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After Iran assault, Russians say U.S. can’t be trusted in Ukraine talks

As Washington focuses on its push to topple Iran’s government, delaying talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, some in Moscow say the Kremlin must achieve its goals militarily. March 11, 2026 at 6:00 a.E DT Today [March 11] at 6:00 a.m. EDT A damaged apartment after a strike by a Russian drone in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Feb. 26. (Kateryna Klochko/AP)    By  Mary Ilyushina ,  Natalia Abbakumova  and D avid L. Stern ,   The Washington Post    Since the first missiles of the U.S.-Israeli campaign began striking Iran, Russian state media and political pundits have been mulling over a question: Do negotiations with the United States always end with missiles hitting the capital? Minus the question mark, that was the title of a recent op-ed in the pro-Kremlin newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, which argued that President Donald Trump, while insisting on getting a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, is “devouring” Russian allies one by one and “lulling ...
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Russia Says Ukraine’s Strike on Factory City Was Deadly

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Ukraine said the attack struck a key electronics plant, highlighting how it remains capable of hitting high-value targets inside Russia.  A still from a video released by the Ukraine armed forces of a strike on a Russian missile plant in Bryansk, Russia, on Tuesday. Credit... Ukraine Armed Forces, via Reuters By  Ivan Nechepurenko The New York Times, March 11, 2026 Updated  11:21 a.m. ET Ukrainian forces on Tuesday struck the Russian city of Bryansk, home to a major factory that produces components for Russian missiles, in an attack that killed six civilians and injured 42 others, the region’s governor said. In their accounts of the strike, the Russian authorities did not mention any damage to the plant, called Kremniy El. They  called  the attack an “inhuman act” committed by “Ukrainian terrorists,” and said it had been conducted with seven British Storm Shadow missiles. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine  said  that Ukrainian forces had success...
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