Trump sees progress in Ukrainian reconciliation process

According to surveys, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito may lose its majority in the upper chamber, as it did in the lower chamber last fall

The Saudi royal, known as the "sleeping prince," sustained serious injuries in a traffic accident while he was studying at a military college in the UK

Rachel Reeves said that the UK and its EU allies are turning the screw on

Over the past day, IDF troops operating in northern and central Gaza, "revealed enemy infrastructure and dismantled several terror infrastructure sites in the area of Beit Hanoun," the army noted

Yulia Sviridenko said Defense Minister Denis Shmygal will develop this proposal with the American side

Andrey Mordvichev, who was commander of the Battlegroup Center, succeeded Oleg Salyukov

"Rare-earth metals are the prize in the trade wars underway between the key suppliers of AI solutions to the market," Maria Zakharova pointed out

It provides for the organization of joint drills and exercises, participation in and monitoring drills at the invitation of relevant agencies, visits by warships and warplanes at an invitation or request, training of the military and other formats of cooperation

Sergey Sobyanin said that emergency services specialists are working at the crash site

Earlier reports put the death toll at 718

"BRICS wanted to try and take over the dollar, the dominance of the dollar, and the standard of the dollar," US President said

"Earlier, the same information came from Ukrainian captives," a Russian security official said

Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also noted that Germany’s assistance in the production of long-range systems in Ukraine could mask plans to localize the assembly of Taurus missiles at Ukrainian defense industry facilities

Any transactions between European financial institutions and the affected banks are prohibited

Leonid Sharov said that units from Battlegroup West continue to implement the special military operation’s combat tasks

According to official reports, the vessel was carrying 53 people

CEC Deputy Chairman Pavel Postica read out a report claiming that the bloc had links to Russia

According to a TASS correspondent, the projectile fell near a five-story apartment building, damaging its facade, windows and balconies

"An attack on the Kaliningrad Region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures, stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine," Leonid Slutsky said

By midnight GMT, the crisis response center said five people are still listed as missing

On June 2, the second round of Russia-Ukraine talks took place in Istanbul

Units of the battlegroup Deipro struck formations of Ukrainian mechanized and mountain assault brigades and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the towns of Malaya Tokmachka and Novoandreyevka in the Zaporozhye Region and Antonovka and Ponyatovka in the Kherson Region

The agreement was signed in 1996

Ahmed al-Sharaa called on all sides to respect the truce, halt all hostilities in all areas, make sure civilians are safe and humanitarian aid deliveries are unimpeded

Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine had invited Russia to hold the third round of talks next week

This has been a fifth earthquake in a row in this region, the Telegram channel of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences has said

"A peace agreement may be signed once two issues are resolved: Armenia’s constitution is amended and the OSCE Minsk Group is dissolved," Ilham Aliyev added

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, July 17th

The period will last until August 20

The Israeli army opened fire at two GHF sites in the southern Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Rafah

"I will never accept an EU budget that will make Hungary vulnerable to blackmail," Viktor Orban wrote

The British newspaper reported that Xi wants the US and Russian leaders to meet for war commemorations in September

TASS has put together the highlights from the news conference

According to the newspaper, the president does not intend to share the systems that the American army has

According to the spokesman, units of the battlegroup South seized control of better positions, struck manpower and equipment of three Ukrainian mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade and a mountain assault brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the area of the settlements of Seversk, Konstantinovka, Kleban-Byk, Pleshcheyevka and Novosyolovka

According to the New York Times, Russian forces have created a 16-kilometer pocket around Konstantinovka, partly surrounding it from the east, south and west

According to the spokesman, a Bogdana self-propelled artillery unit and two towed howitzers were destroyed in a counter-battery battle

The court enforcement actions against Google were launched in 2021-2025

The situation in Syria aggravated on July 13 when clashes between Arab tribal militias and Druze self-defense groups broke out in the heavily Druze-populated Sweida governorate

Series production has also been launched for the Malik acoustic drone detector updated to the second version in portable and mobile variants, the design bureau said

When Vladimir Zelensky says 'only after victory' it’s effectively a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of people, Denis Yaroslavsky said

Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp US leader Donald Trump from fulfilling the mandate, Director of National Intelligence said

Andrey Belousov went to see a multidisciplinary medical center that was reconstructed in 2024 to provide medical services to military personnel and their families

Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, July 18th

The Russian security council deputy chairman was commenting on the idea that decisions from the Potsdam Conference were almost immediately breached by the Soviet Union’s former allies in the anti-Hitlerite coalition

According to Rostec, the corporation is ready to make thirty engines of this type

The event was initially slated for August 11-14, 2025

"We will take measures supporting our interests in case of necessity," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko stressed

Jacob Mitchell of the United States came first, and another US swimmer, Baylor Nelson, was third

Umerov, who headed the Defense Ministry since September 2023, lost his post when the entire government resigned

Commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, says journalist, talks about the possibility of a ceasefire and peace process

Relations between the two states began to deteriorate in 2021, when pro-European forces assumed power in Moldova

