Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-12 23:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Russia is believed to be using a fleet of hundreds of ships to evade international sanctions imposed after it invaded Ukraine in 2022
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[2026-08-12 23:16 UTC+10:00] [Moscow] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Russia is believed to be using a fleet of hundreds of ships to evade international sanctions imposed after it invaded Ukraine in 2022
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[2026-08-12 22:52 UTC+10:00] [Data protection] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is moving to turn the country’s foreign intelligence agency into a more potent weapon to counter mounting threats from adversaries including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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[2026-08-12 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian anti-ship missiles, jet-powered aerial drones and sea drones blitzed a major Russian naval base on the Black Sea coast in a “unique” nighttime operation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.
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[2026-08-12 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At the urging of Vice President JD Vance, Ukraine has suspended attacks on oil tankers using the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which sits on the Black Sea. The request was made in late July, but first reported today by the Financial Times, citing Ukrainian officials.
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[2026-08-12 21:24 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Ukrainian defense tech company Fire Point's first ballistic missile will be ready this fall, its CEO told POLITICO — a crucial development if Kyiv hopes to survive the growing ferocity of Russian missile attacks.
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[2026-08-12 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: British officials and diplomats fear an unintended maritime escalation with Russia and are pressuring senior military leaders to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts, The Times reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-12 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: British officials and diplomats fear an unintended maritime escalation with Russia and are pressuring senior military leaders to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts, The Times reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-12 21:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize European vessels if European states follow through on plans to seize more commercial ships with Russian cargo.
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[2026-08-12 21:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan has introduced fuel rationing and an odd-even license plate system at gas stations, following a Ukrainian drone attack on a local oil refinery.
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[2026-08-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A rare solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Russia and Europe on Wednesday, with the Moon set to completely block the Sun in some areas and obscure much of it across a wider region.
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[2026-08-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A rare solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Russia and Europe on Wednesday, with the Moon set to completely block the Sun in some areas and obscure much of it across a wider region.
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[2026-08-12 20:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-12 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky halted Ukraine’s drone campaign against oil tankers in the Black Sea after a request from US Vice President JD Vance, The Financial Times reported, citing Ukrainian officials.
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[2026-08-12 20:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin (izquierda), visita el crucero militar Varyag de la Flota del Pacífico, para observar unas maniobras militares cerca de Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, en la isla de Sajalín, Rusia, el 12 de agosto de 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Foto vía AP)
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[2026-08-12 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would retaliate in kind if European countries carried out plans to seize Russian commercial vessels, describing the proposed measures as “piracy and robbery.”
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[2026-08-12 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, visits the Varyag missile cruiser of the Pacific Fleet to watch a military exercise near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Sakhalin Island, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-08-12 19:56 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russian authorities said Ukraine’s overnight bombardment of the western Krasnodar region killed two people and injured at least 12.
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[2026-08-12 19:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia last week received its first shipment of gasoline from India to offset domestic fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian drone strikes on its oil refineries, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing ship tracking data.
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[2026-08-12 19:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service and taken Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, Ukrainian soldiers walk along the street in the frontline town of Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP))
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[2026-08-12 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Many have compared Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, to Amazon, and some claim that, as in the case of the US company, shopping on its website or app feels addictive.
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[2026-08-12 17:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly overnight drone attacks, killing three people in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, according to regional officials.
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[2026-08-12 17:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from Europe since 2006. The path of totality will cross northern Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Greenland and northern Russia. London is expected to see around 90 per cent of the Sun obscured, while shoppers in Paris queued for more than two hours outside a specialist store on Rue de Rivoli.
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[2026-08-12 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: North Korea usually reports launches but its silence in the recent launches raises the possibility they involved a top-secret new missile
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[2026-08-12 16:08 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: North Korea usually reports launches but its silence in the recent launches raises the possibility they involved a top-secret new missile
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[2026-08-12 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Spain] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The migrant influx prompted recriminations and a tit-for-tat dispute between Italy and Spain. Putin, Erdoğan and others will have taken note
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[2026-08-12 12:49 UTC+10:00] [ENVIRONMENT] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI – Near-record inventories, technological advances and the rise of key exporters such as Brazil and Russia have made the global food system more resilient to this year’s “super” El Nino climate phenomenon than similar past events.
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[2026-08-12 11:22 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Zelenskyy warns Putin will use Russian election, in which opposition to the war is banned, as pretext for major call-up of troops. What we know on day 1,631
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[2026-08-12 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Some 20 months after Syria's Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus and went to Moscow, amid jihadist groups taking over the capital city in December of 2024, Russia has finally reached a negotiated settlement over the fate of its Syrian bases with the new Sharaa government.
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[2026-08-12 11:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Ukraine had handed proposals to US negotiators for a plan to end the war with Moscowand suggested that Russia would use its parliamentary election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilization.
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[2026-08-12 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
Snippet: No live streaming currently available
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[2026-08-12 09:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Canada’s University of Alberta has won a legal battle to dissolve a research trust named after Ukrainian SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, whose standing ovation in the Canadian parliament from lawmakers, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky sparked an international scandal.
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[2026-08-12 09:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Canada’s University of Alberta has won a legal battle to dissolve a research trust named after Ukrainian SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, whose standing ovation in the Canadian parliament from lawmakers, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky sparked an international scandal.
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[2026-08-12 09:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow is getting new military help from North Korea for its more than 4-year-old invasion.
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[2026-08-12 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU is pumping €90 billion ($105 billion) into Ukraine without knowing how the burden of the interest-free loan will be distributed among member states, German MEP Fabio De Masi told the Berliner Zeitung, warning that the money will enrich “corrupt oligarchs” in Ukraine.
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[2026-08-12 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU is pumping €90 billion ($105 billion) into Ukraine without knowing how the burden of the interest-free loan will be distributed among member states, German MEP Fabio De Masi told the Berliner Zeitung, warning that the money will enrich “corrupt oligarchs” in Ukraine.
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[2026-08-12 08:12 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukraine had handed proposals to U.S. negotiators for a plan to end the war with Moscow and suggested that Russia would use its parliamentary election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilization.
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[2026-08-12 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The war in Ukraine is already in its fifth year; Israel has been through two rounds of fighting with Iran within a year, and China continues to put pressure on the countries around it.
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[2026-08-12 07:04 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 95]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 12 August 2026 7:04am
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[2026-08-12 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-12 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Next Previous
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[2026-08-12 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
Snippet: No live streaming currently available
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[2026-08-12 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘The city was struck with North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons,’ President Zelensky said of the strike on Zaporizhzhia that killed 7
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[2026-08-12 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Hong Min] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘The city was struck with North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons,’ President Zelensky said of the strike on Zaporizhzhia that killed 7
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[2026-08-12 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A Wildberries warehouse burns on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg earlier this month. (Social media via Reuters)
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[2026-08-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A Marine veteran who had been held in Russian prisons since his arrest in January 2022 has been released back to US custody, reportedly after a consistent pressure campaign from Trump administration officials and global advocacy groups.
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[2026-08-12 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Law, Crime and Justice
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[2026-08-12 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-12 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A former US Marine has been freed by Russia and is due to arrive back home in the United States after being held for four years.
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[2026-08-12 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The new government in Damascus has tried to press Moscow to return to Syria the former longtime President Bashar al-Assad. He's reportedly lived in a posh area of the Russian capital, under heavy security, since he was ousted in December 2024 and forced to flee.
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