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While the heaviest fighting is still around the city of Bakhmut, in recent days Russian forces have stepped up assaults on a strategic town farther to the south.

The EU’s ban on Russian oil products from February 5 could spell more turmoil for the Kremlin as China and India are unlikely to buy refined fuels once sold to the EU, unlike the crude oil they snapped up.

Mozart Group founder Andrew Milburn told RT that his organization’s goals, apart from humanitarian, involve the deaths of Russians Read Full Article at RT.com

Berlin’s goal in Ukraine is to prevent Russia from changing borders through force, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine has invited the IOC chief, Thomas Bach, to visit his country's frontline after the body indicated it does not want to bar athletes from the Paris 2024 games based on their nationality.

“We stand by Ukraine's side without any ifs and buts,” said the president of the European Commission.

Aryna Sabalenka claimed her first Grand Slam title with victory over Russian-born Elena Rybakina at the Australian Open Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has been modeling cyberattacks on Russia’s critical infrastructure, a senior Russian diplomat has said Read Full Article at RT.com

President Vladimir V. Putin is on his third overall commander in Ukraine. But his military’s fundamental issues have not been addressed, Western officials say.

The Group of Seven and the EU have reportedly agreed a price cap for exports of Russian diesel between $100 and $110 a barrel Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30, carrying two pilots, and a French-built Mirage 2000, operated by a third, were on a routine operational flying training mission from the Gwalior airbase about 50km from where they came down

Russia has given the Latvian ambassador two weeks to leave the country Read Full Article at RT.com

Alina Korneeva defeated compatriot Mirra Andreeva in Saturday’s final in Melbourne Read Full Article at RT.com

German Leopard 2 tanks and US M1 Abrams tanks will spearhead attacks on Russia - but is it enough?

Marat Safin has gone viral during the most recent edition of the Australian Open but was also the last Russian to win the Grand Slam Read Full Article at RT.com

North Korea has denounced US pledges of battle tanks to Ukraine, saying Washington’s decision reflects a “sinister intention”.

Artur Beterbiev defends his light-heavyweight world titles against Anthony Yarde with a 100% knockout ratio, but who is the Russia-born boxer?

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says the nation won’t back the ban on the supply of diamonds from Russia to the European Union Read Full Article at RT.com

A year on, Britain’s answer to CFIUS has been used to review dozens of acquisitions involving foreign buyers. Companies with links to China, Hong Kong and Russia have all seen deals blocked by the British government since the law took effect in January 2022.

The Kremlin stepped up efforts to banish independent sources of news. Prosecutors labeled Meduza, a popular news site, “undesirable,” so anyone who aids or promotes it can be prosecuted.

Russian POWs being held in one of 500 detention centres in Ukraine. A Belgian television crew was granted access and tells some of their stories.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has faced a barrage of criticism at home over her “war with Russia” comment Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow is accused of giving refugees Russian passports and allowing them to be adopted.

South Africa will send 350 naval personnel to participate alongside Russian and Chinese counterparts with the aim of sharing operational skills and knowledge.

A Ukrainian teacher has turned his living room into a classroom after his school was damaged by Russian strikes.

Russia, which has many time zones, is seeking to integrate the regions after illegally annexing them in September.

Moscow accuses Poland of attempting to "rewrite history" after it is not invited to the event.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the former US president Donald Trump is right to say Joe Biden could swiftly end the war in Ukraine if Washington wanted to resolve it peacefully.

Websites of the FBI, CIA and US State Department put on blacklist by Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor for violating Russian laws Read Full Article at RT.com

Novak Djokovic says his father was mistranslated in a video which showed him alongside Russian supporters at the Australian Open Read Full Article at RT.com

Transfers of Russia’s flagship Urals oil at sea have reached record volumes in January on the back of EU sanctions, Bloomberg says Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian agency says it blocked access to CIA and FBI websites for spreading lies and disinformation.

A group of Ukrainian students is studying in their teacher’s living room because their classroom has been destroyed by Russian missiles.

