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EPA At least 2.5 million Ukrainians live in Poland – making up nearly 7% of the country’s total population Svitlana says her daughter loved her school in Poland. “Even when we moved to another area, she didn’t want to change […]

Zelenskiy/Official via Telegram Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 189 Ukrainians had returned home Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Russian defence ministry said it had

BBC Many Ukrainians have loved ones fighting on the frontline or in captivity A Ukrainian official has told the BBC they hope a New Year prisoner exchange with Russia will happen “any day,” although arrangements could fall through at the

Russian defence ministry A ballistic missile on a nuclear base in Russia On the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Anton says the nuclear weapons base he was serving at was put on full combat alert.

Russia’s chess team is to remain banned from international competitions, officials have ruled. In a dramatic move, an International Chess Federation (Fide) general assembly meeting in Budapest voted to maintain sanctions against Russia and its ally, Belarus. Both countries were

Getty Images Fide’s president, Arkady Dvorkovich, served under Russia’s Vladimir Putin for several years Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine has now spilled over on to the world of chess. Following Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the International Chess Federation (Fide)

A Russian murderer who was released from prison to fight in the war in Ukraine, only to then kill an elderly woman, has been released a second time to return to the front, according to relatives of the woman. “Grandma’s

Messaging app Telegram has said its CEO Pavel Durov, who was detained in France on Saturday, has “nothing to hide”. Mr Durov was arrested at an airport north of Paris under a warrant for offences related to the app, according