Nukes

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to keep pressing all countries to implement a resolution aimed at keeping nuclear, chemical and biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists, black marketeers and others. The council resolution approved by a 15-0 vote extends the mandate of…

By Matthew Luxmoore Updated Nov. 28, 2022 6:17 pm ET KYIV, Ukraine—Fierce fighting rumbled on in east Ukraine, as Moscow denied Kyiv’s claims that Russia was preparing to abandon a nuclear-power plant in the country’s south that it has occupied since March. In the eastern Donetsk region, Russia is struggling…

UK intelligence report says nuclear warheads being removed from 1980s-vintage cruise missiles to be repurposed published : 26 Nov 2022 at 17:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack, in the town of Vyshhorod, near Kyiv, on Friday. (Photo: Ukrainian…

/ Europe As it happened Issued on: 26/11/2022 - 10:36 01:53 In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena pay tribute at a monument to victims of the Holodomor, also known as the Great Famine, which took place in the…

US President Joe Biden said he was confident there would be support in Congress for additional aid to Ukraine, even after Republicans — who have vowed greater oversight of the spending — take control of the House in January.  European Union diplomats were optimistic they could reach a deal as…

Russia and Ukraine traded blame Monday over shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that the bombing over the weekend had come “dangerously close” to hitting key safety and security systems. Such back-and-forth over who is creating danger around the plant, which…

Russia’s annual ‘Grom’ military drill featured nuclear submarines, ballistic missiles, and long-range strategic bombers...Read More

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO and Russia’s military alike staged planned annual nuclear exercises Wednesday as the Russian president repeated the unfounded claim that Ukraine plans to set off a radioactive “dirty bomb.” On the battlefront, Russian forces pounded more than 40 Ukrainian villages over the past day. Russian President…

published : 26 Oct 2022 at 21:45 Russian President Vladimir Putin oversees the training of the strategic deterrence forces, troops responsible for responding to threats of nuclear war. MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday surveyed drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow pressed unfounded claims to India…

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister says that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu briefed him on the evolving situation in Ukraine, including his concerns about the use of a “dirty bomb.” Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a tweet after his phone conversation with Shoigu on Wednesday that “I reiterated…