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Battle for Severodonetsk rages as Ukraine seeks more Western weapons
Jun 11, 2022 12:00Heavy fighting continues around Ukraine’s strategic city of Severodonetsk in Donbas, as Russian forces push to bring the eastern region completely under control.
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Russia: Response to NATO build-up in Poland will be ‘proportionate’
Jun 11, 2022 08:50Russia has warned NATO against military buildup in Poland, saying Moscow will proportionately respond to such a move.
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Russia, China open cross-border bridge to expand ties amid hostile US vows
Jun 11, 2022 03:52Russia and China have inaugurated a new cross-border bridge in the Far East in a bid to further boost trade and counter rising US-led sanctions as Washington and Beijing traded threats of military conflict over Taiwan.
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Four months on, ‘war fatigue’ erodes West’s interest to help Ukraine
Jun 11, 2022 02:29The protraction of war in Ukraine, which is now into its fourth month, could erode the West’s interest in helping the country in the face of Moscow’s military operation, officials and analysts say.
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Zelensky: Ukrainian forces ‘holding on’ to key frontline cities in Donbas
Jun 10, 2022 13:00Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the country’s forces have kept up resistance in the flashpoint eastern city of Severodonetsk and other cities in the breakaway Donbas region amid fierce fighting with Russian troops over the past few weeks.
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President Raeisi: Iran ready to assist in diplomatic settlement of Ukraine crisis
Jun 10, 2022 02:06Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, voiced the country’s readiness to help in the political resolution of the war in Ukraine.
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Putin says no sanction can put any Iron Curtain over Russia’s economy
Jun 09, 2022 13:24President Vladimir Putin says no Iron Curtain will fall over Russia's economy despite the West’s sanctions over his military operation in Ukraine because his country will not detach itself from the world like the Soviet Union did.
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President Raeisi: Iran ‘not to back down an inch from its positions’ after anti-Tehran IAEA resolution
Jun 09, 2022 13:15President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic will not back down an iota from its positions following the recent Western-drafted resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s Board of Governors against Tehran's nuclear program.
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Syria will stand firm against any Turkish onslaught on its territory: President Assad
Jun 09, 2022 13:08Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has once again rejected Turkish military operations in the occupied northern part of the country, saying government forces will directly confront the Ankara government’s incursions and offensives wherever military facilities are present.
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Russia says will not cut gas to more European customers as ruble scheme working
Jun 09, 2022 10:42The Russian government says it has no intention to cut gas supplies to any more European countries as Moscow’s scheme of receiving gas payments in rubles is working as planned.