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Russia is looking into a solution for a problem that has become hard for India to ignore: how to keep oil and other strategic goods moving when sanctions, war and maritime chokepoints threaten the world’s busiest energy routes. Moscow’s proposal for a direct rail link to India through Central and South Asia remains exploratory, but analysts say it points to a wider scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond the reach of the Strait of Hormuz, the Bosphorus and Western pressure. The...

The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months over its war in Ukraine, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, told a ‌German newspaper. “EU sanctions have already cost Russia dearly, depriving Russia’s war machine of over €1 trillion (US$1.16 trillion) and for autumn I am putting forward the most far-reaching sanctions listings since the start of the war,” she told Die Welt. “Once adopted, they would immediately raise the total number of...

Russia seeks foreign technology and management expertise, not investment in basic assembly, Kremlin adviser Anton Kobyakov has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Six civilians have been killed and four injured in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod Region, according to local officials Read Full Article at RT.com

Opposition to the imprisonment of Bogdan Syrotiuk continued to build over the weekend, six days after a Ukrainian court gave the 27-year-old socialist 15 years in prison for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.

A Ukrainian ‘Hornet’ drone has killed two civilians traveling by car in Russia’s Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo has reported Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine’s largest steel plant has partially suspended production after a Russian missile strike damaged key facilities Read Full Article at RT.com

In 2022, Ukraine asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to activate Starlink coverage around Sevastopol to support an attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. He refused, saying SpaceX would become “explicitly complicit in a major act of war”; he later also cited US sanctions covering Crimea. At the moment that mattered, one private actor had the final say. It exposed a question hidden inside every chokepoint. We usually ask where dependence is concentrated: a strait, mineral, technology, network. But three...

Middle East turmoil gives Russia cover on its southern flank Read Full Article at RT.com

The solar eclipse visible across much of Europe and northwestern Russia was captured from orbit by the Arktika-M satellite Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia‘s Islam Makhachev has defeated Ireland’s Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330, extending his record-breaking winning streak to 17 fights Read Full Article at RT.com

The Pentagon is considering next-generation mobile air defense radars modeled on Russia’s S-300 and S-400, according to Military Watch Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia carried out a wave of air strikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant, and Kyiv launched a heavy drone attack on the Moscow region that killed one person and set ablaze a warehouse ‌used by Russia’s leading e-commerce retailer. Romania, which borders Ukraine, said an F-18 fighter on a Nato air policing mission had shot down a drone that breached its airspace during the latest attacks. It did not specify the origin of the drone, which entered from Moldova, but a...

Ukrainian drone attack killed one civilian and left six more injured in the Moscow region, regional governor Andrey Vorobyev has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Artem Murdid, his mother and his girlfriend are accused of terrorism. They say they did nothing wrong.

Russia warns the US and Turkey against opening the "Pandora’s box" by selling arms to Ukraine.

Moscow has warned that the planned transfer of US-made weapons from Türkiye to Ukraine would undermine trust with Washington and Ankara Read Full Article at RT.com

The US push to promote “burden sharing” among its allies in the Indo-Pacific has seen it focusing on increasing its military capacity while lowering the political temperature in an effort to reassure its allies. But some analysts have questioned its chances of succeeding, arguing that this deterrence strategy has intensified great power rivalry and polarisation in the region, while driving deeper bilateral cooperation between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the...

Russian swimmer Evgeniia Chikunova has claimed gold in the 200m breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris Read Full Article at RT.com

An industrial facility in Russia’s Samara Region were attacked by Ukrainian missiles, local governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia is confounding expectations that its influence in the Middle East would drastically decline after the downfall of Syria’s Assad regime in 2024. At the time, Moscow operated about 100 military facilities in the war-torn country, following its intervention in the Syrian civil conflict from 2015 to prop up then president Bashar al-Assad in alliance with Iran and its regional proxies. When Assad was forced to flee to Moscow, and control of most of Syria was seized by Islamist rebels led by...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung proposed talks with North Korea to formally end the long-running Korean war, as Pyongyang deepens ties with Russia while asserting its status as an “irreversible” nuclear state. The two Koreas remain technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict, triggered by a North Korean attack, ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty. Lee made the proposal in his speech at a ceremony marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910–45...

