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Putin defends rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, calling for direct talks between them and the Kyiv government to help restore peace. He said Ukraine had accepted the rebel leaders’ signatures on the 2015 Minsk ceasefire…

Putin’s new Crimea rail link condemned by EU

President Vladimir Putin has heralded the opening of a railway bridge to the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula by posing in the driver’s cab and praising construction workers. But the opening of the railway was immediately condemned by the European Union as…