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US Is Trying To Be 'Directly Involved’ In Ukraine War - Russia Quips

US Is Trying To Be ‘Directly Involved’ In Ukraine War – Russia Quips

Russia has come out to openly accuse the White House of supplying some targeting information which has been used by Kyiv to conduct long-range missile strikes thereby putting the role of the American intelligence in the war in Ukraine under tight scrutiny.

Russia’s defence ministry had also made some claims that Washington was actually “directly involved” in the war, and had passed on intelligence that had led to the “mass deaths of civilians”.

The United States was responsible for rocket attacks by Kyiv on populated areas in the eastern Donbas and in other regions, it had also revealed.

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Russia Announces Blacklist Of 39 Britain Citizens, Including Cameron

Russia Announces Blacklist Of 39 Britain Citizens, Including Cameron

While displaying its version of counter-sanctions due to the barrage of European sanctions on her due to the conflicts with Ukraine, Russia has on Monday announced that it would be blacklisting 39 British citizens, including Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron.

The reason is not far fetched from the fact that London has also been one of Kyiv’s most vocal supporters after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine on February 24.

Russia’s foreign ministry said the citizens listed, including journalists, “contribute to the hostile course of London aimed at …

Russia 'Positive Development' - Russia Lauds Start Of Ukraine’s Grain Exports

Positive Development – Russia Lauds Ukraine’s Grain Exports

As new developments encroach into the conflicts between them and Ukraine, Russia has welcomed the first shipment of grain from the port of Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast as a “positive’’ development.

“This is a good opportunity for testing the effectiveness of the functioning of mechanisms that were agreed during the negotiations in Istanbul,’’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.

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This is according to the Interfax news agency which had been announced on Monday.

“We hope that the agreements will be fulfilled by all sides and that …

Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

Tension is brewing currently after a drone attack on the Russian fleet in the Crimean port of Sebastopol on Sunday left no fewer than five people, the Russian-annexed city’s mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev disclosed.

‘This morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil the Day of the Russian Fleet’ being celebrated on Sunday, he said on Telegram, adding that five people, including employees of the army staff, had been wounded.

All festivities had been ‘cancelled for security reasons’, he said, asking residents of the city to remain indoors ‘if possible’.

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Huge celebrations …

Russia Details Plans To Quit International Space Station After 2024

Russia Details Plans To Quit International Space Station After 2024

In lieu of the ongoing conflict between the Russians and the Ukrainians, Russia has made an announcement that it has decided to fully quit the International Space Station “after 2024”.

This announcement was made by the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency who had made the report to President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

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The announcement is also coming on the heels of the tensions which have been raging between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. Russia and the …

War Ukraine Sends Strong Warning To Russia

War: Ukraine Sends Strong Warning To Russia

The Ukrainian government has sent out strong warnings to Russia against provocations even as the ongoing war rages on. 

This is as the two countries signed a deal with the United Nations and Turkey on Friday to facilitate the export of grain.

The deal signed in Istanbul and mediated by Turkey and the UN would allow 5 million tonnes of grain exports per month from three Ukrainian ports, a senior UN official told CNN.

Ships carrying grains will now be able to navigate through a safe corridor in the Black Sea and then pass through the Bosphorus to reach global …

Food Crisis Russia, Ukraine Seal Grain Agreement In Istanbul

Food Crisis: Russia, Ukraine Seal Grain Agreement In Istanbul

Kyiv and Moscow yesterday signed a historic agreement with Turkey and the UN to open Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports after a Russian embargo stoked concerns of a food crisis on a global scale.

Following numerous rounds of painstaking discussions, Russian and Ukrainian teams signed individual agreements with Ankara and the UN as their first significant accord following nearly five months of combat.

Ukraine declined to sign the same documents as Moscow because it had warned before the signing that any Russian “provocations” around its ringed Black Sea ports would be greeted with a fast military reaction.

‘Today, there is …

High Treason Zelenskyy Moves To Arrest ‘Spies

High Treason: Zelenskyy Moves To Arrest ‘Spies’

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s shocking removal of two top law enforcement officials has revealed another front in the conflict closer to home — against spies and Kremlin sympathisers even as the Ukrainian army is putting up intense frontal resistance against Russian forces.

It is unprecedented since the invasion began that he fired prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova and SBU security chief Ivan Bakanov, both of whom were friends of President Zelenskyy from their youth.

Zelenskyy chastised the pair for failing to stop Russian spies’ and collaborators’ operations in Ukraine when the judgement was announced on Sunday and ratified by parliament on Tuesday.…

Russia Slams $360M Fine On Google Over Ukraine Content

Russia Slams $360M Fine On Google Over Ukraine Content

A court in Moscow on Monday fined Google 21 billion rubles ($360 million) for not removing a number of contents concerning Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine from its space, the nation’s telecommunications regulator has disclosed. 

Roskomnadzor asserted that the Google-owned video platform YouTube had failed to block ‘false information’ on the offensive in Ukraine, ‘extremist and terrorist propaganda’ and content ‘calling on minors to participate in what was tagged unauthorised demonstrations’.

The regulator said that as this was a repeat conviction for Google the fine was based on its annual revenue in Russia.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that …

War Putin Takes No Breaks, Zelenskyy Cries Out

War: Putin Takes No Breaks, Zelenskyy Cries Out

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that air alerts rang out across almost all of Ukraine Tuesday night, indicating that the Russian army has continued to remain very consistent in pounding the country. 

He made this known even as he called again for a modern, effective air-defence system.

Attacks, according to him, occurred in the western Ukrainian Khmelnytskyi region, the central Dnipropetrovsk region, the border region of Sumy, and the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv and its surroundings.

According to the governor of Luhansk, a lot of equipment is being delivered into the Donetsk region of Ukraine …

Missile Rain Zelenskyy Accuses Russia Terrorism

Missile Rain: Zelenskyy Accuses Russia Terrorism

Missiles rained down on Ukraine early Sunday morning killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built-up areas, a development which has prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accuse Russia of state ‘terror’.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that strikes on a southern resort town had left no fewer than 21 dead and dozens wounded after missiles slammed into flats and a recreation centre in Sergiyvka, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Black Sea port Odessa.

Rockets hit residential properties in Solviansk in the heart of the embattled Donbas region, killing a woman in her garden and wounding her husband, a …

Odesa 'There Was No One Alive' - Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

‘There Was No One Alive’ – Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the death toll from Russia’s overnight strikes in the Odesa region of Ukraine has risen to up to 20 dead individuals as gotten from Ukraine’s emergency services.

Reports revealed that at least 16 people had been killed in a residential building, and four more, including one child, were killed in another strike at a recreation centre. A third strike had landed in a field, authorities said.

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A rescue operation is ongoing and 38 people were …