Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend Russia’s annual Victory Day military parade next week as tensions with Pakistan escalate over a deadly attack in Kashmir, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

At least 20 foreign leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, have accepted President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to attend the May 9 Red S

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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a decree renaming Volgograd’s airport to Stalingrad International Airport in tribute to the city’s role in the bloodiest battle of World War II.

Volgograd, named Stalingrad in 1925 after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, was the site of the pivotal 1942-43 battle in which Soviet troops repelled the invading

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Russian drone strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others, regional officials said Wednesday.

"The enemy launched a large-scale Shahed drone attack on the city," Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Serhiy Lysak said. "A 53-year-old man was killed, my condolences to his family

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday once again claimed that Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants peace in Ukraine, just days after suggesting the opposite.

In an interview with ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, Trump was asked about a recent post on Truth Social in which he cast doubt on the Kremlin leader’s intentions about ending the war.

“There was

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Russian retail giant Magnit has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in the premium supermarket chain Azbuka Vkusa in a deal worth an estimated 35-40 billion rubles ($428-490 million), the RBC news outlet reported Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the talks.

Founded in 1998, Magnit is Russia’s second-largest retailer, operating nearly 3

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio alerted Tuesday that the United States will end mediation unless Russia and Ukraine make concrete propositions on ending the war, his spokeswoman said. We are now at a time where concrete proposals require to be provided by the two parties on how to end this conflict, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce informed

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