Russia suffered a setback on Wednesday when Australia’s High Court rejected its legal challenge to construct a new embassy less than a kilometre from the nation’s Parliament in Canberra. The saga began in 2008, when Russia secured a 99-year lease for the land, paying nearly AU$3 million (around US$2 million) for a site situated approximately […]

In a relentless wave of aerial assaults, Russian drone strikes on Monday left a trail of destruction across eastern Ukraine, claiming the life of a pensioner in Kramatorsk and wounding several others in the Kharkiv region. The attacks, occurring nearly four years after the full-scale invasion commenced in February 2022, underscore the enduring peril faced […]

Ukraine scrambled on Sunday to restore electricity and heating after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure reduced the country’s power generation capacity to “zero”. Moscow, which has intensified strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones overnight into Saturday targeting energy facilities across the country. The attacks disrupted electricity, heat, and water supplies […]

Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday — their first encounter since Trump’s return to the White House — as Budapest seeks an exemption from American sanctions targeting Russian oil. The United States imposed sanctions last month on Russia’s two largest oil producers, marking […]