Multiple Ukrainian explosive-laden drones targeted the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday. Several locations across the facility were hit, with at least three employees injured in the attack, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom said in a statement on Sunday. The nuclear power station, Europe’s largest, came under Moscow’s control in …
Read More »Ukraine may have to compromise with Russia – Stoltenberg
Ukraine may ultimately have to agree to some kind of compromise with Russia to end the conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. In an interview with the BBC published on Saturday, the NATO chief reiterated that the West must support Ukraine in the long term “even if we …
Read More »Latin American diplomatic crisis intensifies
Nicaragua has formally severed all relations with Ecuador, escalating the diplomatic fallout over a police raid in Quito to arrest a politician who was taking refuge at the Mexican embassy. The Nicaraguan government announced its decision on Saturday, declaring its “forceful, emphatic and irrevocable rejection” of the storming of Mexico’s …
Read More »Soyuz MS-24 successfully lands in Kazakhstan (VIDEO)
A Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft has successfully landed in the vicinity of Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS). Belarusian crew member Marina Vasilevskaya made history by becoming the first cosmonaut the country has sent into space since it became independent in …
Read More »Mexico suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador after embassy stormed (VIDEOS)
Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the South American country’s police stormed its embassy in Quito to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said. The development comes after Mexico granted political asylum on Friday to former Vice President Jorge David Glas Espinel, …
Read More »Thousands in danger after Russian levee break
Around 4,000 households are at risk of flooding after a dike holding back the Ural River suffered a breach in the Russian city of Orsk in Orenburg Region on Friday. The breach that forced the evacuations happened near the old town section of the city south of the river. Earlier …
Read More »Pro-Ukraine images found on cellphones of Moscow terror attacks suspects – investigators
Images extracted from the cell phones of the terrorists who killed more than 140 people at a concert hall outside Moscow point to a possible link to the ongoing Ukraine conflict, investigators said on Friday. On March 22, four Tajik nationals opened fire inside the packed Crocus City Hall music …
Read More »Poland summons Israeli envoy over aid worker’s death
Warsaw has summoned Ambassador Yakov Livne after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed a Polish aid worker in Gaza. The Polish authorities were critical of how Israel handled the incident and demanded compensation for the victim’s family. On Monday, the IDF carried out three consecutive airstrikes on a humanitarian convoy, …
Read More »Moscow terrorist attack recruiter apprehended – FSB
Three individuals suspected of having links with the terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall last month have been taken into custody, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday. The arrests were made in Moscow, Ekaterinburg, and Omsk, according to a statement from the agency. Two of the suspects …
Read More »‘Stop lying,’ Russia tells US
The US mantra that Russia must change its behavior to improve relations with the West disregards the fact that Washington has for years willfully ignored Moscow’s core interests, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has said. Moscow’s envoy was responding to comments by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who told French broadcaster LCI …
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