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2022-08-01T16:23:25Z
Sanctions against Russia are not backfiring | Letters
Simon Jenkins (The rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever – our sanctions have backfired, 29 July) writes that sanctions “are meant to intimidate peoples into restraining their princes”. Throughout his piece he puts forward this very instrumentalist view of sanctions, but says not a word about the ethical co...
2022-07-26T07:54:56Z
Can Ukrainian forces recapture Kherson from Russia?
In the first phase of the war in Ukraine, the decisive weapon was arguably the British made NLAW anti-tank bazooka, helping repel Russian forces from the fringes of Kyiv. The second phase was dominated by Russia’s 152mm artillery, bombing cities to rubble before its ground forces gradually moved in. But the talk now i...
2022-08-05T15:00:03Z
Nightlands review – talking through what’s become of Russia
Who exactly is the enemy currently laying waste to Ukraine? There was a time the answer would have been easy. Those of us who grew up on this side of the iron curtain were schooled to see the old USSR as a dictatorship, an unyielding empire hell-bent on protecting its interests. There was no ambiguity in such an advers...
2022-08-02T16:28:09Z
Russia claims US ‘directly involved’ in Ukraine war
The role of American intelligence in the war in Ukraine has been put under scrutiny after Russia accused the White House of supplying targeting information used by Kyiv to conduct long-range missile strikes. Russia’s defence ministry claimed Washington was “directly involved” in the war, and had passed on intelligence...
2022-07-27T12:40:40Z
Is Russia killing off the International Space Station?
The International Space Station, which circles the planet from 250 miles up, is often considered to be above the earthly conflicts that play out beneath. The orbiting outpost has weathered its share of political turmoil in more than two decades of hosting humans. As a symbol of post-cold war cooperation, the US-Russian...
2022-06-21T16:28:56Z
Russia blocks Telegraph website over Ukraine reporting
Russia has blocked the website of the Telegraph for its reporting on the invasion of Ukraine. The newspaper said it had been accused of “disseminating false information about a special military operation by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine”. According to Russian government data, Telegraph.co.uk was blocked by inte...
2022-07-28T11:59:51Z
Brittney Griner lawyers welcome prospect of Russia prisoner swap
Brittney Griner’s defence team have given the prospect of including the WNBA star in a prisoner swap a cautious welcome, as Russia said talks between Moscow and Washington on exchanging prisoners were “ongoing”. “Griner’s Russian defence team learned about US’s offer from the news … In any case, we would be really hap...
2022-05-22T14:41:11Z
Russia bans 963 Americans from entering country
Russia on Saturday released a list of 963 Americans it said were banned from entering the country, a punctuation of previously announced moves against president Joe Biden and other senior US officials. The country, which has received global condemnation for its 24 February invasion of Ukraine, said it would continue t...
2022-07-15T15:51:31Z
Russia escalating attacks on civilians, says top Ukrainian official
A top Ukrainian official has accused Russia of deliberately escalating its deadly attacks on civilian targets, after recent missile strikes including this week’s targeting of the crowded city centre of Vinnytsia, which killed 23 people, including three children. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national sec...
2022-06-14T17:07:26Z
Russia bans 29 UK journalists, including Guardian correspondents
Russia has banned 29 members of the British media, including five Guardian journalists, from entering the country, its foreign ministry has said. Moscow said the sweeping action was a response to western sanctions and the “spreading of false information about Russia”, as well as “anti-Russian actions of the British go...
2022-06-12T14:55:07Z
McDonald’s restaurants in Russia reopen under new brand
Former McDonald’s restaurants in the Russian capital have reopened under a new name, Vkusno & tochka (“Tasty and that’s it”), in a rebranding intended to comfort Russians that they can continue to live western lifestyles – even if Big Macs are gone from the menu. McDonald’s announced its exit from the Russian market i...
2022-07-08T13:13:04Z
Putin claims Russia has barely started campaign in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has issued one of his most ominous warnings yet, claiming Moscow has barely started its campaign in Ukraine and daring the west to try to defeat it on the battlefield. Speaking at a meeting with parliamentary leaders on Thursday, the Russian president said the prospects for any negotiation would grow di...
2022-07-31T06:00:47Z
Ukrainian offensive forces Russia to bolster troops in occupied south
Russia is moving large numbers of troops to Ukraine’s south for battles against the country’s forces through the newly occupied territories and Crimea, according to Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence. If Russia won, it would try to capture more territory, said Vadym Skibitsky. “They are increasing their tr...
2022-07-26T15:14:17Z
Russia seeks to play down closure of Israel migration agency
The Kremlin has insisted its decision to shut down the agency that processes Jewish migration to Israel should not be “politicised”, amid a widening rift between the two countries over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. Last week Russia’s justice ministry requested the liquidation of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency,...
