America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told.
As President Trump begins to side with Russia, the Kremlin propaganda machine has changed its tune.
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Zelensky Tells U.N. Security Council It’s Useless While Russia Has a Veto
The Ukrainian president joined many world leaders in calling for changes at the Security Council, where five permanent members wield veto power — a high barrier to taking action.
U.N. General Assembly Convenes on Tuesday
With major world leaders skipping the annual event, discussions will focus on climate change, sovereign debt relief and development goals.
Russia Denies Killing Prigozhin, Calling the Idea Anti-Putin Propaganda
The Kremlin and its proxies rebuffed suggestions that it was responsible for destroying a plane that reportedly carried the chief of the Wagner mercenary group.
At BRICS Summit, Putin Tries to Rally Support
Leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa addressed other topics, but Russia’s president, unable to attend in person because he is wanted for war crimes, put the war in Ukraine at center stage in the meeting.
Foreign Ministers of China and Russia Confer Phone After Jeddah Talks
China underscored its desire to “actively promote” efforts to end the war in Ukraine “on any multilateral occasion.”
South Africa Grapples With Putin’s Plan to Attend BRICS Summit
An arrest warrant for the Russian leader from the International Criminal Court has created a diplomatic quandary ahead of an August summit.
Russia Dismisses Rebellion as ‘Minor’ and Dismantles Prigozhin’s Wagner Empire
Foreign Minister Sergei V. Lavrov of Russia warned the Western countries helping Ukraine not to think that the Wagner group’s mutiny had undermined Moscow’s power.
Wagner’s Deep Links in Africa a Challenge for Russia
The mercenary group is so deeply enmeshed in the Central African Republic and several other nations that it can’t be easily replaced, experts say.
Putin Says Russia Is United Behind Him, After Ending Wagner Rebellion
President Vladimir V. Putin spoke angrily of those who want “Russians to fight each other,” but his former ally, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said the mutiny he led was not a coup attempt.