Russian Armed Forces' training program for 2014 completed — defense minister

Russia’s Battlegroup West is conducting active offensive operations within its area of responsibility along a frontline of approximately 350 kilometers, the Chief of Russia’s General Staff Army General said

Besides clothing, high-quality Russian handicrafts are generating immense interest among Expo visitors

Apart from that, according to the ZNPP, Ukrainian troops also attacked the facility’s transport shop, damaging its roof and personnel buses

Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev highlighted tourism as yet another promising sphere

Russia's Glavkosmos provides orbital flights on board the Soyuz spacecraft, with docking at the International Space Station

I don’t think that our military should take part in this mission amid the continuing conflict, Gitanas Nauseda said

The drone fell near the village of Samane in Utena District Municipality in eastern Lithuania

Studying the behavior of skyrmions will help to create unique quantum devices based on new physical principles

Mohammad Saleh Jokar, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Interior Affairs Committee, noted that Iran "never trusted the US," and his country has no other option but to "become stronger"

According to Reiner Braun, Russia possesses the potential of a great power

Iran also fired at two US UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters conducting a search and rescue operation

Abu Dhabi authorities reported earlier in the day that a fire broke out following a drone strike on a generator near the Barakah NPP

According to Yle, defense forces officially confirmed that control in these areas had been tightened

One person remained missing

Earlie on Sunday, the US president urged urged Iran to act faster to move to a potential deal

It also said that Ukrainian troops tried to attack the facility’s Raduga substation with a use of a drone, which was shot down and did not detonate

According to the WAM news agency, the top UAE diplomat "strongly condemned the terror attack" when a drone struck a generator outside the Barakah NPP’s inner perimeter causing fire to it

Around 80 countries have introduced emergency measures to shield their economies

The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing sources, that the United States does not rule out capturing one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raul Castro

The Russian president has sent a congratulatory telegram to the Kazakh leader on his birthday

Alexey Pushkov noted that the question of whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use nuclear weapons in Iran has been actively discussed on American television in recent days

The IOC press office said earlier in the day that the organization must take into account the present-day political context, but does not take sides in global conflicts, as that falls outside its intended mission

The admission procedure in accordance with the decree will be launched upon completion of the necessary technical approvals

Over the past 24 hours, more than 120 UAVs have been shot down

The event is organized by Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and Ministry of Economic Development together with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government

The number of presumptive cases is 336

The exact number of the affected is being determined

In addition, about 32 flights were reported to be delayed for departure by more than two hours

The two leaders discussed current matters pertaining to the preparations for Vladimir Putin's upcoming state visit to Astana and the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council to be held there

Tehran’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe Amir Hossein Hosseini also expressed hope that the conflict would be resolved diplomatically

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has prepared military target plans should the US leader decide to resume the hostilities against the Islamic Republic

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyer 36 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Crimea, the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Novgorod, Rostov, Smolensk, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, and the Azov Sea

Earlier, the news portal said, citing classified intelligence data, that Cuba had allegedly purchased more than 300 combat drones and was looking at using them against the US base in Guantanamo

Taiwan has been governed by its local administration since 1949 when the Kuomintang’s remaining forces headed by Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) were defeated in the Chinese Civil War and took refuge on the island

According to the agency, the US refuses to pay any compensation for damage caused by the bombings of Iranian territory

According to Alexey Shablya, the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in one of these labs, while not 100% confirmed, also cannot be disproved

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Sergey Sobyanin added that three residential buildings had been damaged

Two crew members will stay in the orbit longer than scheduled due to Russia’s plans to shoot the first movie in space aboard the statio

Time is running out: 48 hours remain before all hell rains down on them, US President said

Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev also added that it is impossible not to say that these relations are built between specific people

According to The New York Times, Israel began preparations to build one of the bases in late 2024

The ex-chief of EU diplomacy said the situation is similar with the approval of new sanctions against Russia

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed that Iran respects the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and considers it a brotherly nation

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian invited the world to judge which side engages in terrorism

Russian President said he wished the Donbass problem could be settled through talks and the implementation of the Minsk agreements, but "regrettably, this is no longer relevant"

According to Denis Pushilin, fighting continues in the industrial zone and near the railway terminal

Iran has fired almost 1,200 ballistic missiles and 4,000 Shahed drones at the Gulf states since the start of the war

Ukrainian armed formations suffered the heaviest losses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Center

According to Greer, the United States is not seeking "to have joint military options with the Chinese" in the Strait of Hormuz

9,210 people being injured

The Garjainia reptile genus that inhabited the Earth approximately 250 million years ago, was an archosaur - the ancestor of the dinosaurs

Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Brian Mast also emphasized that Washington’s European allies should increase their support for Kiev

