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Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine declares full control of Lyman in latest setback for Putin | Ukraine
Ukraine declares full control of Lyman Ukraine is in full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv’s most significant battlefield gain in weeks, which a senior official said could provide a staging post for further gains to the east, Reuters reports. “As of 1230 (0930 GMT), Lyman is fully cleared,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a short video clip on his Telegram channel. There was no comment from the Russian armed forces on Sunday on the status of the city. The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday it was pulling troops out of the area “in connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement”. The latest…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: 23 dead in shelling of civilian convoy near Zaporizhzhia; Putin to announce formal annexations | Ukraine
Ukrainian president condemns ‘terrorist state’ rocket attack Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has posted a response on Telegram to the earlier attack on the convoy in Zaporizhzhia. He wrote: The terrorist state fires rockets at the civilian population in Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk. It strikes Ukrainian regions from rocket launchers and drones. The occupiers fired 16 rockets in one morning in Zaporizhzhia district alone. Only complete terrorists can do this, who should have no place in the civilised world. The enemy rages and seeks revenge for our steadfastness and his failures. It cynically destroys peaceful Ukrainians, because it lost everything human a long time ago. Bloodthirsty scum. You will definitely answer…
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Hilaree Nelson’s body found after fall from Nepal’s Mount Manaslu
The entire body of a famed U.S. ski mountaineer was identified in Nepal Wednesday, two days soon after she fell off the world’s eighth-best mountain near its peak. Hilaree Nelson, 49, experienced been snowboarding down from the summit of Mount Manaslu with her companion Jim Morrison, also a celebrated excessive skiier, when she fell off the Himalayan mountain on Monday. Terrible temperature experienced hampered rescue efforts, but teams were being capable to renew their research on Tuesday. Nelson’s system was inevitably observed and retrieved on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Shangri-La Nepal Trek, the company that organized the expedition, advised NBC News. The spokesperson reported Nelson’s overall body would be transported…
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Nord Stream: Mystery leaks hit Russian gas pipelines to Europe
European nations around the world on Tuesday raced to look into unexplained leaks in two Russian fuel pipelines operating less than the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark, infrastructure at the heart of an electrical power disaster considering the fact that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Quite a few European officials said sabotage appeared to be the most likely bring about, when Russia — which built the network — did not rule it out. Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Power Terje Aasland mentioned Tuesday that the initial details acquired about the leaks indicated “acts of sabotage.” Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, both equally claimed the…
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NASA’s DART mission successfully slams into an asteroid
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity’s first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:14 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in Laurel, Maryland. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched 10 months ago. While the asteroid, Dimorphos, was not at risk of impacting Earth, this demonstration could determine how to deflect space rocks that could pose a threat to Earth in the future. “We’re embarking on a new era of humankind, an era in which…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Kremlin-backed officials ask Putin to annex regions; EU announces new sanctions on Russia | Ukraine
EU proposes new sanctions package to ‘make Kremlin pay’ The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced a fresh round of proposed sanctions on Russia. The new package of Russian sanctions is designed “to make the Kremlin pay” for escalating the conflict in Ukraine through mobilisation and “sham referenda that are an illegal attempt to grab land and change international borders by force”, she said. The proposed eighth sanctions package includes further import bans on Russian products, expected to deprive Moscow of an additional €7bn in revenues. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images The EU will also extend export bans…
