International relations

"We have information that Russia is increasing its efforts to strike the civilian infrastructure and buildings of state institutions in Ukraine in the coming days" - said a representative of the US administration to American media.

The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans it disperses to needy countries like war-torn Ukraine which is one of the fund's biggest borrowers.

The move comes as more countries will need to turn to the IMF, as food prices and inflation internationally continues to rise.

Türkiye will not allow any person or institution to violate sanctions imposed on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, a senior Turkish official told his United States counterpart on a phone conversation.

“Turkey pushes unfortunate people many times by force towards our borders”, the minister stated

China's Defence Ministry has announced that its People's Liberation Army will participate in the strategic command and staff exercise Vostok-2022 in Russia in which India, Belarus, Tajikistan and Mongolia are also participants.

Vui, answering a journalist's question after the meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, said that Serbia is a militarily neutral country.
"Serbia wants to preserve peace, it wants to secure its own sky, its own land, its own people, its own population, and that is how it will behave in the future," said President Vui.

“Kissinger’s moves signaled to the broader Turkish establishment that aggression works. Kissinger flattered the Turkish notion that size matters”

This is what Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on the occasion of the upcoming meeting on August 18 in Brussels with Serbian President Aleksandar Vui, Koha reported.
Kurti stated that the agreement depends on the Serbian side, because the Kosovo side is ready and unwavering for mutual recognition.

US Military is "furiously" rewriting nuclear deterrence to address Russia and China, news portal Defense One reports.
Head of US Strategic Command (STRACTOM) Admiral Chas Richard claims that it needs more Americans working on how to prevent nuclear war.

This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian delegation, Andrey Belousov, commenting on the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed in 1994. That agreement was signed by the United States of America, Russia, the United Kingdom and Ukraine in Budapest.