Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-18 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lev Shlosberg, center, senior member of the Yabloko party, is being led out of the court room after a judge convicted him and sentenced him to more than 11 years in prison, in a court in Pskov, Russia, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo)
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[2026-08-18 00:04 UTC+10:00] [Finland] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected
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[2026-08-17 23:27 UTC+10:00] [Drones] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A major military music festival in Moscow has been canceled four days before it was due to start, the organizers said on Telegram.
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[2026-08-17 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The European Union plans to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months over its war in Ukraine, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, told the German newspaper Die Welt.
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[2026-08-17 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow is eyeing a direct rail link to India, reflecting a scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond Hormuz, analysts say
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[2026-08-17 22:11 UTC+10:00] [Afghanistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow is eyeing a direct rail link to India, reflecting a scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond Hormuz, analysts say
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[2026-08-17 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: EU sanctions must be approved unanimously. Traditional EU packages against Russia have frequently been dogged by lengthy disputes
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[2026-08-17 21:48 UTC+10:00] [Die Welt] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: EU sanctions must be approved unanimously. Traditional EU packages against Russia have frequently been dogged by lengthy disputes
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[2026-08-17 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People observe a daily nationwide minute of silence in memory of soldiers killed in the war with Russia, in Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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[2026-08-17 21:01 UTC+10:00] [Baltics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: RIGA — Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs wants Brussels to hand over €7 billion to help cover the military and economic costs of confronting Russia, as pressure grows over the price of the country’s hard line on Moscow.
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[2026-08-17 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Myanmar's junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, state media reported.
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[2026-08-17 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The chief economist at Russia’s state development corporation VEB.RF has been fired after presenting a report earlier this year warning that Russia cannot win a prolonged war of attrition against Ukraine and is falling behind economically and technologically, The Bell reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-08-17 20:29 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’
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[2026-08-17 19:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Russia launched an attack overnight targeting Ukraine's port infrastructure in the southern region of Odesa, authorities said Monday, after one of Ukraine's largest aerial attacks of the war.
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[2026-08-17 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A judge in Moscow sentenced the founder of Russia’s largest car dealership and ex-lawmaker Sergei Petrov to nine years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of using fake documents to smuggle billions of rubles out of the country.
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[2026-08-17 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to state media.
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[2026-08-17 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least six people have been killed and four others, including a 14-year-old, have been wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike on western Russia’s Belgorod region.
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[2026-08-17 17:36 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 17, 2026 17:36 | News
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[2026-08-17 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: En esta imagen publicada por la oficina del presidente de Myanmar, el presidente de Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, a la derecha, estrecha la mano del presidente de la Cámara Baja, Khin Yi, a su salida hacia Rusia en el aeropuerto internacional de Naipyidó, Myanmar, el lunes 17 de agosto de 2026.
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[2026-08-17 16:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo released by Myanmar President Office, Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing, right, shakes hands with Lower House Speaker Khin Yi upon his departure to Russia, at the Naypyitaw international airport Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Myanmar President Office via AP)
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[2026-08-17 15:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told a German newspaper.
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[2026-08-17 14:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises following a Ukrainian drone attack on a warehouse for online retailer Wildberries in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, July 24, 2026, with St. Isaac’s Cathedral seen in foreground. (UGC via AP, File)
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[2026-08-17 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Electricity] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — A Russian state-controlled corporation building a nuclear power plant in Hungary is facing allegations of safety, security and engineering failures at another project in Egypt that uses the same technology, according to internal documents obtained by POLITICO.
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[2026-08-17 11:30 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial attacks of its war with Russia, sending hundreds of drones in a strike that killed at least six people.
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[2026-08-17 11:03 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-17 10:51 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mykhailo Fedorov says Ukraine is innovating its arsenal of weapons quickly; Moscow hit with ‘one of the most massive drone attacks’. What we know on day 1,637
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[2026-08-17 10:19 UTC+10:00] [North Korea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President says move is based on ‘very good relationship with Kim Jong-un’ but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime’s combat capabilities
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[2026-08-17 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia has historically protected itself across several fronts by maintaining buffer states along the borders it shared with threatening powers. These states didn’t necessarily have to like Russia, much less become its allies, but their usefulness lay in causing even greater problems for Russia’s potential adversaries.
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[2026-08-17 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai Club
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[2026-08-17 07:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Poland’s Iga Swiatek celebrates her 6-3 1-6 6-3 win over Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina in a National Bank Open semifinal tennis match in Toronto on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-08-17 06:15 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-17 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-08-17 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Hundreds of drones targeted Moscow on Sunday as Russia launched missile strikes that killed three people and wounded more than a dozen in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, officials on the two sides said.
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[2026-08-17 01:59 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-08-17 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
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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[2026-08-17 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
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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[2026-08-17 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine could strike Russia with domestically produced ballistic missiles within the next few months, the country’s former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov told CBS on Sunday.
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[2026-08-16 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Ukraine launched one of its largest kamikaze drone attacks of the war against Russia on Sunday, with Russia's Defense Ministry saying air defenses intercepted 822 Ukrainian drones overnight, including roughly 600 headed toward Moscow.
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[2026-08-16 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Syrian Airlines flight from Moscow arrived at Damascus International Airport on Sunday, August 16, the first civilian flight from Moscow since the fall of the Assad regime. This “marks the resumption of the carrier’s air services between Syria and Russia,” Syrian state media SANA said.
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[2026-08-16 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-16 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Romania, which borders Ukraine, said an F-18 fighter on a Nato air policing mission had shot down a drone that breached its airspace during the latest attacks
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[2026-08-16 23:28 UTC+10:00] [Volodymyr Zelenskiy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Romania, which borders Ukraine, said an F-18 fighter on a Nato air policing mission had shot down a drone that breached its airspace during the latest attacks
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[2026-08-16 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Wildberries has been the target of multiple Ukrainian attacks
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[2026-08-16 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Six people have been injured at a market in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as the country was hit by a series of Russian strikes.
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[2026-08-16 21:04 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kyiv launches what may be its largest attack wave of war, with fire breaking out at warehouse near Russian capital
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[2026-08-16 19:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of independence from Japan's colonial rule, KCNA state news agency said on Sunday.
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[2026-08-16 18:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Firefighters work at the site of a book market hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv
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[2026-08-16 17:59 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-08-16 17:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
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[2026-08-16 16:52 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Treasury Department is exploring targeting Chinese banks, shadow fleets and exchange houses, but secondary sanctions risk economic blowback
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