Ukraine’s Sports Minister Vadim Guttsait says his country might boycott the Paris Olympics next year if Russia and Belarus are granted entry Read Full Article at RT.com

The US is leaving to no room for compromise on Ukraine peace negotiations and sanctions, the Kremlin says Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has lashed out at NATO chief Stoltenberg for his attempts to disclaim responsibility for Ukraine conflict Read Full Article at RT.com

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she would not stand in the way of Russian athletes competing in the 2024 event – but only if they competed as neutral athletes without the national flag.

Having used private contractors like Blackwater for decades, Washington is now 'concerned' about the new household-name PMC Read Full Article at RT.com

“I never had to run away from Ukrainians, but I helped my entire community flee Ukraine because of Russian bombs”

Nikolai Romanov urged his followers to disobey the government’s lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global plot to control the masses.

Donald Trump is “not far away from the truth” by suggesting Washington could end the Ukraine conflict in no time, Kremlin has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich now has less influence in talks between Moscow and Kiev but continues to act as a mediator Read Full Article at RT.com

Tokyo will ban exports of sensitive technology and block assets belonging to dozens of Russian individuals and entities from February Read Full Article at RT.com

The African Union has chided Germany for a botched joke about the Russian foreign minister featuring a stereotypical leopard emoji Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Foreign Ministry has lashed out at Brussels’ expansion of its monitoring mission in Armenia Read Full Article at RT.com

The EU has set out legal grounds for using frozen assets belonging to the Russian Central Bank for the reconstruction of Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com

Hungary says it will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia that affect nuclear energy after Ukraine called on the 27-nation bloc to include Russian state-run nuclear power giant Rosatom in sanctions.

Srdjan Djokovic says he was unwittingly caught up in a pro-Russia demonstration at the Australian Open this week Read Full Article at RT.com

Hungary will veto EU sanctions targeting Russia’s nuclear energy sector, Prime Minister Viktor Orban says Read Full Article at RT.com

The announcement comes one day after the United States and Germany both announced they are sending battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month.

Russia’s Karen Khachanov saw his Australian Open title hopes come an end with defeat against Stefanos Tsitsipas in their semifinal Read Full Article at RT.com

The West should have imposed harsh sanctions on Russia in 2014 instead of engaging in a “diplomatic imitation,” Boris Johnson has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Srjdan Djokovic will watch his son Novak's Australian Open semi-final from home to avoid causing "disruption" after being pictured with supporters of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The US has added more Russian officials and businessmen to its sanctions list, which now includes Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov Read Full Article at RT.com

EU-China relations will grow in importance as global situation becomes more ‘complicated’, says Chinese ambassador Fu Cong, who arrived in Brussels amid tensions over Xinjiang and Russia.

Russian foreign exchange reserves have continued to grow, surpassing $594 billion as of January 20, the central bank says Read Full Article at RT.com

A fresh barrage of Russian strikes in Ukraine comes a day after Kyiv's allies confirmed they would send advanced military tanks to the war-torn country.

Russia's Foreign Ministry believes the EU mission will 'introduce geopolitical confrontation into the region and exacerbate the existing contradictions there'.

Spacety China allegedly supplied satellite imagery of Ukraine to support Wagner's combat operations.

Air raid sirens wailed across Ukraine early Thursday as Russia attacked with scores of missiles and drones. The attacks came hours after the U.S. and Germany pledged to send advanced battle tanks to halt the Russian invasion.

Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build "several" nuclear weapons if it chooses, the United Nations’ top nuclear official is now warning. But diplomatic efforts aimed at again limiting its atomic program seem more unlikely than ever before as Tehran arms Russia in its war on Ukraine and as unrest shakes the Islamic Republic.

Air raid sirens wailed across Ukraine early Thursday as Russia attacked with dozens of missiles, 24 hours after the U.S. and Germany pledged to send advanced battle tanks to halt the Russian invasion.

Russia’s forces once again pounded energy infrastructure and other civilian sites, a day after the United States and Germany pledged to send dozens of tanks to Ukraine.

