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 Saying that the US should stop spending billions of dollars on supporting Ukraine, the former US president said that he would end the war in “one day” if elected. Donald Trump on Saturday night said he must be elected US President again in 2024 if a Third World War was …

The collective West is the real source behind the crisis in Ukraine and its narrative blaming Russia for creating threats to international peace is hypocritical, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said. “International law was repeatedly floated and harmed, well before that, and not by Russia,” Nebenzia said …

–At least 15,000 people, including civilians, have gone missing in Ukraine since the war began in February, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Russia has confirmed that it has 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers in captivity, Alyona Verbitskaya, the Ukrainian military ombudswoman, told the Bloomberg news agency. Communication with Russian officials on …

 Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a phone call on Friday that the German and Western line on Ukraine was “destructive” and urged Berlin to rethink its approach, the Kremlin said. Its readout of the call served to highlight the gulf between Russia and Western governments …

 Eastern Europe’s arms industry is churning out rifles, artillery shells and other military supplies at a rate not seen since the Cold War, as governments in the region lead efforts to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia. The Allies had been supplying weapons and military equipment to Kyiv since …

 NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people did not appear to be an intentional attack, and that air defenses in neighboring Ukraine likely launched the Soviet-era projectile against a Russian bombardment that savaged its …

Iran has again dismissed Western accusations about Iran’s delivery of arms to Russia to be used against Ukraine, saying that the Islamic Republic is against any kind of war and favors ceasefire and peace. “Sending Iranian weapons to Russia for use in the Ukraine war is a baseless accusation that …

 Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernized U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the “nuclear threshold” and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning. The Ukraine war has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and the …

 Russia and Iran both rejected unfounded allegations that Tehran provided Moscow with a fleet of drones for use in the Ukraine conflict. Amir Saeed Iravani, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, spoke with reporters following a Security Council meeting behind closed doors on Wednesday. He categorically denied claims …

 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to the United Nations children agency. “Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine,” UNICEF said on Monday (17 …