Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed Ukraine during their meeting on Oct. 22 at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.The BRICS[1] alliance, a bloc of countries that now includes Brazil[2], Russia, India, China[3], South Africa, Iran[4], Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, is convening in Kazan for a three-day summit[5] from Oct. 22-24. According to Moscow, 36 world leaders are participating in the conference. Putin and Xi reportedly spoke for about an hour, according ...

Andriy Kostin steps down after corruption scheme involving false disability diagnoses for draft exemptions is uncovered.Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has announced his resignation amid a scandal involving dozens of officials alleged to have abused their position to receive disability status and avoid military service.In early October, it emerged that dozens of public prosecutors in the western region of Khmelnytskyi had falsely been awarded disability permits and were receiving special pensions.Kostin said on Tuesday he was taking responsibility for the ...

Country and Region Visits August 2024 YOY Korea 612,100 Visits China 745,800 Visits Taiwan 564,300 Visits Hong Kong 246,600 Visits Thailand 34,700 Visits Singapore 24,800 Visits Malaysia 17,200 Visits Indonesia 22,100 Visits Philippinnes 39,000 Visits Vietnam 52,400 Visits India 16,100 Visits United Kingdom 29,400 Visits France 31,400 Visits Germany 24,100 Visits Italy 34,700 Visits Russia 6,900 Visits Spain 25,900 Visits USA 174,000 Visits Canada 46,900 Visits Australia 41,000 Visits Source : Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) Figures until May 2024 ...

BY Agencies[1]22 Oct 2024 11:45 AM GMT Image: ©MillenniumPost graphics Beijing: China on Tuesday confirmed that it has reached an agreement with India to end the standoff between the two armies in eastern Ladakh. “Over a recent period of time, China and India have kept close communication through diplomatic and military channels on issues related to the China-India border,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a media briefing here. Lin was asked for a response to Monday’s Indian announcement about reaching ...

1 Jack L. Snyder, The Soviet Strategic Culture: Implications for Limited Nuclear Operation (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, R-2154-AF, 1977), https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2154.html[1].2 Dima Adamsky, “From Moscow with Coercion: Russian Deterrence Theory and Strategic Culture,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1-2, 2018, p. 48.3 Robert M. Cassidy, Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya: Military Strategic Culture and the Paradoxes Of Asymmetric Conflict (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2003), p. 11.4 Scott Boston and Dara Massicot, The Russian Way of Warfare: A Primer ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both praised expanding relations with Russia at bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.Putin is hosting a summit of BRICS countries, the largest gathering of world leaders in Russia since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The heads of 32 countries and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are expected to attend the three-day event in the city of Kazan, highlighting the challenge to the West’s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed the war in Ukraine and relations with the West at length on the first day of the BRICS summit, the Kremlin said on Tuesday."Since they are attacking both our interests and China's interests, there were topics for discussion," said Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Russian television, speaking of Western states.He added that Moscow and Beijing have a similar view of and approach to international politics.China officially maintains a neutral ...

North and South Korea are on the brink of going to war with one another, but on the battlefields of Ukraine rather than the Korean peninsula. North Korea is already sending military “advisers” to Ukraine along with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and other munitions, while South Korea is eager to retaliate by shipping arms and artillery shells directly to Ukraine rather than through third countries such as Poland.No, South Korea won’t be ordering soldiers to face the North Koreans ...

BRICS Summit 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Kazan in Russia on Tuesday (October 22) to attend the 16th BRICS Summit. The summit is the first after the grouping’s expansion last year. For India, it is especially significant as Prime Minister Narendra Modi could meet China’s President Xi Jinping here, soon after the two countries agreed on a disengagement along the LAC[1].What is the BRICS? How important is the grouping amid an increasingly tense world? What does an expanded ...

UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared last week that North Korea[1] is sending troops to Russia, in effect joining the invasion as a co-combatant. The appearance of one of the world’s most erratic and heavily-armed nations in the fight might test the best resourced and well-rested defences. After 32 months of grinding war against a much larger enemy, Ukraine is neither[2].References^ North Korea (www.economist.com)^ Ukraine is neither (www.economist.com)