The spacecraft will help facilitate data exchange between the International Space Station and Earth Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced that it successfully launched its Luch-5X communications satellite into orbit on Monday.

Berlin was “humiliated” by Washington during the Nord Stream sabotage controversy, senior security official Nikolay Patrushev has said Germany is facing an inevitable economic decline after losing its access to Russian energy, but cannot do anything about it because it is not a sovereign nation, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council has claimed.

The Chinese leader will reportedly make a trip to the Russian capital as early as next week Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning a trip to Moscow to hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and could arrive as early as next week, Reuters reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources.