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WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden, meeting his top military advisers, said on Wednesday that the United States does not seek conflict with China and that Chinese President Xi Jinping knows this. Biden said the United States would continue…

KYIV: Russia targeted more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sustaining the terror that forces people into air raid shelters each night. Russian…

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles, the Kremlinsaid. Russian Defense Minister Sergei…

MOSCOW: Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday reiterated claims that Ukraine is preparing a provocation using a "dirty bomb" in a video call with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe, according to Moscow's defence ministry.…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden warned Russia on Tuesday against using a nuclear weapon in the war with Ukraine, saying such an escalation would be a grave error. Asked by reporters whether he thinks Russia is preparing a dirty bomb…

BRUSSELS: Russia must not escalate the conflict in Ukraine with false claims that Kyivis planning to unleash a so-called "dirty bomb", the head of NATO warned Monday. Jens Stoltenberg weighed in following Moscow's repeated allegations…

Russia continues to use Iranian unscrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) against targets throughout the Ukrainian territory, the British Ministry of Defencesaid on Monday. Russia is likely using the Iranian Shahed-136 UAVs to infiltrate…

MYKOLAIV: Russia fired missiles and drones into the Ukrainian-held southern town of Mykolaiv, destroying an apartment block, and said the war was trending towards "uncontrolled escalation" in a flurry of telephone calls to Western…

MOSCOW: A Russian warplane crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, regional authorities said. There was no immediate information on casualties. Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzevsaid the plane came down…

MOSCOW: Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu told his French counterpart in a telephone call on Sunday that Moscow was concerned Ukraine could use a "dirty bomb", the Russian defence ministry said. According to a readout of a phone…