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3 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Alexander Murray Smith |Keir Simmons |Artem Grudinin
May 16, 2025, 7:02 AM EDTA diplomatic frenzy consumed Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Palace on Friday, as Russia and Ukraine sat down to hold their first direct peace talks since the early months of this three-year war. Amid repeatedly changing plans, diplomats from Moscow, Kyiv, Washington, London, Paris and Berlin were attempting to navigate the chaos and confusion ahead of what could either be a historic moment — or a looming anti-climax.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Alexander Murray Smith |Artem Grudinin
Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts. Crimea had been contested for centuries by the Greeks, Mongols and Ottomans before Russia illegally annexed it from Ukraine in 2014. Sitting at a geographic crossroads between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the peninsula has vast trade and military significance — and is steeped in spiritual lore.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Keir Simmons |Alexander Murray Smith |Artem Grudinin
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Daryna Mayer |Alexander Smith |Artem Grudinin
9 hours agoSome analysts hoped that Trump might end the war; they are stunned that the U.S. has now “changed sides.” In the summer of 2023, while the second Ukrainian counter-offensive was still under way, I spoke to Alexander Bick, a Biden Administration official who had helped lead planning at the National …
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Artem Grudinin
Nov. 13, 2024, 2:55 PM UTCKYIV — A bomb planted under a car blew up and killed a Russian serviceman in the occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol on Wednesday, in what a Kyiv security source told NBC News was a Ukrainian hit on a senior naval official accused of war crimes.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Artem Grudinin
Oct. 2, 2024, 12:04 PM UTCBy and KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops on Wednesday took charge of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a bastion that had resisted intense attacks since Russia launched its full-scale assault in 2022. The advance of Moscow’s forces, which control just under a fifth of Ukraine, has underlined Russia’s vast superiority in men and materiel as Ukraine pleads for more weapons from the Western allies that have been supporting it.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Arata Yamamoto |Charlene Gubash |Nancy Ing |Andy Eckardt |Daryna Mayer | +1 more
Yuliya Talmazan and Arata Yamamoto and Charlene Gubash and Nancy Ing and Andy Eckardt and Daryna Mayer and Artem GrudininJuly 12, 2024 at 11:41 AM·4 min readIt was the gaffe heard around a world that is closely watching signs that President Joe Biden’s age could become a deciding factor in who leads the United States — and helms the powerful nation’s foreign policy.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
msn.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Arata Yamamoto |Charlene Gubash |Nancy Ing |Andy Eckardt |Daryna Mayer | +1 more
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Artem Grudinin
He’s still at the helm, for now, but Ukraine's top general is facing an uncertain fate just as his country faces a perilous moment in its fight against Russia. Widespread media reports that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is about to fire his military leader swirled to a crescendo this week. And while Army Cmdr.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
nbcnews.com | Kevin Collier |Artem Grudinin
Dec. 12, 2023, 2:43 PM UTCThe CEO of Ukraine’s largest telecommunications company said Tuesday that a Russian cyberattack took down its service, severing internet access for millions across the country. Service at the company, Kyivstar, “collapsed” Tuesday, according to NetBlocks, a company that monitors global internet outages. Both phone and internet access are down, Kyivstar said on its Facebook page.
