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African leaders have urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin peace talks with Ukraine during a meeting in St Petersburg.

Vladimir Putin says Russia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

A delegation of African leaders including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Saturday as part of its mission to try to broker peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. The meeting comes a day after the delegation met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

Putin said the nuclear weapons served as a warning to those who may be thinking of 'inflicting a strategic defeat' on his country, vowing that 'extreme means may be used if there is a threat to Russia’s statehood'

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West is doing everything to inflict strategic defeat on Moscow in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin is touting Russia’s prospects at the country’s main international economic forum despite heavy international sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Ukraine in a delegation of African leaders and senior officials seeking ways to end Kyiv’s 15-month war with Russia

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization has seen no evidence that Russia has changed its nuclear posture

NATO defense ministers are weighing future relations with Ukraine as Russia’s war on the country thwarts its hopes of joining the world’s biggest security alliance soon