Russia, Belarus expand program of military drills due to new threats — defense minister

Additionally, Ukraine is required to make its own contributions to this fund

According to Yahya Saria, by striking the aircraft carrier, the Houthis prevented "the enemy's attempts to redeploy its warships to the southern Red Sea and expand its aggression against Yemen

TASS has compiled the main information about the special operation progress over the past 24 hours

The latest aftershock with a magnitude of 4.9 was recorded at 11:46 p.m. local time (4:46 p.m. GMT)

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A total of 51.9% expressed approval of how the Russian government is managing the country

According to the ministry, the rescuers have brought along all the equipment necessary for search-and-rescue operations

At the same time, the Israeli military informed that they 'continue to carry out aerial strikes on Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip'

The aggregate Palestinian death toll since Israel violated ceasefire on March 18 currently stands at around 900, with over 2,000 wounded

Information on casualties and damage to infrastructure is being specified, the city’s military-civilian administration reported

"I think we're making progress, but there's a lot of ill will between the parties," the US leader said, commenting on the situation in Ukraine

According to the military agency, the Kiev regime has just increased the number of attacks on energy infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions, despite claims by Vladimir Zelensky about the purported cessation of attacks on Russian energy facilities

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According to the organizers, the complaints will be reviewed in accordance with the contest’s rules and procedures

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 240 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

Al-Hayya said that the group has accepted an Egyptian plan for forming an independent body of experts to oversee civil administration in Gaza

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr inflicted more than 545 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy tanks and two US-made armored personnel carriers in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported

TASS has compiled main facts from the statements by the Russian Defense Ministry

Lula da Silva also said that he plans to discuss the potential peaceful settlement in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia in May

According to Nikolay Nozdrev, Russia has reported "a substantial increase in military activity," involving Japan, the United States and other NATO member countries, near Russia’s Far Eastern border

According to the ministry, the Kiev regime has just increased the number of attacks on energy infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions, despite Zelensky’s claims

The drones were targeting the infrastructure of the Saratov oil refinery

Viktor Orban reminded that the two largest European countries - France and Germany - had once participated in the preparation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement in Ukraine, but they failed to be implemented

No details were given about specific commodities to be affected by the reduction or how much imports will plunge

The businessman was granted Russian citizenship in October 2016. In 2022, after the onset of the special military operation, he applied to the Russian embassy on renunciation of Russian citizenship

Veronika Grimm also noticed that the EU members should coordinate the actions for the adoption of countermeasures

According to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the message comprises two documents

Warehousing facilities are ablaze, no one was hurt

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The new drones were detected in the Zaporozhye, Orekhov, Dzerzhinsk, Kremennaya and Kharkov directions of the special military operation, as well as in Russia’s borderline areas of Belgorod and Kursk

To date, her best result in Grand Slams was in 2022 when she reached the semifinals of the French Open

According to the Al Hadath, the heads of the Interior, Foreign and Defense ministries from the previous cabinet will retain their posts

Graham Fuller did not rule out that Europe would also move towards normalizing relations with Russia in the foreseeable future

While Europe continues to speculate that the Ukrainian conflict could spread across the continent, the Hungarian prime minister dismissed this notion, stating, "This is not true"

"After Trump’s team slammed Zelensky’s inappropriate attire, he’ll either need to start wearing a suit or continue to be looked at as a street rat," Alexander Dubinsky said

About were 2,000 injured

The foreign and defense ministers, Asaad al-Shaibani and Murhaf Abu Qasra, have retained their posts

1,670 people were wounded

The sharp decline in the nuclear power generation sector will damage the energy security of those nations and will hamper the achievement of environmental goals

The report says the militants presented a threat to the US military

US Presidential National Security Advisor Mike Waltz stated on February 23 that Washington was considering all options regarding Iran’s nuclear program

Russian president noted the important contribution of Muslim organizations into Russia’s public and spiritual life, and their role in charitable, educational and patriotic projects and initiatives

According to it, the Republican People’s Party rally gathered 150,000 people

TASS has gathered key remarks by the US vice president

They are acting inconsistently, constantly trying to fool, Russian President said

According to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, the most important goal is "to convert the bloodthirsty and the total, fabricated-myth-laden consciousness of some Ukrainians"

Andrey Marochko noted that due to the ongoing active fighting in Chasovy Yar, it is currently difficult to count the area liberated and mopped up of Ukrainian troops

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the battlegroup North had liberated the village of Gogolevka in the Kursk Region

"It is supposed to enter service with the Russian Navy and to start performing its combat tasks next year," the president added

