Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-04 05:05 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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[2026-03-04 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: “I’ve tried robotics before, but for some reason I like flying drones more. I feel like I’m flying,” says 14-year-old Dima Nevstruev, a student at a youth center in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region.
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[2026-03-04 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is evacuating thousands of its citizens from countries in the Middle East with specialized emergency aircraft and dozens of commercial flights amid the conflict in Iran.
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[2026-03-04 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom warned Tuesday that the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran faces threats due to ongoing U.S.-Israeli attacks across the country.
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[2026-03-04 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbours to acquire nuclear weapons, Russia’s Foreign Minister warned on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine’s national team has been forced to urgently replace its ceremonial uniforms for the Winter Paralympics in Italy after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) rejected a design featuring a map of the country based on Kiev’s territorial claims.
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[2026-03-04 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Head of the Federal Treasury Roman Artyukhin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Operations at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran have been suspended due to US and Israeli airstrikes continuing in its vicinity, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has said. The company has been the key contractor at the plant, currently constructing its second and third power units.
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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[2026-03-04 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Signs are growing that the outbreak of military hostilities in the Middle East could put a pause on U.S.-brokered talks to end the war in Ukraine, as the Kremlin said Tuesday it lacks “clarity” on when and where the next round of trilateral negotiations will take place.
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[2026-03-04 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Druzhba oil pipeline remains fully capable of transporting Russian crude, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said, urging Ukraine to immediately restore shipments.
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[2026-03-04 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Moscow for decades has been Iran’s main international backer, shielding it from United Nations resolutions while trying to soften Western sanctions and selling weaponry worth billions of dollars to Tehran.
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[2026-03-04 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Schools and universities across Russia have begun taking students on organized visits to civil registry offices, with some staging mock wedding ceremonies, as authorities intensify efforts to promote what they call traditional family values amid a deepening demographic slump.
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[2026-03-03 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday to discuss the plight of Hungarians fighting for Ukraine who were taken prisoner by Russia.
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[2026-03-03 22:19 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the US involvement against Iran could disrupt the flow of weapons that Ukraine needs to continue defending itself against Russian invasion.
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[2026-03-03 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Central Bank said Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit in one of the European Union’s two main courts to challenge the bloc’s decision to freeze Russian state assets indefinitely.
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[2026-03-03 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS, France — As in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, the new war in the Middle East is exposing once again how far Europe and others lag in replacing imported fossil fuels with domestic solar and wind power, specialists say.
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[2026-03-03 19:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-03-03 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pink Ladies Cup began last week and city’s women had been due to face Tanzania on Wednesday and Russia two days later
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[2026-03-03 15:30 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The distinctive buzz of Iranian-designed drones has become a familiar sound in Ukraine over the past four years. Now, it is increasingly heard across the Persian Gulf as Tehran strikes back with these cheap but effective weapons following the attack by the US and Israel against Iran.
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[2026-03-03 13:29 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ukrainian troops have retaken nine settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region since the end of January and are pressing ahead with a counterattack along the southeastern front line, the Ukrainian general staff said on Monday.
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[2026-03-03 12:30 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The signs of succession are apparent, from Kim Ju-ae’s growing public appearances with her father to her reported appointment to a new leadership position
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[2026-03-03 12:00 UTC+10:00] [National People's Congress] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Digitised battlefields demand new breed of soldier, as skilled at data analysis and psy-ops as at wielding a weapon, veteran instructor says
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[2026-03-03 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Exclusive Content] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-03 11:27 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kyiv’s forces find success along southern frontline in February, while Russian troops grind forward in the east. What we know on day 1,469
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[2026-03-03 08:01 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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[2026-03-03 07:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, live images of shattered cities, displaced families and exhausted civilians have filled global media. Yet alongside tragedy and destruction, the world has witnessed something profoundly powerful: the extraordinary resilience of the Ukrainian people.
