Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-27 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russia's foreign ministry on Sunday said that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would travel to Moscow for talks.
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[2026-04-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE International Criminal Court (ICC), conceived by the Rome Statute as a court of last resort for countries that do not have the capacity to prosecute those committing crimes against humanity or having such capacity to go after them refuses to do so, has of late come under a barrage of criticism owing to its assuming jurisdiction over countries that are nonmembers, like the United States, Israel, Russia and the Philippines.
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[2026-04-26 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The British government blocked most of a $100,000 charitable donation intended to support the welfare of Ukrainian children, approving funds for Ukraine while rejecting the portion designated for those now being cared for in Israel.
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[2026-04-26 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — Russia's parliamentary speaker thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for "the liberation of Kursk" by sending troops there to fight off Ukrainians, Russian news agency TASS reported on Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un rescatista retira escombros tras un ataque ruso a un vecindario residencial de Dnipro, Ucrania, el 25 de abril de 2026. (AP Foto/Mykola Synelnykov)
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[2026-04-26 21:39 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Beijing warned Brussels that the “EU will bear all consequences” after the bloc included Chinese companies in its latest sanctions package against Russia, escalating tensions in an already strained Sino-Europe trade relationship.
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[2026-04-26 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 1986 disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in what was then the Soviet Union
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[2026-04-26 20:44 UTC+10:00] [Chernobyl] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 1986 disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in what was then the Soviet Union
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[2026-04-26 20:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Finnish Finance Minister Riikka Purra has warned of growing pressure on the country’s public finances. The warning comes just days after the government unveiled a multi-year fiscal plan that combines increased military aid to Ukraine with domestic spending cuts.
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[2026-04-26 20:13 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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[2026-04-26 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met the speaker of Russia's lower house in Pyongyang on Sunday, a foreign media report said.
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[2026-04-26 18:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks in several regions have killed at least five people and damaged a ship in the port of Odesa – as Moscow claimed to have intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones.
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[2026-04-26 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.
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[2026-04-26 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man dressed in white protective suits holds a candle during a memorial service dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster, ahead of its 40th anniversary in Slavutych, Ukraine, Saturday, April 25, 2026.Chornobyl is the Ukrainian name for the city. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
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[2026-04-26 16:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is set to return to Pakistan after a visit to Oman, before travelling onwards to Russia, according to IRNA.
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[2026-04-26 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Apr 26, 2026 - 08:58 am April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. At 01:23 that morning, while concluding a safety test, reactor No. 4 went into meltdown, triggering a massive steam explosion that sent radioactive fallout across Europe. It remains the largest nuclear disaster in history, with an environmental, social and healthcare cost estimated to have exceeded $700 billion.
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[2026-04-26 15:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's four-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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[2026-04-26 13:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea on Friday reiterated its commitment to expanding comprehensive cooperation with Russia, marking the seventh anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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[2026-04-26 13:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Russian forces pounded the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro Saturday in waves of attacks with drones and missiles that also hit other regions, killing 10 people and injuring dozens.
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[2026-04-26 12:01 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A Russian delegation led by the country's Duma speaker arrived in Pyongyang to attend a ceremony marking the opening of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, North Korea's state media reported Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 11:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 26 (Yonhap) -- A Russian delegation led by the country's Duma speaker arrived in Pyongyang to attend a ceremony marking the opening of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, North Korea's state media reported Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE – Tatyana Ignatenko, the mother of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, grieves near his grave at Mitinskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, the 20th anniversary of the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Vasily Ignatenko’s crew was the first to respond to the disaster.
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[2026-04-26 10:23 UTC+10:00] [Azerbaijan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian leader said agreement related to military-industrial co-operation; Russia pounds city of Dnipro with missiles and drones. What we know on day 1,523
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[2026-04-26 10:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: A broken doll lies on a bed in a bedroom of an abandoned kindergarten in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on 20 April, 2026 in Prypiat, around 2km from the site of the accident. Source: Getty / Global Images Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine via Getty
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[2026-04-26 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU will have to provide more money to Ukraine next year on top of the newly approved €90 billion ($105 billion), the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing diplomatic sources.
