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Malay Mail
05-08-2025
- Politics
- Malay Mail
King lands in Moscow for landmark Russia visit amid deepening bilateral ties
MOSCOW, Aug 5 — His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, arrived here today for a six-day state visit to Russia. The special aircraft carrying His Majesty touched down at the Vnukovo2 International Airport at 2.20 pm (7.20 pm Malaysian time). Sultan Ibrahim was received upon arrival by Russian Science and Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov and Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry State Protocol Department acting director Georgiy Kuznetsov. Present to welcome His Majesty at the airport were Russian Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Alexander Pankin and Russian Ambassador to Malaysia Nayl Latypov. Also present were Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, as the minister-in-attendance, Foreign Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Amran Mohamed Zin and Malaysian Ambassador to Russia Datuk Cheong Loon Lai. — Bernama
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia says it downs eight Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow
(Reuters) -Russian air defence units shot down eight Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow late on Sunday, from a total of 90 overnight over Russian territory, the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula, the defence ministry said. Most came down over regions near Ukraine, but three were also destroyed over the Leningrad area, home to Russia's second-largest city of St Petersburg, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app on Monday. The ministry reports only the numbers of drones destroyed, not the numbers launched by Ukraine. Also, it does not report possible damage, but regional governors said the attacks caused no substantial damage. Russia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia reported temporary airport closures in the two cities and other regional centres, as well as delays to dozens of flights.
LBCI
30-06-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Russia summons Azerbaijan envoy over journalist detentions, RIA reports
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador to Moscow over what it described as Baku's "unfriendly actions" and the "illegal detention" of Russian journalists working in the country. Tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan rose earlier on Monday after the Kremlin said it disagreed with a decision by Azerbaijan to cancel Russian cultural events in response to the arrest in Russia of a group of ethnic Azerbaijanis suspected of serious crimes. Reuters
Irish Times
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Ukraine and Russia exchange more prisoners of war following Istanbul agreement
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war (POWs) on Saturday, the Russian ministry for defence said, and Russia handed over the bodies of 1,200 dead Ukrainian soldiers to Kyiv. The exchanges are part of agreements reached by the warring sides during talks in Istanbul earlier this month. Ukraine earlier on Saturday confirmed it had received the bodies of its soldiers killed in action. However, Russian state media reported, citing sources, that Moscow had not received any of its war dead back from Kyiv, echoing a statement Russia made on Friday, when it said it had returned the bodies of 1,200 slain Ukrainian soldiers and received none of its own. The Russian ministry of defence did not say how many POWs were involved in the swap with Ukraine on Saturday, but it posted video showing its soldiers holding Russian flags and cheering before boarding a bus. READ MORE The Russian soldiers are in Belarus, where they are receiving medical treatment before transfer back to Russia, the defence ministry said. It comes as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces have stopped Russian troops advancing in the northeastern Sumy region and are now battling along the border to regain control. In remarks released for publication by his office on Saturday, Mr Zelenskiy said that Moscow has amassed about 53,000 troops in the direction of Sumy. 'We are levelling the position. The fighting there is along the border. You should understand that the enemy has been stopped there. And the maximum depth at which the fighting takes place is 7km from the border,' Mr Zelenskiy said. Reuters could not verify battlefield reports. [ An Irish team training combat medics in Kyiv: 'No one thinks the war will end soon' Opens in new window ] Russia's troops have been focusing their assaults in the eastern Donetsk region, but since the start of the month, they have intensified their attacks in the northeast, announcing plans to create a so-called 'buffer zone' in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions. The Russian war in Ukraine is in its fourth year but it has intensified in recent weeks. Ukraine conducted a drone attack that took out multiple aircraft inside Russia and also hit the bridge connecting Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula using underwater explosives. Mr Zelenskiy said that the Ukrainian troops had maintained their defensive lines along more than 1,000km of the frontline. He also dismissed Moscow's claims that Russian troops had crossed the administrative border of the Ukrainian central region of Dnipropetrovsk. Mr Zelenskiy said that Russia was sending small assault groups 'to get one foot on the administrative border' and make a picture or a video but these attacks were repelled. Dnipropetrovsk region borders three regions that are partially occupied by Russia – Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russia now controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. Mr Zelenskiy acknowledged that Ukraine was unable to regain all of its territory by military force and reiterated his pleas for stronger sanctions on Russia to force Moscow into negotiations to end the war. – Reuters
Al Jazeera
31-05-2025
- Business
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,192
Here's where things stand on Saturday, May 31: Eight people, including two teenagers, were injured in a Russian attack on the village of Vasyliv Khutir in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched 90 drones and two ballistic missiles against Ukraine that targeted the country's Kharkiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions. The Kharkiv region's main city came under Russian drone attack, which targeted a trolleybus depot and injured two people, the city's Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. He said more than 30 nearby apartment buildings were damaged, while one trolleybus was completely destroyed, and 18 others sustained varying degrees of damage. Ukraine has resisted US and Russian pressure to commit to attending another round of peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, saying it first needs to see Russian proposals for a ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia 'is doing everything it can to ensure that the next potential meeting brings no results'. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the planned second round of talks between Ukraine and Russia will pave the way for peace in a phone call with Zelenskyy, according to a readout issued by the Turkish presidency. Erdogan said it is important that both parties join the talks with strong delegations. Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky will again head Russia's delegation in Istanbul for the second round of Russia-Ukraine talks and will bring a memorandum and other ceasefire proposals to the meeting. Ukraine's finance ministry has announced that it would not be paying more than half a billion dollars due to holders of its GDP warrants – fixed income securities indexed to economic growth – marking the first payment default since it created the financial instruments in 2015. Ukraine owes $665m on June 2 to holders of the $3.2bn worth of warrants, based on 2023 economic performance.
