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Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners under Istanbul agreement
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war under a deal made in Istanbul. Russia released Ukrainian POWs and received its own soldiers, now under care in Belarus. Russia also offered to return over 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers' bodies, but Kyiv representatives didn't show up for the handover.
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Ukrainian depots of foreign equipment in Dnepropetrovsk region hit: Russia
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Russian forces struck Ukrainian military bases and depots of West-provided weapons in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday, TASS reported.
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Russian forces withdraw from Krasny Liman city of Donetsk Oblast
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 1 (ANI): A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Donetsk among three other regions of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday said that Russian troops and the Donbas militias have pulled out of the city of Krasny Liman in th
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Ukraine shells Zaporizhzhia NPP again to create threat of nuclear disaster
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow, August 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Kiev has shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) again to create a threat of a nuclear disaster, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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Russian Defense Ministry says Azerbaijan breached ceasefire in Karabakh
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani Armed Forces breached the ceasefire in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, in the area of the height of Sarybaba, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a report on the activities of Russian peacekeepers of the Nagorno-Karabak
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Russia invites UN, Red Cross to probe shelling of Olenivka pre-trial deten
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 31 (ANI): Russia has invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to participate in the investigation into the Ukrainian military attack on a pre-trial detention centre near Olenivka in the Donbas region with HIMARS rocket systems which killed 53 Ukrainian
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Ukrainian Strike kills 40 Prisoners of War in DPR: Russia
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Ukraine], July 29 (ANI): The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the Ukrainian military attacked a pre-trial detention centre near Olenivka in the Donbas region with HIMARS rocket systems and killed 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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Russian forces hit ammunition depots, Ukrainian troops in Donetsk
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia's aerospace forces have destroyed temporary deployment points and ammunition depots near the city of Artemovsk in Donetsk, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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Ukraine fires at Russia's Belgorod, Kursk with missiles, drones: Russian D
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 3 (ANI/Sputnik): Ukraine launched deliberate strikes with Tochka-U missiles and Tu-143 drones on residential areas of the Russian cities of Belgorod and Kursk, aiming at civilians, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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Russia holds Baltic drills amid NATO exercises
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Russian warships are conducting drills in the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is holding exercises in the same region.
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Russian Parliamentary Commission plans to discuss info on US biolabs in Ni
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 29 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian Parliamentary Commission for investigating the work of US biological laboratories in Ukraine is planning to discuss information from the Russian Defense Ministry regarding alleged US laboratories in Nigeria, the country from where the curren
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Russian Defense Ministry says operation to evacuate civilians from Azovsta
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], May 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol concluded on Saturday due to unprecedented measures by Russia with 51 people, including 11 children, having been rescued, the head of the Russian National Defense C
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