Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster as the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was restored hours after being cut. Zelensky blamed shelling by Russia s military for fires in the ash pits
Dubai: Iran on Wednesday launched exercises to test its combat and reconnaissance drones, state media reported, amid US concerns over the possible supply of Iranian-made unmanned aircraft to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. The two-day war-games will involve 150 drones and will cover
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Moscow of a powerful response if Russian forces carry out attacks on or around Ukraine s Independence Day. Zelenskyy has warned that Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb 24, could try "something particularly ugly" in the run-up to Wednesday s
Kyiv: Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded, the country’s top military officer said, two days before the country’s independence anniversary. Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief General Valeriy Zaluzhny said Ukraine’s children needed particular attention “because their fathers have gone to the front and are maybe
Kyiv: Artillery shells rained down on a city near Europe's biggest nuclear plant and Russian missiles struck near the Black Sea port of Odesa , as Ukraine warned of the potential for more serious attacks by Russia as the war neared its six-month anniversary. 17 August
Moscow: Hit by more Western sanctions on Russian banking channels, Moscow and New Delhi are now working out a new payment system for defence equipment already ordered, including leasing of the third nuclear submarine. Sources in the Indian defence and security establishment also told ThePrint that
Washington: The United States does not see the world “in zero sum terms” and understands that countries like India will need a long time to reorient their policies towards Russia, says the US State Department. The department’s spokesperson Ned Price made these remarks at a Wednesday
New Delhi: India said there was no pressure on it from Western countries or anywhere else over its energy purchases from Russia, as Indian firms step up imports of oil and coal from the country shunned by some governments for its invasion of Ukraine. India, the
Moscow: A Russian rocket successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time (0552 GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. About nine minutes after the launch, it placed the Iranian satellite called Khayyam into
Pyongyang: North Korea has offered Russia 100,000 “volunteers” to aid in the war against Ukraine, according to Russian state TV. “There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict,” talk show host Igor Korotchenko said on Russian