A blistering wave of Russian strikes targeting Ukraine's energy facilities killed 11 individuals on Thursday, a day after Germany and the United States pledged heavy tanks for Kyiv.The stepped-up military aid swept aside enduring misgivings among allies and indicated a surge of Western assistance for a counteroffensive against the Russian
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The U.S. Treasury Department declared Russia's shadowy Wagner Group a “transnational criminal organization” and imposed fresh sanctions on several other Russian political and business figures, according to a statement released on Thursday.

“Today’s expanded sanctions on Wagner, as well as new sanctions on their associates and other companies ena

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Russian and international human rights activists on Thursday condemned the dissolution of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), Russia's oldest independent human rights organization after it was ordered to close by a Moscow court the day before.

“The shutdown of the organization is the final nail in the coffin in the destruction of the human rights m

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Uzbekistan will import natural gas from Russia for the first time ever as the Central Asian country faces an energy crisis, the authorities in Tashkent announced on Thursday.

Despite being home to a wealth of natural resources, including gas, Uzbekistan has faced energy shortages amid historically cold temperatures this winter.

Like its Central

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Updates with Timchenko commentsRussia's General Prosecutor's Office has actually added the independent news outlet Meduza to the country's list of unfavorable organizations, a sanction developed to force entities to dissolve and which puts its personnel and financial donors at threat of considerable jail time.The General Prosecutor's Office stated on Thursday that
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Russian forces fired dozens of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday in a blistering wave of strikes targeting energy facilities, a day after Germany and the United States promised heavy tanks for Kyiv.The newest wave of attacks came as the Kremlin said Moscow viewed the tank deliveries as direct participation in the dispute and Ukraine conceded
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