Russia-Ukraine

Instead of giving in to pressure, India is mending its ties with  Russia and China. President Donald Trump has accused India of funding Russia’s war in Ukraine by buying discounted crude oil from Moscow.

Putin offered to freeze fighting in southern regions if Ukraine ceded Donetsk. Zelensky refused while Trump pushed for a peace agreement, leaving European capitals anxious over Moscow’s growing leverage in the war’s next phase.

Both Russia and Ukraine are connecting several of their first-person view (FPV) drones to their commanders via fiber optic cables rather than using radio waves around the battlefield.

Donald Trump’s frustration with Putin, however, is not limited to mere rhetoric; rather, the US President is contemplating imposing secondary sanctions against Russia.

Similar cases of cables being severed in Baltic Sea have happened in the past. Investigators of a 2023 case involving damage to telecom cables and a subsea gas pipeline pointed to a Chinese container ship as the possible culprit. They believed that the ship dragged its anchor, resulting in the damage. However, it remains unclear whether the incident was deliberate or accidental.

"India has never been neutral in this war; we stand for peace," PM Modi said, underscoring India's ongoing efforts to promote dialogue and diplomacy as a means to resolve the conflict.

This is the first ceasefire ordered by the Russian president Putin since the Russian offensive against Ukraine began in February 2022.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's views on the use of nuclear weapons had an impact on the Russians and could well have averted a global disaster in the context of the Ukraine war, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Bill Burns said