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The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson says the confessions of the German ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Minsk agreements are grounds for a tribunal. On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that a confession made by German ex-chancellor Angela Merkel concerning the Minsk agreements might be used as evidence in a …

Russia and Ukraine said on Tuesday they had exchanged 60 prisoners of war on each side in the latest of a series of such swaps. Russia’s defence ministry said the 60 freed Russian soldiers would be flown to Moscow to receive medical care and psychological support. In a video shared …

Russia says it currently sees no prospects for talks on Ukraine, days after US President Joe Biden said he would sit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “if he’s looking for a way to end the war.” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that he agreed about the need for …

The bloc may reportedly blacklist 180 Russian entities and individuals in the tech, financial, and media sectors EU officials have discussed a new sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine war, Politico reported on Monday. The potential additional restrictions include nearly two hundred listings linked to key Russian industries, including …

The United States is considering a proposal to provide Ukraine with cheap, small precision bombs, which would allow Kyiv to strike far behind Russian lines, as the war drags on and the West struggles to meet demands for more weapons. Citing industry sources, Reuters said in a report on Monday …

Backing Ukraine is causing living costs to soar, the bloc’s chief Jens Stoltenberg admitted Europeans are about to face numerous hardships due to Western support for Kyiv, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Welt an Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. Despite this, he insisted that the members of the US-led …

The United States and NATO countries have started to speedily restock their own arsenals after efforts to supply Ukraine with arms and ammunition to fight Russia exhausted their own stocks. The New York Times reported on Saturday that after nine months passing since the Ukraine war kicked off, the West’s …

In an unusually divisive statement, Ukraine’s president took boxing legend Vitali Klitschko to task over long periods without electricity in the capital. In a rare public spat involving Ukrainian leaders, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised the mayor of Kyiv for doing what he said was a poor job setting up emergency …

Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Iraq is keen to maintain strong ties with Russia in various fields. The media office of the Prime Minister said in a statement that al-Sudani received a phone call from Putin and discussed with him bilateral relations, …

Russia has denied targeting the Ukrainian capital, saying “foreign and Ukrainian” air defense missiles, instead, caused damage to Kyiv. In a statement on Thursday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, “Not a single strike was made on targets within the city of Kyiv.” Any damage was “the result of the fall of …

Blackouts are reported across the nation as rockets rain down on several cities with at least four people reported killed in Kyiv. A barrage of Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure has knocked out power across large areas of the war-torn country as well as parts of neighboring Moldova. In Kyiv, …

The head of Russia’s state-run atomic energy agency, Rosatom, warned on Monday there was a risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, following renewed shelling over the weekend. Moscow and Kyiv have traded accusations of shelling the facility for months since Russian forces took …

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the U.N. nuclear watchdog which said such attacks risked a major nuclear disaster. More than a dozen blasts shook Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant on Saturday evening and Sunday, the International …

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit of French-speaking nations in Tunisia, Macron was asked to …

Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had executed more than 10 Russian prisoners of war with direct shots to the head. The defense ministry was responding to a video circulated on social media which it said showed the execution of Russian prisoners of war. The defense ministry said …

Russia’s ambassador to Baghdad, Elbrus Kotrachev, on Thursday said that his country seeks to develop his country’s “cooperation and partnership” with Iraq. Kotrachev’s remarks came during a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Mohammad Shia al-sudani, in the latter’s office in the Iraqi capital earlier today. According to a readout …

Following investigation, Public Prosecutor’s Office says remains of explosives found at blast sites Swedish investigators confirmed on Friday that the blasts damaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines earlier this year were due to major sabotage. The Public Prosecutor’s Office said the remains of explosives had been found at the site, …

A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border. Nevertheless, NATO’s chief said that Moscow, not Kyiv was ultimately to blame, …

Russia warns the West against attempts to seize its frozen international reserves to be used as compensation for damage and loss in Ukraine, promising to do “everything possible” to stop the “plundering” of its assets. The West froze around half – or more than $300 billion – of Russia’s international …

The figure exceeded $300 million in the first eight months of the year, according to the Russian embassy The trade turnover between Russia and Iraq between January and August 2022 amounts to $313.1 million and has exceeded the figure for all of last year, $282.7 million, an economic adviser at …