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Russia will launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to North Korea's capital Pyongyang on Sunday, Russian authorities said, as the two former communist bloc allies move to improve ties following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Russia's state news agency TASS reported that the first flight going the other way, from Pyongyang to Moscow, would take place on Tuesday.
"Putin got a 50-day pass to kill as many people as he can and do whatever he wants in Ukraine," Hope for Ukraine CEO told Newsweek.
MOSCOW (AP) — A passenger plane carrying 49 people, including 5 children, crashed in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region Thursday, local emergency services said. Russian news agencies said that an initial aerial inspection suggested there were no survivors.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday its forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, including one in Dnipropetrovsk region where Moscow says its troops have begun to make advances.
Putin highlighted the bravery of over 50,000 sailors and officers who have been honoured with medals and orders, noting that 35 have received the prestigious title of Hero of Russia.
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Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks overnight, resulting in two deaths in each country and many people wounded on both sides, according to officials. On the battlefield, the Russian military said Saturday that it seized the village of Zelenyi Hai in the eastern Donetsk region that Moscow illegally annexed but only partially controls,
Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.
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The Kyiv Independent on MSNRussia starts first Moscow-Pyongyang passenger flights in decades, signaling closer tiesIn a clear signal of deepening bilateral relations, Russia is set to launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to Pyongyang on July 27, marking the first air connection between the two capitals in decades.
You know, everything you tell us will be used against you,” the interviewer on Russian TV warns Timur Shagivaleev, the man behind one of the country’s biggest drone factories.