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After initially pointing the finger of blame at Kyiv, the blaze was found to have started when bitumen was poured on to the roof of the building under construction

Vladimir Putin welcomed the presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypts prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda, to the 18th-century Konstantinovsky Palace on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland over the weekend.

Ukraine’s president to meet the pope; retreating Russians ‘dogged with allegations of poor morale and limited combat effectiveness’, says UK

Retreating Russian brigade ‘dogged with allegations of poor morale and limited combat effectiveness’, says UK Ministry of Defence

A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free to talk — and to brag a little.

Retreating Russian troops have left behind an enormous wooden horse in the city of Kherson as a gesture of goodwill, it has emerged. Russian military sources confirmed that the giant wooden horse has been left as a gift to the Ukrainians as a reward for their superior fighting ability. ‘It looks like the Russians have left the city’ confirmed Ukrainian general Ivan Bondarenko. ‘At first we were very suspicious that their very public announcement of such an embarrassing retreat may have bee...

Russian soldiers had blown up a road running across the dam to slow the Ukrainian advance

Some military historians say Russian President Vladimir Putin often evokes the Soviet Unions epic defeat o...

He issued the warning as the humanitarian crisis in the encircled city of Mariupol deepened

Russia continued withdrawing some ground forces from areas around Kyiv, but Ukraine says it's a regrouping, not a de-escalation.