Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-19 12:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Canada is seeking to join the EU’s €90 billion loan program for Ukraine, a European Commission spokesman said on Friday, in a move that would allow Canadian arms manufacturers to compete for contracts financed by the scheme.
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[2026-09-19 12:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Canada is seeking to join the EU’s €90 billion loan program for Ukraine, a European Commission spokesman said on Friday, in a move that would allow Canadian arms manufacturers to compete for contracts financed by the scheme.
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[2026-09-19 11:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, named after the late senator, expanding the statutory framework for sanctions, tariffs, and other restrictions targeting Russia while extending existing sanctions on Iran.
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[2026-09-19 11:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Germany should demand greater economic benefits from the billions it spends supporting Ukraine, including more arms orders and access to raw materials, Bavarian Minister-President Markus Soeder said on Friday.
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[2026-09-19 11:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Germany should demand greater economic benefits from the billions it spends supporting Ukraine, including more arms orders and access to raw materials, Bavarian Minister-President Markus Soeder said on Friday.
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[2026-09-19 10:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Ukrainian army is suffering 27,000 casualties a month in its conflict with Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, offering a rare public assessment of Kiev’s losses.
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[2026-09-19 10:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Ukrainian army is suffering 27,000 casualties a month in the conflict with Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, offering a rare public assessment of Kiev’s losses.
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[2026-09-19 10:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping sanctions package targeting Russia over its war in Ukraine, days after Congress sent the bill to the White House with rare bipartisan support.
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[2026-09-19 10:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Many of Saturday's papers continue their coverage of the fallout from Earl Spencer's book about his sister Diana, Princess of Wales. In an interview with the BBC, Earl Spencer said he was telling the truth about the nature of a phone call he had after his sister's death with the then Prince Charles.
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[2026-09-19 10:09 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: Denmark, the United States and Greenland are expected to sign an agreement that will allow the US to increase its military presence in the Danish territory and ban adversaries such as Russia and China from building bases or making sensitive investments there.
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[2026-09-19 09:30 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-19 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Daria left her apartment in Kyiv this summer after Russia's attacks on the city intensified
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[2026-09-19 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president gives backing to ‘Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026’ before next week’s Xi-Trump summit in Washington
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[2026-09-19 08:50 UTC+10:00] [Lindsey Graham] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president gives backing to ‘Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026’ before next week’s Xi-Trump summit in Washington
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[2026-09-19 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a bill into law imposing new sanctions on Russia and locking in punitive economic measures against Iran for the next five years.
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[2026-09-19 08:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Update(1837ET): That was fast, and on what's ended up being a busy late Friday afternoon at the White House - President Trump has signed the Russia sanctions bill into law, according to the White House.
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[2026-09-19 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump signed a Russian sanctions bill targeting top importers of Russian energy just days before a summit with President Xi Jinping. © Reuters
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[2026-09-19 08:05 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Edgars Rinkēvičs says drone warfare in Ukraine is moving at ‘lightning speed’ and efforts to prepare for an aerial war could be obsolete by next year
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[2026-09-19 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping sanctions bill, taking aim at Russia's economy by punishing major purchasers of its oil and gas.
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[2026-09-19 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: In what’s become a recurring moment in Ukraine, another one of Vladimir Zelensky’s top officials fled the country this week amid a metastasizing corruption scandal. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who resigned last week after Ukraine’s Western-backed anti-corruption agencies discovered his cybercrime chief was running a protection racket for scam call centers, left Ukraine on Sunday night bound for Paris, according to Ukrainian media.
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[2026-09-19 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The winner of a prestigious Cannes Film Festival award has been declared a foreign agent by Russian authorities for his criticism of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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[2026-09-19 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2026-09-19 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU has released another €3.3 billion ($3.8 billion) to Ukraine following a phone call between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, as Kiev faces fresh corruption cases and a surprise $27 billion hole in its defense budget.
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[2026-09-19 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU has released another €3.3 billion ($3.8 billion) to Ukraine following a phone call between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, as Kiev faces fresh corruption cases and a surprise $27 billion hole in its defense budget.
