Iran’s plans to supply Russia with weapons including drones and ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine are “unacceptable”, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. Kyiv and its Western allies accuse Iran of supplying drones to Russia. “We see Iran offering drones and considering ballistic missile deliveries ...
Russia and Ukraine on Thursday announced they had exchanged 107 servicemen each in the latest prisoner swap. “Today we are returning 107 of our fighters from Ukrainian dungeons,” pro-Moscow leader Denis Pushilin said on Telegram, adding that 65 of those were from eastern Ukraine’s separatist territories. “We will give ...
MOSCOW — With Russia’s domestic car industry smarting from the impact of Western sanctions, sales of used cars are leading a relative resurgence, with Japan accounting for more than three quarters of those imported, according to data shared with Reuters. Sales of new cars produced in Russia have slumped ...
The United States said Wednesday that North Korea is sending a significant amount of artillery ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine, under cover of shipments to the Middle East or Africa. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said US officials did not know whether Russia has ...
The White House said Wednesday it was increasingly concerned over Moscow’s talk of using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, after a media report said top Russian military officials had discussed how and when to use such a weapon. “We have grown increasingly concerned about the potential as these months ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is battling both pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s disease, according to a new report citing leaked Kremlin emails. A Russian intelligence source appeared to confirm in messages viewed by The Sun what has long been rumored about the 70-year-old strongman. “I can confirm he has been diagnosed ...
The country has been threatening to act against U.S. commercial satellites looking at Ukraine, which Russia invaded in February.
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The White House said Tuesday Iran was willingly taking part in killing Ukrainians by providing drones to Russia for the war, and voiced concern it would also ship missiles to Moscow. By arming the Russians, the Iranian regime “is involved in killing innocent Ukrainians,” White House national security spokesman ...
Water and electricity supplies have been restored in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, a day after being knocked out by Russian missile strikes, the city’s mayor said on Tuesday. “Water supplies to the homes of Kyiv residents have been fully restored…. Electricity supplies in Kyiv have also been restored” Vitali ...
The United States will respond in an “appropriate” way to any Russian attack against US commercial satellites, the White House said Thursday after a Russian official suggested they could become legitimate targets in space. “Any attack on US infrastructure will be met with an appropriate response in an appropriate ...
Rexit: VW and Kia look likely to be the latest car-makers to withdraw from Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.
Yum! Brands announced its plans to exit the Russian market in March. Vlad Karko/Getty Images Yum! Brands said it had reached a deal to sell its 1,000 KFC stores in Russia. The new owners are Russian businesspeople who already hold KFC franchises. All KFC stores in Russia will rebrand ...
The Russian navy on Saturday thwarted a drone attack on the Sevastopol port, home to Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet in Russia-annexed Crimea, Moscow-installed authorities said. “Today, starting at 04:30 am for several hours, various air defence systems in Sevastopol repelled drone attacks,” Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram. ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely not survive in office if he loses the war in Ukraine, the embattled nation’s head of military intelligence claimed this week. “It’s unlikely that he survives it,” said Ukrainian Major General Kyrylo Budanov, who heads up the country’s Defense Intelligence directorate, in an interview ...
Nokian’s tire plant in Vsevolozhsk, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP) HELSINKI — Nokian Tires has signed an agreement to sell its Russian operations to Russian oil producer Tatneft PJSC for 400 million euros ($398.7 million), the Finnish company said on Friday. At the end of June, Nokian Tires said ...
The automaker halted operations in the country back in March.
A potentially dangerous back-and-forth has begun.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the “acute threat” posed by Moscow, but China is the most consequential challenge for the United States, the Pentagon said Thursday. The dangers are both conventional — Moscow’s aggression toward its neighbors and Beijing’s efforts to gain control of Taiwan — and nuclear, with ...
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the war in Ukraine was part of Russia’s wider struggle against Western domination, and warned that the world is probably entering the “most dangerous” decade since the end of World War II. The Russian leader showed no sign of backpedalling on the eight-month-old ...
The Russian parliament on Thursday passed a law allowing ex-convicts to be mobilised into the army and other measures to prop up Moscow’s troops in Ukraine. Last month President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of reservists in the country to boost his Ukraine military campaign. ...
