NEW DELHI: India’s foreign ministry has confirmed on Friday (23rd of Feb, 2024) that some of the country’s citizens had signed up for “support jobs” with the Russian army and said it was working with Moscow to secure their discharge. The Hindu newspaper reported Wednesday that around 18 Indians were stranded in various border towns […]
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MOSCOW: A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said Wednesday (21st Feb, 2024). Lyudmila Navalnaya has traveled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son died, but since Saturday, […]
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MOSCOW: Russia rejected on Tuesday (20th Feb, 2024) accusations from the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last week, after she said President Vladimir Putin was behind his death. “Of course these are absolutely unfounded and vulgar accusations against the head of the Russian state. “But taking into account that Yulia […]
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MUNICH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns over Beijing’s backing for Russia’s war against Ukraine on Friday (16th Feb, 2024) in talks with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi, who called for Washington to lift sanctions on Chinese entities. Blinken and Wang’s meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference follows an extremely […]
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KYIV (UKRAINE): Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war on Wednesday (31st of Jan, 2024) just a week after Moscow said Kyiv had shot down a plane carrying dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers. Russia’s defense ministry said 195 of its soldiers were freed, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 207 people – both […]
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MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday (24th of Jan, 2024) that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian POW’s had crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. Unverified videos on social media showed a large plane, purportedly in the Belgorod region, falling from the sky on its side before crashing in a fireball. “At […]
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MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday said it destroyed all targets in a barrage of strikes on facilities producing ammunition and drones in Ukraine. “This morning the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike… against facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex,” the defense ministry said in a daily briefing. It said it was […]
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