Russia has said it will help China surpass the United States in nuclear energy capacity, which could change the global energy balance. According to Reuters, Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev told Russian state television that Russia is already supporting China’s nuclear development. China had 53.2 gigawatts of nuclear reactor capacity as of April 2024, while the…
By Andrés Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what appeared to be the start of a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the “spirit of Alaska” is still alive….
(Reuters) -Twenty-three Ukrainian children and teenagers have been taken from Russian-occupied areas of the country to territory under kyiv’s control, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Andriy Yermak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the rescue was carried out under the president’s “Bring Kids Back UA” program aimed at bringing to…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday proposed banning Chinese airlines from flying over Russia on flights to and from the United States, saying the practice puts U.S. airlines at a disadvantage. U.S. airlines have long criticized the decision to allow Chinese airlines to fly over Russia on some flights because…
(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were inflicting heavy losses in a counteroffensive in the eastern Donetsk region, the main theater of Ukraine’s more than three-and-a-half-year war. Zelenskiy’s account, based on a report from Ukraine’s top commander, contrasts with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s speech to senior Russian officials a day earlier,…
Moscow (Reuters) – Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow kept complete the strategic initiative on the battlefield. Putin, at a meeting with high Russian military commanders, said the Ukrainian forces were retiring…
Donetsk region, Ukraine (AP)-from a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks his comrade to fly an unmanned plane of recognition about his childhood home, waiting for a final look before he becomes another city pulverized by years of combat. The soldier took arms a decade ago to defend his native region, Donetsk, where…
Lvvv, Ukraine (Reuters), the Poland member, said he stirred early planes on Sunday to guarantee his air safety after Russia launched air attacks in Ukraine, and Ukrainian officials reported missiles and drones that rain in the Lviva region near the Polish border. “Polish and allied airplanes are operating in our airspace, while air defense systems…
By Ten Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer Ankara (Reuters): A series of Russian air space violations of the NATO last month has led some allies to remember the rapid and deadly response from Turkey a decade ago, when it knocked down a Russian combat plane that had crossed its southern border. The Lithuanian Defense Minister, Dovile…
Moscow (Reuters) -Russia still believes that a solution of two states is the only way to resolve the conflict in the Middle East, Kremlin said Monday, after some western countries asked him about a decision to recognize a Palestinian state. Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday in a movement…