Mercedes-Benz has become the latest carmaker to exit the Russian market following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The firm stopped building cars in Russia in March 2022, and it announced plans to sell its remaining Russian assets to a local investor. Russian dealer chain Avtodom will purchase ...
Russia’s strategic forces carried out drills Wednesday, including a test launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, further stoking concerns that a nuclear weapon could be deployed in the Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin surveyed the drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow persisted in ...
Ford Motor Company has finalized the exit of its previously suspended operations in Russia through the sale of its 49 percent share in the Sollers Ford Joint Venture
Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported to have shared with Vladimir Putin his misgivings about the war in Ukraine, according to The Washington Post. Before amassing his wealth, Prigozhin served several years in a Russian penal colony. He earned the nickname of ‘Putin’s chef.’ He also heads other companies and financed ...
It's selling the assets to a local auto dealer chain.
Russia’s warning that Ukraine was readying to use a “dirty bomb” fits Moscow’s track record of deception, when it “accuses others for what they intend to do themselves,” NATO’s chief told AFP in an interview on Tuesday. “Russia continues to accuse falsely Ukraine for preparing and making a dirty ...
The United States said Tuesday that Russia has informed it of routine nuclear exercises, reducing the risk of miscalculation amid mounting fears Moscow may go nuclear in the Ukraine war. The State Department said that Russia complied with agreements to inform the United States of tests of intercontinental ballistic ...
Rexit: VW and Kia look likely to be the latest car-makers to withdraw from Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.
A cargo ship attached to the station performed a five-minute engine burn on Monday night (Oct. 24) to get the ISS out of harm's way.
Liftoff is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. ET.
The threat posed by authoritarian regimes is a “wake-up call for democrats worldwide”, Taiwan’s leader said Tuesday, as she opened a meeting of global activists that included fugitive Hong Kong dissident Nathan Law. About 200 political and civic leaders from 70 countries, including Iran, Russia and Ukraine, were attending ...
Saturday's (Oct. 22) liftoff carried three Gonets-M communications spacecraft and a satellite-internet demonstrator.
The Justice Department on Monday will unveil “significant national security cases” regarding “malign influence schemes and alleged criminal activity by a nation-state actor” in the United States, according to a statement by the department. Attorney General Merrick Garland was scheduled to hold a press conference announcing more details at 1:30 ...
The Progress 80 freighter left the space station Sunday evening (Oct. 23) and burned up in our atmosphere shortly thereafter.
Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday held rare calls with NATO counterparts in which they discussed Ukraine, the Russian defence ministry said. “The situation in Ukraine, which has a steady tendency towards further, uncontrolled escalation, was discussed,” by Shoigu and French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu, the ministry said. ...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday dismissed claims Kyiv was preparing to us a “dirty bomb”, as suggested by Russia’s defence minister during telephone calls with NATO counterparts. “If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this,” ...
Teenager starring in Germany Expected to grace 2022 World Cup Big-money bids being speculated on WHAT HAPPENED? Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and Real Madrid are all said to be monitoring the 19-year-old’s development in Germany, with big-money bids being readied for future transfer windows. Dortmund, though, have no intention ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned Saturday that Russia using nuclear weapons would be seen as an “act of hostility against humanity”, describing President Vladimir Putin’s sabre rattling as “deeply disturbing”. “Russia’s act of threatening the use of nuclear weapons is a serious threat to the peace and security ...
Russia’s defence minister held rare telephone talks with his US counterpart Friday, after pro-Kremlin officials said they were turning Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson into a “fortress” as Kyiv’s forces advance. Few details emerged of the conversation between Russia’s Sergei Shoigu and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, but both ...
A Russian company offers people the chance to participate in their own funeral and experience being buried alive. Getty Images/iStockphoto You can attend your own funeral, for a price. A Russian company is offering customers the chance to participate in their own funeral and experience being buried alive for 3.5 million ...
NYU Economics professor Nouriel Roubini foresees a hellish future for New York City, where he now lives — predicting a nuclear attack from Russia followed by a superstorm that will put New York City underwater within the next two decades. Emmy Park for NY Post Nouriel Roubini is seriously ...
It's unclear what the spacecraft will be doing in orbit.
