Ukraine
needs more air defenses to protect its grain export routes as well regions
bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, as he
addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv. The Swiss President
during the summit also pledged to provide additional support to Kyiv.
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Traffic on the Crimean Bridge is temporarily suspended. This was reported in the operational telegram channel of the information center, which is responsible for information about the situation on the road approaches to the bridge.
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Moscow.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan voiced concern over the ongoing process of forced displacement of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation forces from the besieged Gaza Strip.
The head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, said on the Telegram app that an energy infrastructure site was hit in a drone strike on Friday.
Kiper labelled the perpetrators Russian terrorists.
At least
one person has been killed after a Russian missile struck a civilian ship
entering the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukraine's military says.
With the
end of the Nagorno-Karabakh entity and possibly a bloody series
of wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia’s foreign policy toward the
South Caucasus is undergoing fundamental shifts.
Moscow.
The
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has changed the name of the zone
of operation of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh to the “Karabakh economic
region of the Republic of Azerbaijan,” russian media reports.
Representatives of Hamas and Iran are in Moscow Thursday for talks,
Russia's foreign ministry said.
About 385,000 people, including 80,000 volunteers, joined the Russian Armed
Forces within the incomplete 10 months of this year, Russian Security Council
Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said during the meeting on the staffing of
Armed Forces.
Russia
repatriated 34 children from camps in Syria housing suspects with links to the
Islamic State (ISIS), a Kremlin official announced on Sunday, adding that
Moscow is set to repatriate an additional 150 children from the camps.
Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed on Tuesday the volume of Russian
investments in Iraq, stating that it amounts to $19 billion, with over 50
Russian companies operating in Iraq.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in and around
Nagorno-Karabakh with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in phone conversations, the Kremlin press
service said.
Moscow.
Aircrafts and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the US-led international
coalition in Syria created dangerous situations in the country’s airspace nine
times over the past 24 hours, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation
of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry)
said on Tuesday.
At a
briefing on September 27, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova
said that Washington and Brussels are putting pressure on Armenia to make its
leadership decide to withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO).
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On Tuesday,
the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa
Haftar arrived in Russia, with Deputy Defence Minister, Yunus-bek Yevkurov
leading the welcoming committee.
The Russian
Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation has urged Bulgaria not to
give S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine, in order not to violate
international law, TASS reported.
A court in the UK on September 26 formally charged five Bulgarian citizens
with espionage. Orlin Rusev, Biser Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova
and Ivan Stoyanov did not appear in court in person.
Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a strike on the headquarters of
Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula.
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