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Russia “Regrouping” Its Forces After Ukraine Announces Gains In Kharkiv

Russia said it is "regrouping" its forces to back efforts in the Donetsk region. (File)Moscow: Moscow announced Saturday that it was withdrawing forces in the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine after Kyiv said its troops had made sweeping gains in the territory held for months by Russia's army."To achieve the goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas, a decision was made to regroup Russian troops stationed in the Balakliya and Izyum regions, to bolster efforts along the Donetsk front," Russia's defence ministry said in a statement.The apparent drawdown of Russian forces comes as Ukrainian troops said they had entered the town of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, with military observers saying Kyiv's army had advanced further still.The defence ministry said that the withdrawal of troo...
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Ukraine Urges For Evacuation Of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Town

Russia denies targeting civilians and accuses Kyiv of shelling the nuclear plant. (File)Kyiv: Ukraine on Wednesday called for the residents of Russian-occupied areas around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to evacuate for their own safety.Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of shelling the nuclear plant, Europe's largest, risking a nuclear disaster."I appeal to the residents of the districts adjacent to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant .... evacuate! Find a way to get to (Ukrainian) controlled territory," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a post on the Telegram messaging service.The exiled Ukrainian mayor of Enerhodar, the main town serving the plant, said in a separate Telegram post that it was under fire from Russian forces and that the town had no electrical supply...
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Russian Army Claims It Thwawrted Ukraine Attacks In Kherson

Russian army claims that it had destroyed 26 tanks, 32 armoured vehicles and 2 Su-25 jets.Moscow: The Russian army on Monday said it had thwarted Ukrainian offensives in the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and inflicted "heavy losses" on Kyiv's forces.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered his troops to launch attacks in three directions, but "this latest attempt at offensive operations by the enemy has miserably failed," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.It added that the Russian army had destroyed 26 tanks, 32 armoured vehicles and two Su-25 jets and that the Ukrainians had lost more than 560 soldiers.AFP was unable to independently verify the claims.Earlier Monday, local authorities in Ukraine said Kyiv had launched a counter-offensive in the south to ...
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Russia Doesn’t Acknowledge Radiological Risk At Ukraine Nuclear Plant: US

Russia-Ukraine War: Russia blocked an agreement on final draft of a review of the UN treaty.Washington: The United States said on Sunday that Russia did not want to acknowledge the grave radiological risk at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, adding that was the reason it blocked a nuclear non-proliferation treaty deal's final draft."The Russian Federation alone decided to block consensus on a final document at the conclusion of the Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Russia did so in order to block language that merely acknowledged the grave radiological risk at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine," the US State Department said in a statement.The statement comes after Russia blocked an agreement on Friday on the final draft o...