Iranian personnel have been on the ground in Russian-occupied Crimea helping Moscow’s forces conduct attacks on Ukraine with Iran-made drones, the White House said Thursday. “We assess that Iranian military personnel were on the ground in Crimea and assisted Russia in these operations,” White House national security spokesman John ...
Iran’s top diplomat denied Thursday that Tehran planned to send missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war, an allegation made in several media reports. The denial comes as the Czech republic, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, announced that the bloc had agreed sanctions against three ...
On October 14, Maksim Timchenko, the CEO of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power generator, updated Economichna Pravda on the status of Ukraine’s electrical grid in the face of Russian strikes against the country’s power installations. He also talked about what the company’s future plans are for implementing renewables, despite ...
The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe.
As Ukrainian soldiers regain ground in Ukraine, they are capturing military vehicles and weapons abandoned by fleeing Russians, turning some against the invading army, analysts say. Russia and its neighbour mostly use similar Soviet-era equipment, so Ukrainians often do not need major training to use any left behind. Russia ...
A British author reveals that he put together a “nuclear survival kit” as tensions between Russia and the rest of the world escalates. Corbis via Getty Images A British author revealed he jokingly assembled a very cheap and useful nuclear war survival kit with several key items. Taras Young ...
Congrats Russian Hill, You’re Getting Your Very Own Bi-Rite The first Bi-Rite Market opened in 1940 on 18th Street in the Mission, long before the neighborhood became the hotbed of restaurants and bars it is now. In the decades since, the market has become an insanely popular mini-chain known ...
US F-16 warplanes intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace near the state of Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Tuesday. The Tu-95 bombers were intercepted the previous day after “entering and operating within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone,” NORAD said in a statement. The ...
The Russian military said Tuesday that the situation for its troops on the ground in Ukraine was “tense” in the face of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, after several major setbacks in the east and south. “The situation in the area of the special military operation can be described as tense. ...
Russia will likely need two to four years to rebuild its military to the strength before the Ukraine war, Estonia’s defense minister said Tuesday, urging continued pressure to keep Moscow in check. On a visit to Washington, Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur predicted a long war and urged the West ...
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev just landed from a six-month International Space Station stay last month.
Ukraine announced Monday it had swapped more than 100 prisoners with Russia in what it said was the first all-female exchange with Moscow after nearly eight months of war. “Another large-scale exchange of prisoners of war was carried out today … we freed 108 women from captivity. It was ...
Russia on Monday stepped up attacks across Ukraine, cutting electricity in towns and killing eight people, including in kamikaze drone strikes in the capital Kyiv, as a Russian warplane crashed near the Ukraine border. The Russian military plane crashed into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwestern ...
The use by Russia of Iranian drones in its war against Ukraine makes clear the weaknesses of its domestic industry and Tehran’s growing claim on the market for unmanned aircraft, experts say. Washington believes Iran has delivered hundreds of drones, which Ukrainian officials say are now being used in ...
NATO on Monday launched its regular nuclear deterrence drills in western Europe, after tensions soared with Russia over President Vladimir Putin’s veiled threats in the face of setbacks in Ukraine. The 30-nation alliance has stressed that the “routine, recurring training activity” — which runs until October 30 — was ...
NISSAN’s Executive Committee has approved the sale of its Russian operations to state-owned NAMI – the Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute – for one Euro ($A1.60). The move, a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and zero activity since March, will see the transfer of all Nissan Manufacturing ...
It was Russia's third orbital launch in less than a week.
The first Russian soldiers to take part in a new joint force with Belarusian troops have arrived in Belarus, Minsk’s defence ministry said on Saturday. “The first convoys of Russian servicemen from the regional force group have arrived in Belarus,” the ministry said, adding that their mission was “exclusively ...
Russian muppets Businka and Kubik pose with child actress Katya Mikhailovskaya. Courtesy of Tatiana Mikhailovska When the Russian version of “Sesame Street” (“Ulitsa Sezam”) first aired in Russia in October 1996, there was a premiere event at a Moscow theater. The star muppet came out — Zeliboba, an 8ft ...
Lil Baby Brings ‘Russian Roulette’ to ‘Fallon’ With a Message: ‘Don’t Compare Me to No Other Rapper’ Lil Baby wants you to know that he’s one of a kind. During his latest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the rapper debuted “Russian Roulette,” the closing track from ...