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[2026-09-19 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia has threatened the safety of Ukrainian, American and European officials travelling to and from Kyiv using drones.
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[2026-09-19 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's chargé d'affaires in Moscow, Danae Dholakia, on Friday to issue a formal protest about what it called London's "further increase" in weapons supplies to Ukraine.
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[2026-09-19 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Russia's parliamentary elections are under way, the first since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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[2026-09-19 02:54 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia is holding its first parliamentary elections this weekend since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — a vote that sees the opposition scrambling to give voters options in a field increasingly narrowed by the Kremlin.
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[2026-09-19 02:35 UTC+10:00] [Airspace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — Top European officials are increasingly alarmed that Russia could stage drone or missile attacks against NATO countries as Moscow steps up its hybrid campaign across the continent.
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[2026-09-19 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump raised eyebrows when on Monday he declared that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other's oil and energy infrastructure, amid global crude and diesel supply problems related mostly to the Hormuz Strait crisis.
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[2026-09-19 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: "Bandit on top of a bandit, thief on top of a thief!" teenager Alexander Berkutov says in a TikTok video, quoting the late ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
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[2026-09-19 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia has demanded that Japan remove US mid-range Typhon missile systems from its territory, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, describing the deployment as unacceptable and a threat to national security and regional stability.
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[2026-09-19 01:16 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Trump administration criticised for focusing on achieving economic gains from Beijing while neglecting political and human rights issues
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[2026-09-19 01:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-19 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Prices for Russia’s ESPO blend of crude oil bound for China surged past $120 per barrel this week, Reuters reported Friday, citing trading sources and market data.
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[2026-09-19 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-09-19 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-09-19 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: It didn't take long for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party - fresh off its historic taking of 43.8% of the vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt election earlier this month which left Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) shaken - to embark on ties which are a serious shot across the bow and slap in the face to both Berlin and Brussels.
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[2026-09-19 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia has stepped up pressure on Ukraine’s allies, summoning Britain’s top diplomat in Moscow over arms shipments to Kyiv and seizing Russian assets of several Western firms.
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[2026-09-18 23:52 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Ukraine needs more air defenses, but allies are starting to doubt if they can help Kyiv withstand the growing scale of Russian attacks, Alyona Getmanchuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to NATO, told POLITICO on Friday.
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[2026-09-18 23:18 UTC+10:00] [NHL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: After the NHL star appeared in an ad campaign for United Russia, it’s fair to start pressing about the impact of his stances – even if he doesn’t want to talk about it
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[2026-09-18 23:14 UTC+10:00] [Rússia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: A Rússia iniciou nesta sexta-feira (18/09) uma eleição de três dias para definir a nova composição da Duma, a câmara baixa do Parlamento russo, em uma votação que o partido do presidente Vladimir Putin tem vitória praticamente assegurada.
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[2026-09-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Europe and France has intensified.
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[2026-09-18 22:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia parliamentary elections: 10 parties compete amid war in Ukraine
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[2026-09-18 21:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election which President Vladimir Putin has said will show that millions of people back his army fighting in Ukraine, even though most anti-war candidates were not allowed to run.
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[2026-09-18 21:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a new regional grouping of eight countries from the Carpathian region of central and eastern Europe on Friday at a summit in Ukraine designed to promote trade and security cooperation.
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[2026-09-18 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Swiss food giant Nestle said Friday it's weighing its options after the Kremlin moved to place the Russian assets of its business under temporary external administration, as part of a renewed push against Western businesses still operating in the country amid the Ukraine war.
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[2026-09-18 20:50 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: September 18, 2026 20:50 | News
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[2026-09-18 20:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones on Moscow and other regions as Russia opened polls for its first parliamentary elections since the start of the war.
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[2026-09-18 19:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Amstor shopping mall, on the city’s right bank, was struck by Russian drones late on Thursday, 17 September. Emergency service footage showed firefighters battling flames across the complex, which Ukraine's State Emergency Service later described as “practically destroyed”. Rescue operations were completed on Friday morning. Fire crews had to repeatedly take shelter because of the risk of further Russian attacks before returning to the site and eventually extinguishing the blaze.
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