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Dmitry Peskov also said that Russia doesn’t want to add more Ukrainian territories Russia only want to control those territories that are Russian under its constitution, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with The New York Times. “No,” he said when asked whether Russia wants to add more Ukrainian territories. “We just want to control all the land we have now written into our Constitution as ours.” Referendums of the accession to Russia were conducted in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as in the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions from September…

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Russia will discuss the results of consultations on Ukraine in Jeddah with BRICS partners who took part in the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS. “As for the BRICS partners who were invited and went there, yes, there is certainly such an understanding that based on the results of the events in Jeddah, a relevant dialogue, a relevant exchange of views between us and the BRICS participants who were there at different levels will be held,” he said. Source: Tass

The conflict in Ukraine is a “chapter in the longstanding rivalry” between Russia and the West, according to the Brazilian envoy The head of the Brazilian delegation to a Saudi-hosted summit on the Ukraine conflict has expressed doubt that any progress can be made without Russia’s involvement in the negotiations. Brazil’s chief presidential adviser, Celso Amorim, made the remarks by video link on first day of the gathering in Jeddah, to which Moscow was not invited. “Any real negotiation must include all parties. Although Ukraine is the biggest victim, if we really want peace, we have to involve Moscow in this process somehow,” he said, according to…

Israeli occupation forces arrested eight Palestinians this morning and last night during military raids in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to local and Palestinian security sources. In Hebron, south of the West Bank, at least three Palestinians were arrested by the Israeli army in Hebron City and in the neighboring Al-Fawwar Refugee Camp and the town of Beit Awwa. One of the three detainees, Yahya Zakaria Mehesen, 22, was reportedly beaten up by soldiers as they raided his family home in Al-Fawwar Refugee Camp and arrested him. In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces detained three Palestinians…

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large Oleg Ozerov noted that such events are usually triggered by multiple issues related to social, political, economic, ethnic and religious processes within the country Russia considers any interference in Niger’s domestic affairs counterproductive, said Oleg Ozerov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large and head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum. “Russia views events in these countries as their internal affair and Russia does not interfere in these processes. We do not think that meddling into Niger’s affairs now can help out in any way, on the contrary, it may be counterproductive,” he told the…

Former US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that if he is re-elected, he will launch an investigation into wrongdoings of current US President Joe Biden and his family. “From the first day in office I will appoint a special prosecutor to study each and every one of the many claims being brought forth by Congress concerning all of the crooked acts including the bribes from China and many other countries that go into the coffers of the Biden crime family,” Trump said during a speech at the Republican Party’s dinner in South Carolina. On Thursday, the former president pleaded…

Antonio Guterres also urged for a complete rejection of nuclear weapons The shadow of nuclear war has re-emerged now that some countries are threatening to use nuclear weapons, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his message. “The drums of nuclear war are beating once again. Mistrust and division are on the rise. The nuclear shadow that loomed over the Cold War has re-emerged. And some countries are recklessly rattling the nuclear saber once again, threatening to use these tools of annihilation,” according to his address, read by Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, at a memorial…

Civilian targets were affected in the Saturday night shelling, local officials have said Ukrainian forces have reportedly fired cluster munitions into Donetsk city, striking a private residence, a university and other civilian targets. Four rounds of 155mm cluster bombs were fired into the center of the city on Saturday night, triggering fires in three districts, the Joint Center of Control and Coordination (JCCC) for the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said. The cluster munitions reportedly exploded in the air. The Donetsk University of Economics and Trade was on fire after the shelling, the Mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin said in a…

No casualties or damage occurred as a result of the foiled terrorist attack, the ministry added A Ukrainian drone has been destroyed by an air defense system in the Podolsk district of Moscow region with no casualties or damage reported, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “At 11:27 a.m. [08:27 GMT] today, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle against facilities in the Moscow region was foiled. The UAV was destroyed by air defense forces on the territory of the Podolsk district,” the ministry said No casualties or damage…

According to Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov, the enemy’s losses include up to 230 servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, three vehicles The Russian forces have repulsed Urkainian attacks in the areas of Belogorovka, Avdeyevka and Staromikhailovka in the Donetsk area, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said. “In the Donetsk area, the battlegroup South repelled ten enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Avdeyevka and Staromikhailovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic. In addition, the Ukrainian accumulations of manpower and equipment in the areas of Bogdanovka, Kleshcheyevka, Lastochkino, Maryinka and Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk People’s…