Ukraine's military intelligence said Friday that a recent drone attack on an airport in northwestern Russia that damaged several transport planes was carried out from within Russian territory. The claim, falling on the first day of the school year, came as President Vladimir Putin told Russian students that their country was
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Russia vetoes UN resolution on Mali sanctions
Russia on Wednesday vetoed an attempt to keep inside military-run Mali a team of UN experts who had charged that foreign forces a veiled reference to Moscow-linked Wagner mercenaries -- were involved in widespread abuses. Thirteen of the UN Security Council's 15 members backed a proposal that would have extended by
Putin to not visit India for G20 summit
Russia will be represented by its foreign minister at the G20 summit in New Delhi, President Vladimir Putin told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a phone call on Monday where the two leaders also discussed bilateral ties. The two leaders also spoke about the planned expansion of the BRICS group
China, Russia, emerging economies turn to main agenda
Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. The BRICS group of emerging economies
Ukraine use new Black Sea route
Ukraine is considering using its newly-tested wartime Black Sea export corridor for grain shipments after other cargo ships follow the first successful evacuation of a vessel on the route last week, a senior agricultural official said on Monday. Russia has blockaded Ukrainian ports since it invaded its neighbour in Feb. 2022
Russia yet to move troops to Finnish border
Russia has yet to make good on a threat to move troops to the border with Finland after the Nordic country joined NATO, Finland's foreign minister told AFP on Tuesday. Moscow in April branded Finland's membership of the western alliance an "assault on our security" and vowed to "take countermeasures... in
Ukraine-Russia War Putin puts hypersonic missiles on subs
Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia's largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday. "Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will ... be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a
Thwarted Ukraine attacks on Black Sea naval base Russia
Russia's defence ministry said early on Friday that it had thwarted overnight Ukrainian attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula. "Tonight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the use of two unmanned sea boats, attempted an attack on the Novorossiysk naval base of the Russian
Russia strikes Ukraine’s Danube port, sending global grain prices higher
Russia attacked Ukraine's grain ports in the early hours of Wednesday, including an inland port across the Danube River from Romania, sending global food prices soaring as Moscow ramps up its use of force to reimpose a blockade of Ukrainian exports. Ukraine's defence ministry said a grain silo was damaged in
UN Chief vs Russia: A Second Battlefront in the Ukraine War
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the creature of—and subservient to — the 193 member states who largely reign supreme in the world body. But, in reality, Antonio Guterres has been defiant and openly challenged one of the five permanent members of the Security Council lambasting Russia for its 17-month-old