Author: Steven Sahiounie

UAVs struck office buildings in the Moscow City business hub on Sunday morning, Sergey Sobyanin said Ukrainian drones have attacked Moscow City, the Russian capital’s financial and business district, where some of Europe’s tallest skyscrapers are located, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in the early hours of Sunday. “The facades of two of [Moscow] City’s office towers sustained minor damage. There are no casualties or injuries,” Sobyanin wrote on his Telegram channel. The Russian Defense Ministry later released a statement, saying that a total of three drones were involved in the raid. According to the MOD, one was destroyed mid-air outside Moscow,…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a deadly bomb attack that struck Damascus on Thursday. In a statement on Thursday night, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani vehemently condemned the terrorist explosion in the Sayyidah Zaynab region in the suburbs of Damascus on Tasua and during the mourning season for Imam Hussein (AS), which led to the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians, including women and children. He also offered condolences to the Syrian government and people as well as the families of the victims, saying, “In a situation where the innocent Syrian people are suffering from the cruel…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova pointed to the sincerity of African countries’ attempts to help resolve the crisis Russia received about 30 peace initiatives for a settlement in Ukraine through official and unofficial channels, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the sidelines of the second Russia-Africa summit. “We are grateful to everyone. There were many such initiatives. It seems to me that a month ago there were already about 30 [initiatives] that were made by public figures through state channels or even in some private way,” the diplomat noted. Zakharova stressed that Russia never refused negotiations on…

Tatyana Moskalkova noted that targeted attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure facilities pointed to the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime Russian Human Rights Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova has reached out to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk following Kiev’s attack on the city of Taganrog. “I have sent a message to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and other related international bodies following <…> a shelling attack on a residential area in the city of Taganrog, asking them to make public and draw the public’s attention to this blatant violation of international humanitarian law by Ukrainian…

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed to Washington’s desire for a strategic defeat of Moscow “on the battlefield” The position adopted by the US administration which wants to strategically defeat Russia “on the battlefield” is blocking the possibility of peace talks on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the Second Russia-Africa Summit. “This is a principled stance by the US administration which not simply thinks about but made it its mission – the necessity of not simply achieving results but a strategic defeat of our country…

Beijing says Japan’s latest annual defense report portrayed a “wrong perception” of China and “deliberately exaggerates the so-called Chinese military threat.” The Chinese Defense Ministry stressed that certain unnamed nations’ regular dispatch of ships and planes to “show off their military force for self-interest” has heightened tensions in the East and South China seas. In response to a Japanese defense assessment highlighting alleged Chinese threats, a spokesperson for the Ministry, Tan Kefei, pointed out that these measures have significantly exacerbated regional tensions. On Friday, Japan raised its concerns about China’s actions in the region, Beijing’s developing military relations with Moscow,…

Syria has file its legal contribution with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the practices of the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the legal consequences emerging from that , reiterating its full support for the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. “From standing of principled and firm support of the Syrian Arab Republic for the just Palestinian cause and in the context of its continued support for the diplomatic and legal movement led by Palestine in order for the brotherly Palestinian people to…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed that Russia is all for a diplomatic solution, but Kiev and its supporters, particularly the US and NATO, are unwilling to engage in dialogue. The crisis between Moscow and Kiev cannot be settled on the battlefield, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. The situation for peace talks to settle the Ukrainian war will deteriorate further, Szijjarto stated in Budapest on Friday. The Foreign Minister feels that the two parties are in a better position for discussions at the moment. Last month, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told German tabloid Bild that a Ukrainian triumph…

The President of the Russian Federation is confident that the work of the Russian diplomatic mission will give an additional impetus to the development of relations between the two countries Russian President Vladimir Putin expects that the opening of the Russian Embassy in Burkina Faso will help develop cooperation between the two countries. “We attach great importance to the development of relations with Burkina Faso. In particular, we have decided to reopen the Russian embassy, which was closed back in 1992,” the Russian leader said at a meeting with President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traore. “I am sure that the…

A record number of 270,000 Germans emigrated abroad in 2022, predominantly for professional reasons and frustration with the german complicated bureaucracy. A recent report by France Info shows that approximately 270,000 Germans left their homeland in 2022 to seek opportunities overseas, marking the highest number since 2016. According to statistics, six out of ten emigrants were male, with an average age of 35, and nearly three out of every four held university degrees. While some individuals chose to relocate for a better quality of life, the majority departed for professional reasons, often citing frustration with complicated German bureaucracy. “These are simply individuals…