Vladimir Putin

Two private satellites will be put into orbit overnight by a Russian Soyuz missile, the Iranian embassy in Russia said, as part of strengthening the alliance between Moscow and Tehran.

If Donald Trump is re-elected president on Tuesday it will likely affect the United States' commitment to NATO and its European allies, prominent Greek-American journalist and political commentator George Stephanopoulos told Kathimerini ahead of the November 5 election.

North Korea has declared its unwavering support for Russia in the Ukraine conflict, with Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui stating in Moscow that North Korea would remain committed to Russia until it achieves victory.

North Korean flag flies over its embassy in Moscow on Oct. 31, 2024.

North Korea will stand by Russia until its "victory" in Ukraine, Pyongyang's foreign minister said in Moscow amid growing fears that the reclusive country will enter the Ukraine conflict.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday that around 10,000 North Korean troops are currently stationed in Russia, with approximately 8,000 positioned in the Kursk region. While these forces have not yet been involved in combat against Ukraine, Blinken expects their deployment to occur within days.

MOSCOW - Russian FM Sergey Lavrov met with Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin on the sidelines of the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The next US president needs to forge a truce in Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Bloomberg in an interview.

Russian opposition leaders Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, along with Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of imprisoned politician Alexei Navalny, are set to organize an anti-war rally in Berlin on November 17. The demonstration comes in the wake of their recent release during a significant prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.

Kiev has announced a fresh mobilization drive as Moscow seized the mining hub of Selydove and the U.S. said some North Korean troops were in Russia's Kursk region, warning that thousands more were on their way.

Nine people, including an 11-year-old girl, were injured last night in a Russian drone attack on Kyiv. Debris from a destroyed drone ignited a fire in a multi-story residential building in the western part of the city, Kyiv's mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, announced on Telegram.