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Singapore’s defense chief earlier claimed that Washington had used the jets to spy on Russian surface-to-air missile sites The US has denied flying F-35s over Ukraine after Singapore’s Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen claimed that the advanced fighter jets were being used to monitor Russian troops in the region.

A statue of Maxim Gorky in the city of Dnepr has been removed amid the “de-Russification” campaign Ukrainian authorities have taken down a monument to Maxim Gorky, a revolutionary who founded socialist realism and became one of the most popular Soviet writers, in the eastern city of Dnepr. The move comes amid the “de-Russification” campaign…