2022-07-19T18:15:40Z
Germany worries about gas rationing as supply from Russia halted
Germans are fretting about the coming winter freeze even while Europe sweats in record temperatures, amid uncertainty over whether a complete stopping of Russian gas deliveries would force energy rationing on private households as well as industry. Germany, which has managed to reduce its reliance on Russian gas from ...
2022-06-21T13:24:53Z
Russia threatens ‘serious consequences’ as Lithuania blocks rail goods
The head of the Kremlin’s security council has threatened the “population of Lithuania” in an escalation of the row over Lithuanian railway’s refusal to allow some goods to cross to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. After a meeting in the region, which is wedged between Lithuania and Poland, 800 miles from Moscow, N...
2022-05-26T14:43:13Z
Russia uses Orwellian propaganda news vans in Mariupol
Russia has deployed mobile propaganda vans with large-screen televisions to humanitarian aid points in the captured city of Mariupol as the Kremlin has pushed forward with efforts to integrate newly occupied territories across the south of Ukraine. Videos published by the Russian ministry of emergency situations showe...
2022-04-26T15:34:29Z
Russia accused of shelling Mariupol humanitarian corridor
Russia has stepped up attempts to encircle defending forces in the east of Ukraine and stood accused of shelling a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, as the US vowed to move “heaven and earth” to help Ukraine win the war. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in Moscow and Germany, a fresh wave of civilian deaths w...
2022-07-08T11:20:41Z
Russia has not paused its Donbas offensive, says Ukraine official
Russia is continuing its offensive into Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region after capturing almost the entire neighbouring Luhansk region, according to the head of Ukraine-controlled Luhansk’s regional civil administration. Serhiy Haidai told Ukraine’s United News he did not agree with recent western assessments that Rus...
2022-08-01T14:53:34Z
Grain ship leaves Ukraine port for first time since Russia blockade
A ship carrying Ukrainian grain has left the port of Odesa for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion under an internationally brokered deal to unblock Ukraine’s agricultural exports and ease a growing global food crisis. The Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, finally set...
2022-06-12T07:00:43Z
Specialist gang ‘targeting’ Ukrainian treasures for removal to Russia
A specialist gang is smuggling valuable historic artefacts out of Ukraine and into Russia, according to an international team of academics and digital technology experts who are tracking thefts. “There is now very strong evidence this is a purposive Russian move, with specific paintings and ornaments targeted and take...
2022-07-04T17:30:22Z
Russia releases photo of cosmonauts holding Luhansk flag on ISS
Russia’s space agency has published photos appearing to show cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) holding the flags of the self-proclaimed republics in Luhansk and Donetsk. In a message posted to the official Roscosmos Telegram channel, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov appear to be hold...
2022-07-26T17:01:01Z
EU agrees plan to ration gas use over Russia supply fears
The EU has been forced to water down its plan to ration gas this winter in an attempt to avoid an energy crisis generated by further Russian cuts to supply. Energy ministers from the 27 member states, except Hungary, backed a voluntary 15% reduction in gas usage over the winter, a target that could become mandatory if...
2022-07-23T23:00:08Z
US accuses Russia of deepening global food crisis – as it happened
From 23 Jul 2022 22.17 The US Secretary of State has condemned the Russian attack against Odesa, accusing Russia of deepening the global food shortage. In a statement posted on Twitter, Anthony Blinken said, “The United States strongly condemns Russia’s attack on the port of Odesa today. It undermines the effort to bri...
2022-05-10T06:00:31Z
China’s pro-Russia propaganda exposed by online activists
A number of Chinese government-linked media outlets and pro-Russia social media accounts are spreading pro-Kremlin sentiment on the Chinese internet by mistranslating or manipulating international news about the war in Ukraine. In response, online, anonymous volunteers – such as those under the Twitter account Great T...
2022-07-22T16:41:06Z
Ukraine and Russia sign UN-backed deal to restart grain exports
Ukraine and Russia have signed a UN-backed deal to allow the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports, potentially averting the threat of a catastrophic global food crisis. A signing ceremony at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul was attended by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, and Re...
2022-05-08T21:30:12Z
UK expands import sanctions against Russia and Belarus
The UK government has expanded its sanctions against Russia to include punitive import tariffs on Russian precious metals, as well as export bans on certain UK products, to increase economic pressure on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine. The third wave of sanctions was announced by the Department for International T...
2022-06-27T14:23:05Z
Russia defaults on debt for first time since 1998 – reports
Russia is poised to default on its debt for the first time since 1998, further alienating the country from the global financial system after sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine. The country missed a deadline of Sunday night to meet a 30-day grace period on interest payments of $100m (£81.2m) on two eurobonds ori...
