With China’s ties to Russia under stronger scrutiny from the West, banks are keeping a closer eye on transactions with links to Moscow – and China’s exporters are concerned their bottom line will suffer.

The political philosopher was reminded of Russia’s imperialist history, with one user asking for the return of territory taken from China in the 19th century.

First visit by Chinese president to Europe in over five years is highlighting the pivotal role Beijing’s ties with Moscow play in Europe’s relationship with China.

As Russia leverages its advantage in ammunition and manpower to exploit Ukraine’s dwindling stocks of weaponry, it has also increasingly embraced TikTok as part of its parallel information war.

US Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black is being detained in Vladivostok on suspicion of theft. He followed his girlfriend to Russia while he was on personal leave from military service.

Relaxed mountain setting chosen so Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron can speak frankly on myriad mutual grievances and grounds for cooperation.

French President welcomes Beijing’s commitment to ‘refrain from selling any weapons or aid’ to Russia, but commerce official reinforces the need to enhance bilateral trade.

The head of Ukraine’s state security service said the failed assassination attempt was supposed to be a ‘gift to Putin’ to mark his inauguration on Tuesday

Putin won a landslide victory in a presidential election in March, more than two years after he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.

On first day of Chinese leader’s European trip, French president also thanks him for supporting an ‘Olympic truce’ during the Summer Games in Paris.

Xi says China and Europe can contribute to world peace, ahead of meeting with President Emmanuel Macron and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.

Some were aware of the risks and joined voluntarily, but others said they were tricked into going to the frontline after being promised cooking and cleaning jobs.

Russia says the drills are in response to ‘provocative statements and threats by certain Western officials’.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been a frequent target of attacks in recent weeks.

The president has been a target since the start of Moscow’s invasion, and says he was aware of at least ‘five or six’ foiled assassination attempts against him.

President Xi Jinping’s European trip comes amid barrage of EU trade and competition tools largely targeting Chinese firms, including dramatic raids in the Netherlands and Poland.

Brian Nelson, the Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will visit the region as Washington looks to combat funding for Iran and its proxies as well as evasion of its sanctions on Russia.

Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks and harassment of Russians – prominent or not – have been blamed on Moscow’s intelligence operatives across Europe and elsewhere.

The arrival of Russian personnel in the West African country came in the wake of a decision by Niger’s junta to expel US forces from the country.

Ukrainian singer Jerry Heil and rapper alyona alyona spoke about promoting their war-torn country’s music, culture and freedom as they set off to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest.

During an interview with the Economist, Macron said “I’m not ruling anything out”, when asked if he stood by comments earlier this year about the potential to send Western troops to Ukraine.

Moscow exhibit features a US-made M1 Abrams battle tank that was taken out by a ‘guided rocket and kamikaze drones’.

20 companies based in mainland China and Hong Kong were among hundreds of entities hit by the wide-ranging move.

Moscow’s forces are accused of using the choking agent chloropicrin against enemy troops.

Diana Mondino’s delegation was the first official visit to China since the country’s Western-leaning government took office last year.

Russia, in recent weeks, has unveiled a strange-looking – albeit apparently effective – innovation that has been referred to by some Ukraine war observers as the ‘turtle tank’.