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The whereabouts of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remained a mystery Tuesday after Russia’s Putin vowed punishment.

Amsterdam museum severed ties with St. Petersburg’s Hermitage collection after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine has “de-occupied” 130km², an area a little smaller than Staten Island in New York, since the start of the counter-offensive.

The decision to turn back from Moscow followed threats against the families of Wagner leaders from the Kremlin, UK security sources claimed.

The exile of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to Belarus could be a smokescreen for a surprise attack on Ukraine, a former UK army chief warned.

Under the deal announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and charges against him will be dropped.

The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.

“Armed rebellion” against Moscow is treason and betrayal which Putin will “react harshly” to with “inevitable punishment”, he said.

Killer dolphins? Russia has deployed combat-trained marine mammals to its naval base in Ukraine, says an intelligence digest.

France is reportedly set to back NATO membership for Ukraine, signalling a growing divide in the Western strategy towards Russia.

Zelensky attributed expectation of rapid victory to war films: “Some believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It’s not”. 

The EU is considering shifting some of its strategic gas storage to Ukraine despite obvious concerns of the facilities being in a war zone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is tapping Wall Street firms like BlackRock and JPMorgan to help garner private and public investments to rebuild Ukraine amid its war with Russia.

African countries are casting a worried eye as the West pumps aid into Ukraine, sensing a retreat in pledges to help their development.

Diplomats from dozens of countries are meeting to find money to rebuild Ukraine, cost estimated by the World Bank at more than $400 billion.

Euro Commission proposes massive €50 billion fund for Ukraine, cash likely in many cases to flow back to big European firms and funds. 

President Macron called on European nations to seek more independence on airspace defense and advocated against relying too much on the U.S.

Ukraine released images purporting to show a car packed with explosives parked on the Kakhovka Dam before it was bombed.

Russia and Ukraine are suffering high casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas, UK officials said.

Ukraine, once the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its farming sector to recover after the war with Russia.

UK military intelligence said Russia have taken advantage along the southern front in Ukraine with the deployment of attack helicopters.

Biden is dramatically shifting the U.S. strategy to deter Russian nuclear attack from the traditional stance, experts told Breitbart News.

A former U.S. ambassador and Special Rep for Ukraine has said the country should send A-10 ‘Warthogs’, saying “we could be doing more”. 

Australia’s Parliament prevents Russia building new embassy citing threats of espionage and political interference.

Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission of loss, but Ukraine says they’ve destroyed twice as many.

While Ukraine celebrates counteroffensive taking back territory from Russian occupation, Kremlin makes boast about ‘trophy’ tanks.

The Biden administration is reportedly set to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium rounds to arm American Abrams tanks in the conflict.

Ramzan Kadyrov’s Islamist-Chechen paramilitary group signed a deal to come under the control of the Kremlin, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.

At least three killed and 25 wounded after missiles hit civilian buildings in an overnight attack in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.

Saboteurs again knocked out a major rail link at the weekend, continuing a campaign of attacks to isolate Russian-occupied Crimea.

Against a background of Ukrainian battlefield losses of Western-built tanks, Kyiv is asking Germany to send more armour east.

An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO’s history and hosted by Germany got underway on Monday.

The long-discussed Ukrainian spring counteroffensive is underway, with the country reporting a handful of villages reclaimed. 

Ukrainian farmers are already feeling the pain of the disappearing reservoir, said Dmytro Neveselyi, mayor of the village of Maryinske.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces.