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Eastern Europe
News from Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic states, the Balkans and the wider region.
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Kyiv warned of winter water and sewage crisis if power grid keeps failing
Utility experts warn that further blackouts could leave parts of Kyiv without clean water and working sewers.
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Ukraine says wounded soldier evacuated from front by heavy-lift drone
A Ukrainian assault brigade releases video of a hexacopter lifting an injured soldier from a mined, drone-contested sector.
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EU to fund rare-earth magnet production line in eastern Estonia
Brussels has agreed to back a plant in Estonia that will make rare-earth permanent magnets, ERR News reports. The scheme belongs to Neo Performance Materials, a…
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Occupation court in Donetsk jails pro-war blogger Tetiana Montian for ‘extremism’
A Russian-installed court in occupied Donetsk has sentenced the blogger Tetiana Montian to 18 months in prison for alleged extremism, the Kyiv Independent reports. She was…
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Update: Lithuania says drone that hit a car was Ukrainian and came in from Poland
Lithuania's prime minister, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, says there is no doubt that the drone which exploded on Sunday and damaged a moving car entered the country from…
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Russia detains two administrators of RailGallery train photo site on critical infrastructure charges
Denis Yeskov and Anatoly Nagornov, who ran the train photography website RailGallery, have been ordered into custody by a Moscow court, Meduza reports. They are accused…
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Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid cut power to 550,000 households as three are killed
At least three people were killed and 53 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day, according to regional officials cited by the Kyiv…
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Russia drops visas for Vietnamese visitors as it looks to Asia after European tourism collapse
Russia has introduced visa-free entry for Vietnamese citizens as it tries to replace Western tourists who have largely stopped coming since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine…
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Serbian prosecutor investigating Belgrade Trump Tower deal targeted with Pegasus spyware
A Serbian organised crime prosecutor investigating alleged corruption around a planned Trump Tower in Belgrade was targeted with Pegasus spyware, according to research published on Monday…
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Update: Zelenskyy says US gave no warning before Russian strike on Kyiv power plants
Ukraine received no warning from the United States before a Russian missile attack hit power plants in Kyiv at about 11pm on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…