[ad_1] Residents and visitors in Kyiv on New Year’s Eve expressed a resolve to celebrate the new year, and also hope that 2023 could bring peace, as Russia’s invasion grinds on. Anastasia Grimaylo and Daria Zhabinska. (Denis Lapin for CNN) Daria Zhabinska, a 19-year-old student who works for Visit Ukraine, …
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[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attending a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, on December 19. (Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik/Pool/Reuters) At the end of a visit to Minsk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia and Belarus are working closely to mitigate the effect of western sanctions against both countries. Speaking at …
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[ad_1] Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens speaks to CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s release, saying the WNBA star immediately thanked the crew returning her to the United States. …
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[ad_1] Representatives of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureates collect the awards at Oslo City Hall on December 10. (Markus Schreiber/AP) Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine – Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties – have officially been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022, along with the …
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[ad_1] OPEC and its allies decided Sunday to stick with their existing policy of curtailing oil output, just hours before new Western sanctions on Russian crude exports come into force. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and other major oil producers including Russia, said they would continue to restrict supply by …
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[ad_1] President Joe Biden said he “has no immediate plans” to contact Vladimir Putin, but added that he’s prepared to speak with the Russian leader if he’s looking for a way to end the war in Ukraine. [ad_2] Source link
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[ad_1] A Ukrainian artillery battery attached to the 59th Mechanized Brigade, fires towards Russian forces in Kherson Oblast on Saturday. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Russians are creating the illusion of retreat from Kherson to lure Ukrainian forces into street fighting in the key southern city, Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for …
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[ad_1] Brittney Griner waits inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing in Khimki, outside Moscow, on August 4. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/AFP/Getty Images) American basketball star Brittney Griner, whose detention has raised fears she is being used as a political pawn during Russia’s war in Ukraine, got another visit from a US embassy …
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[ad_1] Unidentified makeshift graves are seen at the Pishanske cemetery in Izium, on Friday. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) A total of 436 bodies have been exhumed from a mass burial site in Izium, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration, who said the work was completed Friday. …
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[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday welcomed the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia that led to the release of 10 people, including two Americans. “The United States is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, regardless of nationality, in its negotiations, and we look forward …
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