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With US Talks Stalled, Iran Turns to Putin

Russian president signals mediation role

(Newser) - Iran's top diplomat made a high-profile stop in Russia on Monday as efforts to restart negotiations with the US showed little movement. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg after Araghchi visited Oman and Pakistan, both active intermediaries in the stalled talks, the Washington ...

Russian Superyacht Slips Through Hormuz Blockade

The massive Nord, linked to a sanctioned billionaire, sails through amid tight Iranian restrictions

(Newser) - A $500 million Russian superyacht just slipped through one of the world's tensest waterways. Shipping data show that the 465-foot-long Nord, which is tied to sanctioned steel billionaire Alexey Mordashov, left Dubai on Friday, traversed the heavily restricted Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, and reached Oman early Sunday. How...

5 Dead, Dozens Injured as Russia Hits Ukraine's Dnipro

The attacks kept coming 'practically all night,' one local official says

(Newser) - Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least five people and wounded at least 46, authorities said on Saturday. The bodies of four people were found in the ruins of a house destroyed in overnight attacks, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said, per the...

Reports: Iran War Depleting Key US Weapons Stockpiles

Massive missile, munitions use is raising costs and straining US global readiness, some officials say

(Newser) - America's latest war has come with a perhaps unanticipated side effect: a serious dent in the US weapons cupboard. In the two months since the conflict in Iran began, US forces have used roughly 1,100 JASSM-ER stealth cruise missiles—with not much more than that figure left in...

Ukraine May Have Another Trick Up Its Sleeve: 'Donnyland'

Ukrainian negotiators are said to have floated naming part of Donbas 'Donnyland,' after US leader

(Newser) - Ukraine's negotiators have tried an unusual tactic to win over Donald Trump: floating the idea of a "Donnyland" within the Donbas. In confidential peace talks, Ukrainian officials have suggested branding a contested portion of eastern Ukraine with Trump's name—a mashup of "Donbas" and the president'...

UK Calls Out Russia for Alleged Undersea Cable Spying

Defense secretary reveals month-long operation tracking subs as Iran war raged

(Newser) - Britain has responded to President Trump's barbs about its military and its lack of action in the Middle East by saying it's focused on a true threat: Russian spying in the North Atlantic. UK Defense Secretary John Healey on Thursday revealed the country shadowed three Russian submarines for...

Sending Tanker to Cuba Went So Well Russia Is Sending No. 2

'We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble,' says energy minister

(Newser) - Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, the country's Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov said on Thursday. The announcement comes just two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time...

29 Dead as Russian Military Plane Slams Into Cliff

Technical problems cited in An-26 crash in Crimea

(Newser) - A routine military flight over Crimea ended in disaster on Tuesday, with a Russian An-26 transport plane slamming into a cliff, killing 29 people on board, according to Russian state media. The Defense Ministry, as cited by Tass, said the aircraft went missing around 6pm Moscow time during a scheduled...

Trump on Cuba Oil Delivery: 'It's Not Going to Matter'

White House says Russian shipment is for humanitarian needs

(Newser) - A long-awaited ship just broke Cuba's months-long oil drought. A Russian-owned tanker has docked at Matanzas, the country's main oil terminal, carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of crude Havana hopes will ease the severe fuel squeeze that has triggered a national crisis, per the BBC . Aiming to force political change...

Trump Has 'No Problem' With Russian Tanker Bringing Oil to Cuba

President says 'somebody' should get oil to Cuba

(Newser) - President Trump on Sunday night said he has "no problem" with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been brought to its knees by a US oil blockade, the AP reports. "We have a tanker out there. We don'...

Zelensky Says Russia Is Blackmailing the US

Moscow's support for Iran, including reported drone deliveries, may hinge on one point

(Newser) - Russia is reportedly gearing up to arm Iran, the very ally that's been arming it. Western intelligence officials say Moscow is close to completing a delivery of drones, as well as medicine and food, to Iran—a shift that would mark Russia's first confirmed supply of lethal hardware to Tehran...

Zelensky: Trump Wants Ukraine to Surrender Donbas

Zelensky says US security guarantees conditioned on giving up Donbas to Russia

(Newser) - Ukraine's president says the price tag Washington is floating for long-term security guarantees is land, Politico reports. Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters the US has linked a potential security deal to Kyiv agreeing to withdraw from the entire Donbas region, a move he warned would strengthen Russia's defenses and...

Iran's Cheap Drones Are a Big Problem for US

$35K Shahed drones strain Gulf defenses despite US strikes: Nicholas Kulish

(Newser) - The United States' problem in the Iran war isn't what it can blow up—it's what it can't see. Nicholas Kulish of the New York Times reports that even as American strikes level drone factories like one recently hit near Isfahan, Iran's Shahed attack drones remain cheap, simple, and surprisingly...

Russia Launches One of the Biggest Attacks of the War

Daytime drone strikes targeted cities across Ukraine

(Newser) - Russia took its air campaign over Ukraine into broad daylight on Tuesday, sending swarms of drones at city centers nationwide in what Ukraine's air force called one the war's largest attacks. President Volodymyr Zelensky said several people were killed and at least 40 injured as apartment blocks, hospitals,...

France: We Intercepted Tanker in Russia's 'Shadow Fleet'

'We won't let this happen,' says Macron after French navy boarded tanker in the Mediterranean

(Newser) - The French navy on Friday intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that President Emmanuel Macron said is linked to Russia's sanctioned shadow fleet shipping oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow's war on Ukraine. According to the French maritime authorities for the Mediterranean, the...

Russian Oil Tanker May Test US Cuba Blockade

Sanctioned tanker is expected to arrive Monday

(Newser) - A Russian oil tanker is quietly cutting through the Atlantic, and its next move could trigger a fresh US–Russia clash over Cuba. The Anatoly Kolodkin , a Russian state-owned vessel under US sanctions and carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of crude, left Primorsk on March 9 and exited the English...

Russia Agrees to Stop Sending Kenyans to War

Countries agree to halt controversial wartime recruitment amid Kenyan protests

(Newser) - Kenya says it has struck a deal with Moscow to shut down a controversial pipeline sending its citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi, speaking alongside his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, said the two governments agreed that Kenyans "will no longer be...

Ukraine's New Leverage With US: Drone Expertise

Zelensky sends interceptor drones, experts after request from US in the Iranian war

(Newser) - Perhaps no country on earth has become as adept at shooting down enemy drones as Ukraine because of its war with Russia. Now that the US is facing essentially the same drones in the Iran war, Volodymyr Zelensky's nation is sending interceptor drones and a team of experts to...

Hegseth: Iran War Is 'Bringing Your Enemy to Their Knees'

Defense secretary says US strikes will intensify until Iran's capabilities collapse

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the outcome in Iran is already set: capitulation, whether Tehran says the word or not. In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes , Hegseth said US strikes had hit roughly 3,000 targets in Iran as of Friday and warned the campaign is "only just...

Russia May Be Helping Iran Target US Forces

Insider says Russia is happy to get 'payback' for US support for Ukraine

(Newser) - Russia isn't just watching the US-Iran war from the sidelines, US officials say—it's feeding Iran data on where to aim. The Washington Post , citing "three officials familiar with the intelligence," reports that since fighting erupted Saturday, Moscow has been supplying Tehran with locations of US...

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