#UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR

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Five dead in Ukrainian attack as Russia says it made gains in Kursk region

Five people were killed in a Ukrainian strike on a shopping center in the Kursk region on Monday, according to Russian authorities, who say their troops are regaining territory in the region.

Viktor Orbán earlier this year embarked on a self-styled ‘peace-mission,' and visited Putin in Moscow, angering many in Brussels. Photos: Sefa Karacan/ PAP

Ukraine’s ‘destructive stance’ blocking peace, Putin tells Orban

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that Ukraine’s “destructive stance” is blocking the “possibility of a peaceful resolution” to the war.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) looks on as Friedrich Merz, leader of the German Christian Democrats speaks at the Bundestag on September 11, 2024. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

German opposition leader calls on Scholz to prepare for Trump’s Ukraine policy change

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has called on the country’s chancellor to get involved in the formation of a “contact group” of five countries including Poland, to prepare for the incoming United States president’s expected policy change on Ukraine.