Kirby said that Russia is looking for additional artillery shells and other basic material to shore up Russia's defence industrial base
Footage and images posted on social media overnight showed smoke billowing over the city of Pskov and a large blaze. Vedernikov said there were no casualties, and the fire has been contained
The weapons will be drawn from existing US stockpiles and will include mine-clearing equipment, artillery and rocket rounds, ambulances and medical gear
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not planning to attend the funeral of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin following his death in a plane crash, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
PM Modi thanked President Putin for Russia's consistent support of all initiatives under India's G20 Presidency, the PMO said
Johnson wrote in an op-ed, speculating about Prigozhin's last moments, a few days after a plane carrying the Wagner boss crashed in a field northwest of Moscow
That crash has raised questions about the future of the Wagner Group
In Putin's first comments on the crash, the Russian president said on state TV Thursday that "preliminary information says that some Wagner employees were there"
The format of Putin's participation would be determined later, Peskov said
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The United States is looking at a number of theories over what brought down the plane, including a surface-to-air missile hitting it, U.S. officials told Reuters
Putin has gambled that he and his people have more patience, staying power and guts than does the decadent West
Founded by Prigozhin in 2014, Wagner is a private military company that supported Kremlin objectives on battlefields in Ukraine, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa
He described those on board as people "who greatly contributed" to fighting in Ukraine
In 2014, Prigozhin founded Wagner, a private military company. Its fighters were used in support of Moscow's allies in countries including Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic
The US and European nations have imposed heavy sanctions on Russia since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022
During the Plenary Session I of the summit, PM Modi said that Brics (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) embarked on a long and amazing journey in the last two decades
Prigozhin moved into the global spotlight in June with a dramatic, short-lived rebellion that posed the most serious threat to President Vladimir Putin of the Russian leader's 23-year rule
Musk made the comments during an October conversation with Colin Kahl, then the Pentagon's top policy official, about Ukrainian forces losing connection to Space X's Starlink service
The Bank of Russia's emergency interest rate hike this week was not just a response to the latest fall in the ruble but part of a wider effort to subdue inflation before the vote