An iconic Russian panorama painting more than a century old has been “almost completely destroyed” in a Ukrainian drone strike on a museum in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, local governor Mikhail Razvozhaev has said. In a Telegram post on Wednesday, Razvozhaev said ‘The Defense of Sevastopol (1854»»»

With global markets under intense pressure over the Strait of Hormuz, Russia’s ability to export large volumes of energy greatly enhances its “geopolitical leverage,” particularly among countries seeking reliable supplies, international oil economist Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh tells Sputnik. Russia “con»»»

Xi Jinping stayed put in China for more than six months. During this period, presidents and key leaders travelled to Zhongnanhai, the compound at the heart of power in Beijing, to see him. The call list was as impressive as it was long: French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir »»»

After two years of steadily improving ties that appeared to be moving toward the restoration of full diplomatic relations, Egypt and Iran now seem to be facing a major setback. Egypt views Iran's current war and the subsequent attacks it carried out against Gulf states as a violation of one of its »»»

EU countries typically cast Russia as the enemy — using this narrative as “a foil to bring Europeans together” for costly rearmament that starves civilian industries, French geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon tells Sputnik. The regime in Ukraine is used as the pretext or “a casus belli»»»

The long-delayed €100 billion ($116 billion) project to develop a fully European next-generation fighter jet for NATO members has been formally abandoned. Despite citing the need to counter a perceived threat from Russia and strengthen Europe’s military, France and Germany have failed to overcome y»»»

BELGRADE - The Serbian oil company NIS has submitted a request to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury for a new special licence that would enable it to continue to operate without obstructions beyond June 16, when the current operating licence expires. S»»»

Bulgaria’s new government has announced it will halt weapons deliveries to Ukraine, signaling a major policy shift for the NATO and EU member, which has been supplying arms to Kiev since the escalation of the conflict in 2022. The conflict cannot be resolved on the battlefield, Bulgarian Defense Mi»»»

Iran fired missiles and drones at U.S. military bases in neighboring countries in and around the Persian Gulf in the early hours of Wednesday after American warplanes conducted strikes on southern Iran in response to the downing of an U.S. Army helicopter. File Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI | License »»»

Sputnik International News Agency and Radio and TRENDS Research & Advisory have signed a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). The document was signed during an official ceremony by Vasily Pushkov, Sputnik’s Director for Internation»»»

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Edward Howell, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, says that this week's China-North Korea summit was a success for Kim Jong Un "because no mention of North Korea's nuclear programme or denuclearisation took place", adding that "»»»

Russia and India develop their ties in most sensitive areas through dialogue, and Russia expects that Indian PM Narendra Modi will continue the process, Russian President's Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. Key statements by Dmitry Peskov:On India-Russia RelationsIndia has become a leading power und»»»

MOSCOW: Russia ‌on Wednesday condemned an EU decision to authorize EU military vessels in the Mediterranean ​to stop and inspect foreign ships suspected of being part of a “shadow fleet” transporting Russian oil, and said it would take all necessary legal and other measures to protect them. The EU »»»

Kyiv struck a Russian military facility several hundred miles east of Moscow with Ukrainian-produced missiles overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, marking a rare deployment his country's flagship weapon. It was the latest in an increasing number of strikes on Russian territory ca»»»

Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with Syria was developing very actively and that Moscow was discussing with Damascus a "possible reformatting" of its military facilities in Syria. The December 2024 ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally, raise»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian air defense systems shot down four long-range cruise missiles Flamingo, a total of 766 UAVs of the armed forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. Ukraine lost over 455 soldiers in combat against Russia's Vostok battlegroup over the past day, »»»

On Wednesday, at the start of a Council of Ministers meeting, Prime Minister Rumen Radev announced that Bulgaria would stop providing weapons to Ukraine. "We have already given enough," he said. "Our country continues to suffer socio-economic damage from this bloody war." The line was clean, declar»»»

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Ukraine’s ability to keep the lights on through another wartime winter will depend as much on reform as reconstruction, according to a new report by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), which argues that changes to tariffs, regulation and power generation are now as critical as repairing infrastruct»»»

Serbia will not obstruct the planned sale of Russia’s majority stake in oil firm NIS, Energy Minister Dubravka Dedovic Handanovic said on June 9, as negotiations between Gazprom and Hungary’s MOL enter a critical final phase under a US-imposed deadline. Talks over the divestment are “progressing we»»»

Moscow, Russia: Russia on Wednesday urged "restraint" in the Iran war after Washington and Tehran traded new strikes in the worst escalation since their April 8 ceasefire. "We are extremely concerned about the new round of US-Iranian armed confrontation, which began with the unprovoked US-Israeli a»»»

Children in Cuba are dying amid acute shortages of essential medical supplies caused by US-imposed economic sanctions, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said. The island nation has endured daily blackouts and severe fuel deficits in recent months after Venezuela, onc»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Brussels, expanding sanctions against Russia, will not be able to influence its sovereign policy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. "Apparently, Brussels does not want to understand in any way that they have not achieved their goals, namely t»»»

In the first three months of 2026, the total volume of remittances received by Kyrgyzstan reached $699.7 million, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. According to the National Bank, financial flows from abroad are growing monthly: Capital outflow from the country At the same time, a »»»

Malaysia is seeking new sources of fuel amid a global crunch caused by the war in Iran, though any supplies would need to be able to be processed by the country's refineries, the Economy Minister said on Wednesday. Malaysian refineries are largely dependent ⁠on crude oil originating ⁠from the Middl»»»

