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10 civilians killed by airstrikes in Aleppo
In Syria, 10 civilians were killed as a result of air strikes in opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo, as reported by the Turkish Anadolu news agency, referencing representatives of the local civil defense forces.
The strikes targeted the residential quarter of Katranji. Many buildings were damaged or destroyed, and rescue teams are still searching through the rubble for the deceased and wounded.
A representative of the Media Center of Aleppo, Magic Najjar, has reported that Russian combat …
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NATO Secretary General Concerned over Russia's Nuclear Arsenal
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Jens Stoltenberg, expressed concern about Russia’s possession of nuclear weapons. According to Stoltenberg, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has threatened to use them. He stated in an interview with Bild on the 14th of February that Russian troops routinely conduct training exercises related to the deployment of nuclear weapons.
Stoltenberg has made it clear that NATO will not quietly observe nuclear …
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Rally in Support of Oleg Sentsov held in Berlin
On the 14th of February, a rally in support of Ukrainian film maker Oleg Sentso, who was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in Russia, took place in Berlin at a film festival. Famous movie stars Meret Becker and Katja Riemann took part in the event organized by Amnesty International and both German and European Film Academies.
Meret Becker, in an interview with Deutsche Welle, stated that Sentsov’s case should be considered by a civil court, not by a military court. According to her, it is …
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Russia bans transit of Ukrainian trucks
The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation has stopped the movement of registered Ukrainian freight transport on Russian territory. According to their statement, this measure was introduced in response to the unlawful blocking of Russian vehicles on Ukrainian territory. This ban will remain in effect until the situation is resolved in Ukraine.
The Ministry believes that this blocking of trucks violates an agreement between the Ukrainian and Russian governments with regard to …
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'Normandy Four' meeting in Munich yields no results
Pavlo Klimkin, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as well as a participant in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the ‘Normandy Four’, has admitted that after the meeting held on the 13th of February, “there was not a single concrete result.” He said that this meeting was only a preparation for the next upcoming meeting. Klimkin’s Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, silently left the talks without providing journalists with comments.
A Kiev political science …