French, German and British diplomats are working on a format for future negotiations — even if Russia has shown little interest.

“Bogdan Syrotiuk has not committed any crime. He has been made a criminal because of his opposition to both the war of the Putin regime against Ukraine and the US-led proxy war against Russia.”

RT looks at the stories that shaped the week, including Russia’s harsh measures against Ukraine and the rise of Islamic NATO Read Full Article at RT.com

Kiev serves the interests of NATO countries “fighting a proxy war against Russia,” US journalist John Varoli has told RT Read Full Article at RT.com

Food, oil, military know-how and education links keep Moscow useful to Damascus even as it courts the West, Türkiye, and the Gulf Read Full Article at RT.com

The US ambassador said Washington was "unwavering" in recognising Japanese sovereignty, after Putin's visit to the four islands occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 prompted Japan to summon Moscow's ambassador and consider tightening sanctions against Russia.

Long before Ukraine, Britain backed anti-Russian forces in the Caucasus with weapons, agents, and propaganda. This is how the campaign ended Read Full Article at RT.com

At least one person was killed and 17 injured in a Russian airstrike on Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine overnight, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

Georgy Pirogov was sentenced to 23 years in a high-security colony for allegedly passing classified information to Polish intelligence. The verdict was announced the day after Poland said it had detained a Russian national suspected of planning a killing in Warsaw on the Kremlin's orders.

Vladimir Putin’s unprecedented visit to the disputed southern Kuril Islands is among a broader joint push by Beijing and Moscow to pressure Japan over a range of grievances, including sanctions on Russia and the Taiwan issue, experts say. The Russian president’s symbolic visit on Thursday to the far east volcanic archipelago north of Japan’s Hokkaido – which Japan calls the Northern Territories – was days ahead of the anniversary on Saturday of Japan’s surrender in World War II. It is Putin’s...

A blaze erupted at the Russian port of Ust-Luga after a Ukrainian drone strike, Leningrad Region Aleksandr Drozdenko has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Western governments of using the term ‘shadow fleet’ to disguise “piracy” Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Ukrainian “terrorist” tactics will only trigger tougher retaliation from Moscow Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported fresh strikes on the Ukrainian Danube port of Izmail and its rail infrastructure Read Full Article at RT.com

Oil residues from a struck bulk carrier reached Iran's Qeshm Island and its protected mangrove forests, while a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker grounded off Oman has leaked a slick that has grown to more than 2,000 square kilometres, fouling 40 kilometres of Omani coastline.

A drone entered Latvian airspace and was shot down by Italian Eurofighter jets, the military said on Friday. An air alert was lifted after the drone was intercepted, Latvia’s military said on social media, after authorities had urged people across the Baltic state to avoid going outside and seek shelter. The military did not initially identify the drone’s origin, but said a foreign drone had entered Latvian airspace as a result of Russia’s electronic warfare activity over the Balvi region. This...

Arkhangelsk is discussing NSR opportunities with India, including building ships and using its ports for trade, its governor said Read Full Article at RT.com

In Moldova, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.

The escalating war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia increasingly targets economic infrastructure in the Black Sea region, a critical area for global food supplies.

Vladimir Putin has condemned the EU’s seizure of Russian commercial vessels as “piracy and robbery,” warning that Moscow will retaliate.

Leica has removed Russian photographer Valery Melnikov’s Mariupol series from its Oskar Barnack Award shortlist over his RIA Novosti work Read Full Article at RT.com

The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have long relied on private-sector hackers to help with national security missions.

Two Russian athletes won medals on the first day of the European Gymnastics Championship in Croatia Read Full Article at RT.com

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has cast doubt on a controversial Russian-led expansion of Hungary’s only nuclear power plant after record-low levels of the Danube River nearly forced its existing reactors into a complete shutdown. The post Danube Nuclear Crisis Deepens As Hungary Questions Russian Expansion (Worthy News In-Depth) appeared first on Worthy Christian News.

