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Ukraine's Election Question Reaches the UN. Nobody Has Actually Asked for Help.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- A reporter from RIA Novosti asked Stephane Dujarric on Friday whether anyone in Ukraine had approached the United Nations for help organising an election. The secretary-gene... Read More


Russia Offers to Help the South Caucasus. Its Delegation Keeps Walking Out of the Talks.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 21 -- The offer was expansive in its wording and pointed in its timing. Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council on Thursday that Russia stands ready to keep working with anyone... Read More


Moscow Says Poland Regrets Arming Ukraine. Warsaw's Own Figures Tell a Longer Story.

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Maria Zakharova told her weekly briefing on Thursday that Poland appears to be beginning to regret sending Ukraine more than $4.5bn in weapons, and that Warsaw has received littl... Read More


Armenia Weighs a Full-Size Nuclear Plant to Feed Its AI Ambitions

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Asked on Thursday whether he ruled out building a conventional nuclear power plant, Nikol Pashinyan gave a two-word answer. He does not. What made the question worth asking is th... Read More


Belarus Says It Is Trading Flight Warnings With Three NATO Neighbours

MINSK, Aug. 17 -- In May, Andrei Lukyanovich described a difficult military-political situation around Belarus, driven by what he called the unprecedented militarisation of its neighbours, and told th... Read More


Fired Ukraine Defense Minister Fedorov Warns of Technological War With Russia in First US Interview

KYIV, Aug. 16 -- The missiles that struck a facility operated by Roscosmos in Samara early Saturday morning flew approximately 560 miles from Ukrainian territory. They were called Flamingo missiles. T... Read More


India Reaffirms Russia Ties as US Senate Targets Its Oil Purchases

NEW DELHI, Aug. 16 -- The phrase both governments reached for on Saturday was the same one they have used for years: a specially privileged strategic partnership. It has never had to carry as much wei... Read More


NATO Jet Downs Drone Over Romania as Russian Strikes Kill Woman in Kryvyi Rig

BUCHAREST, Aug. 16 -- A Spanish F-18 fighter jet on NATO air policing duty intercepted and shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace from the direction of Moldova on Sunday, Romania's Defence M... Read More


Kim Jong Un Pledges 'Excellent Future' With Russia as Seoul's Peace Offer Goes Unanswered

PYONGYANG, Aug. 16 -- On the same day that South Korea's president stood in Seoul and called on North Korea to open formal talks to end the Korean War, Kim Jong Un sent a message to Vladimir Putin ple... Read More


Ukraine Strikes Savasleyka Airbase and Roscosmos Plant in Samara With Flamingo Missiles

KYIV, Aug. 16 -- The MiG-31K fighters based at Savasleyka airfield, in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, carry one weapon Ukrainian air defenses cannot reliably stop: the Kinzhal, a hypersonic ballisti... Read More