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Hungary’s prime minister opposes plan to build oil storage facility for Ukraine on Hungarian soil

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar called plans to build an oil storage facility for Ukraine on Hungarian territory ...
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Ukrainian drones attack Samara as fire is reported at Kuybyshev oil refinery, one of the Volga region’s largest

Ukrainian drones struck Samara overnight on 2. A fire broke out at the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery, Astra said after reviewing ...
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Four years after Putin announced a ‘partial mobilization,’ rumors of another wave are spreading. Meduza asked lawyers how Russians can protect themselves.

Four years after Russia announced a mobilization, rumors of another are circulating. We still don’t know how likely another ...
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Germany wants to restrict Saxony-Anhalt’s access to classified information on Russia after AfD election win

Anhalt’s access to sensitive intelligence data after the AfD’s victory in the state election, fearing that classified information could reach Moscow, according to 17 German and foreign officials who ...
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‘One phone call, and they rewrote the number’: Election analyst says A Just Russia was handed some 60,000 votes as it risked missing State Duma threshold

A Just Russia gained roughly 60,000 votes around midday on September 21, during the count of ballots cast in Russia’s State Duma elections, electoral analyst Stanislav Andreychuk reported on .
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Reuters: Ukrainian drone attack halts oil processing at Moscow refinery on final day of Russia’s State Duma election. Repairs could take weeks.

The Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya has stopped processing crude because of a Ukrainian drone attack on September 20, the ...
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Russia strikes four Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones. Regional officials say three people were killed in Dnipro, and one may be trapped under rubble.

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight into September 22, hitting Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and Pavlohrad.
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Novaya Gazeta Europe: United Russia would have won just 34% in State Duma elections without ballot stuffing

Without fraud, United Russia would have won about 34% of the vote in the State Duma elections. The party’s official result — ...
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Putin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wins 99.85% of the vote. That’s a record even by Chechnya’s standards.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Ramzan Kadyrov won 99.85 percent of the vote in the election for head of Chechnya, according to data from Russia’s Central Election Comm ...
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Trump says U.S. is working on ‘major deal’ to replace Canadian potash with Belarusian supplies, but President Alexander Lukashenko says Minsk has none to spare

President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. is working on “a massive Deal” to buy potash fertilizer from Belarus.
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Reuters: Zelensky meets CIA Director John Ratcliffe at Ireland’s Shannon Airport, less than a month after Ratcliffe’s first trip to Moscow for talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Reuters reported, citing two sources.
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Czech journalists expose Europe-based staff of Rybar, a pro-war Russian Telegram channel

Journalists at the Czech outlet Seznam Zprávy found that representatives of Rybar — an analytical center and one of the largest pro-war Telegram channels with ties to Russia’s Defense Ministry — work ...