Up to 250 foreign mercenaries were killed in the attack, the Ministry of Defense has claimed A facility used by Ukraine’s “foreign legion” in Donbass has been targeted in a Russian missile strike that killed up to 250 mercenaries and destroyed a number of military vehicles, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday.

Almost uniquely, Moscow gets on with all the major regional players – it needs to harness this to its advantage This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Tehran for a summit of the guarantors of the so-called Astana process, which aims to find a political settlement in Syria.

The US treasury secretary campaigns in Asia, seeking a price cap on Russian crude The US has held ‘encouraging’ talks with India about a price cap on Russian oil that Washington wants to introduce in order to limit Moscow’s revenues and push down global crude prices, Reuters reported on Monday.