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WorldYahoo NewsFrom prison, dissident Alexei Navalny plots Vladimir Putin's demise
From a remote penal colony, where he has little control over his own fate, Alexei Navalny — the Russian dissident and President Vladimir Putin’s top political nemesis — has tried to steer the fate of Russia.
WorldYahoo News'It has started': Russia prepares new Ukraine offensive as Western allies approve more weapons
“We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks,” Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday on a visit to Volgograd, where he commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s World War II victory over Nazi forces in Stalingrad.
WorldYahoo NewsRussian bioweapons charge is 'bogus,' White House says
White House officials have dismissed Russian allegations, recently leveled again by a top Kremlin general, that the United States developed biological weapons in Ukraine, including the coronavirus.
PoliticsYahoo NewsU.S. intel chief warns of 'devastating' impact of Russian missile attacks
President Biden’s chief intelligence adviser raised fresh concerns Thursday night that Russian missile attacks are having a “devastating” impact on the Ukrainian economy, noting that the war has already reduced the country's gross domestic product by nearly one-third.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia not invited to Auschwitz liberation ceremony
Friday will mark the 78th anniversary of the haunting winter afternoon when Red Army troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people had been murdered. Russian officials will not be attending.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia fumes over NATO tanks heading to Ukraine, revealing a Kremlin coming to grips with reality
Russia responded with anger and scorn after Germany and the United States revealed that they would be supplying Ukraine with powerful, advanced battle tanks. Moscow invoked history and warned of a broader conflict.
WorldYahoo NewsThe West finally commits tanks to Ukraine. It took a lot of arm-twisting.
How the U.S. and its allies coaxed, finessed and finally convinced the Germans to release the Leopard battle tanks for Ukraine's defense against Russia.
WorldYahoo NewsHow Germany's ‘Doctor No’ disrupted allied unity on tanks for Ukraine
In the weeks leading up to Friday’s conference of the two dozen nations of the Ukraine Contact Group at the U.S.-run Ramstein Air Base in southwest Germany, there has been a steady trickle of information regarding what military hardware allies were planning to send to the war-torn nation to help bolster its defenses and launch counteroffensives to repel Russia’s invasion.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia's relationship with U.S. at its 'lowest historical point,' Kremlin says
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that despite timid hopes from the Geneva summit in 2021, bilateral relations were "at their lowest historical point." He added, "There is no hope for improvement in the foreseeable future."
WorldYahoo NewsGains by Wagner Group in Ukraine give ‘Putin’s chef,’ Yevgeny Prigozhin, greater Kremlin clout
The Wagner Group, a shadowy paramilitary outfit, is making gains for Russia in eastern Ukraine — apparently exacerbating tensions in Moscow, where military chiefs are hesitant to give credit to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin insider responsible for the effort.
WorldYahoo News'Absurd': Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov sparks backlash for invoking Holocaust
Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has caused widespread outrage by comparing his nation’s international isolation — the result of last year’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine — to the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust.
WorldYahoo NewsIs it time for the West to give Ukraine heavy tanks?
If Ukraine gets tanks from the West, replacing its dwindling stockpile of ex-Soviet vehicles, there are notable advantages. Optics are far superior, allowing the tanks to spot the enemy first. And protection and crew survivability are a priority for Western designs, unlike their Russian counterparts.
WorldYahoo NewsRussian mercenaries close in on Soledar, a mining town in eastern Ukraine
The Ukrainian city of Soledar boasts the largest salt mines in Europe, which serve as defensive positions for Ukraine’s military. Should Soledar fall to Russian forces, Russia would be able to increase pressure on the strategic city of Bakhmut.
WorldYahoo NewsTurkey supports Ukraine without alienating Russia
Despite his closeness to Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a surprisingly bullish arms dealer to Kyiv.
WorldYahoo NewsZelensky and Biden say Russia's invasion is approaching crucial turning point
“We have no doubt that the current masters of Russia will throw everything they have left and everyone they can muster to try to turn the tide of the war and at least postpone their defeat,” Zelensky said Tuesday.
WorldYahoo NewsPutin orders 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Orthodox Christmas
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his defense minister to order Russian troops to hold their fire from noon on Friday until midnight on Saturday.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia points fingers, blames its own soldiers and commanders for Makiivka deaths
The death of dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of Russian servicemen in a Ukrainian airstrike on a military base in the occupied city of Makiivka has been met with widespread rage, directed at political leadership in the Kremlin and military leaders, as well as Ukrainian forces and their Western allies, who supplied the weaponry used in the devastating attack.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia-Ukraine war: Anger in Russia over Ukrainian strike that left dozens of soldiers dead
Russia continued airstrikes on Ukraine during the first two days of 2023, as fury grew over Ukrainian forces firing rockets at a Russian military base in the occupied city of Makiivka.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia launches major New Year’s Eve missile strike against Ukraine
Yahoo News visited impact sites Saturday in Kyiv. One missile scored a near direct hit on the Alfavito Hotel in the central Pecherskiy District; another struck a parking lot in the middle of a civilian housing estate.
WorldYahoo NewsRussia fires dozens of missiles across several Ukrainian cities
Ukraine faced a barrage of missiles on Thursday morning in one of the biggest bombardments the country has faced since Russia invaded earlier this year.
PoliticsYahoo NewsZelensky wows Washington with inspiring address to Congress
“It’s too much for me,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told members of Congress at the beginning of a powerful, often emotional address Wednesday evening in which he cast his nation’s struggle against Russia as an existential, global battle for freedom.
PoliticsYahoo NewsPelosi caps historic run with Zelensky address and a focus on democracy
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put an exclamation point on her historic run as the first woman speaker Wednesday, inviting a revered symbol of democracy to address the last joint session of Congress she’ll preside over with a powerful message: The democracies of the globe stand united.
PoliticsYahoo NewsRep. Jake Auchincloss urges U.S. to keep supporting Ukraine: ‘It’s sending a message’
Speaking to Yahoo News, Rep.Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., promised to fight with fellow Democrats to ensure that the United States does not abandon Ukraine, however long the war in Eastern Europe takes.
PoliticsYahoo NewsWith Zelensky by his side, Biden vows the U.S. 'is going to give Ukraine what it needs' to repel Russia
Standing side by side with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to continue the military and humanitarian support that has kept Russia from overrunning its much smaller neighbor.
WorldYahoo NewsFrom Chaplin to Churchill: How Volodymyr Zelensky became savior of Ukraine
“I need ammunition, not a ride.” So Volodymyr Zelensky told the White House in late February, as it offered to evacuate him from a country under siege by Russia. Now Zelensky has been given a ride on an American military plane to Washington, D.C. — to ask for more ammunition.
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