Kuleba on Friday hinted that Ukraine could tolerate India’s oil purchases as long as it paid in Indian rupees. Indian buyers mostly pay Russian oil firms in UAE dirhams or US dollars. “The visit appears to be a shift in Ukraine’s foreign policy towards India but not necessarily a shift in India’s foreign policy,” said … Read more
Retired U.S. general David Petraeus says the risk of a terror attack in Canada is “elevated” following an attack at a concert hall in Moscow that left 139 dead last week, for which an ISIS splinter group claimed responsibility. Petraeus told The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson that an attack of such a scale makes … Read more
Washington — President Biden pledged Friday to “continue working every day” to secure the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian detention, as the American journalist’s time imprisoned in Russia hit the one-year mark. “We will continue to denounce and impose costs for Russia’s appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips,” Mr. … Read more
The foreign ministers of India and Ukraine said on Friday they had agreed to restore trade and cooperation to levels before Russia’s invasion, as Kyiv seeks to build support for its peace plan with an old friend of Moscow. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was in India on the first visit by a top official … Read more
His controversial comment about boots on the ground earned an instant and very public recrimination from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and angered US officials who privately say such a move might even risk fomenting a clash with Moscow, according to a senior official familiar with the discussions among allies. Macron’s hints were issued to keep … Read more
It was Friday evening in Moscow when gunmen burst into Crocus City Hall, an entertainment complex on the outskirts of Russia’s capital, where a rock concert by the group Picnic was about to take place. Video showed at least four people opening fire in the building’s foyer before entering the hall itself and continuing to … Read more
By Dasha Litvinova | Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the concert hall attack that killed over 130 people in a Moscow suburb last week were “radical Islamists.” Speaking in a meeting with government officials, Putin said the killings were carried out by extremists “whose ideology the … Read more
Three facts stand out as clear amid the lack of hard information about the perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Russia, and all three shine a light on dangers inherent in the new multipolar world we now inhabit. The first is that, before the attack, Vladimir Putin dismissed a US warning that it was … Read more
Russia on Sunday observed a national day of mourning in the aftermath of an attack at a suburban Moscow concert hall left more than 130 people dead. Family and friends of those missing were still waiting for news of their loved ones two days after the massacre, which also left some 150 people injured. The … Read more
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Moscow concert hall Friday that left 115 people dead and over 100 civilians injured. The group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement Friday evening shared by SITE, an intelligence group. Russia’s Health Ministry released a list of 145 people injured, The Associated … Read more
