European leaders headed to Asia this week with a key message: We need to work closer together to preserve the rules-based order against threats from China and Russia. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized the links between Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine and Russia’s deepening relationship with China…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In debates over Russia, the argument often comes down to a simple proposition: Having struggled for three years and seen his forces mauled in Ukraine, is it really plausible that President Vladimir Putin would take on the combined might of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? It’s time to put that question to bed.I…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Ukraine has been given permission to use weapons supplied by its allies to launch strikes deep inside Russia. “There are absolutely no range limits anymore for weapons delivered to Ukraine, not from Britain, the French or from us — also not from the Americans,” Merz said at a conference in…
President Donald Trump said he was “absolutely” considering new sanctions against Russia, after Moscow launched a second night of deadly missile and drone strikes across much of Ukraine. Trump’s comments, made to reporters in New Jersey on Sunday before he boarded Air Force One, came as he grows visibly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
BERLIN -Russia’s latest wave of attacks on Ukraine should be answered with additional Western sanctions, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. ” Putin is not interested in peace, he wants to continue this war, and we must not allow this, which is why the European Union will agree additional sanctions,”…
The US and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after President Donald Trump said Pope Leo XIV had expressed interest in the idea. The Kremlin isn’t so keen. Russian officials have no plans for President Vladimir Putin to travel to the Vatican or anywhere…
New Delhi: At a time when demand for oil across several large economies is slackening, India is turning into a driving force for global oil demand growth, backed by favourable demographics and economic acceleration, besides riding the global energy transition wave, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. Addressing the media on Wednesday, Pulkit Agarwal, head…
President Donald Trump thinks Russia will likely walk away from Ukraine peace talks if the US threatens more sanctions, according to his top diplomat, supporting the White House’s decision not to pressure Moscow despite its resistance to a ceasefire. “If you start threatening sanctions, the Russians will stop talking,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told…
European leaders are ready to wait until after a possible meeting between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Turkey before pushing the US to announce fresh sanctions on Moscow, people familiar with the matter said. Following conversations between US and European officials on Monday, it was clear the American side wanted to…
The government has received investment proposals worth ₹34,000 crore for the The Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPIDC), which has already seen investments of ₹4,000 crore. BrahMos, a long-range missile made as a collaboration between India and Russia, was a message of the strength of the Indian Armed Forces, a message of deterrence to adversaries,…
