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Ukraine has used a range of strategies to repel Russian forces that are encroaching. The most recent one involves training dogs to accompany Ukrainian soldiers during their missions.
The Russian Federation’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, addresses the United Nations Security Council about threats to international peace and security.
Volunteers from Ukraine have been forced to come up with an innovative way to convert used SUVs into casualty evacuation vehicles, or CASEVACS for short, in order to move wounded soldiers from far front lines to safety with limited resources.
After a year of bitter battles in Ukraine, neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians have emerged victors, and the front lines virtually at a stalemate. Observers say a protracted war of attrition as war fatigue plagues Ukrainian forces and their Western backers.
Growing poverty and hunger on a warming planet, together with new wars, are issues that the UN is powerless to fix. The future of the United Nations in a world where its impact is waning is looked at by VOA correspondent Margaret Besheer.
Turkey’s border with Armenia may soon reopen after more than 30 years following Azerbaijan’s recapture of the Nagorno-Karabakh area from ethnic Armenians.
Russian authorities grounded a Moscow-bound flight to arrest a North Korean diplomat’s wife and son who went missing from the far eastern city of Vladivostok last month, residents in Russia familiar with the case told Radio Free Asia.
Russian authorities have issued a missing persons alert for the family of a North Korean diplomat, in what local and international media reports said could be an attempted defection.
It is now difficult for people outside of Russia to know what Russians think about the conflict due to the Russian media crackdown that followed its invasion of Ukraine. Some Russian tourists Genia Dulot met in Egypt described how their lives have changed.
Bangladesh will use the Chinese yuan to repay a U.S. $318 million loan owed to the state-owned Russian firm Rosatom so construction can continue on a nuclear power plant in the country, a company official said.