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Zelenskyy: EU demand to restore Druzhba for Hungary equals lifting Russia sanctions. Trump eases them anyway—and blames Ukraine.
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On March 7, 2026, a crowd of Georgian citizens gathered outside Iran’s embassy in Tbilisi. They held aloft portraits of recently killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and chanted a pledge of obedience to the supreme leader of a foreign theocracy.
A few blocks away, thousands of other Georgians continued the pro-European protests that have filled Rustaveli Avenue since the disputed November 2024 elections, demanding a new vote and a return to the Western path we fought for — and nearly died building.
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“Diop, who says he ended up in uniform after being lured by the promise of a civilian job, is one of the lucky ones. A Russian list of 316 deceased African recruits shows that, on average, they died less than six months after being deployed to Ukraine, according to Inpact, a Switzerland-based nonprofit that obtained the records. More than 50 African recruits were killed within a month of arriving at the front, Inpact found.
The Kremlin expected a quick win when it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but it has found itself mired in a war that has left 325,000 of its troops dead and 900,000 wounded or missing, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Russia has suffered 242 dead and wounded for each square mile of Ukrainian territory it has gained, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that studies military operations worldwide.
Talks to end the fighting are moving slowly, if at all.
Earlier in the war, the Russian military boosted its ranks with poor recruits from distant reaches of the country, Wagner Group mercenaries and convicts promised freedom”
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The Wall Street Journal
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“A prolonged focus on Iran and the Middle East could leave Washington with less bandwidth for Ukraine and ramp up pressure on European allies to fill the gap.
Weapons systems, particularly air defenses, could be rerouted to the Middle East and away from Kyiv, which Russia pummels almost nightly.
Perhaps most welcome is that the attacks on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes, including attacks on oil refineries in Persian Gulf nations, have sent oil prices surging at a time when Russia’s wartime budget is under severe strain.
Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin’s special economic envoy, predicted prices would spike beyond $100 per barrel. In a sign Putin was already seeking to leverage climbing energy prices, the Russian president threatened on Wednesday to reroute Russian gas supplies away from Europe.”
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“Russia sees chance it may benefit from Middle East war”
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Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school
— Read on www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-24-girls-killed-us-strike-elementary-school-southern-iranAt least 63 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, local authorities said.
The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab city in the southern Hormozgan province as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.
The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
One of the Minab school’s staff, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she is still in shock from the intensity of the attack.
Through tears, she said she used to watch these young girls playing at school every day. But after today’s strikes, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.
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The United States declaring war in a baseball cap
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