Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider took home a silver medal in women's tennis doubles on Sunday, making them the first Russian professional athletes to get a medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.Competing as Individual Neutral Athletes, understood by the French acronym AIN, Andreeva and Shnaider lost the last to Italian tennis gamers Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini.
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Ukraine has received its first batch of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday, adding that more are needed to beat back Russian forces.

For more than two years, Ukraine has pleaded with its Western partners for the aircraft — long considered the crown jewel in the sprawling list of military hardware Kyiv h

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Andrei Pivovarov was one of the 16 prisoners freed from Russia in last week's major prisoner exchange between Moscow and the West.

The prominent opposition activist, 42, was pulled off a Warsaw-bound plane by Russian security services in 2021 after the pro-democracy group Open Russia, which he headed, was banned as “undesirable.” He was sentenced to

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over devastating floods that caused untold casualties and damaged thousands of homes, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

North Korea said this week it had seen a record downpour on July 27 which killed an unspecified number of people, flooded dwellings and

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Russia said Sunday its armed forces seized the village of Novoselivka Persha in eastern Ukraine, the current in a string of frontline advances Moscow has actually declared in current weeks.Now grinding through a 3rd year of battling, neither Kyiv nor Moscow has actually handled to swing the dispute decisively in their favor, despite the fact that Moscow's forces have actually gained
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Ukrainian drones targeted a military airfield and oil depot in Russia, a defense source in Kyiv said on Saturday, after Moscow reported pushing back the most recent aerial barrage.Kyiv has stepped up aerial attacks on Russian area, saying it carries out the strikes in retaliation to the barrages Ukraine has actually faced because Russia got into over two
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