A six-hour air raid began hitting Kyiv in the early hours of a day of commemoration for victims of a 1930s famine,with more coming as the sun rose.
Pro-war Russian nationalist Igor Girkin says he wants to be president – but that he’d have no chance under the “sham” that he says Russian democracy has become.
The accused include a former deputy prosecutor general and a current MP.
A top aide to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces was killed in an explosion at his home,which also injured his 13-year-old son.
Vladislav Surkov said the term “Global South” indicated there had to be a north too. “There will be a Great North - Russia,the USA and Europe forming a common socio-cultural space,”
Robert Fico’s victory could bring another anti-Ukraine voice into the EU alongside Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban.
Addressing presidents and prime ministers,monarchs and ministers at the UN,Antonio Guterres said the world seemed “incapable of coming together”.
The US president warned that allowing Ukraine,a sovereign nation,to be “carved up” by Moscow would place the independence of other countries at risk.
South Korea and the US said military co-operation between North Korea and Russia would violate UN sanctions against Pyongyang and there would be a price to pay.
The leaders met at a remote Siberian rocket launch facility,where the North Korean leader peppered a Russian space official with questions about the rockets.
Russian investigators recovered the black box after the crash,which Western officials strongly believe was no accident two months after Wagner’s attempted mutiny.