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Putin Calls Trump on His 80th Birthday - Then Tells Zelensky to Come to Moscow

New Delhi, June 14 -- MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to dial the White House on Sunday, reaching Donald Trump before any head of state in Europe or Asia managed to extend a birth... Read More


Lavrov Arrives in Minsk as Russia Frames Nuclear Weapons in Belarus as NATO Deterrent

New Delhi, June 14 -- a working visit, a full bilateral agenda, a wreath to be laid at the Victory Monument. What was not routine was what Moscow had said about Belarus the day before. On June 13, Ru... Read More


Russia Presses Pokrovsk Front as Moscow Reports Fresh Gains in Donetsk

MOSCOW, June 14 -- The Russian Defense Ministry says its soldiers are tightening their grip on the approaches to Pokrovsk, the battered logistics town in the Donetsk region that both armies have treat... Read More


Russia Returns 1,212 Ukrainian War Dead as the Front Stays Frozen

MOSCOW, June 14 -- The trucks crossed the line that almost nothing else does. While the front in eastern Ukraine stayed locked in its grinding stalemate, Russia handed back the remains of 1,212 Ukrain... Read More


Russia's Nuclear Weapons in Belarus Now Serve as Formal Deterrent Against NATO, Ukraine, Moscow Declares

New Delhi, June 14 -- at what point does declaratory deterrence become something harder to walk back? "The Joint Regional Group of Forces, advanced Russian defensive systems and tactical nuclear weap... Read More


Russia Quietly Pushes Back Against France Over Threat to Its Diplomatic Holdings

New Delhi, June 14 -- he is trying to stop France from quietly rewriting the rules of what Russia is permitted to own on French soil. Oransky told RIA Novosti on Sunday that Russia is pursuing "syste... Read More


US Blocks Russian Cultural Center Head From Traveling Beyond Washington, Director Says

New Delhi, June 14 -- WASHINGTON - The State Department blocked Olga Golovashchenko, head of the Russian Cultural Center in Washington, from traveling to Austin, Texas, in April for a conference of Ru... Read More


Swiss Banks Are Quietly Writing Their Own Sanctions Rules - and Russians Are Paying for It

New Delhi, June 14 -- BERN - The parcel is the easiest way to understand what is happening. A family trying to send children's toys from Zurich to a relative in Moscow has no guarantee the package wil... Read More


Ukraine Runs Critically Short of Patriot Interceptors as Lockheed Martin Admits It Cannot Guarantee Missile Deliveries

New Delhi, June 14 -- KYIV - On the night of the worst barrage Kyiv had seen in two months, Ukrainian air force crews redistributed the city's remaining Patriot interceptors between battery positions ... Read More


G20 Nations Are Quietly Lobbying Washington to Abandon Russia Sanctions, Moscow Says

New Delhi, June 14 -- the sanctions you have placed on Russia are hurting us, too. That private lobbying campaign was confirmed publicly on Sunday by Marat Berdyev, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Amb... Read More