Russia

US secretary of state says rise of ‘authoritarian’ powers marks end of post-Cold War order

Kim expected to seek Russian satellite and rocket technology in exchange for ammunition

Country’s leaders have used the slow, specialised form of transportation for decades

Wording of statement suggests western powers have given up trying to recruit the Global South in support of Ukraine’s war effort

Unnamed infrastructure facility along with apartment blocks, cars and power lines damaged in capital city

Some in the Wagner group bridle at being subsumed within Russia’s defence ministry, backing instead a transfer of power to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son

Seen and Heard: RTÉ ‘background noise’, exports to Russia-linked countries, expected USC cut, ACMS fundraising, bank levy analysis and loans to Press Up subsidiary

Mayor says one person was injured and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks

The G20 summit in India also addressed climate financing, cryptocurrency, reform and expansion of multilateral development banks and a new ‘green development pact’ among member states

Billionaire defends move claiming he did not want SpaceX company to be ‘explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation’

With Vladimir Putin preparing to host Kim Jong-un, White House says North Korea supplying arms to Russia would be ‘huge mistake’

Russia says United States would have to answer for the ‘very sad consequences’ of its decision

Kim Jong-un holds the whip hand in negotiations and will extract a high price if he supplies Vladimir Putin with weapons

US secretary of state Antony Blinken arrives in Kyiv for surprise visit

With the additional absence of Vladimir Putin, the summit will be dominated by the West and its allies

Soldiers’ feedback on course of the conflict to be taken seriously, Volodymyr Zelenskiy says

If Putin died tomorrow, there’s no chance a democratic peacenik would replace him. The war has reshaped Russian society in ways that make autocracy even more secure

Odesa mayor says Russia launched 3½ -hour drone attack on Izmail overnight

Putin to host Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for grain export talks

UK military officials say Russia risking splitting its forces in attempt to prevent Ukrainian breakthrough in south

Women soliders in Ukraine: The personal lives of many women in the country have been transformed as 60,000 are involved in the long fight to repel Russia’s invasion

While the global economy is not about to collapse, it cannot be seen in isolation from national security

Worldview: For Ukrainians, this war has been going on for nine years and most still insist there can be no compromise with Putin

The multimillionaire militia commander sparked the biggest crisis in the Russian president’s two decades in power

Kremlin rejects international inquiry into plane crash that killed senior Wagner members and mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin

India’s successful landing is latest manifestation of renewed interest in lunar exploration, driven both by national pride and strategic considerations

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the latest in a long line of those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to the president

Founder’s mysterious demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

Ukraine says it hit Russian military base in annexed Crimea

US president expressed lack of surprise Wagner chief killed in a plane crash

Dubliner Johnny O’Reilly graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Russian in 1995

US report concludes that the Wagner leader’s jet was downed by onboard bomb

Prigozhin and top officers of his private military are presumed dead in the crash, which has been widely seen as an assassination

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to join

On Ukrainian Independence Day, the Ambassadors for Ukraine and for the United States jointly write: Ireland’s support for Ukraine is especially meaningful

Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather on day two to discuss bloc's common interests

Death reported by Russian state television and social media channel affiliated with Wagner group

Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based Russian opposition figure, advocates the violent overthrow of Vladimir Putin by Russian exiles in Ukraine

Ukrainian writer ‘Grandpa Svyryd’ was fighting as a machine gunner when he was badly wounded at the frontline

Zelenskiy discusses F-16 training and Black Sea grain exports with Balkan and EU leaders