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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...

October 18, 2024 9:02 PM

BRICS countries drive global economic growth, exceed GDP of G7 nations: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the rising economic influence of BRICS nations, saying that their combined GDP now exceeds $60 trillion, surpassing that of the G7 countries. Speaking at the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow on Friday, Putin emphasized the growing importance of the BRICS bloc—comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—in shaping the global economy. Putin said that BRICS countries have become key drivers of global economic growth, predicting that they...

September 27, 2024 1:48 PM

Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West

President Vladimir Putin has drawn a "red line" for the United States and its allies by signalling that Moscow will consider responding with nuclear weapons if they allow Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with long-range Western missiles. But some in the West are asking: does he actually mean it? The question is critical to the course of the war. If Putin is bluffing, as Ukraine and some of its supporters believe, then the West may feel ready to deepen its military support for Kyiv regardle...

September 10, 2024 8:35 PM

Putin casts naval exercise with China as bid to counter US in the Pacific

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (September 10) warned the United States against trying to outgun Moscow in Asia as Russian and Chinese warships held joint drills as part of the biggest Russian naval exercises since the Soviet era. Putin said the wider "Ocean-2024" strategic exercise would be conducted from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and would test units' combat-readiness and the use of high-precision weapons, including promising new types. It would also incorporate lessons learned fr...

September 6, 2024 4:26 PM

Ukraine presses for long-range strike support, US announces more aid

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Western allies on Friday to ignore Moscow's "red lines" and allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons for strikes on Russian territory, as Washington pledged another $250 million in weaponry for Kyiv. Zelenskiy made his first appearance at a regular U.S.-hosted gathering of Ukraine's allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and sought to present the long-range strike options as another way to pressure Russia to end its 2-1/2-year-old invasion. He spoke a...

September 3, 2024 6:02 PM

Putin gets lavish welcome in Mongolia despite ICC warrant

Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red carpet welcome on Tuesday on a state visit to Mongolia, whose failure to arrest him under a warrant from the International Criminal Court was criticised by Ukraine as a blow against justice. As he stepped out of his limousine in the capital Ulaanbaatar, Putin was greeted by his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh in front of a row of ceremonial guardsmen on horseback wearing helmets with pointed tops. The Kremlin leader stooped to kiss a ...

September 2, 2024 5:58 PM

Putin says Russia advancing fast – by kilometres – in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday as Moscow's forces tried to smash through a major Ukrainian defensive line. Russian forces, which control 18% of Ukraine, have been advancing in eastern Ukraine since the failure of Kyiv's 2023 counter-offensive to achieve a major breakthrough. Despite a major Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region that began on Au...

September 16, 2024 6:00 PM

US urges India to use its relationship with Russia, tell Putin to end his illegal war in Ukraine

Amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, the US has urged India to "utilize" its longstanding relationship with Russia and tell President Vladimir Putin to end his "illegal war" in Ukraine. The spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, in a press briefing on Monday not only noted the strong Delhi-Moscow ties but also urged India to tell Putin to respect the UN Charter. "So India has a longstanding relationship with Russia. I think that's well-known. And we have - speaki...

July 3, 2024 1:30 PM

Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi to meet at security summit in Kazakhstan

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are due to meet on Wednesday at a summit of a Eurasian security and defence club seen by Moscow and Beijing as an instrument to counter the influence of the United States and its allies. Putin and the Chinese president have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia, China and Central Asian powers, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the West. Putin will hold a series of ...