The White House on Monday estimated that Russia's military has suffered 100,000 casualties in the last five months in fighting in the Bakhmut region and other areas of Ukraine.
Two Russian officials associated with the ruling United Russia party died on the same day, according to local media reports.
GigaChat is developed to reduce Russia's reliance on Western countries that have been imposing severe sanctions for a while now.
Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu praised Russia for "promoting world peace" during his four-day visit to the state
The UK government's cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine.
Two topics dominated discussions above all -- the war in Ukraine, and China's growing military and economic clout.
Georgieva was born and raised in Bulgaria, a former Soviet satellite state.
The UK and South Korea have made a joint statement outlining plans for cooperation on the transition to a clean energy future based on renewable and nuclear technology.
The US Treasury said Usmanov is close to Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council.
The Head of China Research at the French Institute of International Relations says that Macron's hopes of China acting as mediator in Ukraine are unrealistic.
Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country's invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following recent violence.
Several conspiracy theories have cropped up about how Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting increasingly paranoid.
The United States, Britain, Albania and Malta walked out on Russia's envoy for children's rights - whom the International Criminal Court wants to arrest on war crimes charges - as she spoke by video to U.N.
A report by the UK's Defence Ministry has claimed that the Russian soldiers have been abusing alcohol.
Former US President Donald Trump is no stranger to controversies. He has often made headlines for his remarks and stance on issues.
King Charles hailed the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an address to the Bundestag on Thursday on his first state trip overseas as monarch.
In London, Britain's government said Monday that Ukrainian crews who have been training to use UK-donated Challenger 2 tanks are now ready to deploy to the frontline.
NATO castigated Vladimir Putin over his nuclear rhetoric a day after the Russian president said he planned to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, escalating a standoff with the West.
Moscow on Wednesday warned of a "serious" escalation of the Ukraine crisis if London gives Kyiv the armour piercing rounds.
The British defence ministry said on Monday that it would provide Ukraine with depleted uranium-tipped armour-piercing bullets.
Video released by Zelensky's office showed him meeting servicemen in a warehouse and handing out state decorations.
Vladimir Putin stated that Ukraine peace settlement might be built on a Chinese proposal to stop the conflict, but that Kyiv and the West were not yet ready.