The Ukrainian leader’s latest request to Washington falls apart when measured against Moscow’s current rate of ballistic attacks Read Full Article at RT.com

Watch RT’s documentary on Fidel Castro’s life, his confrontation with the US, ties with Moscow, and enduring revolutionary legacy Read Full Article at RT.com

Poland has ⁠arrested a ⁠Russian man who was ⁠hired by Moscow to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. The Russian was detained on August ‌7 and had been recruited to kill a man who was “inconvenient to the Putin regime”, Tusk told journalists. The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Moscow has regularly ⁠dismissed accusations by European powers of attacks, saying the West ‌is stoking...

A Russian Shahed drone struck a passenger train in Ukraine’s Odesa region on 13 August 2026, killing the driver and his assistant and forcing the evacuation of 340 passengers, including 67 children, in the Berezivka district.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin observed naval exercises off Sakhalin Island on Thursday before travelling to the disputed Kuril Islands, prompting a strong protest from Japan.

Japan should give up its claims on the Kuril Islands as they will forever remain Russian land, former president Dmitry Medvedev has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan has been a public critic of Mr. Putin, who has denounced her country’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war.

The four contested islands, seized by Russia during World War II, have gained importance since the end of the conflict, providing strategic military bases to the Kremlin, coupled with their rich mineral deposits and fishing grounds.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says India and China among the countries discussing ways to work with Russia on the Northern Sea Route Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova has accused Ukraine of obstructing prisoner exchanges Read Full Article at RT.com

The beaches of Ras Madrakah on mainland Oman, around 200 kilometres north of Qabiliyah Island, have also been contaminated, according to Oman's Environment Authority, which has been keeping an eye on the leak.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the far-eastern Kuril Islands for the first time on Thursday, prompting a “strong” protest by Japan which also claims the territory. Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by tensions over the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945. The Kremlin posted a video of Putin in the Kuril Islands, with Russian media saying he visited a fish-processing plant where he was given caviar. Putin...

The deadly strikes are part of a long-running maritime battle with Ukraine and echo battles over other key shipping routes around the world.

Three of Russia’s largest grain terminals in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk have halted operations after being damaged in a massive overnight drone attack by Ukraine. Grain shipments from Novorossiysk are currently impossible because of serious damage to terminal infrastructure, people familiar with the matter said. A loading gallery at United Grain’s Novorossiysk Grain Plant collapsed after the strikes and several silos were damaged, the people said, while a gallery and truck unloading...

The spill of Russian crude bound for India compounds the environmental damage from spills in and around the Strait of Hormuz, where tankers and oil facilities have come under attack.

President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russia’s president, whose fixation on security has reached new heights in recent years.

Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, plunging it into eerie darkness in one of nature’s greatest spectacles. The spectral glow of the sun’s outer corona, shimmering out of the edges of the shadowy moon, drew gasps and cheers from huge crowds, just 90 minutes after it first appeared in the remote Arctic region of northern Russia. “It’s a sight I never would have imagined seeing,” said Isabel Troyano, a...

From counterterrorism to trade corridors, Moscow and Islamabad are turning steady contact into a deeper, more durable relationship Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate to Western “piracy” and attacks on commercial shipping in kind Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Defense Ministry has shined the spotlight on a female drone pilot whose unit played a key role in a recent battle Read Full Article at RT.com

Long before the Soviet air force, Imperial Russia fought a brutal and largely forgotten war in the skies of WW1 Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia has issued the largest non-dollar stablecoin via its A7 cross-border payment system, PSB ban chairman Pyotr Fradkov has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Vladimir Zelensky’s long-range strikes provoked a fierce Russian retaliation, and an interceptor shortage has left Ukraine defenseless Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened retaliation for Western seizures of its commercial vessels, describing them as “piracy.” Speaking on a visit to a Russian warship that was taking part in a naval exercise in the Pacific, Putin described the Western moves to detain vessels linked to Russia as a breach of international maritime law. “It’s nothing but piracy and robbery,” Putin said. “If this is done, we will be forced to respond in kind.” He added that the Russian response...

