Russia is hiking state spending on national defence by a quarter in 2025 to 6.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the highest level since the Cold War, according to draft budget documents. Defence spending will rise to 13.5 trillion roubles ($145bn) in 2025, the fourth year of what Russia…
The second attack hit the hospital in northeastern Ukraine as patients evacuated, authorities and witnesses say. At least eight people have died in two consecutive Russian drone attacks on a medical centre in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials have said. The first attack on Saturday morning killed…
As the war enters its 946th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Fighting At least six people have been killed following two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical centre in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, according to, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko….
Russia has tailored its nuclear response doctrine to the specific threat of the long-range attacks it faces from Ukraine, even as Kyiv’s forces demonstrated during the past week the devastating effect such attacks can have on Moscow’s conventional war effort. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently “outlined the approaches” to a…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia could respond with nuclear weapons if it were attacked with conventional arms in the latest changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. In a televised meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Putin announced that under the planned revisions, an attack against the country by…
As the war enters its 944th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, September 26, 2024. Fighting At least two people were killed and 19 injured in a Russian-guided bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. Russia’s Ministry…
Ukrainian president singles out China, Brazil for pushing what he called ‘half-hearted settlement plans’. Ukraine’s president has urged global leaders to stand with his country and not seek “a lull” instead of a “real, just peace” more than two years into Russia’s war. Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered the message during an…
Parliament’s lower house backs measure and says it was aimed at upholding the ‘traditional values’ of the country. Russia’s parliament has given its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children. The legislature said on Wednesday that…
Ukrainian president stresses Russia, which invaded in February 2022, has been the ‘sole aggressor’ and ‘sole violator’ of the UN Charter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the United Nations Security Council that negotiations will not be enough to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia needs to be…
Russia appears to have suffered a “catastrophic failure” in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernisation of its nuclear arsenal, according to analysis of satellite images of the launch site. The images captured by Maxar Technologies on September 21 show a crater about 60 metres…
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