North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reaffirmed his country’s support for Russia in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. According to state news agency KCNA, Kim met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the port city of Wonsan on Saturday. During their meeting, Kim expressed Pyongyang’s unconditional support...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a recent Russian attack on civilians in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which injured nine people, including women in a maternity ward. In a Telegram post, Zelensky accused the Russian military of deliberately targeting civilians and warned that Russia would continue to...
Britain’s King Charles III welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Windsor Castle for an audience and lunch, amidst ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia. The meeting comes as Zelensky seeks to rally international support for Ukraine’s defense efforts ahead of a NATO summit in The Hague. During their meeting,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the recent US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling them “absolutely unprovoked aggression” with “no basis and no justification”. Putin made these remarks during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow, just two days after US President Donald Trump...
North Korea is set to send 1,000 mine clearing specialists and 5,000 soldiers to Russia’s Kursk region near the Ukrainian border, according to Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council. The deployment was announced after Shoigu’s talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Shoigu said the North Korean...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed US President Donald Trump that Moscow is ready for a new round of peace talks with Ukraine after June 22, following the completion of the latest prisoner and body exchange agreements initiated in Istanbul. The development comes after a 50-minute phone call between...
Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,212 of its fallen soldiers from Russia, the agency dealing with prisoners of war in Kiev announced. The soldiers died in battles in various regions, including Kursk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson. Russia transported the bodies over the weekend, terming it a...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging the international community to take concrete actions against Russia following a massive wave of air attacks on Ukrainian cities. “Today is one of the largest attacks on Kiev. Odesa, Dnipro region, and Chernihiv region were also targeted,” Zelensky wrote on X, emphasizing that...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has vehemently denied allegations that Russia kidnapped 20,000 Ukrainian children, labeling the claims as baseless and driven by politics. During a press briefing, Zakharova asserted that the children were evacuated from conflict zones to safe areas and that Russia has made efforts to...
US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “crazy” on Sunday after Moscow launched a deadly barrage of drones against Ukraine, even as the warring countries completed a large-scale prisoner exchange. At least 13 people were killed when Russia launched a record number of drones against Ukraine...
Pope Leo XIV again called for aid to be allowed into the Gaza Strip and for hostilities to end at his first weekly audience on St Peter’s Square in Rome. “I renew my appeal to allow the entry of dignified humanitarian aid and to put an end to the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the town of Kurchatov in the Kursk region, which was partially occupied by Ukrainian forces for several months in 2024, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. It marked the Russian leader’s first trip to the area since a Ukrainian incursion nearly a year ago. Putin...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with leaders of Russia and Ukraine deepened expectations that progress might soon be made on ending those countries’ more than three-year war. He said, though frustration at the slow pace of negotiations and the absence of any significant breakthrough kept hopes low. “It...
China welcomed the resumption of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, this was the result of joint efforts of the international community, the Chinese Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti on Monday. “China has supported the restoration of direct dialogue and negotiations between Russia and Ukraine from the very beginning...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance was received by Pope Leo XIV on Monday for a private audience, at the end of his visit to Rome. The head of the Catholic Church met Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican. This was followed by a meeting...
NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte on Friday criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for not travelling to Turkey to meet with Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. “He knows extremely well that the ball is in his court, that he is in trouble,” Rutte said, arriving at a meeting of European leaders...
U.S. President, Donald Trump has skipped Turkey Peace Talk to visit new grandchild. Speaking at an event in the United Arab Emirates, Trump said his daughter, Tiffany had just given birth to a baby, and he wanted to see his grandchild as soon as possible. Trump said he wanted...
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not appear in Turkey on Thursday for proposed direct peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, who was waiting in Ankara after publicly challenging the Kremlin leader to face-to-face negotiations to end their three-year-old war, was left without a counterpart. In Putin’s absence,...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that no progress would be made on the Ukraine peace process until he meets directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I am not disappointed in anything. I know nothing about a delegation. I haven’t even checked,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force...
resident Vladimir Putin said, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday. “You know the president’s statement of May 11 that we are ready to begin direct negotiations in Istanbul on May 15. “Or rather, not even begin, but resume those negotiations that were interrupted by the Ukrainian side at...