"To Western elites, an independent and strong Russia has always seemed a historical anomaly and a very effective rebuff to the idea of their `civilizational superiority’", the politician maintained

According to the scout with the callsign Husky, the foreigners were stationed in a building that Russian forces seized in about five minutes

Kirill Dmitriev stressed that the EU is afraid of peace and continues to be in the grip of hostile narratives

А source told TASS that no date had been agreed yet

The foreign minister says migrants lost their moral and spiritual values

According to Vladimir Zelensky, the proposal was made by Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and head of Kiev’s delegation to the Istanbul talks

"We have a couple of big ones to announce pretty soon," the president said

Analysts note that recently all Ukrainian attempts to attack have ended with heavy losses and little or no result

Alexander Gordeyev said that during the last 24 hours, the adversary lost <…> an ammunition distributing point and 28 unmanned aviation command centers

According to the spokesman, acting with the support of artillery, heavy flamethrower systems and aviation, the battlegroup's units improved their positions along the forward line and struck formations of two mechanized brigades and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of Karpovka, Druzhelyubovka, Novosyolovka and Volchy Yar

According to it, a recent visit by US Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg to Ukraine points to this development of events

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany struck a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 to address the crisis over its nuclear program

According to the rebels’ spokesperson Yahya Saree, the operation "successfully achieved its objective"

"Emergency services are working where the debris fell," Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said

"The American media, in cahoots with US intelligence, planted this fake news story," Maria Zakharova said

Exactly 80 years ago, on July 17, 1945, the Potsdam Conference began, bringing together the heads of government from the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain. The meeting laid the foundation for the post-war world order.

The European Union imposed sanctions on nine other Russian individuals, the Official Journal of the European Union reported

The sanctions package targets the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, Aeroscan, a Moscow-based provider of solutions for businesses using unmanned aerial technologies, YATEC, a gas producer in Yakutia, and the Rubin research and development company, the bloc’s official gazette reports

According to the report, Defense Secretary of the United Kingdom John Healey and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius intend to discuss this on July 21

The document sets out plans to strengthen the impact of the United Nations in the face of mounting global challenges and an increasingly complicated financial situation

The current situation in the market is extremely challenging, Deputy CEO of the Russian automaker Zoya Kaika stressed

"We can only be glad that the chancellor has established a pragmatic relationship with the US president, and that the voice of Germany is heard in Washington again," Wadephul said

According to the Russian official, "the Potsdam Conference taught us that relations with the West should not be based on illusions"

According to the diplomat, Russia has not taken a single step that would call into question the decisions that were taken at the talks on the settlement of the Transnistrian issue

Syrian Interim Ahmed al-Sharaa reaffirmed that the province of Sweida remains an integral part of Syria and the Druze are a "fundamental part of the Syrian national structure

According to Oleg Ozerov, Russia has repeatedly called and continues to call for the "normalization of energy supply issues" with Moldova

According to the diplomat, it is in Moldova's national interests to preserve its neutral status and sovereignty

The restrictions imposed on imports from third countries of petroleum products produced from Russian oil "will inevitably lead to an increase in fuel prices on the EU market, the Russian Permanent Mission to the EU said

According to the newspaper, the drawing, depicting an outline of a woman’s breasts and a "Donald" signature was accompanied by the line: "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"

According to Ralph Bosshard, a retired Swiss lieutenant colonel and former military adviser to the OSCE secretary general, NATO members will primarily focus on the regions where "conflicts remain unresolved," including Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Crimea

According to the report, a series of trade deals between the United States and China forced Trump to reconsider his hostile course towards Beijing

According to Ryabkov, Russia already makes more than 90% of all payments with its BRICS partners in national currencies

"Those who dream of achieving something by force will fail," Aleksandar Vucic said

US leader said that the previous American administration "tried to crush the industry" of cryptocurrencies

The commission’s experts discussed among other issues, measures to reduce risks stemming from air leaks from the transfer module

Huge restrictions have already been introduced for EU countries

"At present, no members of illegal armed groups are present in Sweida. Clashes have stopped in the entire city," Nour Eddin Al-Baba said

Official Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stressed that Government of India considers the provision of energy security a responsibility of paramount importance to meet the basic needs of its citizens

Verheugen said that despite European Union’s reluctance to admit it, figures show that "the policy of sanctions harmed its authors in the first place, first of all Germany"

The street was earlier decorated in honor of Ovechkin’s record for most goals in the history of the National Hockey League

The paper quotes former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as admitting that "we’re probably not going back to exactly that system"

Earlier, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that the country could abandon neutrality enshrined in its constitution and join NATO

According to the expert, it is rather difficult to mock up actual battlefield conditions and weapons that were tested and entered into service in peacetime may turn out to be not that effective on the battlefield as expected

Earlier in the day, sirens sounded in many parts of Israel, including in Tel Aviv

The rest of the tanks will be delivered "in the coming months," Denis Shmygal added

Alexander Grushko also noted that the EU has adopted its 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions and intends to fully abandon Russian energy resources, including oil and gas

"All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or obliterated," the US president wrote

The US president also asked "if Ukraine could bomb Moscow or St. Petersburg"