🇨🇵🇷🇺 #France’s decision to invite #Russia to attend the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings has stoked tensions with allied nations as leaders prepare to gather on the Normandy beaches on June 6.
🇺🇸 The White House is not pleased over French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to invite a representative of #Russia’s government to attend next month’s celebration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, two administration officials told POLITICO.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine tried and failed to target a Russian Baltic Sea oil terminal with a drone overnight, a Russian-appointed official said on Thursday, in what appeared to be a rare attempt to strike a facility in St Petersburg.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine hit targets in Russia during a drone attack on an oil terminal in St Petersburg on Thursday as part of a "new phase" in the region, a Ukrainian military source told Reuters.
"There are confirmed hits. This is a new stage of work in this region," the Ukrainian source said.
🇷🇺 Putin is yet to formally announce his plans to run for re-election next year, but he might already have an unlikely potential 'competitor' in Yekaterina Duntsova, a journalist from the Tver region who announced her bid for the presidency last week.
🇷🇺 A Russian independent politician was summoned to the local prosecutor's office after declaring her intention to run in next year's presidential election, she told AFP.
🇷🇺 🇫🇮 Russia said Wednesday a humanitarian emergency was unfolding at one of its checkpoints on the Arctic border with Finland, where it said hundreds of migrants were stranded in freezing temperatures.
🇷🇺 🇰🇿 Putin is expected to visit Kazakhstan on Thursday, Nov. 9, Russian state news agencies reported on Monday, citing the office of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
🇫🇷 🇰🇿 French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the first leg of his trip to Central Asia, a region long regarded as Russia's backyard which has drawn fresh Western attention since the war in Ukraine began.
🇷🇺 Russian police were present but did not intervene in the fight that ended with the fatal stabbing of a Gabonese 🇬🇦 graduate student this summer, according to a video published by local media on Monday.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian forces have launched a series of massive attacks involving thousands of troops as well as tanks and armored vehicles on #Ukrainian positions in the east of the country in an effort to encircle Ukrainian forces.
@phillycodehound 'Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin has held up as an example to justify the invasion of Ukraine.'