Western journalists are increasingly under threat for their reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war,as in the case of French journalist Adrian Bocquet, who recently survived an assassination attempt in Turkey.

The Black Sea port has been battered by Russian shelling for months.

Croatia’s Zoran Milanovic said the Ukraine conflict was really between Russia and the US, with Germany being completely irrelevant Read Full Article at RT.com

Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian-turned-Kazakh will play a Belarusian in the finals, which is sure to stir the debate over whether athletes from those countries should participate in international sports.

After German FM’s comments about Europe being at “war against Russia,” France argued that’s not what sending tanks to Ukraine actually means Read Full Article at RT.com

The US and NATO are risking a major war that no one will win by further escalating the conflict in Ukraine, Moscow has warned Read Full Article at RT.com

Former mercenary commander Andrei Medvedev says he fears for his own life after watching what happened to Russian prisoners made to fight in Moscow’s invasion.

The Russian hacker network Killnet has claimed responsibility for the attack which targetted airports and police networks.

“Russiagate” champion Adam Schiff is off the House Intelligence Committee, and used the banned platform TikTok to complain about it Read Full Article at RT.com

OTTAWA— The Canadian government said it will send four heavy battle tanks to Ukrainian forces, a day after Germany gave the green-light to international allies for the use of German-designed tanks in an attempt to turn the tide against the Russian invasion. Defence Minister Anita Anand told a news conference in Ottawa the move was more than symbolic, and is part of an international push to help Ukraine defeat Russia. “We are part of a global allied collective to ensure that we are maximizing the amount of aid overall and the number of tanks that we can send,” she said. Anand said the invasion was always “unacceptable” but that over the course of the past 11 months, the nature of the war “has changed.” “What has changed is the need to continue to support Ukraine with the military equipment that it needs in the short and the long term, to secure victory and to reclaim territory,” she said. Anand stressed that

Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute Co is said to have provided satellite imagery to enable the mercenaries’ combat operations.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has given her support to measures intended to oversee Russia’s inclusion in the 2024 Olympic Games Read Full Article at RT.com

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

A Nord Stream director and a confidant of President Vladimir Putin does not believe Russia could have blown up the Nord Stream pipelines Read Full Article at RT.com

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

State Department’s Victoria Nuland spoke to the US Senate about anti-Russian sanctions, war crimes trials and Ukraine “winning” Read Full Article at RT.com

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Washington and Berlin say they would arm Kiev with dozens of battle tanks.

Sanctioning Russia would be “inappropriate” and harm Serbian interests and economy, FM Ivica Dacic said while visiting Türkiye Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia typically competes as part of Europe but has tense relationships with many countries hosting qualifying events there after the invasion of Ukraine.

The US has designated Russian private military company the Wagner Group a transnational criminal group over activities in Ukraine and Africa Read Full Article at RT.com

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Elena Rybakina will play Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Australian Open final after her straight-sets win against Victoria Azarenka Read Full Article at RT.com

The man is thought to have been involved in a scheme to pass on German intelligence to Russia.

One of the fiercest battles of the war in Ukraine so far is going on as Russia seeks to make advances across much of the eastern region of Donbas.

Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill stressed the risks military priests face while offering guidance to frontline soldiers Read Full Article at RT.com

Arms supplied to allies and partners rose by almost 50 per cent last year to reach almost US$52 billion, the Pentagon says.

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed Kiev is using the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to incite division Read Full Article at RT.com

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Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin is among the figures who have criticized the IOC’s terms for Russia’s return to Olympic competition Read Full Article at RT.com

The IOC's plan to let Russian and Belarusian athletes compete in the 2024 Olympics is a "world away from the reality of war," says UK culture secretary Michelle Donelan.

One person died and two others were injured after strikes in Kyiv, the city's mayor says.

The Olympic Council of Asia has invited athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at the Asian Games in China this September Read Full Article at RT.com

Robots at war? Military tech companies in Russia announce new battle-ready robots that could be facing soldiers in Ukraine soon.

Russia’s Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project may double its  revenue in 2023, Reuters reports Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has rejected the idea of direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin Read Full Article at RT.com