Russia has outlined to BRICS foreign ministers in India how the group’s grain exchange, backed by President Vladimir Putin, will work Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia needs to set up own payment framework that will be domestic in origin, but international in function, the PSB bank chairman has said Read Full Article at RT.com

British military officials are reportedly facing pressure to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts to ease tensions Read Full Article at RT.com

A solar eclipse will be visible across much of Europe and northwestern Russia on Wednesday Read Full Article at RT.com

Romania is attempting to prove that drones falling on its territory are Russian by showing “pieces of foam plastic,” Moscow has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Cross-border payments are increasingly relying on sovereign financial infrastructure to avoid foreign pressure, PSB’s Pyotr Fradkov says Read Full Article at RT.com

Afghanistan’s Taliban government will guarantee the safety of a rail line from Russia to India, an economy ministry spokesman told RT India Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, as Kyiv accused Moscow of using North Korean ballistic missiles in its escalating air campaign. The post Russian Strikes Kill 12 In Ukraine As Kyiv Reports North Korean Missiles appeared first on Worthy Christian News.

Moscow is mulling tit-for-tat retaliation to Western seizures of trade ships with Russian cargo, President Vladimir Putin has warned Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Aerospace Force marks its 11th anniversary as a formidable multidomain force Read Full Article at RT.com

North Korea’s recent missile launch may be a test of upgraded exports to Russia, observers say, as the war in Ukraine gives Pyongyang opportunities to improve its weapons. At about 6am on Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) detected a missile launched from the North’s southeastern port city of Wonsan. It flew roughly 700km (435 miles) eastward before falling into the Sea of Japan. The JCS conspicuously did not specify the missile’s launch angle or whether it should be classified...

The UN also reported more than 95% of the Ukrainian prisoners of war and 85% of the civilian detainees are being tortured or ill-treated, often repeatedly.

A child has been killed and eight people wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Krasnodar Region Read Full Article at RT.com

The Kremlin released Robert Gilman, whose family and an advocacy group had said he was in dire physical condition, on “a humanitarian basis,” President Trump said.

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 10 people overnight and wounded dozens, Kyiv said on Tuesday, accusing Moscow of launching North Korean missiles in the raid. The allegation comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned – without providing evidence – that Moscow was receiving more ballistic projectiles and troops from its ally Pyongyang. Russia has turned to North Korea for support throughout its four-and-a-half-year invasion. Earlier in the war, Pyongyang dispatched...

Gilman was arrested and detained in Russia in 2022, accused of assaulting a police officer following an incident on a train in Voronezh, to the south of Moscow.

Around 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, urging an end to such “discrimination”. The Taliban administration, recognised solely by Russia, has imposed a series of restrictions on women that the United Nations has characterised as “gender apartheid”. Girls cannot study beyond primary school, a policy the Taliban authorities justify based on their interpretation of Islamic...

An unexpected turn is reshaping global security beyond the old rivalries as the FBI works with Russia and China Read Full Article at RT.com

The old transatlantic order is weakening, but Moscow cannot afford to wait for Western divisions to solve the Ukraine conflict Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow on ⁠Tuesday freed a former US marine jailed in Russia ⁠since 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon for the ailing American based on humanitarian reasons, US officials said. The White House and the State Department had urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he can receive medical treatment in the United States. Gilman was being held in a prison in Voronezh, about ‌340 miles (550km) south of Moscow. The exact circumstances of his health are unclear. But Eric...

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Russia killed at least nine people in Ukraine overnight on Tuesday, as missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk, according to regional authorities.

Syria and Russia have reached an agreement that will strip Moscow of exclusive control over two strategic military bases on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, marking a major shift in Russia’s Middle East military presence following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government. The post Syria Moves to Reclaim Key Mediterranean Bases as Russia’s Military Foothold Shrinks appeared first on Worthy Christian News.

The higher tempo of Ukrainian strikes has fueled discontent among Russians, but it is far from clear that it will change the Kremlin’s calculus about the war.

The Supreme Court ruling came just days after the Central Election Commission had unanimously approved the party's registration, prompting speculation that the initial approval was itself a Kremlin-orchestrated manoeuvre.

Ukraine's president has repeatedly sounded the alarm over deepening military ties between Moscow and Pyongyang, often while appealing for more Western air-defence supplies.

Russian-Israeli historian Artyom Kirpichenok has been missing since arriving in Israel, with colleagues saying he was detained by Shin Bet Read Full Article at RT.com

India is reviving production of Russian Su-30MKI fighter jets, with 12 new jets to be manufactured at HAL’s Nashik plant Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian strikes have hit military-related logistics in Kiev and a steel plant in Ukraine-controlled Zaporozhye, the Defense Ministry said Read Full Article at RT.com

The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.