MOSCOW, Russia - Russian-installed authorities in southern Ukraine on Friday reported more casualties from the flood triggered by the destruction of a key dam, and said the water could keep rising for more than a week. "Unfortunately, there are casualties... Their number has grown to eight...
Russia believes there are many areas in which it can cooperate with the Philippines as it sees the latter as one of its “significant partners” on the Russia Day. Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Marat Pavlov said Moscow and Manila “have achieved a lot,” but the potential of the two...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said Tuesday dozens of its soldiers were killed when repelling a long-awaited Ukrainian offensive, a rare admission of losses among Moscow's forces. "For three days, the Ukrainian regime has launched a long-promised offensive in different sectors of the front," Russia's...
Russia on Friday celebrated the 47th year of Russia-Philippines diplomatic relations, saying lawmakers, ministries and agencies of both countries "have been effective in working together." In a statement posted on Telegram, the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs congratulated its colleagues and...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to parliament that would ban legal or surgical sex changes, as Moscow sharpens its conservative turn during the Ukraine offensive. Russia has for years been an inhospitable environment for anyone whose views differ from the hard-line...
MOSCOU, Russia - Russia on Wednesday claimed it had destroyed the last major warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, which it said was stationed in the southern port of Odesa. "On May 29, a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship anchorage site in the port of Odesa destroyed the...
MOSCOU, Russia - Russia said it would evacuate hundreds of children from villages due to intensifying shelling in the border region of Belgorod, where the situation was deemed "alarming" by the Kremlin. Russia has seen intensifying attacks on its soil over a year into its Ukraine campaign, with an...
KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile on Friday morning struck a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing one and injuring 23 including two children, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of smoke billowing from roofless buildings with blown-out...
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Khrenin shake hands after signing an agreement on the deployment of Russia's nuclear-capable weapons in Belarus, in Minsk on May 25, 2023. (Vadim Savitsky / Russian Defence Ministry / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- Belarusian...
Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) MOSCOW, Russia -- When Turks head to the polls on Sunday to decide a historic presidential election, the Kremlin will be hoping they give long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan a convincing victory, observers say. The winner will...
BEIJING, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Beijing's support on Moscow's "core interests" at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Wednesday. China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic and diplomatic cooperation, growing even closer since Moscow's...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang shake hands before their talks in Beijing on May 24, 2023. (Alexander Astafyev / SPUTNIK / AFP) BEIJING, China -- Russia's prime minister hailed "unprecedented" relations with China despite "sensational pressure" from the West on...
