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Kyiv, Ukraine – Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited Kiev on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky amid rising tensions in Transnistria, the pro-Russian separatist enclave of Ukraine’s neighboring Moldova. The region, which has a population of half a million, has seen cuts to heating, hot water and electricity since the beginning of the…
Four days after his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump has already launched his first measures linked to Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptoactives. Among them, the signing of an executive order to create a national reserve in digital assets and the possible custody of Bitcoin by banks. However, from the other side…
Authorities in Ukraine say Russia killed at least two civilians, injured several others and damaged commercial and residential buildings in a drone strike overnight Friday. The Interior Ministry said two victims were killed by drone debris in the central Kyiv area. It said the infrastructure damaged during the attack included a multi-storey residential building and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that if a ceasefire deal with Russia is reached, “at least 200,000 European peacekeepers” would be needed in Ukraine to defend the Eastern European country against a possible attack from Russia. Zelensky, speaking a day after Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency, said Europe should “take care of…
Ukrainian officials say at least four people were killed early Saturday in a nighttime Russian attack on the capital Kiev. Timur Tkachenko, head of the Ukrainian capital’s military administration, said on Telegram that the deaths occurred in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district. He said Holosiivskyi District, located on the west bank of the Dnipro River, which…
Moscow — Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and sign a strategic partnership treaty linking closer defense cooperation, in a move that is likely to alarm the West. On his first visit to the Kremlin since winning the presidency last July, Pezeshkian will hold…
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “blatant hypocrisy” for allowing prisoners to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti quoted Zakharova on January 12 as saying that the use of prisoners as firefighters is no different from China’s use of forced labor, which the US has…
Russia’s nearly three-year invasion of Ukraine has become a “war of attrition” and a “stalemate” that must end, Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, said on Wednesday in his Told senators at confirmation hearing. , Rubio broke with the passive stance of the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden, who…
Pro-Kremlin Russian media lost millions of readers and viewers in 2024, with the audience of some state propaganda outlets falling by up to a third. The main propaganda TV channel, Channel One, has lost a quarter of its viewers following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Experts who spoke to VOA Russian said this…
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart this week to sign a comprehensive partnership agreement between Moscow and Tehran, the Kremlin said on Monday. The Kremlin said a “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement between the countries would be signed during Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Moscow on Friday. It said the…
