Sergey Lavrov said power was slipping through the hands of the old order, dominated by Washington, which has long rejected the principle of equality. Americans and Europeans “make all sorts of promises…and then just don’t fulfil them”, he told delegates. Quoting President Vladimir Putin, he said the West was “truly an empire of lies” which…
Briefing the Security Council, Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, reiterated the UN Secretary-General’s position that “any annexation of a State’s territory by another State resulting from the threat or use of force is a violation of the principles of the Charter and international law.” He voiced concern over reports of Russia holding so-called elections…
Other Russian strikes damaged schools and homes in the Zaporizhzhya region, and port and grain infrastructure in the Odesa region. “I am shattered by the news of a series of attacks that today, once again, have left a path of death and destruction in different parts of Ukraine,” Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine…
RUS President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed BRICS expansion and the G20 meeting. According to a statement issued by the Kremlin, bilateral relations were discussed between the two leaders in a telephone conversation. Putin and Modi agreed to increase cooperation in trade, energy and space sectors. It should be noted that…
File photo Russia’s presidential palace has dismissed reports and rumors that President Vladimir Putin ordered the assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the private militia group, as completely false. According to foreign media, a spokesman for the Russian presidential palace rejected rumors that the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was planned. Speaking to reporters,…
File photo After the death of the head of the private militia Wagner Group in a plane crash in Russia, US officials say they believe that a missile from inside Russia may have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin. The plane was shot down. In a statement from Washington, US officials said that Prigozhin’s plane was probably shot…
India cannot achieve its place in the world without ending the tension with Pakistan, Mani Shankar Iyer Mani Shankar Iyer, leader of the opposition Congress party in India, says that India will not be able to achieve its place in the world as long as its relations with Pakistan are strained. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};…
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that our actions in Ukraine are only to end the war. Addressing the BRICS summit in Johannesburg via video link, President Putin said the war against the people of Donbas was launched by the West. He said that the Ukraine crisis arose from the desire of some countries to maintain…
Denise Brown issued a statement deploring this “new wave of massive Russian attacks”, and appealed for the violence to end. “Grain storage facilities, vital for the Ukrainian farmers and global food security, have been hit in the Danube area,” she said. “A school in the Sumy region was damaged, and teachers were killed and injured.” International media…
13 fighters of Tahrir al-Sham were killed and more than a dozen were injured in the Russian airstrike, Photo: File Damascus: In an operation in Syria, the Russian Air Force fired missiles at the positions of the extremist organization “Al-Tahrir al-Sham”, as a result of which 13 fighters were killed. According to the World News…
