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Russia is settings its sights further east to man the front lines, with Tajik and Uzbeki recruits enticed with signing bonuses and high pay.

The head of the Wagner mercenary group said Russia had promised more ammunition after threatening to pull out in scathing videos.

Volodymyr Zelensky met representatives from the globalist investment firm BlackRoc this week to discuss the reconstruction of the country.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid ongoing fighting.

Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have shot down a Russian hypersonic missile using the American-made Patriot missile defence system.

Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to pull troops out of Bakhmut, the centre of Ukraine’s fight against Moscow’s forces.

Russia sees “uptick in rail accidents” and country will struggle to protect the tracks it relies on to move military supplies, says UK.

Former President Donald Trump has told Nigel Farage that he would be able to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if reelected in 2024.

Ukrainian Zelenskyy said on Thursday he was convinced that Russian President Putin would face an international war crimes court.

“Severe and inevitable punishment” is coming to Ukraine for a blast at the Kremlin, top allies of Vladimir Putin said.

Russia says it prevented a drone strike on Kremlin, as dramatic video footage shows what they claimed to be a “terrorist attack”. 

Russia and Ukraine struck each other’s energy infrastructure in a series of drone attacks overnight into Wednesday.

Chancellor Scholz said Ukraine must not use weapons supplied by Germany to attack Russian territory so as to avoid a broader war with Moscow.

A Russian freight train hauling fuel was derailed and partially consumed in fire on Monday morning, with an “explosive device” blamed.

Ukraine is grateful to the West for the deployment of advanced anti-air missile systems but they are not enough and “much more” is needed. 

Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings and wounding at least 34.

Politicians in France have been warned by a security chief that their country is particularly vulnerable to Russian spy infiltration. 

Weapons provided to Ukraine from the NATO country of Italy are reportedly not battle ready, according to Kyiv defence sources.

A massive fire erupted at an oil reservoir in Crimea after it was hit by a drone, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday.

Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 12 people.

“Much of the Russian military has not been affected negatively by this conflict”, army bigger now than last year, says General Cavoli.

Remains of an “aerial military object” in a forest in the centre of the country which local media claims has Russian inscriptions.

President Joe Biden’s administration fears that a Ukrainian attack on Russian territory could escalate the war and drag the United States into a direct conflict with Russia, according to a report citing documents from last month’s alleged Pentagon leak.

The White House is reportedly “annoyed” with French President Macron’s attempts to strike a peace deal in Ukraine with the aid of China.

Russian media identified the drone that fell near Moscow as a Ukrainian-made UJ-22 and alleged it carried 37 pounds of explosives.

News agency Reuters has posted an interview with a soldier nicknamed “Adolf” who serves in the Ukrainian “SS” brigade.

Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orbán shot down claims from NATO cheif Jens Stoltenberg that “all members” agreed on allowing Ukraine to join the alliance.

Former President Donald Trump believes he is the “only candidate” who can promise to “prevent World War Three,” according to excerpts of prepared remarks provided by Trump’s campaign to Breitbart News from his speech on Friday at the Lee County GOP’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner.

Russia blamed “an emergency ejection of an air ordnance” when a dropped bomb caused havoc in one of its own cities.

Ukraine’s future is in the “Euro-Atlantic family” says the head of NATO, revealing every member now agrees the country will join.

Denmark and the Netherlands will provide Ukraine with at 14 refurbished battle tanks, but they won’t be delivered until next year.

EU bigwigs are considering halving a $550m munitions fund for Ukraine in the hopes of using the freed cash to bolster the bloc’s own defence industry, a report on Wednesday has claimed.

French President Macron is reportedly working on a “secret plan” with Communist China to craft a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

The Ukraine war is being used by Germany’s Interior Minister to obscure the country’s ongoing migrant crisis, an opposition MP has claimed.

Putin visited the HQ of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine early Tuesday, his second trip to the Russian-held territories there since March.

The U.S. Intelligence Community has “grown out of control” and must be reigned in, according to former National Security Council (NSC) chief of staff and CIA official Fred Fleitz, who claimed recently that leaked information suggests the Biden administration “was misleading the American people on a variety of accounts.”