Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin toast during their dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow in March 2023.
(Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
The spectacle of two UN Security Council members — China and Russia — allegedly perpetrating mass atrocity crimes is deeply troubling. Here’s how the international community must step up.
Brothers in arms: Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at a military parade in Pyongyang in July.
EPA-EFE/KCNA
The drones are light, cheap, easy to transport and have proved to be highly effective as a weapon of war.
Pope Francis with Vladimir Putin in 2019: the Pope has angered Ukrainians with a speech that seems to back Putin’s idea of a ‘glorious Russian empire’.
EPA-EFE/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin/Sputnik POOL
It would help African countries to have a common position on the Ukraine war. This should be based on its impact on food and energy security in the continent.
Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking via video link at the 2023 Brics summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Marco Longari/Pool via AP
Jose Caballero, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
As the Brics alliance signs up new members, Russia continues to win over more allies.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a Danish F-16 fighter jet. Denmark is supplying Ukraine with 19 F-16s.
EPA-EFE/Mads Claus Rasmussen
The apparent death of the warlord in a plane shot down over Russia tells us much about the fragility that surrounds Russian politics.
Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rose through the ranks from Vladimir Putin’s caterer to the boss of Russia’s most powerful private military company.
Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo
An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, hands out medals to servicemen at a hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, August 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Slow but steady: Volodymyr Zelensky receives a briefing on the counter-offensive from officers in Zaporizhzhia.
The Presidential Office of Ukraine via/dpa/Alamy Live News