Putin won't attend BRICS summit this week because he could face arrest over alleged war crimes in Ukraine

Authorities say they can no longer guarantee the safety of those who stay in Kupyansk amid Russian shelling. Some 2,000 residents have signed releases saying they won’t hold officials responsible.
 

Officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Johannesburg on Tuesday for a three-day BRICS summit, a five-nation club comprising 40% of the world’s population and more than 25 percent of global GDP that positions itself as an economic counterweight to the West. Almost 15 years on from the group’s founding, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the BRICS nations in numbers and their relative weight in the global economy.

Without more advanced weapons slated to bolster the front line or fully committing forces still being held in reserve, it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to secure a breakthrough in the counteroffensive, according to analysts.

Russia has been in a race with India to become the first country to land a rover on the moon’s unexplored south pole.

Seven people, including a six-year-old child, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, officials say.

Kiev should sue for peace before it loses the remnants of its sovereignty, the leader of Belarus said in an interview

Andy Harris says Kiev may have no chance of winning against Russia and suggests winding down US aid to Ukraine

Moscow has ensured Kiev will never again be a threat, the Belarusian president has said

Europe and Russia need each other, the former French president has said

Former Ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture, including frequent beatings and electric shocks, while in custody at a detention facility in south-western Russia, in what would be serious violations of international humanitarian law.

Ukrainian conscription officials accused of taking bribes and smuggling people out of the country have been sacked in an anti-corruption purge.

Kiev doesn’t have enough weapons to “change the balance of the war,” President Andrzej Duda has said

Russian strikes on east Ukraine residential block kills at least 7

Moscow (AFP) – Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. 

At least five people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say.

A woman allegedly feeding information on the president’s whereabouts has been arrested

Picture this: A tech billionaire in his penthouse decides whether troops in Ukraine live or die with the flick of a hand. It’s real. It’s happening. It’s Elon Musk

It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured.