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DONETSK PROVINCE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces pressed their offensive in eastern Ukraine as they attempted to encircle the small mining city of Bakhmut, the scene of the toughest fighting in battlefields saturated by rain and an early spring thaw.

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By Leonardo Benassatto DONETSK PROVINCE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces pressed their offensive in eastern Ukraine as they attempted to encircle the small mining city of Bakhmut, the scene of the toughest fighting in battlefields saturated by rain and an early spring thaw. Russia is trying to cut the Ukrainian defenders vulnerable supply lines into the city and force them to surrender or withdraw. That would give Moscow its first major prize in more than half a year, and open the way to the c...

NICOSIA (Reuters) -Nikos Christodoulides was sworn in as Cypruss president on Tuesday, promising to make finding a solution to the Cyprus problem his top priority after winning an election runoff on Feb. 12. Christodoulides, 49, inherits a deadlock in reunification talks on the ethnically split island, labour disputes over high inflation, and what he called challenges of exceptionally complex irregular migration. Christodoulides took an investiture oath in parliament. Cyprus has an executive sys...

BERLIN (Reuters) -A shooter critically injured one person near a German primary school in the north-western town of Bramsche on Tuesday before critically injuring himself with the weapon, a police spokesperson in the city of Osnabrueck said.

NICOSIA (Reuters) -Nikos Christodoulides was sworn in as Cyprus's president on Tuesday, promising to make finding a solution to the "Cyprus problem" h...

Belarusian anti-government activists said they had blown up a sophisticated Russian military surveillance aircraft in a drone attack at an airfield near the…

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine honored its dead and vowed to keep fighting on Friday while Russia told the world to a...

KYIV/NEAR BAKHMUT (Reuters) -Ukraine said its forces had repelled Russian assaults along the length of the front line on Thursday on the eve of the war's anniversary, as President Vladimir Putin, empty-handed after a bloody winter offensive, talked up Russia's nuclear arsenal.

Putin raises the possibility of increasing nuclear powerRussia to deploy Sarmat ICBMs in 2023'Back off the brink', says UNAhead, Ukrainian troops claim to