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This photograph taken on 24 February, 2004, shows Russian president Vladimir Putin (L) talking to former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov at his office in Moscow's Kremlin

Russia-Ukraine war Ex-PM says Putin 'out of it', Ukraine war could last two years

Speaking to AFP in a video interview, Kasyanov, Russia's prime minister from 2000 to 2004, said he expected the war could last up to two years but he was convinced Russia could return to a democratic ...

A Ukrainian serviceman checks a just received Next Generation Light Anti-Armour Weapon (NLAW) on the position not far from the Ukrainian town of Chuguiv, in Kharkiv region on 9 June 2022

‘Ukraine dependent on arms from allies after exhausting Soviet-era weaponry’

Kyiv has asked repeatedly for the longer-range Himars precision missile systems, but Washington only agreed when it felt Ukraine was ready

Men play chess at a bench on the central promenade in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 20 March, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine's 'chess capital' mulls Russia's next move

The city considers itself the cultural epicentre of Ukraine

In this file photo taken on 21 August 1991 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbatchev makes his first appearance since the military coup, speaking to reporters at his country house shortly before his return to Moscow after the coup failed

US became ‘arrogant’ after fall of Soviet Union: Gorbachev

Triumphant mood in the West, especially in the United States” after the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, said Mikhail Gorbachev

Still frame from an undated video seen by Reuters shows people standing next to Humvees adorned with the Taliban flag on the mountaintops close to Golbahar, near the southern entrance of Panjshir valley, Afghanistan. Video obtained from social media.

US warns of Afghanistan civil war

Taliban fighters advanced deep into the last holdout province of Panjshir Sunday, as the top US general warned Afghanistan faces a wider civil war that would offer fertile ground for a resurgence of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on 31 August, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia

Ukraine president seeks Biden support against Russia after Afghan war

Ukraine's leader will ask president Joe Biden on Wednesday for firm US support on military modernisation, worried about rising Russian pressure days after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

This handout photograph taken and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on 29 July 2021, shows the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" (Science) docking to the International Space Station (ISS).

Russia's Nauka science module docks with ISS

Russia said it successfully docked the Nauka laboratory module with the International Space Station on Thursday