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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed Russia-India ties Friday as the Kremlin looks to draw closer to India following Moscow's break with the West over Ukraine.

The two-day visit to India follows Lavrov’s stop-off in China, where he spoke of the beginning of what he called “a multipolar, just, democratic world order.”

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The Kremlin denied Friday that President Vladimir Putin had undergone surgery for thyroid cancer after an investigative report raised suspicion over a presidential hospital surgeon’s frequent visits to his Black Sea residence.

The report said a large group of doctors including a thyroid cancer surgeon had accompanied Putin on his trips to his

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The Kremlin on Friday offered to "explain" Moscow's actions in Ukraine to French actor Gerard Depardieu after he denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin's "crazy, unacceptable excesses."

Depardieu, a long-time star in France before Peter Weir's 1990 film "Green Card" made him a Hollywood celebrity, left France and took up Russian nationality in

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Ukrainian military helicopters carried out a targeted strike on an oil storage facility on Russian soil, the region’s governor claimed Friday.

"There was a fire at the petrol depot because of an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters, who entered Russian territory at a low altitude," Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod

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Earlier this week, pharmaceutical giant Johnson - Johnson joined the growing numbers of Western firms to announce a new scaling back of operations in Russia.

Having already suspended new investments, pulled advertising and halted enrolment in medical trials there at the beginning of March, the company had drawn scorn for not going far enough

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia is consolidating and preparing "powerful strikes" in the country's east and south, including besieged Mariupol, where a new attempt will be made Friday to evacuate civilians from the devastated city.

Russia meanwhile threatened to turn off its gas taps to Europe if payments are not made in