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Russia is due to make an interest payment on its foreign debt Wednesday, the first since the West hit Moscow with sanctions over Ukraine, which have raised concerns that Russia could default.

Moscow is due to pay $117 million on two dollar-denominated bonds.

Sanctions over Russia's operation in Ukraine have targeted $300 billion of its foreign

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The UN's top court is set to rule Wednesday on Ukraine's urgent request for Russia to immediately halt its invasion, with Kyiv claiming that Moscow falsely accused its pro-Western neighbor of genocide to justify the war.

The International Court of Justice will hand down its judgement at 1500 GMT in The Hague after Ukraine filed an urgent

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A trio of eastern European leaders met Ukraine's president in his besieged capital Tuesday, in a defiant act of solidarity as Russian forces pressed in and air strikes claimed yet more lives in the city under curfew.

As talks ground on between Moscow and Kyiv in a bid to halt the devastation, the White House upped the ante by announcing President

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Russian footballer Artem Dzyuba denied asking not to be called up to the Russian national side over the situation in Ukraine.

Russia's national team captain was believed to have pulled out of an international training camp over concerns about the ongoing war in Ukraine, however Dzyuba later rebutted these claims, citing a misunderstanding between

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will fly to Russia and Ukraine this week as Ankara facilitates ceasefire talks between the two warring sides, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

"We are sending our foreign minister to Russia today. He will hold talks in Moscow tomorrow. He will travel to Ukraine on Thursday," Erdogan told

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A Russian editor who protested against Moscow's military action in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast on state TV was released with a fine on Tuesday after a court hearing.

A judge at Moscow's Ostankino district court ordered state TV employee Marina Ovsyannikova to pay a fine of 30,000 rubles ($280) after she barged onto the set of