Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-20 20:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: There have been arrests of Western citizens by Russia amid the Ukraine war, typically on espionage charges that are widely seen as baseless
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[2026-04-20 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev casts his vote at a polling station in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, April 19, 2026, during early parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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[2026-04-20 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Vladimir Putin has created a monster — and it may destroy him.
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[2026-04-20 20:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The winner of the Bulgarian parliamentary election, Progressive Bulgaria’s Rumen Radev, has called for dialogue with Russia to be restored. The former president has led the newly formed left-leaning populist party to a landslide victory on a platform of critical dialogue with Brussels and pragmatism towards Moscow.
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[2026-04-20 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine and Russia have attacked each other overnight, with Ukrainian drones striking Russian assets in Black Sea ports and Russia hitting several regions across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv.
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[2026-04-20 18:14 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-20 18:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: But increased shipments from Russia, Malaysia and Indonesia help to partially offset the shortfall, official data shows
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[2026-04-20 18:06 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: But increased shipments from Russia, Malaysia and Indonesia help to partially offset the shortfall, official data shows
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[2026-04-20 16:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Korea Foundation is hosting the ninth All-Russian Student Olympiad for the Korean Language for two days starting Monday at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
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[2026-04-20 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Since Ukraine’s population has shrunk dramatically, the army’s number one problem is no longer the lack of weapons, such as ballistic missiles and air defense systems, but the lack of soldiers to operate them, writes Világgazdaság.
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[2026-04-20 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran ensures the safe passage of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz under a new legal regime, the Vedomosti newspaper quoted Iran's ambassador to Moscow as saying on Monday.
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[2026-04-20 13:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP) - Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev -- an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia -- hailed a "victory of hope" after his coalition topped the eighth parliamentary elections in five years Monday.
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[2026-04-20 12:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ukraine's interior minister said on Sunday two police officers had been suspended after a video circulated online showed them fleeing the scene of the shooting in Kyiv in which six people were killed.
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[2026-04-20 12:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russia is continuing to develop the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran, according to Andrei Kortunov, a former director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-04-20 11:52 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Ukraine has slammed a surprise US decision to suspend sanctions on Russian oil amid a wave of airstrikes on Kyiv and other cities, deepening a rift over the European conflict while US President Donald Trump puts a priority on the war with Iran.
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[2026-04-20 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Progressive Bulgaria, the party of Bulgaria's pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev, was leading in Sunday's parliamentary election with 44.59% of votes, after 32% of votes were counted, official results showed.
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[2026-04-20 10:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free.
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[2026-04-20 10:27 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian president discusses Patriot alternative with other countries; Bulgarian election may be new headache for Kyiv. What we know on day 1,517
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[2026-04-20 09:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Documents just released by Tulsi Gabbard “show a coordinated effort to frame President Trump” over his July 2018 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, roars Hans Mahncke at The Federalist. “Perhaps the most significant” revelation: the “conflicts of interest” of whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, who was “involved in organizing” the 2016 meeting that pushed Kyiv to oust the prosecutor probing Hunter Biden’s firm — the issue Trump alluded to during his call.
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[2026-04-20 05:30 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, before taking hostages and barricading himself inside a supermarket on Saturday has been shot and killed by Police, Ukrainian officials said.
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[2026-04-20 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-20 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The head of Ukraine's patrol police, Yevhen Zhukov, has resigned after two of his officers faced criticism for allegedly fleeing a deadly mass shooting in the capital, Kyiv.
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[2026-04-20 03:06 UTC+10:00] [Balkans] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Rumen Radev, a Russia-aligned former president, looks on course to win Bulgaria’s election on Sunday, but will need to team up with other parties to form a governing majority.
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[2026-04-20 01:47 UTC+10:00] [Development] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Hungary's outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday signaled readiness to lift his veto over a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine before leaving office — if Kyiv restores the flow of oil to Hungary.
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[2026-04-19 22:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that its forces had destroyed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight on Saturday over 16 Russian regions, as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the Black and Azov seas.
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[2026-04-19 21:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Lithuania and Latvia have announced that they will refuse Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico use of their airspace to travel to Moscow for Victory Day on May 9. Fico vowed to reach the Russian capital nonetheless, saying that the Baltic states would not prevent him from paying tribute to those who liberated Slovakia from Nazi occupation.
