All four international airports around Moscow suspended flights on Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted over 100 Ukrainian drones in one of the largest aerial assaults reported in recent months.Russia’s defence ministry said drones targeted nearly a dozen regions, including border areas and locations deep within the country.The wave of attacks came just days before Russia […]
Some schools in Russia are preparing fake schedules to conceal their efforts to shun patriotic education classes. Some parents school their children at home. Others try to help young people navigate a school system in which they say propaganda is pervasive. Faced with what they say is an ever-growing flood of misinformation about the war […]
American ballerinaKsenia Karelina, who was held in a Russian prison for over a year on treason charges, met President Donald Trump following her return to the United States. Her case drew widespread condemnation from human rights groups and US officials, who labelled the charges “absolutely ludicrous.”Karelina, a 32-year-old dual US-Russian citizen, was arrested in Yekaterinburg […]
Chinese president Xi Jinping is set to visit Russia from 7 to 10 May, the Kremlin announced on Sunday. During the visit, Xi will take part in ceremonies commemorating 80 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The visit will include formal talks between the presidents of the two countries […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday said it has downed 170 drones and more than 10 guided missiles overnight over Crimea and several border regions with Ukraine. In a press release on its Telegram channel, the defence ministry said between 22:00 hours Friday and 05:00 hours Saturday, Russian air defence units have destroyed 96 […]
After more than three years of war, President Trump proposed a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine in late April that would have the United States recognize Moscow’s 2014 takeover of the Crimean peninsula. Michael D. Shear, a former White House correspondent for The New York Times in London, explains how the proposal, which Ukraine […]
SEOUL: North Korea and Russia have begun building their first road link, the two countries announced, hailing the construction of a bridge over a border river as a major development that will further expand their booming ties. Russia’s Tass news agency reported that the bridge would be 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) long and its construction […]
For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had captured. Then, in back-to-back statements, the leaders of the two countries confirmed that North Korean troops have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with […]
File photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Picture credit: AP) North Korea officially confirmed on Monday that it deployed troops to Russia to aid Moscow’s efforts in reclaiming its Kursk region, marking Pyongyang’s first involvement in a major conflict since the Korean War. According to a statement by North Korea’s Central Military Commission, carried […]
Russia launches nearly 150 drones on Ukraine as Trump questions Putin’s commitment to peace Russia launched a massive wave of drone attacks and airstrikes across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, Ukrainian officials said.Three people were killed and four injured in airstrikes on Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, […]