2022-06-01T16:31:48Z
Luhansk governor says Russia now controls 70% of Sievierodonetsk
Russian forces now control more than two-thirds of the key eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, conceded that Kyiv’s forces were suffering up to 100 deaths and 500 wounded every day. With fierce street fighting in Sievierodonetsk, western officials suggested that the ...
2022-07-20T09:50:44Z
Erdoğan asks Russia and Iran to back Turkey’s incursion into Syria
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used trilateral talks with his Iranian and Russian counterparts in Tehran to make the case for a further Turkish incursion into north-western Syria. Erdoğan cited Kurdish forces in Tel Rifaat and Manbij, two towns in north-west Syria where Russian and Iranian forces are...
2022-06-25T16:14:29Z
Russia pushes to block off city of Lysychansk, says Ukraine
Russian forces are trying to cut off the strategic twin city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine, having reduced Sievierodonetsk to rubble. Lysychansk is set to become the next main focus of fighting, as Moscow has launched massive artillery bombardments and airstrikes on areas far from the heart of the eastern battles. ...
2022-07-20T09:50:44Z
Erdoğan asks Russia and Iran to back Turkey’s incursion into Syria
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used trilateral talks with his Iranian and Russian counterparts in Tehran to make the case for a further Turkish incursion into north-western Syria. Erdoğan cited Kurdish forces in Tel Rifaat and Manbij, two towns in north-west Syria where Russian and Iranian forces are...
2022-05-31T09:51:07Z
Mongolia under pressure to align with Russia and China
Mongolia, a squeezed outpost of democracy in north-east Asia, is under renewed pressure from its authoritarian neighbours, Russia and China, to shed its independence and form a triangle of anti-western cooperation in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The country is doggedly pursuing a path of neutrality, coupled with a ...
2022-06-23T15:57:05Z
Germany moves closer to gas rationing as Russia chokes supplies
Germany has moved one step closer to gas rationing, after the country’s economic ministry on Thursday warned of a high risk of long-term supply shortages due to Russia systematically choking off gas deliveries. Economy minister Robert Habeck announced the second of three energy emergency plan phases, which enables uti...
2022-05-02T20:49:41Z
Israel summons Russia envoy over minister’s Hitler comments
Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador and demanded an apology over remarks by the Kremlin foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” and that the “most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews”. The remarks were part of Lavrov’s defence of Russia’s policy of “denazification” in Ukraine, the Kr...
2022-06-21T11:43:38Z
Eastern Donbas ‘extremely difficult’ for Ukrainians as Russia intensifies attacks
The military situation for Ukraine’s defenders in the eastern Donbas is “extremely difficult”, the governor of the Luhansk region has said, as Russian attacks intensified in an effort to capture Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Serhiy Haidai said overnight that Russia had said 568 civilians were holed up in the Azot ch...
2022-06-22T14:32:36Z
Russia bears down on Lysychansk, targeting police and judicial buildings
Sievierodonetsk and its neighbouring city, Lysychansk, continue to be battered by intense Russian shelling as Moscow edges closer to seizing the last pocket of resistance in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region. Luhansk’s governor, Serhiy Haidai, said on Wednesday that Russian forces were moving towards Lysychansk, target...
2022-06-19T11:18:10Z
Russia-Ukraine war could last for years, say western leaders
Western leaders have said the war in Ukraine could last for years and will require long-term military support as Russia brought forward reserve forces in an apparent attempt to capture the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk. “We must prepare for the fact that it could take years,” Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenbe...
2022-06-20T17:01:41Z
Russia threatens retaliation as Lithuania bans goods transit to Kaliningrad
Russia has provoked concern in Brussels after threatening to retaliate over Lithuania’s ban on the transit of some goods across its territory to Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad. The move by the government in Vilnius was described as “unprecedented” in Moscow, where the Russian foreign office said they reserv...
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Dataset Card for Russia Ukraine Conflict

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###Context

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing the country and a third of the population displaced (Source: Wikipedia).

###Content

This dataset is a collection of 407 news articles from NYT and Guardians related to ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The publishing date of articles ranges from Feb 1st, 2022 to Jul 31st, 2022.

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  • Discourse analysis of Russia-Ukraine conflict (How the war has evolved over months?)
  • Identify most talked about issues (refugees, food, weapons, fuel, etc.)
  • Extract sentiment of articles for both Russia and Ukraine
  • Which world leaders have tried to become mediators?
  • Number of supporting countries for both Russia and Ukraine
  • Map how NATO alliance has been affected by the war

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