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Russia has built up a certain immunity to Western sanctions and adapted to them, the Kremlin said on Friday, after the European Union agreed an 18th package of sanctions against Moscow, including measures aimed at its oil industry.
Last year, the Kremlin proudly showed off upgraded armoured vehicles, drone systems and precision-guided weapons.
Dmitry Medvedev, the chairman of Russia’s Security Council, called on Moscow to be ready to strike the West if it escalates the war in Ukraine — just days after President Trump vowed to ramp
The Kremlin said on Monday that the big picture of U.S. President Donald Trump remarks about supplying Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine was that U.S. arms and ammunition deliveries to Kyiv have continued and are still continuing.
The Kremlin would like the US to pressure Kyiv to hold a new round of negotiations with Moscow. Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency Interfax, citing Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's press secretary Details: Peskov was asked whether it would be possible to agree with partners to put pressure on Kyiv so that "the Ukrainian side would return to the negotiating table".
The situation in Syria aggravated on July 13 when clashes between Arab tribal militias and Druze self-defense groups broke out in the heavily Druze-populated Sweida governorate. On July 15, the Syrian army entered the governorate’s administrative center,
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Kremlin calls transportation minister’s death ‘tragic’ but gives no clues about his apparent suicideOn July 1, former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was convicted on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and sentenced to 13 years in prison in a high-profile case that exposed rampant military corruption widely blamed for Moscow’s military setbacks in Ukraine.
The death of a Russian Cabinet minister in a field near his posh home in a Moscow suburb has fueled wild speculation about how he died and what it means.
Russia’s State Duma adopted the second reading of controversial legislation that would make it illegal to search for or access “extremist materials” on the Internet, but public concerns may delay passage of the third and final reading.