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Russia’s Victory Day parade was a greatly reduced spectacle in most respects this year, but it did boast one new feature: a unit of North Korean troops marching alongside Russian forces through Red Square, bearing their own national flag. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday voiced confidence of victory in Ukraine as he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II – a show that didn’t include heavy weapons for the first time in nearly two decades.

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month, Ambassador Monica Crowley said Wednesday that foreign leaders value Trump’s direct approach to diplomacy and understand clearly where the United States stands under his leadership.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that next week’s annual Victory Day parade will be conducted without tanks, missiles, or other heavy military equipment, due to the “current operational situation” in Ukraine.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Moscow, Russia, on Monday and is expected to meet dictator Vladimir Putin for discussions on his country’s ongoing conflict with America.

President Donald Trump said at a White House press conference on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s presence at the upcoming G20 summit in Miami “would be very helpful,” although he also said he had not actually invited Putin.

A Russian official selected to control the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson revealed that he had recently met with North Korea’s top diplomat in Moscow to discuss the country potentially buying agricultural products seized in the ongoing invasion, South Korean and Russian media revealed this weekend.

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta praised and laughed at several anti-Trump protest signs while interviewing demonstrators in Washington, DC, during a “No Kings” rally on Saturday, part of a series of left-wing demonstrations held in cities across the United States against President Donald Trump.

President worried about what Iran means for his own prospects, and fears Middle Eastern allies are burning through air defence missiles.

First lady Melania Trump tells Breitbart News that Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s claim that she sought his assistance in efforts to reunify Ukrainian and Russian children with their families is false and baseless. 

Wynton Hall’s new book Code Red: The Left, The Right, and The Race to Control AI includes a sobering look at the rapidly evolving danger of autonomous weapons, which look to change warfare in the Twenty-First Century as profoundly as nuclear weapons did in the Twentieth — and it will be far more difficult to keep the AI genie bottled than it was to restrain the proliferation of nuclear bombs.

The British defence minister said “Putin’s hidden hand” is behind some Iranian tactics and capabilities.

On Wednesday’s “CNN News Central,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that he believes Vladimir Putin is “helping Iran. Putin hates our guts. He’s not a friend to the United States. So, you have to assume that he’s doing it. And

On Wednesday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) said that the U.S. shouldn’t ease energy sanctions on Russia and “I’m not for releasing sanctions on these nations that are out of bounds, basically.” Co-host John Berman asked, “Nick’s reporting

The military operation entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran’s new leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded. 

Russia said Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin plans to relay concerns from Gulf Arab leaders to Tehran over Iranian strikes on regional oil infrastructure, as Moscow seeks to use its dialogue with Iran to help ease escalating tensions between countries that include fellow BRICS members Russia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

A grieving Russian President Vladimir Putin mourned the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claiming Sunday it was “a cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.”

An unidentified individual detonated an explosive device near a railway station in Moscow early Tuesday morning, killing himself and a police officer. Two other people were injured in the explosion.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un participated in an inauguration ceremony for a neighborhood built for families of soldiers killed fighting Ukraine.

Zelensky insisted “no one is clinging to power” and he is ready to hold elections, but no vote without a ceasefire and guarantees.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed in an essay published on Friday that the administration of President Donald Trump would not pursue a new nuclear arms reduction agreement with only Russia, arguing that China’s “rapid and opaque” nuclear buildup made such a deal “obsolete.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said Beijing will resist growing international pressure to join discussions with the United States and Russia for a trilateral nuclear arms pact to replace the expiring New START treaty.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a “virtual meeting” on Wednesday in which they celebrated their countries’ close bonds and vowed to expand “high-level exchanges,” trade, and diplomacy.

Trilateral talks resumed but the fundamental issues between Kyiv and Moscow which have prevented progress remain essentially unchanged. 

Chinese state media reported on Wednesday morning dictator Xi Jinping held a phone call with President Donald Trump, their first direct conversation since November.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that India has not indicated it will stop buying Russian oil, as claimed by President Donald Trump on Monday.

No attacks on infrastructure overnight, Zelensky said, after Trump made a request to Putin to hold back missiles as severe weather arrives.

Putin was playing a game by inviting his counterpart to Moscow, Zelensky said, making an equally facetious reciprocal invitation to Kyiv. 

Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia’s economic presence in the country.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), held a phone call on Tuesday with President Donald Trump shortly before his departure to Moscow to meet with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that a U.S. security guarantees document for Ukraine is “100% ready” after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia.

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source,” former National Security Adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is an “embarrassment to the United States.”

Russian Interior Minister Vladímir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday arrived in Havana, Cuba, for an official visit and encounters with officials of the communist Castro regime.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gives no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.