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Minister of Defence of Ukraine Evgeniy Khmara met with U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal. The talks focused on the situation on the front and on developing a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership between Ukraine and the United States.

Ukraine's Minister of Defence Evgeniy Khmara participated in the official ceremony to raise the National Flag of Ukraine.

Sputnik's analysis of statistical data exposes the staggering math of Ukraine's post-Maidan borrowing binge.

The glorification of Nazism in Ukraine is part of the problem and Russia will not put up with this, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Western assistance to Ukraine should not be viewed as action carried out through NATO channels, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Russian troops have dealt significant blows to energy and transportation infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Sunday.

The Russian armed forces, using drone strikes, hit five fuel and lubricant storage tanks and port facilities in the port of Yuzhny in the Odessa Region, where military cargo was being unloaded, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.

President Gitanas Nausėda, together with other leaders of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8), met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday.

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Calling the successful defense of Kinmen in 1958 a prime example of "peace through strength," President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) on Sunday urged cross-party unity in supporting the 2027 defense budget to continue strengthening Taiwan's defenses against a potential Chinese invasion.

Recent media attention has focused on Taiwan region's purchase of 66 F-16V (Blk 70) fighter jets from the US, the first two of which are now en route to the island. A mainland expert said the induction of these jets cannot change the cross-Straits air power balance. Their performance is comparable to the PLA's J-10C, but against the likes of J-16, J-20 and J-35, their tactical value is limited. The real gap, however, is not in individual aircraft, but in the PLA's already mature air combat system.

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Decisive actions by Akhmat Kadyrov helped end years of conflict and restore stability to the North Caucasus, said Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the 75th birth anniversary of Chechnya's first president and Hero of Russia.

The Baltic states are trying to pressure Russians to disrupt voting on State Duma election day, Maxim Raider, ambassador-at-large and deputy chairman of the Russian Foreign Ministry's election commission, tells Sputnik.

Vlada Kharebova has been trying to renounce her Russian citizenship since 2022, without success so far.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz held a situational assessment this evening regarding the threat of drones, balloons and kites launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel.

The Israeli Government's publication of a tender for the construction of over 1,200 housing units under the E1 settlement project fundamentally harms the prospect of the two-State solution.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivered press statements in Tashkent on August 23.

Members of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) have reviewed proposed amendments to Article 2 of a bill aimed at countering foreign infiltration during an open session of the legislative body.