Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, Moscow and Pyongyang have taken steps towards greater cooperation, praising support from North Korea in military terms and voicing what they view as a shared vision of the emergence of a “new and just world order.” The statements come as the two countries tighten their ties with each other in this long-running conflict.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russia tells North Korea they are making a ‘new and righteous world order’
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has hailed North Korea’s role in fighting to eject Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region, writing in a letter that they succeeded in driving out a “Ukrainian Nazi clique”.
North Korea and Russia are working to establish a “new and righteous world order,” Lavrov wrote in a letter to North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui, according to the North’s state news agency KCNA this morning.
Pyongyang has deployed troops to Russia since late 2024, when it helped Moscow retake a portion of Kursk that had been captured by a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Vladimir Putin’s regime routinely calls the Ukrainian administration “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
Putin has vowed to fight on in Ukraine until Moscow secures the country’s “demilitarisation”, “denazification” and neutrality, unless Kyiv accepts a deal that achieves those goals.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russia fires top economist after he compares Putin’s economy to 1917 revolution
The chief economist of a Russian state development bank has been fired after reportedly drawing comparisons between Russia’s present-day economy and the 1917 revolution.
Andrei Klepach, one of Russia’s most prominent macroeconomists who worked for VEB, made the remarks to a financial forum in May. They were reported by Russian media only last week.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russia downs 180 drones in Moscow region overnight
Russian forces have downed at least 180 drones in the Moscow region overnight, the capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in the early hours today.
Overall, 620 drones were heading for the region surrounding the Russian capital between Monday evening and 5am, he said.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Huge inferno engulfs ‘Russian Amazon’ Wildberries after Ukraine strike
Ukraine has successfully targeted Wildberries hubs seven times in six weeks as part of a campaign to bring the war to Russia.
