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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Moscow is expanding its military aims in Ukraine beyond the eastern Donbas region. But the Russian military has been experiencing difficulties on the ground, prompting many to wonder whether it is realistic for the Kremlin to expand the scope of its…

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's strike as "spitting in the face" of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the grain export agreements.

"The risk appetite of this guy is very different from the risk appetite of Joe Biden."

Foreign minister says Russia has expanded its territorial aims in Ukraine beyond occupying the eastern Donbas region.

In Nova Kakhovka, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian troops five months ago on the first day of its invasion, the signs of creeping annexation by Russia are mounting and some residents fear a return to Soviet times.

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Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine

This would be a massive gamble for Vladimir Putin.

The suspension of Ukraine's domestic spy chief has laid bare Kyiv's battle away from the front lines to purge its powerful security agencies of collaborators and Russian agents.