Russia's new offensive in Ukraine has likely fizzled out after only a month, Western intel says

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Ukrainian medic in Bakhmut trench
A Ukrainian medic runs through a partially dug trench on the frontline outside Bakhmut on March 5, 2023.

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Ukraine's troops fight off 'massive' Russian attacks in Bakhmut with World War I-era machine guns and sniper traps

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Ukrainian troops next to a Maxim machine gun.
A Maxim machine gun in position near Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Mykhaylo Palinchak

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is heading to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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International Criminal Court cements Putin's pariah status with arrest warrant for alleged war crimes — illegally snatching kids from Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a ceremony for Russia's Navy Day in St. Petersburg on July 30, 2017.

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Russian diesel has been sitting in Sudan waters for over 2 weeks because Moscow can't find buyers

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An oil tanker.

Suriyapong Thongsawang

Russia is so cut off from the international financial system that the Kremlin thinks Western sanctions have 'insured' the country against the banking crisis

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Vladimir Putin smiles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Ukrainian soldier says Russian forces are using 'morons taken from prison' to draw fire and find enemy troops: report

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Two Ukrainian soldiers walk behind one another on a dirty street.
Ukrainian soldiers walk along a street in the area of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on March 15, 2023.

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Russian jet's collision with a US drone shows Russia may have a fighter pilot 'problem,' former US aviators say

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'Russian Knights' air force group member flies over Monino airfield on his jet SU-27 during an aerial show to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Russian Air Forces outside Moscow, August 11, 2007
'Russian Knights' air force group member flies over Monino airfield on his jet SU-27 during an aerial show to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Russian Air Forces outside Moscow, August 11, 2007

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A convicted kidnapper who fought for Wagner in Ukraine said it was 'utter hell' and he saw fellow fighters 'cry' and 'vomit' as fear took over in the trenches

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A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on November 4, 2022.

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Ukraine said it was 'watching with pleasure' as footage showed a lethal fire at a building of Russia's FSB security service near border

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FSB border patrol building on fire in Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, 16 March 2023.
FSB border patrol building on fire in Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, 16 March 2023.

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