China’s ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson Lin Jian gestures during a press conference in Beijing. (EPA Images pic) BEIJING: China warned the EU on Wednesday against sanctioning its companies, after Brussels proposed a fresh wave of measures over Beijing’s support for Russia in its war with Ukraine. The EU’s latest round of sanctions since Moscow’s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday evening for a two-day visit centred on talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Moscow and Beijing draw closer amid war, sanctions and an increasingly fractured global order. Putin’s visit is the second face-to-face meeting he has held with Xi in less than a year and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said he believed the conflict in Ukraine was coming to its end. He also hoped for the Iran conflict to end soon and said that everyone would lose out if it failed to happen. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red…
The Kremlin said last week that it was for European governments to make the first move. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he thought the Ukraine conflict was coming to an end. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday voiced confidence in a victory in Ukraine as he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II — a show that didn’t include heavy weapons for the first time in nearly two decades. Russian Air Force Su-25 jets fly over…
Russia sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if, in return, Washington would cut off Ukraine from its intelligence data, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Zelensky said he had seen the data but provided no further details. (AFP) Zelensky, who said on Monday that Ukraine’s military…
Russia and China have requested an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the situation around Iran, the state-run RIA news agency reported, citing Russia’s mission to the United Nations. The US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran early Saturday, which came after days of build-up with US President Donald Trump…
Trump has ‘greenlit’ bipartisan push to sanction countries that buy Russian energy exports, Lindsey Graham says. Published On 8 Jan 20268 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share United States President Donald Trump has backed a bill to impose sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil, including China and India, an influential Republican senator has said….
Russia on Wednesday released footage of a downed drone, claiming it had been launched by Ukraine towards Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence. The video, shot at night, was published by Russia’s defence ministry.(Screengrab: X/ @mfa_russia) The video comes after Moscow on Monday said Ukraine had attacked a presidential residence in the Novgorod region with 91…
US intelligence reports seem to paint a starkly different picture about the Russia-Ukraine war than President Donald Trump, who has said that his counterpart in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, “wants to end” the conflict. US President Donald Trump and his Ukraine peace negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, have said Vladimir Putin wants to end the…