BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain is increasing military spending as it works toward meeting a NATO commitment by dedicating 2% of gross domestic product to defense, the government said Tuesday. Cabinet members approved a one-off expenditure of almost 1 billion euros (around $1.04 billion) for Spain’s Defense Ministry that the government said was needed to cover unexpected...
KIEV, July 4. /TASS/. The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces on Sunday said it pulled out troops from Lisichansk to save the lives of servicemen. “After heavy fighting for Lisichansk, the defense forces of Ukraine were forced to withdraw from their positions and lines. In the conditions of the multiple superiority of the...
HANOI, July 5 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will fly to Hanoi on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Vietnam before heading to a G20 meeting later this week in Indonesia, the Vietnamese government said. The visit at the invitation of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son comes as the two nations mark...
KYIV, July 5 (Reuters) – Russian forces set their sights on their next objectives in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province on Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in neighbouring Luhansk province and the five-month long war entered a new phase. The capture of the city of Lysychansk on Sunday completed the Russian conquest of Luhansk,...
July 4 (Reuters) – Ukraine is holding talks with Turkey and the United Nations to secure guarantees for grain exports from Ukrainian ports, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. “Talks are in fact going on now with Turkey and the U.N. (and) our representatives who are responsible for the security of the grain that leaves...
According to Alexander Grushko, this U-turn began long before the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, somewhen at the turn of 2012 and 2013, “when NATO passed a principled decision to end its mission in Afghanistan” MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. The result of the NATO summit in Madrid have demonstrated that the alliance...
Commenting on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s calls to strip Russia of its permanent UNSC member status, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said those remarks “do not stand up to scrutiny” MOSCOW, July 2. /TASS/. Excluding Russia from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is possible only if the entire organization...
Many international federations have followed IOC’s recommendations to bar Russian athletes from taking part in international competitions over the situation in Ukraine, Viktor Blazheyev, rector of the Moscow State University of Law, said MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. Sanctions against Russian sport have been imposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and...
KYIV/SERHIIVKA, Ukraine, July 2 (Reuters) – Explosions rocked the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Saturday, the mayor said, at the end of a week in which Russian missiles have slammed into an apartment block and a shopping mall in other cities, killing dozens of people. Air raid sirens sounded in the Mykolaiv region, which...
TOKYO/LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes in an economic war with the West and its allies with a decree that seizes full control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project in Russia’s far east, a move that could force out Shell and Japanese investors. The order, signed on Thursday,...