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Military & Intelligence Correspondent @Reuters . Reported from 60+ countries including Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, China. US based. phil.stewart @tr .com
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"This is the time to be united, it's a war," he said.
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(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday called on U.S. software firms Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp and German business software group SAP to halt support services for their products in Russia.
"Stop supporting your products in Russia, stop the war!"
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(Reuters) - Ukrainian state arms manufacturer Ukroboronprom said on Tuesday it would pay $1 million to anyone who captured a combat-ready Russian military aircraft - an offer it said was open to Russian pilots wanting to switch sides.
The firm will pay $500,000 for every helo
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(Reuters) - A Russian nuclear strike would change the course of the conflict and almost certainly trigger a "physical response" from Ukraine allies and potentially from NATO, a senior NATO official said on Wednesday.
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BREAKING (Reuters) 169,000-190,000 Russian troops in and near Ukraine compared with around 100,000 on Jan. 30, U.S. envoy to OSCE says. "This is the most significant military mobilization in Europe since the Second World War."
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Japan to revoke Russia's most-favoured nation trade status over Ukraine - NHK
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The bank did not reply to a Reuters request for comment.
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Russia used a thermobaric weapon (vacuum bomb) on Monday in its invasion of Ukraine, said Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova.
"They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention"
Here's background:
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(Reuters) - Germany's Enercon on Monday said a "massive disruption" of satellite connections in Europe was affecting the operations of 5,800 wind turbines in central Europe.
It said the satellite connections stopped working on Thursday, knocking out remote monitoring and control
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(Reuters) - Poland has proposed to the European Union that the bloc impose a total ban on trade with Russia, Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki said on Saturday.
"Poland is proposing to add a trade blockade to this package of sanctions as soon as possible.”
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A Ukrainian service member hugs a dog that was abandoned by the owners, inside a house that the residents left, on the front line near Kyiv as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukraine March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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BREAKING -Ukraine says Russian aircraft fired at Belarus from Ukrainian air space to try to drag Belarus into the war, Reuters reports
"This is a PROVOCATION! The goal is to involve the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in the war with Ukraine!"- Ukraine Air Force Command
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(Reuters) - Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges urges more Western aid so Kyiv can move from defence to attack
"We're only parcelling out support to Ukraine instead of flooding them," he said. "It feels like we want to keep them from being defeated but we're not willing to let them win"
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BREAKING - Pentagon response to Poland's proposal on jets: "We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one.”
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No ship sailing under Russian flag will be able to dock in the United States, Biden announces
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BREAKING - Two powerful blasts heard in Russian region of Belgorod bordering Ukraine - two witnesses - Reuters
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BREAKING- Website of Russia's TASS news agency displays anti-Putin message after hack
Regular site replaced with an anti-war message:
"We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death," the message read.
"Putin is forcing us to lie”
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BREAKING - Red Cross says its team travelling to Mariupol was stopped, now being held - Reuters News
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BREAKING - Russia's defense ministry: Ukraine has until early hours of March 21 to give Russia its answer on surrendering Mariupol - RIA
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(Reuters) - Russia is trying to split Ukraine in two to create a Moscow-controlled region after failing to take over the whole country, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence said on Sunday.
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BREAKING - Apple says it has paused all product sales in Russia
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Ukraine to receive more U.S. Javelin and Stinger missiles within days, Ukraine official says - Reuters News
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BREAKING - The Russian rouble plunges nearly 20% to a new record low versus the dollar on Monday in early Asian trading
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BREAKING- Russia has already lost more than 450 personnel in Ukraine invasion, UK estimates, according to defence minister Wallace
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Biden says Putin is weighing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine - Reuters
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(Reuters) - The government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country's hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops, according two people involved in the project.
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BREAKING - Russian FSB security service says it has detained Japanese Consul in Vladivostok - RIA - Reuters News
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Ukrainian navy: Russian vessel near Odessa retreated after being struck by Ukrainian gunfire - Reuters
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(Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine and said it would help gather evidence of them.
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(Reuters) - Norway's $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, will divest its Russian assets following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Norwegian prime minister said on Sunday.
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BREAKING - British Army warns its soldies not to go rogue and travel to Ukraine - Telegraph reports
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ESTONIA SENDING JAVELIN ANTI-ARMOUR MISSILES AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT MUNITIONS TO UKRAINE -PUBLIC BROADCASTER QUOTING DEFENCE MINISTRY OFFICIAL
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(Reuters) - Ukraine has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open a planned office in Russia's Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimise Moscow's "humanitarian corridors" and the abduction and forced deportation of Ukranians.
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Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine - Reuters News
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(Reuters) - Satellite images of the Ukrainian town of Bucha show an approximately 45-foot-long trench dug into the grounds of a church where a mass grave has been identified, a private U.S. company Maxar Technologies said.
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(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to announce within the coming days another military aid package for Ukraine about the same size as the $800 million one announced last week, multiple sources familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.
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BREAKING- Chechen leader and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov confirms deployment of Chechen forces to Ukraine. Heads up,
@McFaul
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(Reuters) - Luxembourg will send 100 NLAW anti-tank weapons, jeeps and 15 military tents to Ukraine, Defence Minister Francois Bausch said.
It is also offering allied countries transport capacities on board of its A400M military transport plane and chartered aircraft
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Senior U.S. defense official cites anecdotal evidence that the "Ukrainians are not only defending well where they choose to defend, but they are they are making efforts to take back territory that the Russians have taken"
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Biden tells
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Russia says it would have to 'rebalance' if Finland and Sweden join NATO - Reuters News
"We'll have to make our western flank more sophisticated in terms of ensuring our security," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Britain's Sky News
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BREAKING-Putin orders "peacekeeping operation" in eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
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NEW - (Reuters) - India is considering taking up a Russian offer to buy its crude oil and other commodities at discounted prices with payment via a rupee-rouble transaction, two Indian officials said, amid tough Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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Dima, a three-year-old boy who was wounded during the shelling of Mariupol, lies in a bed in children's ward of the hospital, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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BREAKING - U.S. launches airstrikes against Iran-backed militias, targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq
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'Of course they can win this," Pentagon says of Ukraine's prospects of defeating Russian invasion
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PUTIN: UNITED STATES USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN JAPAN TWICE, CREATED PRECEDENT
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GERMAN GOVT SAYS GOLDEN PASSPORTS FOR WEALTHY RUSSIAN TO BE ENDED
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SCOOP-U.S. Navy expected to relieve commander of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt after letter leaked. w/
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(Reuters) - Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See on Friday to relay his concern over Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Moscow's ambassador, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol.
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