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2 people die in Ukraine’s Odesa after Moscow and Kyiv exchange drone and missile attacks
3 months, 1 week ago

2 people die in Ukraine’s Odesa after Moscow and Kyiv exchange drone and missile attacks

LA Times  

Two people died in a missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, local officials said, as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone and missile attacks. While Ukraine and Russia regularly launch overnight drone raids on each other’s territory, Ukrainian officials generally don’t confirm or deny attacks within Russia’s borders. The latest attacks came after Ukraine made a …

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Kim Jong Un gets Russia-made Aurus car from Putin in luxury gifts exchange
6 months ago

Kim Jong Un gets Russia-made Aurus car from Putin in luxury gifts exchange

Hindustan Times  

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a "strategic partnership treaty" following their talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday, Russian state media reported. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Putin signalled earlier the two nations had prepared a document that would "form the basis" of their relations for years to …

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Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped

Associated Press  

SUMY REGION, Ukraine — Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months, officials said. Ukraine has in the past urged Russia to swap “all for all” and rallies calling for the release of POWs take place across Ukraine weekly. A Ukrainian official at the …

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Navalny was close to being freed from prison before his death, says ally
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Navalny was close to being freed from prison before his death, says ally

Al Jazeera  

Maria Pevchikh says Alexey Navalny was due to be freed in exchange for a Russian FSB assassin imprisoned in Germany. Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny was close to being freed in a prisoner swap before his sudden death, according to his ally Maria Pevchikh. In a video posted to YouTube on Monday, Pevchikh claimed the planned swap involved exchanging Navalny …

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Russia and Ukraine exchange long-range attacks as their front-line forces remain bogged down
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia and Ukraine exchange long-range attacks as their front-line forces remain bogged down

Associated Press  

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its air defenses shot down 10 Ukrainian air-launched missiles over Crimea and 10 over the Russian city of Belgorod, as both sides in the war pounded each other with long-range aerial strikes continuing late into the night while fighting along the front line remained largely deadlocked. On Wednesday night, Russia fired two S-300 missiles …

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Russian official says US is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands
1 year ago

Russian official says US is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — A Russian deputy foreign minister said that talks with the United States on a potential prisoner exchange that would free Americans held in Russia are hampered by publicity and an alleged disparity in the U.S. negotiating stance. The U.S. State Department said last week that Russia rejected several proposals for freeing Paul Whelan, an American convicted of espionage, …

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Gaza war truce: Third hostage-prisoner exchange, Hamas says 5 leaders dead
1 year ago

Gaza war truce: Third hostage-prisoner exchange, Hamas says 5 leaders dead

Firstpost  

Hamas is expected to free a total of 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners in Israel over the course of a four-day pause brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States A new group of Israeli and foreign hostages were released from Gaza on Sunday, on the third day of a truce after seven weeks of war, with …

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