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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admits mistakes in his policy on Russia.

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Among the biggest ones was the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between the two countries. “We have failed to integrate Russia into the common security architecture,” he said. Steinmeier added that he underestimated Putin’s readiness to go to "complete economic, political and moral ruin of own country for his imperial mania.”

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

"We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values," Orban said on a weekly radio show. "We are turning to the European Court of Justice."

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