Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev accused France on Tuesday of creating conditions for a new war in the South Caucasus by supplying weapons to Armenia.
Ukraine has lost more than 13,700 soldiers and about 1,800 units of various weapons and military equipment since the beginning of November, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has claimed.
Western currencies have been almost completely phased out in Moscow-Beijing trade, as nearly all payments between the two countries are now carried out in rubles and yuan, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov has stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has flatly rejected any idea of launching peace negotiations with Russia despite the Ukrainian army’s difficult situation at the combat line of engagement.
Armenia should work with Turkey and Azerbaijan to build peace instead of looking to the West for weapons and training, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, in thinly veiled criticism of the US and France.
The government in Kiev is worried that its Western backers are calling for peace out of an irrational fear of Russia, Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has stated.
Sino-Russian relations have withstood the test of the complex international situation, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stated, adding that Beijing intends to develop the ties.
If the US Congress fails to pass a bill which includes funding for Ukraine this year, the chances of it doing so at a later point will fall significantly, NBC News has reported, citing sources on Capitol Hill. A clash on supplemental spending is expected after the Thanksgiving recess.
Moscow has managed to turn the tables on the west when it comes to sanctions placed on Moscow, the Kremlin has announced, arguing that a myriad of restrictions failed to crash the Russian economy.
Mikhail Podoliak, the most senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has stated that the delivery of Western arms to Kiev should happen much faster.
Brussels might not initiate formal membership talks with Kiev at next month’s summit and could reschedule the matter for March 2024 instead, Reuters has reported, citing an unnamed senior EU official.
Ukraine has received fewer artillery rounds since Israel launched its military operation against the Gaza Strip, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He added that competition for munitions between countries has intensified, particularly for 155mm shells.
The Relations between Russia and the United States are hanging by a thread, with Washington to blame, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
The next generation of Ukrainians or their offspring may end up fighting if Ukraine’s conflict with Russia becomes ‘frozen’ at this stage, but Kiev is working to prevent such an outcome, President Volodymyr Zelensky told a group of visiting journalists in the capital. He also confirmed Ukraine has “already lost too many people” in the conflict with Russia.
France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over the chemical attacks in 2013 near Damascus, a judicial source and plaintiffs in the case announced Wednesday. Damascus has rejected any involvement in the gas attack.
It would be a big mistake to perceive the restraint of Iran and other countries on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as "the green light" to any action in the Gaza Strip, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated in an interview with RT.
A conflict is brewing between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the country’s top military brass over the former’s reluctance to admit that Kiev’s counteroffensive against Russia has ground to a halt, Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to the Ukrainian leader, has told El Mundo.
Russia and Ukraine may never sign a formal peace treaty ending the current conflict, Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, wrote in an op-ed, pointing to Moscow and Tokyo, which never signed a comprehensive peace treaty after World War II due to territorial disputes.
Washington’s abilities to provide help to the Kiev authorities are becoming smaller from day to day but the country is still providing the military assistance asked for by Ukraine, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has stated at a briefing.
The European Union has authorized at least €27 billion in direct military assistance to Ukraine since last year, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has stated, touting the aid as the “highest figure ever reached".
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet decided whether he would run for his fifth presidential term in 2024, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is eager to negotiate with former US President Donald Trump directly just in case the Republican frontrunner retakes the White House in 2024, an insider source in Kiev has told Ukrainian outlet Strana.
The rapid rise of the BRICS is transforming the global economy, with the group’s share of world GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) set to rise well beyond of that of the Group of Seven (G7) major advanced economies, Bloomberg has reported.
