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EU pushes to release €140 bn from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine aid

Backing for the long-standing proposal to leverage the assets has gained traction after the US under President Donald Trump halted its direct support for Ukraine

European leaders gather to discuss Ukraine war following drone incidents

European leaders are converging on Copenhagen on Wednesday for two summits focused on security, defence and the war in Ukraine, following a spate of troubling drone incidents at Danish airports and military bases over the last week. Denmark's defence ministry said that a precision radar system has been set up at Copenhagen airport to help keep watch. Unidentified drones forced the closure of the airfield a week ago, causing major disruptions to air traffic. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK also sent aircraft, ships and air defence systems to Denmark ahead of the summits. Ukraine's armed forces have dispatched a mission to the Nordic country for joint exercises, sharing its expertise on combating Russian drones. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday on social media that while authorities can't conclude who is behind the hybrid attacks, we can find that there is primarily one country that poses a threat to Europe's security and that's Russia. Russia

Russia backs Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, calls for end to conflict

The plan calls for an immediate halt to hostilities in Gaza and the release of all hostages held by Hamas within 72 hours

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4 killed, 70 injured as Russia launches drone, missile attack on Ukraine

Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people, with Kyiv suffering the heaviest assault. It was the first major bombardment since an air attack on Ukraine's capital left at least 21 people dead last month. Separately, US Vice President JD Vance said the US was considering selling Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles. Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Administration, confirmed Sunday's casualties via Telegram and said that 10 others were wounded in the attack, which targeted civilian areas across the city. A 12-year-old girl was among the dead. Thick black smoke could be seen rising from a blast near the city centre. The Russians have restarted the child death counter, Tkachenko wrote on Telegram. Russia fired a total of 595 exploding drones and decoys and 48 missiles, Ukraine's air force said Sunday. Of those, air defences shot down or jammed 566 drones and 45 missiles. Besides Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Russia needs to accept reality in ongoing war against Ukraine: Vance

His remarks follow President Donald Trump's statement earlier in the week, suggesting that Ukraine is now in a strong position to win the war

Russia embeds war machine into economy as Putin eyes long-term power

Years of massive defense outlays have locked the country in a state of militarization that's transformed factories and sucked in hundreds of thousands of workers

India-US ties won't define India-Russia relations: Russian minister Lavrov

Russia fully respects India's national interests and the independent foreign policy being pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, asserting that India's ties with the US or any other country cannot be a benchmark for New Delhi-Moscow ties. Lavrov, who addressed the UN General Assembly shortly before External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's speech at the high-level General Debate, said India and Russia share a "particularly privileged strategic partnership". These situations that might arise between India and the United States or India and any other country, I can't consider them a criteria for relations between India and Russia, he said at a press conference here on Saturday. Lavrov was responding to a question on India's continued imports of Russian oil despite US pressure on countries to reduce such purchases, and how Moscow views its ties with New Delhi in this context. "We have full respect for the national interests of India, f

No intent to attack Europe, but aggression will get decisive reply: Russia

As new tensions rise between Russia and NATO powers, Moscow's top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation doesn't intend to attack Europe but will mount a "decisive response" to any aggression. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the UN General Assembly after weeks in which unauthorised flights into NATO's airspace intrusions the alliance blames on Russia have raised alarm around Europe, particularly after NATO jets downed drones over Poland and Estonia said Russian fighter jets flew into its territory and lingered for 12 minutes. Russia has denied that its planes entered Estonian airspace and has said the drones didn't target Poland, with Moscow's ally Belarus maintaining that Ukrainian signal-jamming sent the devices off course. But European leaders see the incidents as intentional, provocative moves meant to rattle NATO and to assess how the alliance will respond. The alliance warned Russia this week that NATO would use all means to defend against any ..

Karnataka HC allows Russian woman, daughters found in cave to return home

The Karnataka High Court on Friday permitted the Union Government to issue travel documents to facilitate the return of a Russian woman and her two minor daughters who had been discovered living in a cave in coastal Karnataka. Justice B M Shyam Prasad passed the order while hearing a petition filed by Israeli national Dror Shlomo Goldstein, who claims to be the father of the children. Goldstein had approached the court seeking a direction to the Centre not to immediately deport the minor children. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, was found on July 11 in a cave in the Ramatirtha Hills near Gokarna in Kumta taluk. Authorities reported that she and the children had been living there for nearly two months without valid travel or residence documents. Goldstein had earlier lodged a complaint at the Panaji police station in Goa in December last year after being unable to trace his children in India. During Friday's hearing, the court recorded that the Russian consulate had issued ...