Russian troops are engaged in fighting in the center of Guyevo in the Kursk Region, facing the most skilled units of the Ukrainian army's special operations forces

The leaders also pointed to "the need to render all possible assistance to its government and people with a view to enhancing political stability and observing the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic and confessional groups there"

"The enemy expects to hold off the advance of the Russian armed forces as long as possible, hoping to escape through the forest to the Sumy Region," the source said

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 struck Myanmar on March 28

On March 24, representatives of Russia and the United States met in Riyadh to discuss the resumption of the Black Sea initiative

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin also congratulated Min Aung Hlaing on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Myanmar Armed Forces and handed over a congratulatory letter from Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov

According to the secretary-general of the movement Naim Qassem, Lebanon should resist Israel politically and diplomatically

According to the designer company, the laser beam destroys the drone body, propeller, engines, battery

Gergely Gulyas also warned that Ukraine's fast-track admission would inflict irreparable damage on Europe's economies

"There are grounds to think that we will finish them off," the Russian leader said

Andrey Marochko said that development of combat power is registered in this area, including by assault teams

Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, was also shelled and attacked at least eight times

On March 25, Evghenia Gutsul was detained at the Chisinau Airport

This will bring the total disbursements under the IMF-supported program to $10.1 billion

According to The Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainian authorities fear that the terms of the agreement will limit their ability to attract other investors and rebuild infrastructure

According to Maria Zakharova, the guidance and targeting of the strikes were conducted using French satellite systems, while UK specialists provided the coordinate input and carried out the launch

Andrey Marochko added that some of the Ukrainian army units, which had become fragmented following the breakthrough by Russian Armed Forces, retreated and reinforced their positions south of Katerinovka

The Defense Ministry also said that Russian servicemen had liberated the Veselovka settlement in the Sumy Region

"Russia assumes that security in the Arctic should be built by joint efforts of countries of the region through dialogue and cooperation," Russia’s embassy in Denmark told

Units of Battlegroup South took more advantageous military lines and positions in 24 hours, inflicted damage on troops and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army

"Yesterday one of chiefs of the Kiev regime Buganov openly admitted that the Ukrainian intelligence service prepared assassination attempts on the Russian president. This assassination attempt was again prepared with US money," Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel

According to the Russian president, "along the entire line of engagement, the strategic initiative is fully with the Russian Armed Forces"

The Russian Defence Ministry said earlier that assault units of the Don Cossack air assault regiment based in Feodosia had taken an important fortified strongpoint of the Ukrainian army in the borderline

Su-30 is a Russian two-seat multipurpose heavy fighter jet developed in the late 1980s

Asharq also reported that Qatari and Egyptian representatives held a series of meetings with the Hamas leadership in Doha, as well as talks with the US and Israel to agree on the details of the agreement

The construction is being carried out in accordance with the project by Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom

The ministry’s task force includes 120 rescuers from the Tsentrospas airmobile squad and the Leader Center for High-Risk Rescue Operations

The Russian leader also agreed with Sergey Mironov, head of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" faction in the Duma, who said that "the birth rate is insufficient, because the matter concerns extinction"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of consultations

Among the returnees there are several elderly individuals, with the oldest being 92 years old

The Russian president reiterated that such precedents under the auspices of the UN existed in East Timor, New Guinea and parts of former Yugoslavia

The traveler was going to get from South America to Australia, covering a distance of 18,000 kilometers in 200 days

Ukrainian military commanders of various ranks have been characterizing the operational and strategic situation as complex lately

Police said they have started an investigation

"The arbitrary deadlines Starmer hastily devised in his remarks to journalists are completely unfounded — especially given London’s clear intent to derail any peace initiatives," the statement reads

Mikhail Pavliv explained that in Jeddah, the Americans got everything they wanted in the military aspect from Ukraine very quickly

"But now the covers have completely fallen off, as they say, and it has become evident to everyone what the various high courts in the European capitals, Western jurisdictions, where many sought to hide in, are worth," the Russian president said

It became known earlier that the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party To Lam would be present at the parade

It is unclear yet what caused the accident

The Russian leader added that Gudkov’s purview will also involve the command of marines and all artillery and missile coastal troops

The ministry pointed out that since October 2023, 50,277 people have been killed and 114,095 injured in the Palestinian enclave

The previous version of the deal was not signed because of a verbal spat between Vladimir Zelensky and US leaders at the White House

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The plant was producing washing machines and refrigerators

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Channel One that the US wants to engage China in the strategic stability negotiations with Russia but the decision to do so is up to Beijing and Russia will respect its choice

The comprehensive strategic partnership treaty was signed during the visit of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Moscow in January 2025