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Top European officials including President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed on Tuesday to set up an international body to decide on tens of billions of euros of eventual reparations to compensate Ukraine over Russia’s invasion. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, signed by 35 countries, will assess and decide on claims for reparations, including any amount to be paid out. ...

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Ukraine said on Monday it hit and disabled a Russian missile-carrying submarine docked at a Black Sea naval base using underwater sea drones for the first time, but Moscow denied the strike caused any damage. The attack with Ukrainian-made “Sub Sea Baby” drones hit the submarine in the port of Novorossiysk where Russia has rebased many of its Black Sea naval vessels to put them ...

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The US has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, US officials said on Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. The officials said talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, le...

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Russia has propelled the world into an “age of uncertainty” and the UK is now operating in “a space between peace and war”, Britain’s new MI6 spy chief said on Monday. “Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades,” Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service, warned. “Conflict is evolving and ...

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Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an “extremist organisation” by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, by Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court, effectively outlaws the group from operating in Russia and puts anyone linked with the group at risk of criminal prosecution. The feminist protest group first catapulted to notoriety in 2012, when its members performed a provocative “punk ...

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