The Institute for the Study of War reports that Ukrainian forces have reversed nearly all Russian territorial gains since March 2026, leading to near-zero net gains for Moscow. Boris Johnson criticized Vladimir Putin after his diplomatic train narrowly avoided being hit by a drone near the Ukraine-Poland border, with a passenger train behind it suffering damage but no casualties reported.
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Nearly all of Russia’s territorial gains this year have been wiped out, according to a new assessment by the Institute for the Study of War.
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Ukrainian forces have held Russian forces to “near-zero net gains since March 2026”, read the report.
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“The situation remains dynamic, and Russian commanders are reportedly pressing Russian President Vladimir Putin for a massive mobilization likely aimed at restoring their ability to seize and hold the initiative,” the ISW said.
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Meanwhile, former British prime minister Boris Johnson hit out at Vladimir Putin after his train was involved in a near miss with a Russian drone close to the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday.
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“I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning,” Johnson said after he returned from a security conference in Kyiv.
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A diplomatic train carrying Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had deliberately left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule and were on their way back when a drone struck the line behind them.
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A passenger train behind the diplomatic service was damaged in the strike.
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It had already been evacuated due to intelligence on an impending attack, and no one was harmed.
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European leaders meet as Arctic thaw opens shipping routes and Russian buildup stokes security fears
European leaders were meeting Monday to discuss growing competition in the Arctic, where global warming is opening new shipping routes, governments are vying for vast natural resources and a Russian military buildup is heightening security concerns.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen were among leaders expected for the European Arctic Summit in Rovaniemi, Finland, a city perhaps best known for its Santa Claus village.
The two-day gathering that began Sunday comes on the heels of a Norwegian seizure of a Russian vessel earlier this month in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard at the request of Ukraine, drawing the condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Kremlin says Russia's diesel export ban should help domestic situation amid pains in global energy market
The Kremlin said on Monday that an export ban on diesel should help boost the domestic market in Russia and blamed instability in the Middle East for worsening global energy markets.
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about President Donald Trump’s request to Volodymyr Zelensky to halt strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure.
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Moscow welcome the request and Peskov told reporters that Russia would resume diesel exports once domestic fuel supplies stabilised.
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Kremlin will celebrate Russia’s attack close to Boris Johnson’s train
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Russia will celebrate almost killing Boris Johnson – this is Putin’s plan for chaos
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If blowing up a petrol station and railway carriage close to a train carrying two former European prime ministers and the man who used to run America's war in Afghanistan, the CIA - and rewrote US military doctrine - was an accident, it isn’t one the Russians are admitting to in the Kremlin.
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Boris Johnson, Carl Bilt - once Sweden’s PM - and general David Petraeus, the “warrior priest” of America’s War on Terror, are tiptop scalps for Vladimir Putin’s collection and his external spy agency, the FSB, will get kudos for nearly taking them.
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His record in Britain, where he enhanced Russia’s strategic standing by helping take the UK out of Europe, doesn’t worry frontline soldiers in a country that is grateful for his stentorian support from the early days of the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion.
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Kremlin responds after Boris Johnson’s train in near miss with Russian drone
The Kremlin has issued a response after a Russian drone targeted the railway line that Boris Johnson was travelling on.
The former prime minister was alerted at 5am on Sunday as he returned from a security conference in Kyiv after another passenger train behind his was forced to evacuate near Yagodyn, near the Polish border.
Speaking on Monday, a Kremlin spokesperson did not deny that Russia was responsible for the attack, saying its forces would continue to operate across Ukrainian territory.
In a post on X, Mr Johnson wrote: “I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning.”
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Russian strike on farm warehouse in northern Ukraine kills three, police say
A Russian attack on warehouse facilities belonging to a farming enterprise in the town of Pryluky in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region killed three people, regional police said.
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Preliminary information indicated that seven others were injured in the attack, police said on the Telegram messaging app.
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Russian strike on train on Ukraine-Poland border was meant to scare Western states, says EU's Kallas
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A Russian drone attack on a train on Ukraine's border with Nato member Poland on Sunday was meant to scare Western countries supporting Ukraine, European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
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“I think we should act the opposite.
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We should show that we are there for Ukraine and we are not scared,” she told reporters in Rovaniemi, Finland where she attended a summit on Arctic strategy.
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Drone strike on Poland Ukraine border that hit train at Poland-Ukraine border shortly after train carrying Boris Johnson left
A Russian drone attack on a train on Ukraine's border with Nato member Poland on Sunday was meant to scare Western countries supporting Ukraine, European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
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"I think we should act the opposite.
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We should show that we are there for Ukraine and we are not scared," she told reporters in Rovaniemi, Finland where she attended a summit on Arctic strategy.
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