North Korea and Russia are ramping up trade in oil, coal and weapons as Ukraine war sanctions send Moscow to pariah state

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Russia could finance a reported weapons purchase from North Korea with oil, experts speculate

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Russia's death toll in Ukraine could be as high as 60,000. Western intel says its forces are being ripped apart by artillery and not getting proper care.

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Ukrainian soldiers fire a Pion artillery system at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a Pion artillery system at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.

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Some Russian units have suffered up to 80% losses in the east, Ukraine claims

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Russian soldiers training in Rostov, Russia, on December 6, 2022.

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Senior US diplomat underwhelmed by Russia's new offensive in Ukraine: 'If this is it, it is very pathetic'

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A Ukrainian tank rides to its position in the frontline in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023.
A Ukrainian tank in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on February 12, 2023.

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Putin's plan is to 'out-suffer' Ukraine and win by sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to die, retired US general Petraeus says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Rising tensions with Russia have NATO militaries worried about the revival of a Cold War-era submarine threat

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An undersea cable is laid to Hiddensee island in the Baltic Sea in July 2009.

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A top Russian military official is dead after falling out of a 16th-floor window, the latest in a string of untimely deaths

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022.

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Russian oil revenue has been hurt by effective EU price caps even as Moscow has been resilient with exports, says IEA

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and CEO of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller attend a ceremony to mark the launch of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok natural gas pipeline, September 8, 2011 in Vladivostok, Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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Russian balloons are drifting over Kyiv, likely to fake out its air defenses and force them to waste valuable missiles, Ukraine says

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National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS)

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The rise of Ukraine's 'iron general,' who transformed its army and became Putin's worst nightmare

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Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi delivers a speech in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 19, 2022.

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