Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-19 12:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the release of 24 Filipinos who have been detained in the Russian city of Irkutsk in Siberia since mid-2025 over immigration issues.
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[2026-06-19 11:50 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: MOSCOW – The blast was so powerful that the huge disc-shaped lid of an oil storage tank was launched into the sky over Moscow like a frisbee.
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[2026-06-19 11:16 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS ― Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz struck out against the EU for opening up communication with Vladimir Putin, putting the leaders of Europe’s two largest countries on collision course with a large part of the rest of the bloc.
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[2026-06-19 11:09 UTC+10:00] [Communications] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — Efforts by European Council President António Costa to open diplomatic backchannels to the Kremlin could undermine the bloc’s support for Ukraine, Estonia’s prime minister has warned in the most staunch condemnation of the move yet.
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[2026-06-19 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday marked the second anniversary of the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty with Russia, calling it "an essential legal weapon" that promises "a new global order."
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[2026-06-19 09:05 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-19 08:06 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-19 07:26 UTC+10:00] [Communications] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — The EU’s communication with the Kremlin has provoked a furious backlash among some European governments, which complained they weren’t informed.
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[2026-06-19 07:07 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-19 06:51 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-19 06:50 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
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[2026-06-19 06:27 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Two payments of $50m will boost Ukraine’s air defence and munitions supply. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-06-19 04:21 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: London: A drone strike on a Moscow oil depot has set off a fiery blast that sent the lid of a storage tank high into the air, in a new demonstration of Ukraine’s ability to reach targets deep inside Russia.
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[2026-06-19 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-06-19 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BRUSSELS, Belgium — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on European allies Thursday to step up help for Kyiv to down Russian ballistic missiles and speed up purchases of US weaponry.
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[2026-06-19 01:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Russian Orthodox Church plans to petition a Moscow appeals court for a lighter sentence for a woman recently imprisoned after making a hookah out of a traditional Orthodox Easter cake.
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[2026-06-19 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-19 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A court in Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has ordered the deportation of an American pastor after he was recorded leading a prayer for U.S. President Donald Trump, RFE/RL’s Russian-language service reported Thursday.
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[2026-06-19 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday, called for deeper cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Russia, identifying peace and security, economic engagement, and people-to-people exchanges as the three key priorities that should guide the partnership in the years ahead.
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[2026-06-18 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Russia on Thursday adopted several key outcome documents aimed at expanding practical cooperation in the region.
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[2026-06-18 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin hosted leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Wednesday as Russia seeks to bolster business and other ties with the nations of the regional bloc.
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[2026-06-18 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-06-18 23:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin holds bilateral meetings with leaders of Philippine, Brunei, Malaysia on the evening of an Asean summit in the central Russian city of Kazan. During talks with the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, Putin says 'the strategic partnership between Russia and the Asean is a key stabilizing factor in the Asia-Pacific region.' Putin also meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan who has 'asked' to meet Russian president, according to the Kremlin's aide Yuri Ushakov, a day
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[2026-06-18 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Reports showing fuel shortages in Crimea and rationing measures implemented in some regions are reminiscent of excitable reporting from last year that Russia was suffering a critical fuel shortage. The actual picture is less catastrophic, but requires the Kremlin to consider acting to prevent a bigger problem.The issue originates in disruption of logistics in territories located within roughly 250 kilometers of the front line, primarily Crimea and other Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.
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[2026-06-18 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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[2026-06-18 23:05 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenMoscow, RussiaBlack smoke rises from the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in Moscow after a drone attack by UkrainePhotograph: AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenVersailles, FranceDonald Trump receives a tour of the Château de Versailles from Emmanuel Macron after the conclusion of the G7 summit in ÉvianPhotograph: Anna Moneymaker/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenWigan, UKA voter speaks to a police officer outside a polling station in Makerfield, Wigan, as voting gets under way in the byelection triggered by the Labour
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[2026-06-18 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU’s latest Russia sanctions package proposal includes counter-productive measures that could backfire on its own member states, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova has said.
