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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Karl Ritter

Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 4, 2023, 5:10 pm
Swedish national has been held by Iran since last year, Stockholm confirms
Man identified as Johan Floderus, a Swede working for the EU’s diplomatic corps whom Tehran seemingly accused of spying for Israel
By Karl Ritter and JAN M. OLSEN
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, right, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on prior to a meeting ahead of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, July 10, 2023. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
July 11, 2023, 12:26 am
NATO chief says Turkey agrees to Sweden joining the military alliance
Jens Stoltenberg hails ‘historic day’ following clear commitment by Ankara to drop objections, move quickly to approve bid
By Karl Ritter and Suzan Fraser
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to journalists during a joint news conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
July 10, 2023, 5:19 pm
Erdogan: For Sweden to join NATO, Europeans should ‘open way’ to Turkey’s EU bid
Democratic backsliding under Turkish leader’s presidency, disputes with EU-member Cyprus and other issues have held up country’s progress toward admission to European bloc
By Karl Ritter and Suzan Fraser
This photo taken from video released on Thursday, March 16, 2023, shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 drone and beginning to release fuel as it passes, over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said. (US Department of Defense via AP)
March 16, 2023, 3:41 pm
US releases video of Russian jet dumping fuel on American drone
Plane can be seen spraying MQ-9 Reaper in apparent bid to blind its optical instruments and drive it out of the area; Russia accuses US of provocations
By Karl Ritter and Dino Hazell
A US MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, January 23, 2018. (Massoud Hossaini/AP)
March 14, 2023, 9:38 pm
US: Russian fighter jet knocks American drone out of sky over Black Sea
Two Su-27 combat planes dump fuel on MQ-9 UAV conducting operations in international air space, then one strikes craft’s propeller, causing it to crash, military says
By Karl Ritter
The Mariupol theater, damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
February 18, 2023, 5:40 pm
US accuses Russia of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine
Announcing legal determination at Munich conference, Kamala Harris says Russian forces have carried out ‘gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation’
By Karl Ritter and Geir Moulson
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives for the Munich Security Conference at the airport in Munich, Germany, February 16, 2023. (Angelika Warmuth/dpa via AP)
February 17, 2023, 1:53 pm
Ukraine war the focus as leaders take the stage at Munich Security Conference
For first time in two decades, organizers of the major annual event have not invited Russian officials
By Karl Ritter
Ukrainian soldiers fire in the recently retaken Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, September 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
September 24, 2022, 1:36 pm
Russia launches fresh strikes on Ukraine as Kremlin-staged annexation vote continues
UK defense ministry says Russian forces targeting dam along Seversky Donets River in apparent effort to slow Kyiv’s counteroffensive by flooding Ukrainian military crossing points
By Karl Ritter
Ukrainian soldiers released in a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, hold the Ukrainian flag close to Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sept. 21, 2022. (Ukrainian Security service Press Office via AP)
September 22, 2022, 12:12 pm
Russia frees 215 Mariupol defenders in swap for Putin oligarch ally and 54 others
Kyiv says it secured freedom for hundreds who fought at Azovstal in exchange for Ukrainian pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk; deal mediated by Saudi Arabia, Turkey
By Karl Ritter
In this image made from a video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in Moscow, Russia, September 21, 2022. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)
September 21, 2022, 10:20 am
Putin orders mobilization of 300,000 more troops, makes veiled nuclear threat
Russian president says call-up needed to ‘protect our homeland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity’; threatens West with ‘all the means’ available
By Karl Ritter
A Russian missile explodes near the Pivdennoukrainsk plant, also known as the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, September 19, 2022. (Twitter screenchot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 19, 2022, 12:53 pm
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘nuclear terrorism’ after missile lands near power plant
Reactors at country’s second-largest atomic are unscathed but explosion damages windows in complex; no response from Moscow
By Karl Ritter
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces, in Ukraine on Aug. 28, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
September 11, 2022, 1:57 pm
Ukraine disconnects final reactor at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as safety measure
Restoration of power allows reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear facility to be put in ‘cold shutdown’ in bid to avoid radiation crisis; operator pleads for demilitarized zone
By Karl Ritter
A car drives past a destroyed Russian armored vehicle in Balakliya, Kharkiv region, on September 10, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)
September 11, 2022, 2:19 am
Surprised by Ukrainian counteroffensive, Putin’s troops withdraw from Kharkiv area
Kyiv estimated to have seized 2,500 km² in eastern breakthrough, as Moscow claims forces ‘regrouping’ in Donetsk; Zelensky: Russian army doing ‘the best it can — showing its back’
By Karl Ritter and Joanna Kozlowska
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin (bottom left) is seen dancing at a party, August 2022 (screenshot_
August 20, 2022, 5:01 pm
Finland asks: Does a PM have a right to party?
Video of Sanna Marin dancing with friends has caused controversy in the northern European country
By KOSTYA MANENKOV and Karl Ritter
Emergency services personnel work at the Field's shopping center after a fatal shooting attack in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sunday July 3, 2022. (Olafur Steinar Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
July 4, 2022, 2:39 am
3 dead, 3 critically wounded in shooting at Copenhagen mall
PM Mette Frederiksen decries ‘cruel attack’ — Denmark’s worst since 2015
By JAN M. OLSEN and Karl Ritter
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