In Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile StrikeIn Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile StrikeIn Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile StrikeIn Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile StrikeIn Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile StrikeIn Photos: Russians Privately Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile Strike

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had "no doubt" Moscow would emerge victorious in Ukraine on Wednesday, despite military setbacks in the nearly year-long offensive.

Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in February last year, and in September announced a military mobilization to prop up Moscow's forces in the country.

Despite a number of

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday likened Western policies on Russia to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's planned Final Solution for Europe's Jews.Moscow's leading diplomat-- whose comments on Hitler and Jews resulted in President Vladimir Putin releasing a rare apology on his behalf in 2015-- made the comparison at his yearly press con

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Russia's largest bank Sberbank is introducing operations in Crimea for the first time given that Moscow annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, Russian media reported Wednesday, pointing out the business's press service. The majority state-owned lender had until now prevented operating in Crimea due to the risk of Western sanctions.But the bank was amongst

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Russian authorities on Wednesday announced having killed a soldier who left his military base, with state media identifying the man as an armed deserter from fighting in Ukraine.

"Dmitry Perov, wanted for the unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, was found and liquidated," the government of the Lipetsk region in western Russia said on

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Updates with reduced death toll, adds tributes to the dead.

At least 14 people, including Ukraine's interior minister, have been killed in a helicopter crash outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, authorities said Wednesday, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky has called a "terrible tragedy."

The aircraft fell near a kindergarten in the town of

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