SEOUL: Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said on Wednesday (Apr 30), after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow. “So far, North Korean troop casualties are estimated at around 4,700, including approximately 600 deaths,”Continue Reading
The call took place before Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered a three-day truce to coincide with Moscow’s commemorations for the end of World War II. Rubio said Sunday that this week will be crucial in assessing efforts to end the war, which US President Donald Trump has promisedContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Top officials in US President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday (Apr 27) pressed Russia and Ukraine to make headway on a peace deal following a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican a day earlier. “It needs to happen soon,” US Secretary of State Marco RubioContinue Reading
TRUMP’S PEACE PUSH Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly warned of the escalation risk of the war, which his administration now casts as a proxy conflict between the US and Russia, echoing Moscow’s stance. Last month, after Ukraine accepted Trump’s proposal for aContinue Reading
Over the past few weeks, Trump officials have acknowledged privately that the chances of a quick peace deal in Ukraine have grown elusive. Rubio’s comments, three European diplomats said, reflected growing frustration in the White House over Russian intransigence to end the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said some progressContinue Reading
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Thursday (Apr 10) of working systematically in China to recruit fighters for its war in Ukraine, days after announcing Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Moscow. China had warned Ukraine on Thursday against making “irresponsible” remarks after Zelenskyy saidContinue Reading
An Andijan taxi driver has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for attempting to recruit passengers in his cab into work supporting the Russian war in Ukraine. Furkatbek Khasanov was detained last summer at the Fergana Airport, alongside a man who had apparently taken him upContinue Reading
“Continued cooperation between these two nuclear powers will only further contribute to global instability and make the United States and other countries less safe, less secure and less prosperous,” she said. The United States, since the administration of Joe Biden, has taken China to task for sending Russia dual-use items,Continue Reading
The governor of Russia’s Volga River region of Mordovia said Ukrainian drones had struck an industrial facility. Media reports said it was an optical fibre factory in the region’s capital, Saransk. The governor of the Samara region, another Volga riverside province, said that a factory in the city of ChapaevskContinue Reading
KYIV: At least one person was killed and 10 injured, including three children, in overnight drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine, officials said on Wednesday (Apr 2). Various attacks also damaged energy facilities in two regions, according to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The attacks came as both sides accusedContinue Reading
