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December 2, 2024 12:05 PM

Gambit or gamble: Russia, Ukraine, Iran and North Korea raise the nuclear stakes

On 19 November, the Ukraine -- Russia Conflict completed a thousand days. However, the day made news for two other reasons: One, Ukraine hit Russia with the longest-range U.S. missiles for the very first time. And two, Russia announced its new nuclear doctrine. The updated doctrine establishes a framework for conditions under which the President of Russia could order a nuclear strike. The biggest change was that Russia could consider a nuclear attack in response to a conventional attack on Russ...

November 30, 2024 4:54 PM

Kim Jong-un backs Russia’s right to self-defense in Ukraine

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has told the Russian defence minister that Ukraine's use of long-range weapons is the result of direct military intervention by the United States and Moscow is entitled to fight in self-defence, state media said on Saturday. Kim met Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov on Friday and said "the U.S. and the West made Kyiv authorities attack Russia's territory with their own long-range strike weapons" and Russia should take action to make "hostile ...

November 28, 2024 4:59 PM

Putin says Russia could strike ‘decision-making centres’ in Kyiv

Russia is selecting targets in Ukraine that could include "decision-making centres" in Kyiv in response to Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian territory with Western weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Russian attacks have not so far struck government buildings in the Ukrainian capital. Kyiv is heavily protected by air defences, but Putin says Russia's Oreshnik hypersonic missile, which it fired for the first time at a Ukrainian city last week, is incapable of being intercep...

November 20, 2024 11:40 AM

Biden approves anti-personnel mines for Ukraine, US official says

President Joe Biden has approved provision of anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine, a U.S. official told Reuters, a step that could help slow Russian advances in its east, especially when used along with other munitions from the United States. The United States expects Ukraine to use the mines in its own territory, though it has committed not to use them in areas populated with its own civilians, the official said. The Washington Post first reported the development. The office of Ukraine's Pre...

November 11, 2024 10:20 AM

Donald Trump dials Vladimir Putin, advises him not to escalate Ukraine war: Report

US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first phone conversation between the two leaders since Trump won the election, The Washington Post reported. The US daily, on Sunday (local time) citing its sources, said that Trump took the call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and during the conversation advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine. Neither the White House nor the Kremlin has officially confirmed this information. During...

October 25, 2024 4:17 PM

Putin says it is our affair if Russia uses North Korean troops

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia's business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow could do what it wanted to ensure its own security. The United States said on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that the West is casting as a significant escalation of the Ukraine war. Ukraine's military intelligence service...

October 23, 2024 10:40 PM

Attackers kill 4, injure 14 at Turkish state aviation site

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in an attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries' headquarters on Wednesday, the government said, and witnesses said they heard gunfire and a loud explosion at the site near Ankara. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said two attackers were killed in what he called a terrorist attack, adding three of the injured are in critical condition. TV broadcasters earlier showed footage of armed assailants entering the TUSAS building. "Two terrorists were neutr...

October 23, 2024 4:44 PM

Russia’s Putin outlines BRICS grain exchange proposal

Russia proposed the creation of a BRICS grain exchange, which could later be expanded to trade other major commodities, President Vladimir Putin said in opening remarks to a summit of leaders of the BRICS countries on Wednesday. "BRICS countries are among the world's largest producers of grains, legumes, and oilseeds. In this regard, we proposed opening a BRICS grain exchange," Putin told the leaders. He added that the exchange "will contribute to the formation of fair and predictable price in...

October 23, 2024 4:05 PM

PM Modi and Chinese President Xi discuss Ukraine war with Putin as BRICS considers expansion

China's Xi Jinping, PM Narendra Modi and some other BRICS leaders discussed the war in Ukraine with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin chief chaired a major summit aimed at showing Western attempts to isolate Russia have failed. BRICS - an idea thought up inside Goldman Sachs two decades ago to describe the growing economic clout of China and other major emerging markets - is now a group that accounts for 45% of the world's population and 35% of the global economy. But there are divisions...

October 22, 2024 9:04 AM

Putin to meet PM Modi & other leaders on sidelines of BRICS Summit: Russian presidential aide

On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, TASS reported citing the Russian president's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. Speaking to reporters, Ushakov stated that the meetings will start on October 22. He said Putin will have a meeting with New Development Bank President Dilm...