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It is noted that fierce fighting for control of the city is underway Russian forces are steadily advancing in Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) having thwarted the attempted withdrawal of several Ukrainian army units, acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said on Friday. “We saw that several Ukrainian army units tried to get out of there, but they were thwarted by our forces,” he said in an interview with Russia’s Channel One. “The situation is steadily developing toward the liberation of this settlement.” Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic…

Trump calls for the “total cessation of hostilities” immediately, at a time when the White House announced yesterday that the US does not support an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine under a China-proposed peace strategy. Donald Trump, a top Republican in polling regarding the 2024 presidential nomination, said that “every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war.” The former Republican President has said several times that the Ukraine war would have never happened if he were president and warned that the conflict will eventually lead up to World War III. “Our objective is to immediately have a total cessation of…

In Antony Blinken’s opinion, “there has to be a just and durable peace” in Ukraine At present, the United States prefers providing weapons and military equipment to the Kiev government over reconciliation-themed diplomatic contacts with Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. In Blinken’s opinion, “there has to be a just and durable peace” in Ukraine. “Just in the sense that it reflects the principles of the United Nations Charter. If it’s a peace that allows Russia to keep all the territory seized by force, that’s not justice,” the secretary of state said. He also explained that…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Xi’s upcoming trip to Moscow will further strengthen mutual trust and understanding between China and Russia. Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Moscow from March 20-22 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin confirmed on Friday. “During the talks, topical issues of further development of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China will be discussed,” the Kremlin indicated in a statement. According to the statement, the two leaders will also exchange views in the context of deepening Russian-Chinese cooperation in the international arena, and a number of important bilateral…

Kim Jong Un pledged to “respond to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons” Pyongyang will continue to take measures against military provocations of the United States and South Korea, whose governments remain “openly hostile” to North Korea, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday, following the launch of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. “I will keep working to make the United States and South Korea – who are openly hostile to our republic – realize the recklessness of large-scale military exercises, which they frequently hold in the Korean Peninsula zone,” North Korea’s state-run Voice of Korea radio quoted him as saying on…

The Russian president lamented the fact that the political systems in many countries “often bring people to prominence who have a rather low level of education and general cultural awareness Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed the phrase ‘unfriendly countries’ inexact and incorrect, because it is not so much the countries themselves but rather their elites or leaders that are unfriendly. “The phrase ‘unfriendly countries’ has entered the public consciousness and into common usage here. But, it does not accurately reflect existing realities. You could say that it doesn’t reflect the reality at all, because what we have are unfriendly…

“Only in the context of this understanding can doing business bring a person satisfaction and help individuals to fully tap their potential and achieve self-actualization,” the president said Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing an audience of Russia’s business elite, offered a caustic retort to the executives’ previous conviction that it was far safer to hold their assets outside of Russia. “I used to often hear: ‘Well, it’s far safer over there’ (abroad ). How about now?” Putin said to the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) in Moscow on Thursday. “The very foundation of our existence…

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council called for goodwill and compromise to settle the “family differences” in a trip to the UAE, stressing that cooperation needs to replace hostilities to meet the existing challenges which do not benefit any regional party. During his landmark visit to Abu Dhabi on Thursday, Ali Shamkhani held talks with the United Arab Emirate’s national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Reaffirming the unshakable strategy of Iran’s foreign policy that favors collective, constant and constructive cooperation with neighbors, the top Iranian security official said, “In order to find a way out of…

According to the UN, the commission representatives visited 56 Ukrainian settlements and interviewed 595 local residents, including 348 women and 247 men, while preparing the report Members of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine have revealed ‘a small number of violations’ of the laws of war by Ukrainian servicemen, the comission said in a statement released by the UN office in Vienna on Thursday. The document focuses on violations allegedly committed by the Russian armed forces, including “indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks”. “The Commission has found that the Ukrainian armed forces were likely responsible for violations of international…

It is reported that Ukraine also is unable to shoot down Oniks supersonic cruise missiles The Ukrainian armed forces can’t shoot down Russian ballistic missiles such as the Iskander-M, S-300 air defense missiles and Smerch rockets, in addition to hypersonic Kinzhal and Kh-22 missiles, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yury Ignat said in an interview aired on Thursday. “We don’t shoot down ballistic missiles, for example Iskander-M,” he said in the interview with Ukraine’s 24 channel. “Also, unfortunately, we don’t have the capability to intercept rockets fired by multiple launch rocket systems such as Smerch.” “All these missiles fly fast, along…