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[2026-04-19 21:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Lithuania and Latvia have announced that they will refuse Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico use of their airspace to travel to Moscow for Victory Day on May 9. Fico vowed to reach the Russian capital nonetheless, saying that the Baltic states would not prevent him from paying tribute to those who liberated Slovakia from Nazi occupation.
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[2026-04-19 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Both Kiev and Washington have been met with a new provocation related to North Korea's role in supporting Russia during the over four-year long Ukraine war, at a moment Russia continues to claim sovereignty over Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
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[2026-04-19 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Bulgaria’s Rumen Radev and Boyko Borissov have cast their votes, and the country’s eighth election in five years is underway. Radev, who opposes EU aid to Ukraine, has vowed to break the stranglehold of the “oligarchic mafia” on Bulgaria.
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[2026-04-19 21:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: WATCH TODAY: On Monday evening, April 20, at 7:55 PM Israel time, Masa Israel Journey will conduct its Memorial Day ceremony, on the eve of Yom HaZikaron, commemorating lone soldiers and victims of terror from across the Jewish Diaspora. This event is the largest English-language Memorial Day ceremony in the world and will be broadcast in multiple languages to hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide in more than 50 countries—including Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines, Morocco, Turkey, France, South Africa, the
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[2026-04-19 19:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a US decision to extend the period during which Russia is allowed to sell oil despite Western sanctions.
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[2026-04-19 17:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned the easing of sanctions on Russian oil after the United States extended a waiver meant to soften surging energy prices driven by the Middle East war.
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[2026-04-19 17:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has renewed a sanctions exemption allowing Russian crude and petroleum products already loaded onto tankers to be delivered and sold freely, the US Treasury Department has announced. The move came despite a pledge by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made two days prior that the waiver would not be extended.
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[2026-04-19 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous for humans. But the wildlife has moved back in. Wolves now prowl the vast no-man’s-land spanning Ukraine and Belarus, and brown bears have returned after more than a century. Populations of lynx, moose, red deer and even free-roaming packs of dogs have rebounded.
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[2026-04-19 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Troops frequently use substances to help cope with untreated PTSD and anxiety, producing a negative spiral
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[2026-04-19 12:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-04-19 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s war machine is losing an astounding $100 million a day as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes on the country’s oil infrastructure — dealing a staggering financial blow to the Kremlin.
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[2026-04-19 06:19 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The gunman, who killed six people in Kyiv before police shot him dead, was a Ukrainian citizen born in Moscow
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[2026-04-19 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia stands ready to help remove Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.
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[2026-04-19 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia should test roughly one-third of its population for HIV each year to curb the spread of the virus, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Friday, as official data show infections continuing to rise.
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[2026-04-19 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv and took hostages has been shot dead by Ukrainian police, officials said.
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[2026-04-19 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Five people were killed in Kyiv on Saturday after a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in the Ukrainian capital before being killed during an arrest attempt, officials said.
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[2026-04-19 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Special tactical units stormed the supermarket where the attacker had barricaded himself
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[2026-04-19 02:30 UTC+10:00] [Ukrainian] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Special tactical units stormed the supermarket where the attacker had barricaded himself
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[2026-04-19 02:29 UTC+10:00] [Law enforcement] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A gunman opened fire on people in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Saturday, killing five and wounding several others, Ukrainian authorities said.
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[2026-04-19 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: At least five people were killed and more than a dozen hurt in a mass shooting in Kyiv, with Ukrainian authorities killing the suspect – who had barricaded himself inside a supermarket.
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[2026-04-19 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Moscow is criminalizing the American dream — blacklisting more than a dozen elite US universities and making it illegal for Russians to so much as contact them.
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[2026-04-19 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, Lavrov said the foundations of globalisation powered primarily by the US had ‘come to an end’
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[2026-04-19 01:42 UTC+10:00] [Antalya Diplomacy Forum] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, Lavrov said the foundations of globalisation powered primarily by the US had ‘come to an end’
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[2026-04-19 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Pela primeira vez em anos, a situação não parece nada boa para o chefe do Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. Crescem as críticas inclusive de círculos fiéis ao governo – sobretudo em relação aos bloqueios cada vez mais severos da internet na Rússia. Empresas reclamam de prejuízos, pois o bloqueio do aplicativo Telegram e de outras redes sociais paralisa a comunicação.
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