Touching upon the issue of the use of drones during a war cabinet meeting, he recalled that six year ago he had warned about this threat

One of the facility’s security guards was killed, Iran’s AEOI said

By 1:20 a.m. Moscow time, Brent pared gains to trade at $110.40 per barrel

Nikolai Azarov noted that the scenario of "Vladimir Zelensky stepping down and an interim government being formed at the helm for a transition period will be the best"

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that "the shift in thinking that ‘at some point we’ll have to talk to the Russians,’ that’s a good thing"

The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that Ukraine lost about 1,045 servicemen in the special military operation zone over the past day

Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed by the air defense systems on duty over the territories of the Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Bryansk, Voronezh, Rostov, Tula, Krasnodar, Moscow Regions and over the Black Sea

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that Iran will attack US infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region

A certain Canadian MP's visit to the Taiwan region and his meetings with officials of the Taiwan region authorities gravely contravene the one-China commitment Canada upholds and send a wrong message of support for 'Taiwan independence', the Chinese embassy said

According to the ministry, "all necessary measures are being taken decisively and without hesitation against any threat directed at Turkey's territory and airspace"

The troops of the grouping are also successfully operating on the Boguslav and Rubtsovsk directions, the Chief of Russia’s General Staff Army General said

According to Sergey Sobyanin, 64 drones have been shot down

Abbas Araghchi recalled that trade between India and Iran exceeded $20 billion

The drone crew commander added that the coordinates of the detected Ukrainian facilities were immediately transmitted to the command post and strike drone crews

Ernesto Soberon Guzman emphasized that Cuba has the right to legitimate self-defense, which is based on the principle of international law and the United Nations Charter

"In response to this weakening, there's a perceived need to fight adversaries like Russia and China, to regain lost ground," Reiner Braun said

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed that complete cessation of hostilities is the only solution

This system allows guaranteed penetration of both existing and any missile defense systems still in the development phase, Sergey Ryabkov said

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In the Battlegroup North zone, the enemy lost up to 155 soldiers

The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February 28

Apart from that, according to Pushilin, two civilian infrastructure facilities, two cars, and two trucks were damaged

Valentina Matviyenko emphasized that this intervention has destabilized the Middle East, triggering an energy crisis, yet it ultimately changes nothing

The change in the destination of Pin Shun appears to be payment-related, Sumit Ritolia, Lead Research Analyst at Kpler, noted

EU foreign policy chief won't have an easy time, Dmitry Peskov said

Alexander Stepanov warned that industrial facilities in northwestern Russia as well as taking control of Karelia may be priority objectives in the course of potential aggression against Russia

The report says that "Musk’s rapid-fire messages - which included numerous false claims about the contents of the spending bill - ricocheted" across Washington

According to the newspaper, the North Atlantic Alliance is interested in European industry helping to meet Washington's demands for increased defense spending to mitigate Trump's "anger" at the alleged inability of allies to support the United States in the conflict in the Middle East

Alireza Sanei noted that Iran shares borders with 15 countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Armenia

The EC assures that there is currently no risk to supplies, though markets are feeling the impact of rising Brent crude oil prices, which has led to higher gas and oil prices in Europe

Today it is more important for Russia to invest in its own cultural projects and cooperation with friendly countries of the CIS, Asia, BRICS, Airat Gibatdinov said

One person was reported killed and four civilians sustained wounds

According to the TV channel, all states are divided into three categories — "hostile," "neutral," and "friendly"

Abbas Araghchi pointed to the Iranian authorities' efforts to maintain a ceasefire with the US in order to resolve the conflict diplomatically

The Civil Aviation Organization of the Islamic Republic called on all international bodies to take appropriate measures in response to this incident

No information on casualties or damage has been reported yet

The RCF executive added that the federation is deeply disappointed by the incident involving chess player Umaiganat Osmanova

The Black Sea Fleet destroyed six unmanned boats of Ukrainian armed forces

According to CBS News national security analyst Aaron MacLean, the pilots of the downed fighter had sidearms

According to preliminary reports, three people were killed and another six suffered injuries in the Moscow Region

The West uses unscrupulous methods to prevent countries from purchasing Russian oil, the Russian foreign minister said

Shortly after this conversation, Netanyahu called a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet, which will be held later in the day

Mikhail Galuzin noted that for successful negotiations Vladimir Zelensky will need to order the Ukrainian armed forces to cease fire and pull troops from Donbass

Russia will not be drawn into any triangulation attempts by the US to pit Moscow and Beijing against one another, the Russian foreign minister said

According to the Serbian leader, the two countries may begin the construction of a 500 MW gas-turbine power plant near the city of Nis in southern Serbia already in 2027 to commission it by 2030

Andrei Marga stressed that normalizing relations with China, Russia, and Turkey is essential for Romania’s democratization, modernization and welfare