A Russian drone hit a minibus in the northeastern Ukrainian area of Sumy, eliminating nine people and hurting 4 more, officials stated on Saturday, an attack that took place hours after Moscow and Kyiv held their very first direct peace talks in years. This is not just another shelling-- it is a cynical war criminal offense, Ukraine's National Police stated in a
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The Kremlin’s chief negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine on Friday cited the Great Northern War of 1700-1721 as evidence that Russia is ready to continue its war against Ukraine for as long as it takes.

Speaking after Russia’s first direct talks with Ukraine in three years, Vladimir Medinsky said that Moscow was “satisfied with the results and rea

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Russia’s largest agricultural machinery maker Rostselmash said Friday it will place all 15,000 of its employees on leave for the month of June due to collapsing exports and continued market contraction.

The company, headquartered in Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border, cited a steep drop in demand over the past three years, which it said has

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Russia and Ukraine on Friday held nearly two hours of peace talks in Turkey, the two sides’ first direct negotiations since their failed talks in the early weeks of the Kremlin’s invasion in 2022.

President Vladimir Putin declined his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to meet face-to-face in Istanbul, instead sending a delegation led

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Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a major prisoner exchange after concluding their first direct peace talks since early 2022 in Istanbul on Friday, though it remains unclear whether any broader progress was made toward ending Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, told reporters after the nearly

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Nearly 30,000 individuals were left without power while coal miners were evacuated to the surface area following a power station mishap in Siberia's Kemerovo area on Friday.The regional electrical power company Rosseti Sibir said crews were working to bring back power in the Leninsk-Kuznetsky district while investigating the reason for the outage.At least seven
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