Druzhba pipeline supplies, UN chief candidates: new briefing from Kremlin

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, April 21st

Kirill Dmitriev was referring to leaked drafts of the British prime minister's speeches, which included different apology options over a scandal involving former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson

The US leader says this is going to happen "very quickly"

The US leader also says "problems like they've never seen before" will arise if Iran does not participate in the dialogue

The executive will be succeeded by John Ternus, Apple’s head of hardware engineering

Bagher Ghalibaf says that Tehran "is ready to demonstrate a new balance of power on the battlefield"

Janos Boka says that after the announcement of supply restart, the Druzhba operator will contact MOL Group, which receives Russian oil for its refineries

Head of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs Leonid Slutsky also said that the fragmentation of "sovereigntists" was a response to the "aggressively militaristic appetites of the EU leadership, which is deliberately pushing the Europeans into a military confrontation with Russia"

"A world with 20 nuclear weapon states or more would be extremely dangerous," Rafael Grossi said

Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov expressed his condolences over the death of the artist

In total, Russian chess players won seven gold, three silver, and five bronze medals at the World Youth Blitz Championship

The US president admitted that he cannot say for sure whether Iran will send a delegation to the Pakistani capital

The Tisza Party leader also expressed hope that Russia would continue supplying crude oil through this pipeline

The EU Council has been returning to the topic of EU economic sanctions against Israel regularly over the past two years

Eduardo Villegas Mejias provided information regarding the investigative questioning of the minor Russian citizen

The Russian deputy foreign minister stressed that Moscow maintains a strict commitment to the moratorium on nuclear testing

The attack was timed for the morning hours, aiming to inflict significant casualties among law enforcement personnel

Sergey Ryabkov said that Washington’s statements about a potential resumption of full-scale nuclear testing could trigger a self-sustaining chain reaction in this field

The area of contamination of the Black Sea with oil products amounts to 10,000 square meters

A total of 750 meters of containment booms and five specialized oil recovery devices have been deployed at the spill site, and an oil trap has been installed

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted more than 315 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed six enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

The election of a new Secretary-General is scheduled for July 2026

Seismologists at the Japan Meteorological Agency have raised the estimated magnitude of the earthquake in Japan to 7.7

Dmitry Peskov noted that Moscow positively perceives the statements of Bulgaria’s future Prime Minister, Rumen Radev, about the need for pragmatic dialogue with Russia

The previous record was 16 crossings on April 14

Dmitry Peskov pointed to the statements of a very different nature coming from Brussels