The EU's focus on rearmament while neglecting civilian industries is a major strategic error – especially as Russia and Ukraine attempt to reach a ceasefire, Professor Joe Siracusa, a political scientist and dean of Global Futures at Curtin University, told Sputnik. Key highlights:The rearmament pu»»»

The leaders of North Korea and China adopted a "far-reaching blueprint" for bilateral ties during Xi Jinping's recent visit to Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday. China's president made a rare visit to diplomatically isolated North Korea on Monday after hos»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Parliamentary elections in Armenia were held amid unprecedented pressure on the opposition by the authorities and unprecedented Western interference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. "Unprecedented pressure on the opposition. On the one hand»»»

Russian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Sergei Vakunov spoke at a state reception to mark Russia Day, celebrated on June 12. In his speech, the diplomat emphasized that relations between Kyrgyzstan and Russia continue to strengthen thanks to close political, economic, and humanitarian cooperation. Accordi»»»

Russian retail investors poured RUB138bn ($1.7bn) into mutual funds in May, with bond funds accounting for more than four-fifths of net inflows as punters expect more Central Bank of Russia (CBR) rate cuts boosting the demand for fixed-income products, Kommersant reports. Data from Investfunds show»»»

The leaders of Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France and Germany emerged from Downing Street on June 7 with a joint statement that lays down five conditions to underpin any sustainable settlement to Russia's war. The list lays out the core terms of any peace deal before the G7 are due to meet at a su»»»

The concert «Traditional Music of the Kyrgyz People — Heritage of the Centuries» was held at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the National Manas Theater reported. The performance by Kyrgyz artists took place as part of the 24th International Music Festival World of Sounds. Performers included m»»»

An additional shipment of vegetable oil from Russia has arrived in Osh, consisting of 121 tons. The supplies will be distributed under social and infrastructure projects in the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. The Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration reported. The deliveries are carried »»»

Kyrgyzstan is a dynamically developing country today, and this is evident during every visit to the republic. Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of Russia for International Cultural Cooperation, stated at the 19th Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the CIS Cou»»»

For most of the post-Soviet era, Central Asia's economic story was written in commodities. Kazakhstan exported oil, uranium and metals. Uzbekistan relied on gold, natural gas and cotton. Turkmenistan sat atop some of the world's largest gas reserves. Technology barely featured in the conversation. »»»

NEW YORK CITY: Arab and Western powers issued a joint warning on Tuesday over Iran’s nuclear program, in which they called on all UN member states to fully implement recently reinstated Security Council sanctions against Iran. France’s ambassador to the UN, Jerome Bonnafont, read the statement on b»»»

NEW YORK CITY: Arab and Western powers issued a joint warning on Tuesday over Iran’s nuclear program, in which they called on all UN member states to fully implement recently reinstated Security Council sanctions against Iran. France’s ambassador to the UN, Jerome Bonnafont, read the statement on b»»»

WASHINGTON: Recent US sanctions targeting Cuba’s leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a military intervention, Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States told The Associated Press. In an i»»»

It takes convincing these days to get China’s leader to go abroad. Xi Jinping’s just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026. Why Pyongyang? Hard to deduce from official readouts of that two-day state visit to neighboring North Korea. Politeness after a pair of visits by Kim Jong U»»»

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Edward Howell, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, says that this week's China-North Korea summit was a success for Kim Jong Un "because no mention of North Korea's nuclear program or denuclearisation took place" adding that "it »»»

Saudi Arabia and Russia have signed 13 agreements worth SAR4.8bn ($1.28bn) to expand cooperation in food security and agriculture, on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Saudi Gazette reported on June 9. The deal indicates deepening economic ties between the two oil pro»»»

Vladimir Zelensky has criticized British political party Reform UK for removing Ukrainian flags from public buildings in Britain, warning that such actions can ruin a “big friendship.” The Ukrainian leader made the comments in an interview with The Guardian during a visit to London on Sunday, where»»»

Continue the Change Floor Leader Nikolay Denkov will ask Prime Minister Rumen Radev to clarify Bulgaria’s position on military aid to Ukraine, Denkov said on Tuesday. He was reacting to Minister of Defence Dimitar Stoyanov’s comments that the government did not plan further weapons supplies. Denkov»»»

An economic strategy focused mainly on militarization risks disrupting balanced regional development across Europe, Tiberio Graziani, chairman of Vision & Global Trends – International Institute for Global Analysis, tells Sputnik. "Historically, Europe's strength has rested on a combination of indu»»»

Born as an economic bloc, the EU has spent the past decade evolving into a militarized union. But where does this trajectory lead? While EU leaders justify this shift by citing Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) initiative had already deepen»»»

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party secured nearly half of the vote in parliamentary elections, according to results published on June 8, prompting congratulations from Western leaders and criticism from Moscow as the country’s geopolitical alignment comes under renewed focus. While Pas»»»

Britain said on Tuesday ‌that a law to crack down on proxies acting for states deemed to be hostile such as Iran was expected to come into force next month, as it steps up powers to counter what it says is a growing threat posed by such groups. The new powers, promised in the wake of a spate of ant»»»

The US heads a record rise in nuclear arsenal spending, accounting alone for $69.2 billion of the $119 billion spent on nuclear arsenals in 2025 by the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The total represents a 19% increase f»»»

Ukraine has signed a drone deal with Latvia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday as he met with Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs on the sidelines of a summit between Ukraine and Nordic and Baltic states in the Estonian capital Tallinn. "These are concrete things to strengthen our jo»»»

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a summit in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday. Photo by Valda Kalnina/EPA June 9 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska traveled to Talinn, Estonia, Tuesday to take part i»»»