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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s suggestion that Kyiv would seek nuclear weapons if it could not join NATO was a “dangerous provocation,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday. The Ukrainian leader made the comments at an EU summit on Thursday, in which he said “either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, which will protect us, or we […]
Latvia imposed an indefinite entry ban for pro-Kremlin designer Artemiy Lebedev and comedian Valery Ponomarenko, a month before he was due to perform in the country, Latvia’s Foreign Ministry announced Friday. Latvian authorities did not cite the specific reasons for blacklisting Lebedev and Ponomarenko, noting only that the former is “known in certain circles” and […]
Russia is preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the fight against Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, citing intelligence information. Zelensky has previously accused North Korea of sending troops to Russia’s army but this was the first time he gave an exact figure. An unspecified number of North Korean soldiers were already […]
Moldova claimed Wednesday that authorities in Russia were planning to undermine the country’s upcoming presidential election and a referendum on joining the EU by bussing in voters to polling stations at the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow. Moldova’s Foreign Ministry said it was alarmed by reports of Russia allegedly preparing to “artificially create the impression of […]
Spanish authorities on Tuesday said they had arrested four people suspected of orchestrating a sanctions-busting commercial network after intercepting 13 tons of chemical products bound for Russia. The investigation began in 2022 after Western countries imposed waves of sanctions on Russia to prevent it from acquiring equipment and technologies for its war with Ukraine. Police […]
Russian fishermen rescued a man who spent nearly 70 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean, law enforcement authorities in Far East Russia said Tuesday, adding that the man’s brother and nephew died at sea. Mikhail Pichugin set sail with his brother Sergei and nephew Ilya from Russia’s Khabarovsk region in early August. The Khabarovsk region, […]
Russia could be in a position to attack NATO by 2030 and is ramping up efforts to disrupt Ukraine’s Western backers through sabotage, German intelligence chiefs warned Monday. Germany is Ukraine’s second-biggest military backer after the United States. “In terms of personnel and material, Russian armed forces are likely to be capable of carrying out […]
Russia on Sunday said it has captured another east Ukrainian village as it closes on the important city of Pokrovsk, where its forces have been advancing for weeks. Russian troops have moved westwards in the Donetsk region for months, with Kyiv saying this weekend that the situation was “very difficult.” Moscow’s Defense Ministry said its […]
A fire at a petrol station in Russia’s Chechnya killed four people, including two children, emergency services said Saturday. Authorities released images of more than two dozen firefighters extinguishing the blaze at an almost totally destroyed petrol station with burnt-out cars in Chechnya’s main city, Grozny. “Unfortunately, four people died, including two children,” Russia’s Emergency […]