Russia agreed Thursday to help residents leave a region it “annexed” in a sign of success for Ukraine’s counter-offensive, as the EU warned Moscow’s army would be “annihilated” if the Kremlin uses nuclear weapons. Moscow’s decision to assist people in leaving Kherson came a day after Kyiv said it ...
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Moscow on Thursday its forces would be “annihilated” by the West’s military response if President Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine. “Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the ...
Marge Simpson is that you? A Siberian lawmaker has turned heads online because of her towering hairdo that shockingly resembles “The Simpsons” matriarch. Valentina Petrenko, a former senator for the Republic of Khakassia went viral on Twitter after pictures popped up again of her highly unorthodox hairstyle — one ...
Russia bluntly warned Thursday that further meddling by Western powers in Ukraine would spark World War III — this time a nuclear one that “will be catastrophic for all mankind.” A top Kremlin official specifically threatened worldwide carnage if NATO approves Ukraine’s bid to join its alliance. “Kyiv is well ...
Russian analyst Igor Danchenko walks to the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse for his trial. Getty Images/Drew Angerer Igor Danchenko is on trial, but so is the FBI. That is the theme of Russiagate special counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Danchenko, heading into its third day of trial in ...
The Russian-built Angosat-2 is a replacement for a satellite that failed shortly after liftoff in 2017.
Russia launched a new Angolan communications satellite on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Roscosmos agency said, after Luanda’s first satellite was lost in space. A Proton-M rocket blasted off at 1500 GMT and Angosat-2 was “being put into orbit”, the agency said. Angosat-1 was also deployed ...
Local operations to be sold to NAMI
Nissan's Russian plant, research facility, and sales department have all been formally sold to a state-owned entity.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd will hand over its business in Russia to a state-owned entity for 1 euro ($0.97), it said on Tuesday, taking a loss of around $687 million in the latest costly exit from the country by a global company. jQuery(function(){ if (typeof jwplayer_load == typeof indefined) ...
Toyota and Nissan close down Russian operations as the war in Ukraine rages on and international sanctions make parts supplies hard to come by.
The fifth GLONASS-K spacecraft lifted off late Sunday night (Oct. 9).
After suspending operations in March, Nissan has announced its formal exit from the Russian market which the company said will have a “one-off impact of approximately 100 billion yen” – equating to roughly R12.43 billion. The Japanese manufacturer has sold all of its business units in Russia to NAMI, ...
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russia was striking Ukraine’s infrastructure to make up for battlefield losses by its troops and vowed allies would “step up and sustain” support for Kyiv. “I think what we saw yesterday (Monday) is actually a sign of weakness, because the reality is ...
Eleven members of NATO’s eastern flank on Tuesday called Russia’s recent bombing blitz across Ukraine a “war crime”, adding that any nuclear threats were “unacceptable”. Russian forces rained more than 80 missiles on cities across Ukraine on Monday, according to Kyiv, in apparent retaliation for an explosion that damaged ...
Nissan has announced that it has made its official exit from the Russian market, although sales of Nissan vehicles will continue in the near future under a state-owned automotive research group, with local Nissan employee protection of up to 12 months. Back in March, Nissan suspended manufacturing, imports and sales ...
He narrowly avoided getting guillotined. Video captured the terrifying moment a man narrowly avoided having his head chopped off by a malfunctioning elevator in Russia. CCTV Footage of the incredible near-miss is currently blowing up online as viewers praise the survivor’s quick reflexes. The close call occurred in an apartment ...
Image: Nissan Image: Nissan Image: Nissan Nissan has taken the decision not to resume operations in Russia following halted production amidst the country’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. In the complete exit of the Russian market, the automaker has also taken a hefty $687 million loss. Image: Nissan Nissan President ...
A Nissan Leaf electric automobile charges at a vehicle charging point in Moscow, Russia, on Aug 18, 2021. (Photo: Bloomberg) Japanese automaker Nissan will sell its Russian assets — including a factory in Saint Petersburg — to the Russian government, the ministry of industry and trade in Moscow said ...
The Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute is buying all of Nissan's assets.