- In a message posted to Telegram, Dmitri Medvedev, said: โThe idea of punishing a country that has one of the largest nuclear potentials is absurd. And potentially poses a threat to the existence of humanity.โ
- Russiaโs defense ministry says a Russian warplane killed an unspecified number of Ukrainian troops on Snake Island in the Black Sea on Thursday after they landed there to raise a Ukrainian flag
- A top Russian diplomat suggested Thursday that Washington be silent about the fate of Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star detained in Russia on drugs charges
- Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Thursday a Russian ship carrying Ukrainian grain had been allowed to leave the Turkish port of Karasu, calling it an “unacceptable situation” and summoning Turkey’s ambassador
- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Bali Thursday for talks ahead of a G20 ministerial meeting overshadowed by Moscowโs invasion of Ukraine
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- Josep Borrell, the European Union high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, asked China to play a more constructive role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- Ukraine is investigating more than 21,000 war crimes and crimes of aggression by Russian troops, the BBC reported
- The presence of Russia at the Group of 20 meeting in Indonesia this week is an obstacle to reaching consensus on issues related to Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official has said
- Western artillery that has been steadily flowing into Ukraine is starting to make a noticeable difference on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in yesterdayโs nightly address
- Two proposed economic laws making their way through Russiaโs parliament would allow the Kremlin to fund its war effort in Ukraine without formally mobilizing the state economic apparatus, the U.K. Defense Ministry has said
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