Author: Steven Sahiounie

Moscow did not send out invitations to the Victory Day parade to ambassadors and officials of unfriendly countries, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. When asked whether ambassadors of unfriendly countries were invited to the Victory Day parade, she answered in the negative. “No, unfriendly countries will not be invited to the parade for a third straight year. They have not been invited since 2022 because the regimes in these countries are pursuing – let’s formulate it as an unfriendly policy; this is a term that was introduced – but in fact they are pursuing an aggressive policy toward…

The Western elites’ policy of instigating new conflicts are an element of revanchism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square on Thursday. “Revanchism, the mockery of history and the striving to justify current followers of Nazism are part of the Western elites’ general policy of instigating ever new regional conflicts, interethnic and inter-religious strife and containing sovereign, independent centers of world development,” the Russian leader said. Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash, says Putin. Putin calls revanchism part of Western elites’ policy of stirring up new conflicts. Russia does not allow anyone…

The army air defenses repelled on Thursday at dawn an Israeli missile aggression that targeted a building in Damascus countryside and shot down some missile. A military source stated in a statement to SANA that “at approximately 03:20 a.m. on Thursday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a building in the Damascus countryside.” The source added: “Our air defenses repelled the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them.” The source noted that the aggression caused only material losses. Source: SANA

The US president warns in an interview with CNN that Washington will stop supplying the Israeli occupation with artillery shells and bombs if it launches a “wide” invasion of Rafah. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation has killed civilians in Gaza using bombs supplied by the United States, marking the first instance of such an admission by any US official since the genocidal war on the Strip began last October. His remarks came during an interview with CNN, where he also commented on the recent Israeli invasion of Rafah. Earlier this week, the US administration paused a shipment of more than…

The central bank said it had raised the repo rate, which it uses to inject money into the banking system, by 50 basis points to 8.50%

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates reiterated Syria’s unconditional support for the Palestinian people, and its calls to all the people of the world who still believe in international law, human rights and international humanitarian law to stop these massacres committed by the fascist Israeli. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement that the Zionist attack on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip represents a brutal continuation of the genocidal and expansionist policy pursued by the Zionist terrorist government. The Ministry said that the number of Palestinians killed by Zionist criminal…

Members of the bloc can opt out of Brussels’ plan to use the frozen assets to buy weapons for Kiev, the outlet reports

A St. Petersburg-based plant formerly belonging to Japanese automaker Toyota has been handed over to Russian high-end carmaker Aurus, Russia’s acting Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said on Tuesday. The brand is best known for producing limos for the Russian president.

Türkiye is the country that provides the most humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the country’s foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. “Türkiye, which provides 30% of the humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, is the country that provides the most assistance to Palestinians there,” Oncu Keceli wrote on X. Türkiye’s ship carrying 1,908 tons of humanitarian aid departed Tuesday from Mersin Port, said Keceli, adding that another ship carrying 5,066 tons of aid docked at Egypt’s Port of al-Arish. Keceli said total humanitarian aid to Gaza exceeded 52,000 tons. Israel has pounded Gaza in retaliation for an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas…