early on Thursday. "Now, 63 bodies…