UNSC rejects Russia, China's last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran

The UN Security Council has rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme a day before the deadline and after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings failed to result in a "concrete" agreement. The resolution put forth by Russia and China Iran's most powerful and closest allies on the 15-member council failed to garner support on Friday from the nine countries required to halt the series of UN sanctions from taking effect Saturday, as outlined in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. "We had hoped that European colleagues and the US would think twice, and they would opt for the path of diplomacy and dialogue instead of their clumsy blackmail, which merely results in escalation of the situation in the region," Dmitry Polyanskiy, the deputy Russian ambassador to the UN, said during the meeting. Barring an eleventh-hour deal, the reinstatement of sanctions triggered by Britain, France and Germany will onc

US tells India that Russian oil curbs are key to trade deal progress

While trade negotiations are on a positive track, a US official said, more work is needed to ensure India addresses US concerns over market access, the trade deficit and purchases of Russian oil

India urges Russia to release 27 more Indians recruited into Russian army

India has called upon Russia to release 27 more Indian nationals who were recently recruited into the Russian military. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday said New Delhi has come to know that more Indians are working with the Russian military, with new inputs coming from their families. "As per our information, 27 Indian nationals are presently serving in the Russian army. We are also in close touch with their family members in the matter," Jaiswal said at his weekly media briefing. "We once again strongly urge all Indian nationals to stay away from the offers being made to serve in the Russian army as they are fraught with danger and risk to life," he added. Jaiswal said India has strongly taken up the matter with Russian authorities. "We have strongly raised this matter with Russian authorities in Moscow and with the Russian embassy in New Delhi, and asked for them to be freed as soon as possible," he said. "We are trying to get them out,"

Surviving Nord Stream gas pipeline can be reactivated quickly, says Kremlin

The Nord Stream system consists of two double pipelines, Nord Stream 1 (NS1) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2), running under the Baltic Sea to Germany

Hungary's Orban tells Trump cutting Russian energy would cripple economy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn said Friday that Hungary will continue to source fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from his ally US President Donald Trump, and that he'd informed the president that dropping Russian energy would be a disaster for Hungary's economy. Hungary remains one of the only countries in Europe to continue purchasing Russian oil and natural gas following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But Trump, an admirer of the long-serving Hungarian leader, earlier this month called on all NATO countries including Hungary to cease purchasing Russian oil, since he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if they did so. In comments to state radio on Friday, Orbn said he recently told Trump that that dropping Russian energy imports would be an economic disaster for Hungary. I told the US president ... that if Hungary is cut off from Russian oil and natural gas, immediately, within a minute, Hungarian economic performance will drop by 4 p

Denmark PM warns of more Russian hybrid attacks as another drone suspected

Authorities still cannot conclude who is behind several drone incidents across Danish airports in recent days, but Russia remains Europe's main adversary, seeking to destabilize the continent, PM said

‘Must stop Putin…’: Zelenskyy in his UNGA address | Russia-Ukraine war | Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Watch to know what he said.

European diplomats warn Russia that Nato ready to shoot down jets

At a tense meeting in Moscow, British, French and German envoys addressed their concerns about an incursion by three MiG-31 fighter jets over Estonia last week

Russia to launch first closed fuel cycle nuclear system by 2030: Putin

Russia will launch by 2023 the world's first nuclear power system with a closed fuel cycle, which will reuse spent fuel several times and drastically reduce the need for uranium supplies, President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday. Putin made the announcement at the World Atomic Week international forum here, which gathered several world leaders including International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi. As early as 2030, we plan to launch the world's first nuclear energy system with a closed fuel cycle in Russia, in the Tomsk Region, Putin said. In his televised speech at the forum, the Russian leader called it a "truly revolutionary development by Russian scientists and engineers". He said that virtually the entire volume 95 per cent of spent fuel will be reused in reactors multiple times. "Such a mechanism will ultimately make it possible to almost completely resolve the problem of radioactive waste accumulation. And, what's also crucial, it will .