Russia received millions of dollars worth of equipment from US companies to keep its oil trade afloat after the invasion of Ukraine, report says

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A worker checks a pressure gauge at an oil pumping station near the Rosneft company owned Suzunskoye oil field, north from the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 26, 2015.

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Russia is trying to keep its army going by raising the age for military call-ups by 5 years, with some reservists able to be mobilized at 70

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Russian soldiers in St. Petersburg on August 25, 2022.

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Russia plans a digital version of the ruble after an 19% slide against the dollar this year

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Mine-clearing equipment given to Ukraine by the West is ineffective, noisy, and easy to strike, commander says

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A Ukrainian deminer carries unexploded material during demining works at an airport in the town of Hostomel, northwestern of Kyiv, on May 5, 2022.

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Tour operators in Crimea are begging holidaymakers to stay after a bridge attack left a Russian couple dead

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People relax on a beach of the Black Sea in the resort town of Alushta on the Crimean peninsula on June 18, 2023.

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Putin ordered 2 Western corporate giants to be seized after Kremlin-friendly businessmen expressed an interest in them: report

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awarding ceremony for Russian team members who won medals at the Winter Paraltmpic games on March 17, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

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Russia has been scrambling to find missiles to fire at Ukraine, but it's not going to run out of them

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Missile fragment after attack on Kramatorsk train station, Ukraine
A Tochka-U missile fragment on the ground after an attack at the railway station in Kramatorsk on April 8, 2022.

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Photos capture the crude cages Russian and Ukrainian crews are welding on their tanks and armor as a last-ditch defense

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Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles.
In this image released by Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles.

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Russian tourists need to cross active war zones in Ukraine to get to their summer vacations in occupied Crimea

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People relax on a beach of the Black Sea in the resort town of Alushta on the Crimean peninsula on June 18, 2023.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, summer tourism has plummeted in Crimea.

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Ukrainians looking for missing troops are finding Nazi bullets, World War II-era trenches, and the bones of German soldiers on the battlefield

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The level of water in the Kakhovka Reservoir continues to decrease after the Khakhovka Dam was blown up by Russian occupiers in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region, central Ukraine.
Draining waters from the Kakhovka reservoir last month are revealing artifacts from bloody fighting almost 80 years ago.

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