Russia plans to test launch seven intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2024, Sergei Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces has said, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday. Russia gave the United States at least 24 hours notice of such launches and Washington afforded Moscow the same courtesy, Interfax cited Karakayev as telling the Russia's army's official Red Star newspaper. Russia and the United States possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals.
Ukraine has already said that any Russian vote in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions will be null and void, and that it will prosecute any observers sent to monitor voting. Russia's annexation claim last year, seven months after its invasion of Ukraine, was rejected as illegal by Ukraine and most countries at the United Nations General Assembly.
The French engineering giant Alstom plans to sell 20% of its stake in the Russian railcar manufacturer Transmashholding (TMH) by the end of 2023, Interfax news agency reported on Nov. 17, citing the general director of TMH, Kirill Lipa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson says the Kremlin is closely monitoring a nuclear test carried out this week in Nevada, a report says.