S Korea, Japan scramble warplanes in response to Russia, China air patrol | Military News

S Korea, Japan scramble warplanes in response to Russia, China air patrol | Military News

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Russian, Chinese planes entered its air defence zone during the joint exercise. South Korea and Japan separately scrambled fighter jets after Russian and Chinese military aircraft conducted a joint air patrol near both countries. Seven Russian and two Chinese aircraft entered South Korea’s Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) at…

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Putin says Russia will take Donbas by force or Ukraine’s troops will withdraw

Putin says Russia will take Donbas by force or Ukraine’s troops will withdraw

President Vladimir Putin has said either Ukrainian troops will withdraw from the country’s eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it – rejecting any compromise over a major obstacle to ending the Ukraine war. “Either we take back these territories by force, or eventually Ukrainian troops withdraw,” Putin told India Today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…

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Ukraine’s NATO membership ‘key question’ in US talks: Russia | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine’s NATO membership ‘key question’ in US talks: Russia | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine’s desire to join NATO was a “key question” discussed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior American officials during talks in Moscow, the Kremlin says. Putin’s top aide, Yury Ushakov, made the comment on Wednesday, the day after an almost five-hour meeting between Putin and Washington officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner failed to…

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Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only “minor details” to settle, official says, but no word from Russia

Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only “minor details” to settle, official says, but no word from Russia

A U.S. official told CBS News on Tuesday that Ukraine’s government had “agreed to a peace deal” brokered by the Trump administration to stop Russia’s nearly four-year assault. The American official and Ukraine’s national security adviser Rustem Umerov said a common understanding on a proposal had been reached, with details still to be worked out. …

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Russia keeping “stolen” Ukrainian territory “the main problem” with U.S. peace proposal, Zelenskyy says

Russia keeping “stolen” Ukrainian territory “the main problem” with U.S. peace proposal, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that the suggested legal recognition of Russian sovereignty over captured territory in the east of his country remained a “main problem” in negotiations as President Trump pushes for a deal to end Moscow’s nearly-four-year war on Ukraine. Ukrainian and American officials met over the weekend in Switzerland to discuss…

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