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Ukraine and Russia should refrain from striking each other’s decision-making centers, Vladimir Zelensky’s newly appointed chief of staff, Kirill Budanov, has said. His comments come weeks after Kiev launched a drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in Valdai, and as Moscow has reportedly ruled out similar strikes on …

NATO has turned the Baltic Sea into an area of military confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, lamenting that the bloc is unwilling to discuss de-escalation in the region. Her remarks come amid rising anti-Russian rhetoric and military activity among NATO members, especially Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, …

The EU has managed to approve its 18th sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, targeting Moscow’s energy and banking sectors, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said. The Kremlin has decried the unilateral restrictions by Brussels as “illegal.” A previous attempt to greenlight the package, which …

Russia’s air defenses destroyed more than a dozen incoming Ukrainian drones approaching the capital overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said. The country’s Defense Ministry reported over 150 interceptions across multiple regions. The intercepts occurred in the Bryansk, Oryol, Kaluga, Rostov, Tula, Kursk, Smolensk, Voronezh, and Moscow regions, with at least 158 hostile …

In February, Russian news agency Sputnik opened its first African editorial center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Foreign policy experts opine that the move is a clear indication of Moscow’s deliberate intention to intensify its engagements with the African continent. Boniface Muoka, chairperson of the Department of Security, Diplomacy, and …

The diplomatic process surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict has taken a cautious step forward. The recent agreements reached in Riyadh may not yet constitute a breakthrough, but they represent the most significant diplomatic achievement since the grain deal of summer 2022. Skeptics will note that the latest understandings lack firm guarantees. …

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said its operatives have killed a member of an international terrorist organization who was preparing bomb attacks on a synagogue and a Moscow subway station. The suspect, a native of a Central Asian country, was killed after he opened fire at officers who were …

Relations between Russia and the US could improve under President Donald Trump, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has suggested. Both Moscow and Washington have recently signaled a willingness to engage in talks over the Ukraine conflict. Putin congratulated Trump on taking office on Monday, and reiterated his readiness for dialogue …

Ukraine is continuing with its policy of “energy terrorism,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.  He was reached for comment by Russian media over an attempted attack on the Russkaya gas compressor station near the village of Gaikodzor in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, reported by the Russian military earlier in the …

Ukraine is continuing with its policy of “energy terrorism,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.  He was reached for comment by Russian media over an attempted attack on the Russkaya gas compressor station near the village of Gaikodzor in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, reported by the Russian military earlier in the …