[ad_1] Ukraine claims to have severely damaged and sunk a Russian landing ship in its latest drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea fleet. Ukrainian military intelligence released video on Wednesday that it said showed several naval drones approaching the Ropucha-class large landing ship Cesar Kunikov off the coast of Crimea. According to international media reports,…
[ad_1] LONDON: Ice hockey teams from Russia and Belarus will remain suspended from international competition for the 2024-25 season after the sport’s global governing body said it was “not yet safe” to readmit them. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) suspended all Russian and Belarusian national and club teams from taking part in its events…
[ad_1] Russia prepares its economy for a long war, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday. “Because Russia is gearing its entire economy towards war, we also have to do more for our security,” Stoltenberg said in an interview. Stressing that NATO is not looking for a war in Russia, he said: “But we…
[ad_1] Sweden has said it has closed an investigation into the 2022 explosions that crippled Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines. According to international media reports, prosecutors in Stockholm announced on Wednesday that they had wrapped up their probe into the apparent attack in September 2022, nearly seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine. The still unexplained explosions…
[ad_1] A Ukrainian attack on the eastern occupied city of Lysychansk killed at least 15 people and wounded 10 others, Moscow-installed authorities said Saturday, adding that there were likely more dead in the rubble underneath a bakery that was struck. Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region, fell to Russian forces after a brutal battle six months…
[ad_1] Finns headed to the polls to pick a new president on Sunday to lead the country in its new role within Nato after it broke with decades of non-alignment to join the Western defence alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Nordic country’s admission to Nato last year drew threats of…
[ad_1] The top Iranian and Russian security officials have called for the expansion of bilateral relations in different fields, among them the fight against terrorism. During a meeting in Moscow, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian and his Russian counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev, discussed a wide range of bilateral, regional and…
[ad_1] Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people. The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian soldiers had…
[ad_1] Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. “On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, six crew members and three escorts,” the defence ministry was quoted as saying by Russian…
[ad_1] Russia’s Novatek has said that work at a terminal it controls on the Baltic Sea has been suspended after a fire broke out caused by “external influence.” On Sunday, a fire broke out at the terminal belonging to Novatek, Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, regional officials said amid reports of explosions and Ukrainian…
