Ten years after toasting a budding friendship with vodka and cake, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will meet again in Beijing this week seeking to further deepen the “no-limits” partnership between their two countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tuesday voiced concern at the “catastrophic increase” in the number of civilian victims in Israel and the Gaza Strip, after four days of fighting.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he had accepted Chinese President Xi Jinping’s invitation to travel to China in October.
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Russian army has added over half a million people in the last year — both drafted and volunteer fighters — to fight in Ukraine.
The White House warned Tuesday that North Korea would “pay a price” if it supplies Russia with weaponry for its war in Ukraine, with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin expected to hold talks on the issue.
Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence Thursday on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior members of the Wagner paramilitary group.
The head of the Wagner mercenary group, which in June attempted to topple Russia’s military leadership, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, with all passengers killed, Russian officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had enough cluster munition to answer if Ukraine was to use the weapons, in an interview published Sunday.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he does not believe the Wagner mercenary group’s mutiny has weakened Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling it an “event of no major significance”.
