Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 07:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary is ready to block all EU decisions that are important to Ukraine in response to Kiev’s “oil blockade” of supplies from Russia, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned.
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[2026-03-05 06:51 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Arctic Metagaz burst into flames before sinking after what the Russian president described as a terrorist attack
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[2026-03-05 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-05 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto shake hands during their meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-05 05:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of carrying out a naval drone attack that sank a Russian-flagged liquefied natural gas carrier in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this week.
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[2026-03-05 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is spending tens of millions of dollars to recruit Ukraine war veterans into Paralympic sport, fast-tracking wounded soldiers from hospital wards into regional and national teams, an investigation by the Poland-based news outlet Vot Tak has found.
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[2026-03-05 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex in Novorossiysk, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Slovakia will terminate an emergency electricity supply contract with Ukraine, state-owned energy operator SEPS has announced.
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[2026-03-05 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — The Winter Paralympics come to Milan Cortina to celebrate their 50th anniversary, with China looking to extend its dominance as a Paralympic powerhouse and Ukraine and other nations boycotting the opening ceremony over the return of the Russian flag and anthem.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Russian drone hit an empty passenger train in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region early on Wednesday, injuring a railway worker, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.
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[2026-03-05 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Finance Ministry said Wednesday that it will halt foreign currency and gold purchases and sales in March under its “budget rule,” as it prepares to revise the oil price benchmark used to calculate excess revenue.
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[2026-03-04 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)
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[2026-03-04 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s prison population has fallen to a historic low, the newly appointed first deputy chief justice of the Supreme Court said Wednesday, coming after years of the Russian military’s recruitment of convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine.
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[2026-03-04 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Ivan Timofeev, programme director of the Valdai Club
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[2026-03-04 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian state television hosts have denounced U.S.-Israeli strikes on Moscow’s ally Iran as “war crimes,” accusing Washington of using diplomacy as cover for military action and warning that similar tactics could one day be deployed against Russia.
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[2026-03-04 21:37 UTC+10:00] [Venezuela] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Some Russian hardliners are urging Vladimir Putin to double down on the war in Ukraine
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[2026-03-04 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday that it completed repairs to its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, three months after the site was damaged during a rocket launch.
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[2026-03-04 19:32 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Senior Ukrainian MPs have used a visit to Canberra to warn that escalating conflict with Iran must not come at the expense of Western support for Kyiv, declaring that the outcome of Russia’s invasion will shape global security far beyond Europe.
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[2026-03-04 19:14 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Sánchez says Spain’s position is “clear and consistent” and the same as it was in response to Ukraine and Gaza.
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[2026-03-04 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With much of the world’s oil supplies out of action, Russia could step in to meet demand in China and India
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[2026-03-04 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korean military forces are gaining unprecedented experience in uncrewed aerial warfare through the ongoing war in Ukraine, exposure that is likely to influence Pyongyang’s future drone development and production, according to a new analysis by a Washington-based research group.
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[2026-03-04 14:25 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 4, 2026 14:25 | News
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[2026-03-04 14:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia and China have criticised the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, with Moscow saying it had seen no evidence that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons, and Beijing demanding an immediate halt to the joint attacks.
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[2026-03-04 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has likened Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to 19th-century showman and hoaxer P. T. Barnum.
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[2026-03-04 12:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine has rejected a proposed EU mission to inspect the Soviet-era pipeline that transports Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Central Europe, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing diplomats and officials.
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[2026-03-04 12:05 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: German chancellor says that he underscored need for continued support for Kyiv during US visit ; Trump says Ukraine is ‘very high’ on his priority list. What we know on day 1,470
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[2026-03-04 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Web Exclusive] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Democracy Now
Snippet: “Mr Nobody Against Putin” is an Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, a primary school teacher and videographer who becomes an international whistleblower. After being reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine, he starts documenting how ordinary Russians are indoctrinated with pro-war messages and recruited for the war.
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[2026-03-04 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-03-04 06:38 UTC+10:00] [Women's World Cup 2027 qualifiers] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Georgia Stanway and Jess Park also score twice
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[2026-03-04 06:27 UTC+10:00] [Women's World Cup 2027 qualifiers] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: “With the crosses from far out we just weren’t able to score so we tried to get more at the edge, in the half-spaces, be patient and have shots from the edge of the box,” says Sarina Wiegman. “It helped that we swapped our wingers from one side to the other, we came inside a little bit more, that made it a bit easier for the team.
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[2026-03-04 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-03-04 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: “I’ve tried robotics before, but for some reason I like flying drones more. I feel like I’m flying,” says 14-year-old Dima Nevstruev, a student at a youth center in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region.
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[2026-03-04 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is evacuating thousands of its citizens from countries in the Middle East with specialized emergency aircraft and dozens of commercial flights amid the conflict in Iran.
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[2026-03-04 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom warned Tuesday that the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran faces threats due to ongoing U.S.-Israeli attacks across the country.
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[2026-03-04 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbours to acquire nuclear weapons, Russia’s Foreign Minister warned on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine’s national team has been forced to urgently replace its ceremonial uniforms for the Winter Paralympics in Italy after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) rejected a design featuring a map of the country based on Kiev’s territorial claims.
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[2026-03-04 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Head of the Federal Treasury Roman Artyukhin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Operations at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran have been suspended due to US and Israeli airstrikes continuing in its vicinity, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has said. The company has been the key contractor at the plant, currently constructing its second and third power units.
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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[2026-03-04 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Signs are growing that the outbreak of military hostilities in the Middle East could put a pause on U.S.-brokered talks to end the war in Ukraine, as the Kremlin said Tuesday it lacks “clarity” on when and where the next round of trilateral negotiations will take place.
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[2026-03-04 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Druzhba oil pipeline remains fully capable of transporting Russian crude, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said, urging Ukraine to immediately restore shipments.
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[2026-03-04 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Moscow for decades has been Iran’s main international backer, shielding it from United Nations resolutions while trying to soften Western sanctions and selling weaponry worth billions of dollars to Tehran.
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[2026-03-04 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Schools and universities across Russia have begun taking students on organized visits to civil registry offices, with some staging mock wedding ceremonies, as authorities intensify efforts to promote what they call traditional family values amid a deepening demographic slump.
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[2026-03-03 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday to discuss the plight of Hungarians fighting for Ukraine who were taken prisoner by Russia.
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[2026-03-03 22:19 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the US involvement against Iran could disrupt the flow of weapons that Ukraine needs to continue defending itself against Russian invasion.
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[2026-03-03 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Central Bank said Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit in one of the European Union’s two main courts to challenge the bloc’s decision to freeze Russian state assets indefinitely.
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[2026-03-03 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS, France — As in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, the new war in the Middle East is exposing once again how far Europe and others lag in replacing imported fossil fuels with domestic solar and wind power, specialists say.
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[2026-03-03 19:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-03-03 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pink Ladies Cup began last week and city’s women had been due to face Tanzania on Wednesday and Russia two days later
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[2026-03-03 15:30 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The distinctive buzz of Iranian-designed drones has become a familiar sound in Ukraine over the past four years. Now, it is increasingly heard across the Persian Gulf as Tehran strikes back with these cheap but effective weapons following the attack by the US and Israel against Iran.
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