Editor’s Note: The award-winning CNN Film “Navalny” airs on CNN this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. You can also watch now on CNNgo and HBO Max. CNN — Surviving President Vladimir Putin’s poisoners was just a warm-up, not a warning, for Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. But his defiance, according to his political team, has … Read more
Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile launching system. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AFP In what could possibly have an impact on Russian arms supplies to India as the war in Ukraine drags on, Western sanctions on Moscow are impacting payments to Russian defence companies as well as reducing their access to semiconductors, according to the … Read more
CNN — Russian troops have denounced an “incomprehensible battle” in Donetsk after apparently sustaining heavy losses during a week of intense fighting in the key eastern region of Ukraine. Moscow has been trying to break through Kyiv’s defenses around the town of Pavlivka for at least the past seven days, but it seems to have … Read more
Russia has been barred from participating in future projects of global terror financing and money laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Addressing a press conference in Paris, FATF chairperson T Raja Kumar said the move comes in the wake of Moscow‘s invasion of Ukraine. Kumar said Russia’s actions continued to violate FATF’s core principles, … Read more
Bakhmut, Ukraine CNN — In the ruins of an apartment block tarred with soot and clouded in dust amid constant shelling, a small group of Ukrainian soldiers are face to face with a new type of Russian enemy: mercenaries, some of whom may be convicts sent to the front line. The battle is as heated … Read more
Russia’s defence ministry said Wednesday its troops destroyed a depot of NATO-supplied arms in western Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies to speed up arms deliveries to his country. “Near the town of Zolochiv in Lviv region, high-precision long-range Kalibr missiles destroyed an ammunition depot of foreign weapons transferred to Ukraine by NATO … Read more
Officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Bank of Russia are set to meet this week to give the finishing touches to a bilateral payment system to ensure smooth trade flows between the two nations without violating global sanctions, people familiar with the matter told ET. Russia faces increasingly tighter sanctions after … Read more
The bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found lying in a single street Saturday after Ukrainian forces retook the town of Bucha near Kyiv from Russian troops, AFP journalists said. One of the bodies of the men had his hands tied, and the corpses were strewn over several hundred metres (yards) … Read more
Foreign ministers from Russia and China on Wednesday condemned what they called illegal and counter productive Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its action in Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, where … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Mar 14, 2022) The United States is urging China not to help Russia out in the Ukraine crisis amid growing apprehension in Washington over whether Beijing and New Delhi will bail out Moscow from a debacle the west is seeking to impose on it. US National Security Advisor Jake … Read more