Russia is working on response measures to Western restrictions, a Foreign Ministry diplomat says Belgium will lose its status as the global diamond trading hub due to Western sanctions on Russian diamonds, Artyom Studennikov, the head of the First European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Sunday.

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The number of stored warheads ready for potential use has increased by 86 since 2022, new research has claimed Nuclear powers are actively modernizing and expanding their arsenals amid rising geopolitical tensions, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday.