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Kiev not showing serious attitude towards finding solution: Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephonic conversation with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said that Kiev is not demonstrating a serious attitude towards finding mutually acceptable solutions during negotiations with Moscow. Putin focused on the EU's silence regarding the Ukraine military's missile attack on the centre of Donetsk.
Elon Musk challenges Russia President Putin to Single Combat with Ukraine as stakes
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“I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat… stakes are Ukraine,”, Musk tweeted, typing Ukraine and Putin’s name in Russian alphabets. Following up this tweet, Musk tagged the official handle of the Russian President (/@KremlinRussia_E) to ask if Putin accepts the challenge or not? “Do you agree to this fight? @KremlinRussia_E,” Musk asked.
Putin may be suffering from dementia, Parkinson's disease: Report
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Russian President Vladimir Putin may be suffering from a brain disorder caused by dementia, Parkinson's disease or 'roid rage' resulting from steroid treatment for cancer, a media report said citing intelligence sources. Citing sources close to the Kremlin, senior figures in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US, believe there is a physiological explanation for the Russian President's globally reviled decision to invade Ukraine, the Daily Mail report said.
The Great Wail of China: Beijing's silence on Ukraine screams
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Away from political analysts assertions of a "frozen conflict" when Russia took over Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine now has the global hot pot boiling. But the hot pot, one of the most favourite culinary offerings of the Chinese, isn't really boiling in China, at least not over the Ukrainian conflict. Lately, Russia's dearest neighbour to the south has been wallowing in impressive economic numbers announced after its vaunted ‘Two Sessions'.
Putin, Macron, Scholz discuss Ukraine crisis over phone
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Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday, and urged them to influence the Kiev authorities to stop "criminal acts" of Ukrainian "nationalist battalions," according to the Kremlin.
Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine discuss Putin-Zelensky summit to end war
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Foreign Ministers of Russia and the Ukraine -- Sergey Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba--who held their first round of talks in Turkey have discussed the possibility of a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to end their conflict which has now rumbled into its fifteenth day.
Russia strikes Ukraine's Dnipro city for 1st time, one killed
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One person was killed on Friday after three Russian airstrikes hit Dnipro, an inland city located on the Dnieper river deemed as a major stronghold in central-eastern Ukraine, the country's State Emergency Services (SES) reported. This is the first time that the city has been struck by Russian strikes since the war began 16 days ago.
Conscripts, reservists don't & won't take part in Ukraine conflict: Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that conscripts and reservists "do not and will not" participate in Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine. In a video put out by the Kremlin on the occasion of International Women's Day, the President emphasized that "soldiers who are doing military service do not and will not participate in hostilities. There will be no additional call-up of reservists from the reserve.
Modi urges Putin to hold direct talks with Zelensky
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In a phone call that lasted for about 50 minutes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky amid the ongoing Moscow-Kiev war, according to sources. During the conversation, which is the second between Modi and Putin since Russia began its war on February 24, the President briefed the Prime Minister on the status of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian teams.
Putin's decimated forces could lose war in Ukraine: Top UK General
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's 'decimated' forces could lose the war in Ukraine, the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin said. His comments represent the most optimistic assessment yet of how the conflict may end, but it came on another bleak day, with Russian forces firing on families as they fled the fighting, the report said. When the invasion began on February 24, it was assumed to be inevitable that Russian tanks would roll into Kiev within hours.
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