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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks as North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un listens to him during a state reception after their talks in Pyongyang, North Korea, in June 2024. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Amid the West’s wavering aid to Ukraine, North Korea backs Russia in a mutually beneficial move

The West’s delays in providing meaningful aid to Ukraine have resulted in a protracted conflict that gave Russia the time to muster resources, like North Korean soldiers, for the conflict.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and China’s president, Xi Jinping, at the Brics summit in Kazan, Russia. Alexander Zemlianichenko / Pool / EPA

Russia’s Brics summit shows determination for a new world order – but internal rifts will buy the west some time

Putin used the summit to push his own vision of Brics as a counter-point to the west, but it is a view that not all camps in the group share.
Mounting casualties: Russia’s push for territory has involved throwing huge numbers of raw troops at Ukrainian lines, with a high attriiton rate. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

Russia’s ‘meat grinder’ tactics in Ukraine have proved effective in past wars – but at terrible cost

Russia has a history of using its huge population to build a massive army that is able to overwhelm most enemies through sheer weight of numbers.
Flooded houses in the town of Oleshky, Ukraine, June 10, 2023. The floods followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

‘Ecocide’ is being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine. It should be one of the crimes tried in the International Criminal Court

Russia is committing ecocide in Ukraine, an act of war aimed at inflicting serious damage on the environment.

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