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[2026-04-26 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is expected to visit mediator Pakistan again after completing his trip to Oman, before traveling to Russia, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
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[2026-04-26 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A dog and cat who found themselves stranded on the front lines in war-torn Ukraine didn’t have to claw their way to safety — instead, they got a ride to safety via a drone, according to a report.
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[2026-04-26 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: At least eight people were killed and 60 wounded across Ukraine in devastating attacks overnight, as the war-torn country faced one of Russia’s largest bombing campaigns of the war.
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[2026-04-26 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV— Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least five people and wounded 46, authorities said Saturday.
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[2026-04-26 00:39 UTC+10:00] [Airspace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Two U.K. Eurofighter Typhoon jets took off early Saturday morning after Russian drones approached the Romanian border with Ukraine, Romania's defense ministry said.
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[2026-04-26 00:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Ukraine and Azerbaijan signed six cooperation agreements on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as he pushes to share Kyiv's drone expertise amid the Middle East war.
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[2026-04-25 23:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BUCHAREST, Romania —Two British fighter jets scrambled and Romanian authorities on Saturday evacuated more than 200 people from a zone where a drone crashed after Russian strikes in neighboring Ukraine, authorities said.
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[2026-04-25 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro.
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[2026-04-25 23:03 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Dnipro bore the brunt of the attacks but Odesa and Kharkiv were also targeted in largest onslaught for several days
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[2026-04-25 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The next type of aerial system likely to be stockpiled at scale by militaries worldwide is the interceptor drone. We've already seen early evidence of this across Eurasia, with Ukraine selling its interceptor drones to the highest bidder.
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[2026-04-25 21:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Two British fighter jets that scrambled from a Romanian air base received a green light to shoot down Russian drones flying not far from the border with the NATO country, Romania’s Defense Ministry has said. Romanian and UK officials have stressed that the warplanes never entered Ukraine’s airspace, or opened fire on Russian UAVs.
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[2026-04-25 20:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, including five in the central city of Dnipro, where officials said an apartment building was hit.
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[2026-04-25 19:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow launched 619 drones and 47 missiles overnight, says Kyiv, with explosions in several cities
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[2026-04-25 19:56 UTC+10:00] [ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow launched 619 drones and 47 missiles overnight, says Kyiv, with explosions in several cities
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[2026-04-25 18:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Overnight Russian attacks in eight regions of Ukraine have killed at least five people and wounded 30 others, Ukrainian officials say.
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[2026-04-25 18:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A rescue worker clears the rubble after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood of Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Synelnykov)
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[2026-04-25 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, visited North Korea to attend the opening ceremony of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, a Russian report said Saturday.
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[2026-04-25 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Victoria Bonya posa para los fotógrafos a su llegada a la gala amfAR en el Arsenale di Venezia, en Venecia, Italia, el 31 de agosto de 2025. (Foto de Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, archivo)
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[2026-04-25 17:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Major US networks have turned a blind eye to an explosive undercover video in which a senior Pentagon official spoke about Ukraine’s rampant corruption and civilian casualties resulting from the war on Iran, O’Keefe Media Group journalist Michael Casey has told RT.
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[2026-04-25 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- A senior North Korean diplomat on Saturday reaffirmed strengthening ties with Russia to mark the seventh anniversary of the first summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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[2026-04-25 15:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Victoria Bonya poses for photographers upon arrival at the amfAR gala at the Arsenale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy, on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
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[2026-04-25 15:27 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-25 15:00 UTC+10:00] [Chornobyl nuclear disaster] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yet
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[2026-04-25 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Four decades after a failed experiment in Soviet Ukraine led to a world-shaking radiation disaster and made Chernobyl infamous, the psychological safeguards protecting nuclear facilities from military action are weaker than ever.
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[2026-04-25 14:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: On a morning in February, animal shelter staff were getting changed for their shift when a Russian drone slammed into the centre of their compound in the frontline Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.
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