Putin did not claim responsibility for the crash, while apologizing to Aliyev that the incident took place in Russian airspace Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for a “tragic incident” which happened in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday. Putin called Aliyev as speculation…
Ukraine used US ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday, Moscow said, in a major escalation on the war’s 1,000th day. Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region, while debris of one hit the facility, causing no casualties…
Russia stands alongside China on Asian issues, including the criticism of the US drive to extend its influence and “deliberate attempts” to inflame the situation around Taiwan, its foreign minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Sergei Lavrov, in an essay published in the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta, also praised Beijing’s approach to the…
UNITED NATIONS — Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on modernizing the international institutions born after World War II so they can tackle the threats and problems of the future. U.N….
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the center of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov…
KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid. G7 leaders agreed in June to engineer a $50…
It is the second such exchange since Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on August 6. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war from each side, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary. The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that it swapped 103…
WASHINGTON — Ukraine’s push to ease restrictions on the use of weapons from the United States and Britain will be discussed Friday in White House talks between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Ukraine and many of its supporters in the U.S. and Europe want Biden to let Kyiv use the weapons to strike military…
President Zelenskyy dismisses Mykola Oleshchuk, says country needs to ‘protect personnel’. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the commander of the country’s air force, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot. The order to dismiss Mykola Oleshchuk was published on…
Telegram, particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union, is ranked as one of the major social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and Wechat. It aims to hit one billion users in the next year. Based in Dubai, Telegram was founded by Russian-born Durov. He left Russia in 2014 after refusing…
