Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed Ukraine during their meeting on Oct. 22 at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.The BRICS[1] alliance, a bloc of countries that now includes Brazil[2], Russia, India, China[3], South Africa, Iran[4], Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, is convening in Kazan for a three-day summit[5] from Oct. 22-24. According to Moscow, 36 world leaders are participating in the conference. Putin and Xi reportedly spoke for about an hour, according to Russian state media. The leaders discussed Russia's war against Ukraine, the BRICS agenda, and bilateral relations. "The world is ...

Andriy Kostin steps down after corruption scheme involving false disability diagnoses for draft exemptions is uncovered.Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has announced his resignation amid a scandal involving dozens of officials alleged to have abused their position to receive disability status and avoid military service.In early October, it emerged that dozens of public prosecutors in the western region of Khmelnytskyi had falsely been awarded disability permits and were receiving special pensions.Kostin said on Tuesday he was taking responsibility for the scandal and announced his resignation. He called the situation around the false disability diagnoses “clearly amoral”.“In this situation, I believe ...

1 Jack L. Snyder, The Soviet Strategic Culture: Implications for Limited Nuclear Operation (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, R-2154-AF, 1977), https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2154.html[1].2 Dima Adamsky, “From Moscow with Coercion: Russian Deterrence Theory and Strategic Culture,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1-2, 2018, p. 48.3 Robert M. Cassidy, Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya: Military Strategic Culture and the Paradoxes Of Asymmetric Conflict (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2003), p. 11.4 Scott Boston and Dara Massicot, The Russian Way of Warfare: A Primer (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, PE-231-A, 2017), https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE231.html[2].5 The Russian military presence during the battle of Ilovaisk has been comprehensively ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both praised expanding relations with Russia at bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.Putin is hosting a summit of BRICS countries, the largest gathering of world leaders in Russia since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The heads of 32 countries and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are expected to attend the three-day event in the city of Kazan, highlighting the challenge to the West’s efforts to isolate him over the war.The gathering of the expanded club offers an occasion for a display of unity ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed the war in Ukraine and relations with the West at length on the first day of the BRICS summit, the Kremlin said on Tuesday."Since they are attacking both our interests and China's interests, there were topics for discussion," said Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Russian television, speaking of Western states.He added that Moscow and Beijing have a similar view of and approach to international politics.China officially maintains a neutral stance in the Ukraine war and recognizes the country's territorial integrity.However, it has never criticized Moscow for the invasion and ...

North and South Korea are on the brink of going to war with one another, but on the battlefields of Ukraine rather than the Korean peninsula. North Korea is already sending military “advisers” to Ukraine along with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and other munitions, while South Korea is eager to retaliate by shipping arms and artillery shells directly to Ukraine rather than through third countries such as Poland.No, South Korea won’t be ordering soldiers to face the North Koreans — at least not yet — but the prospect of the South, one of the world’s top 10 arms manufacturers, ...

BRICS Summit 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Kazan in Russia on Tuesday (October 22) to attend the 16th BRICS Summit. The summit is the first after the grouping’s expansion last year. For India, it is especially significant as Prime Minister Narendra Modi could meet China’s President Xi Jinping here, soon after the two countries agreed on a disengagement along the LAC[1].What is the BRICS? How important is the grouping amid an increasingly tense world? What does an expanded BRICS mean for India? We explain.What is BRICS?List of Countries attending BRICS Summit: BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China ...

UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared last week that North Korea[1] is sending troops to Russia, in effect joining the invasion as a co-combatant. The appearance of one of the world’s most erratic and heavily-armed nations in the fight might test the best resourced and well-rested defences. After 32 months of grinding war against a much larger enemy, Ukraine is neither[2].References^ North Korea (www.economist.com)^ Ukraine is neither (www.economist.com)

Ukrainian drones hit an ammo depot at a Russian airbase and a weapons factory over the weekend.These marked Ukraine's latest deep strikes targeting a key military facility inside Russia.US officials and war analysts have said this campaign will complicate Russian operations in Ukraine. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service[1] and Privacy Policy[2]. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Ukrainian forces used ...

12:18 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  (Addressing the families.)  Your markers here. Hello, everyone. We got everybody? Well, good afternoon.  And this is a very good afternoon — a very good afternoon. Today, we’re bringing home Paul, Evan, Alsu, and Vladimir — three American citizens and one American green-card holder. All four have been imprisoned unjustly in Russia: Paul for nearly six years, Vladimir since 2022, Evan since March of 2023, and Alsu since October of 2023. Russian authorities arrested them, convicted them in show trials, and sentenced them to long prison terms with absolutely no legitimate reason whatsoever.  None. Paul, a former Marine, who was in Russia for ...