The Russian military on Monday conducted a high-precision strike on a drone manufacturing and storage facility located in the city of Zaporozhye, the ministry said. The strike was carried out by an Iskander tactical ballistic missile system, it added. Footage released by the defense ministry shows the projectile penetrating the …
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Negotiating an acceptable peace with Russia regarding Ukraine is unlikely, so the Western nations must keep providing Kiev with weaponry, Finnish President Alexander Stubb argued during an interview with CNN on Sunday. Helsinki used to serve as a mediator between the US and the USSR during the Cold War, despite …
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Paris has cut off counterterrorism collaboration with Moscow on the cusp of the upcoming summer Olympic Games, Russian Ambassador Aleksey Meshkov said in an interview to French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday. The diplomat made his comments a little over two weeks after more than 140 people were …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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