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[2026-06-18 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU’s latest Russia sanctions package proposal includes counter-productive measures that could backfire on its own member states, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova has said.
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[2026-06-18 21:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: England’s Georgia Stanway celebrates scoring during the Women’s World Cup Qualifying soccer match between England Ukraine in Liverpool, England, Tuesday June 9, 2026. (Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA via AP)
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[2026-06-18 21:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin (centro), asiste a una cumbre entre Rusia y la ASEAN, en Kazan, Rusia, el 18 de junio de 2026. (Kristina Solovyova/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Foto vía AP)
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[2026-06-18 21:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un hombre identificado por medios polacos como Robert Kuzovkov y por la fiscalía como Robert K., de acuerdo con las leyes polacas de privacidad, que según dijeron era un artista con el pseudónimo Semyon Skrepetsky, posa para una foto con una de sus obras junto a la embajada rusa en Berlín, Alemania, el viernes 12 de junio de 2026, cuatro días antes de morir baleado en Biala Podlaska, Polonia, según autoridades polacas.
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[2026-06-18 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: While attention this week has been fixed on the lower part of Eurasia, where the U.S. and Iran have finally signed an interim peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin normalizing tanker flows through the critical waterway, the other major conflict area in Eurasia is flashing new warning signs.
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[2026-06-18 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man identified by Polish media as Robert Kuzovkov and by prosecutors as Robert K., in accordance with Polish privacy law, who they said was an artist who used the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, poses for a photo with one of his paintings near the Russian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, June 12, 2026, four days before Polish authorities said he was shot and killed in Biala Podlaska, Poland.
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[2026-06-18 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, attends the Russia-ASEAN summit in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (Kristina Solovyova/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-06-18 21:26 UTC+10:00] [Foreign Affairs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday announced authorities had detained a suspect in the murder of Russian exile and artist Robert Kuzovkov, who worked under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky.
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[2026-06-18 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Lesya Ryabtseva, journalist and blogger
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[2026-06-18 20:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Shortly after the unveiling of the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile in 2024, President Vladimir Putin boasted that the medium-range weapon was a state-of-the-art Russian creation, not an upgrade of a Soviet-era system.
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[2026-06-18 19:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Moscow has come under the largest Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale war, with close to 200 drones hitting targets around the Russian capital and setting columns of thick smoke billowing high into the sky.
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[2026-06-18 19:34 UTC+10:00] [War in Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Ukrainian drones struck several targets around Moscow on Wednesday night, setting an oil refinery on fire and forcing the Russian capital’s airports to suspend flights.
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[2026-06-18 19:33 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow on Thursday, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week in what Kyiv cast as a demonstration of its growing capabilities that should force Russia to accept a peace deal.
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[2026-06-18 19:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A Moscow judge has ordered the pre-trial detention of Ilya Traber, a St. Petersburg businessman with alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin, as he awaits trial for the 2020 murder of businessman and politician Alexander Petrov.
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[2026-06-18 19:06 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
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[2026-06-18 18:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-18 18:15 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukraine hit an oil refinery near Moscow and other targets in Russia overnight in what president Volodymyr Zelenskyy called “a justified response” to recent strikes on Ukraine.
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[2026-06-18 18:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukrainian drones have hit a Moscow oil refinery for the second time this week while Russia fired missiles at Kyiv, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks support from the United States and Europe to reach a deal to end the war.
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[2026-06-18 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukraine hit a Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at Moscow airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Russian officials said Thursday.
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[2026-06-18 17:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Flights at all major Moscow airports have been temporarily suspended for safety reasons after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia's aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, said on Thursday.
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[2026-06-18 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ukraine on Thursday launched its largest drone attack on Moscow in years, sparking fires in and around the capital and forcing evacuations at the country's largest airport, officials said.
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[2026-06-18 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Black smoke blanketed the skies of southern Moscow on Thursday morning after Ukrainian drones struck and set fire to a major oil refinery, in what was the largest-ever attack on the Russian capital since the start of the war.
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[2026-06-18 15:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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