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- by FRANCE 24France on Tuesday allowed a tanker called Grinch suspected of being part of Russia's sanctions-busting "shadow fleet" to leave territorial waters after its owner paid a fine of several million euros, a minister said. French forces and their allies boarded the oil tanker last month between Spain and Morocco. It was escorted to a port […]
- by Charlotte HUGHESIn recent weeks, Ukrainian athletes and visitors at this year's Winter Olympics have been targeted by a string of false accusations. These fake news reports and the way they have been spread bear all the hallmarks of the Russian disinformation campaign known as Operation Matryoshka. FRANCE 24's Charlotte Hughes explains in Truth or Fake.
- by FRANCE 24Ukraine recaptured 201 square kilometres of territory from Russia in five days last week – its biggest gain in 2.5 years – according to AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War. Experts from the institute said Ukraine likely took advantage of a recent shutdown of Russian forces’ access to Starlink.
- by FRANCE24Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Marc Loustau, Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, says that Monday's meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban 'did not produce the kind of movement that Orban would like to have had before the April elections' […]
- by Mark OWENIn the wake of the Munich Security Conference, we're asking: what happens now? With Russia's war on Ukraine still raging, do the grand words of Munich mean anything to those struggling to feed themselves, stay warm and survive under Vladimir Putin's ongoing missile and drone attacks?