"Russia has not been invited at this stage. Switzerland has always shown openness to extending an invitation to Russia for this Summit. However, Russia has said repeatedly and also publicly that it has no interest in participating in this first Summit," the governmentsaid on its website. "The...
"Russia's disregard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine is at odds with the FATF's foundational values of international cooperation and the rule of law," Yellen said in a statement. "Further, Russia's dealings with suppliers of last resort such as Iran and North Korea, i...
"Russia has been suffering from significant labour shortages in both its civilian and defence industrial sectors since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) thinktank said. Russia reportedly has an estimated labour shortage...
Others, however, are said to prefer reducing the billions of dollars in assistance the US gave to Ukraine in the Biden administration as a way of forcing a swift end to the conflict. Critics of that approach say it would disarm Ukraine and effectively prompt a capitulation to Russi...
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(UNSC), the world's largest nuclear powers pledged on January 3 to work together toward a world without nuclear weapons. "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," said the joint statement, issued simultaneously by the U.S., Russia, China, the UK and France. The five ...
Britain currently has over 30 sanctions regimes in place, including those against Russia, Iran, Daesh and Al Qaida. The government's response to a nine-week public consultation of the new powers is to create new powers to impose, implement and enforce sanctions regimes, drawing on the current...
The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder and owner of X has been critical of Ukraine's continued fight against Russia's invasion, expressing concern that failure to make a deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin could trigger a nuclear war. Ukrainian leaders have criticized h...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told Russia it cannot win the war as Kyiv counts more gains on the battlefield, both in the south and the east.
The battle for dominance in the Black Sea raged on this week between Ukraine and Russia, as elsewhere each side’s forces continued the bitter fight for control in Ukraine’s east with winter looming. Ukraine claimed it hit small Russian naval vessels with sea drones, demonstrating its determi...