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[2026-03-03 07:16 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bulky and noisy Iran-made unmanned attack drones have hit buildings in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and elsewhere
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[2026-03-03 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky seconds before it struck buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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[2026-03-03 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has shut down more than 100 illegal communication channels used by Ukrainian intelligence services to entrap Russian citizens in “sabotage and terrorist activities,” the agency said in a statement on Monday. The channels were also allegedly used to distribute fake terrorist threats and commit remote fraud, it added.
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[2026-03-03 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian strikes have killed at least eight people in Ukraine including during an attack on a civilian passenger train, Ukrainian authorities said Monday.
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[2026-03-03 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine— Ukraine is offering to share its hard-won battlefield lessons on Iranian drones with allies now confronting the same threat it has for years, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warning no country can assume it’s fully protected from the kind of drone barrages Russia unleashes nightly.
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[2026-03-03 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani have expressed hope for a speedy de-escalation of the conflict in the Middle East in a telephone conversation, the Kremlin’s press service reported.
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[2026-03-03 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Kremlin-funded news network RT said Monday that its office in the Iranian capital of Tehran was damaged after a U.S.-Israeli strike on a nearby building.
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[2026-03-03 00:47 UTC+10:00] [war] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president said if military strikes in the Middle East continue, the supply of weapons to fend off Moscow’s long attack could be affected
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[2026-03-03 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MOSCOW, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin urged a ceasefire in the Middle East during phone calls with Emirati and Qatari leaders on Monday amid the escalating war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-03 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Daniil Medvedev of Russia plays a forehand return to Learner Tien of the U.S. during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, file)
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[2026-03-03 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The UK will deploy “experts from Ukraine” to the Middle East to help defend against Iranian drones, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday. Shortly after his statement, Iran launched an attack on the British RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, which London had allowed the US to use for operations against Tehran.
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[2026-03-03 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A child plays next to an open air exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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[2026-03-02 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A total of 312 people have been evacuated from Iran via Azerbaijan since Saturday, including 101 Azerbaijanis and others from 19 countries, including China, Russia, and Pakistan, a source close to the government in Baku said on Monday.
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[2026-03-02 22:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Kyiv, Ukraine – No nation knows more than Ukraine about how to down Iranian-made or designed drones.
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[2026-03-02 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif has postponed his planned trip to Russia, the Pakistani government has said.
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[2026-03-02 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Kremlin said Monday that it remains in close communication with authorities in Tehran amid escalating attacks by the United States and Israel that have killed dozens of senior Iranian officials, including the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-03-02 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk overnight on Monday, regional authorities said, damaging residential buildings, injuring three people and sparking a fire near a major oil export facility.
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[2026-03-02 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ukraine struck an oil terminal in the southern Russian port of Novorossiysk early Monday, the Ukrainian army said, several days after the U.S. was reported to have warned Kyiv not to attack its interests at the port.
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[2026-03-02 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Oscars 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile
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[2026-03-02 11:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Among the many, many reverberations of Operation Epic Fury, it’s clearly time to retire TACO — the snarky claim that “Trump always chickens out.”
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[2026-03-02 11:20 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainians to help intercept drones targeting Gulf allies, UK PM says; Russian overnight missile attacks on Ukraine hit new high. What we know on day 1,467
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[2026-03-02 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Vladimir PutinVladimir PutinOverviewLatest NewsSee all knowledgeOverviewLatest NewsSUBSCRIBEVladimir PutinRussian president + FOLLOWRegister and follow to be notified the next time content from Vladimir Putin is published.Link CopiedRussia & Central Asia2 Mar 2026Long Iran war could hurt Ukraine’s defence, says ZelenskyMiddle East28 Feb 2026US says it used drones based on Iran’s own Shaheds in attack: ‘retribution’Middle East27 Feb 2026Trump puts fate of world’s top conflicts in hands of 2 menOpinion26 Feb 2026Don’t expect Russia’s war on Ukraine to end in its fifth
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[2026-03-02 09:48 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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