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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Russia

From left, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, meet with reporters after their meeting at Diaoyutai State Guest House on March 14, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Pool Photo via AP)
March 14, 2025, 1:16 pm
China, Russia and Iran call for end to US sanctions on Iran, urge holding talks
At summit, three allies say ‘dialogue based on the principle of mutual respect’ is only viable option to resolving issue of Tehran’s nuclear program
By AP and ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)
March 4, 2025, 4:56 pm
As Trump cozies up to Putin, Russia offers to mediate US-Iran nuclear talks
Kremlin spokesperson declares that Moscow will do everything in its power to help resolve all problems between two foes via negotiations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
March 4, 2025, 2:32 pm
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea
By Mordechai I. Twersky
A makeshift memorial in front of portraits of murdered Israeli hostages Shiri (L), Ariel (CL), and Kfir (CR) Bibas, as well as Oded Lifshitz (R) at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on February 25, 2025. (Jack Guez / AFP)
February 26, 2025, 2:18 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Day 509 – Bibas family buried as Hamas to release 4 hostages’ remains
Reporters Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes on a potential reset of ceasefire talks, MK Yair Lapid’s Gaza day-after dream and a 5-year-old who misses his friend Ariel Bibas
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes
People pay their respects as the coffin of hostage Oded Lifshitz, killed in Hamas captivity, makes its way from Rishon Lezion, February 25, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 25, 2025, 2:13 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 25: Day 508 – Is Hamas’s show of force in Gaza backfiring?
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest US diplomacy plans regarding the hostage deal, Hamas presence in Gaza, and a UN resolution backed by Israel with the US and Russia
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
This combination of pictures created on February 20, 2025 shows posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R), held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 21, 2025 (AFP)
February 21, 2025, 11:43 am
Daily Briefing Feb. 21: Day 504 – Where is Shiri Bibas?
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman updates us on the identification process of the 4 bodies handed over by Hamas yesterday and mass bus bombing attempts. Stay tuned for the Friday Focus
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, September 27, 2024, in New York. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
February 21, 2025, 10:52 am
Friday Focus: After 3 years of Ukraine war, should anyone care?
Three years since its launch, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia appears to be winding down – if US President Donald Trump has his way. Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman weighs in
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
US President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, February 18, 2025. (Pool via AP)
February 19, 2025, 8:22 pm
Trump labels Zelensky a ‘dictator’ as tensions rise over Russian war against Ukraine
President claims Ukrainian leader ‘talked’ US into providing aid for ‘war that couldn’t be won,’ after blaming Kyiv for Putin’s invasion
By Stephany Matat and AAMER MADHANI
Russian-Israeli citizen Alexander Troufanov (L), just released from 498 days of captivity in the Gaza Strip, meets with Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov (R), February 15, 2025. (Russian Embassy to Israel via X)
February 16, 2025, 9:39 am
Russian ambassador meets with freed hostage Sasha Troufanov, gives him new passport
Anatoly Viktorov stresses Russian efforts, at Putin’s direction, to free Troufanov, who spent 498 days in Islamic Jihad captivity in Gaza before his release on Saturday
By ToI Staff
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damage to the sarcophagus that covers the 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside following a Russian drone attack in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Feb. 14, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
February 14, 2025, 11:34 am
Ukraine: Russian drone blasts hole in radiation shield ‘protecting the world’ at Chernobyl nuclear plant
Radiation levels at site normal after attack, despite damage to cover built over reactor that exploded in 1986; Kyiv says Moscow sent swarm of over 100 UAVs
By AFP
Illustrative — Russian S-300 missile systems drives during a general rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 5, 2024. Russia will celebrate the 79th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency / AFP)
February 5, 2025, 4:20 pm
Iran displays Russian-made long-range air defense systems in military exercises
Tehran claims drills, which come amid renewed US pressure, show Israel didn’t actually fell its air defenses in ‘malicious’ October strikes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photo provided Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, by the Iranian Army, army commander Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, left, speaks with Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh in a ceremony to deliver domestically-built drones to the army in an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)
January 13, 2025, 6:45 pm
Iran and Russia to ink ‘strategic partnership’ deal as Tehran seeks money, arms
Pezeshkian to sign accord during talks with Putin in Moscow days before Trump inauguration; similarly named pact with Pyongyang has seen North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: This frame grab taken from video footage posted on the Telegram channel @askrasul on October 29, 2023 shows rioters at the Makhachkala International Airport, in the Caucusus' Republic of Dagastan, hunting for Israeli and Jewish passengers as a plane arrives from Tel Aviv. (Screen capture: Telegram/@askrasul via AFP, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 11, 2025, 2:41 pm
Four members of anti-Israel Dagestan airport mob sentenced to decade in penal colony
Punishment said to be harshest yet in connection to riot at Makhachkala Int’l Airport after the arrival of a plane carrying ‘unclean’ passengers from Tel Aviv, 3 weeks after Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
L to R: Roman Abramovich (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis), Andrey Melnichenko (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell), Vagit Alekperov (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
December 30, 2024, 6:56 pm
Roman Abramovich among chemical tycoons fueling Ukraine war, exposé finds
Five companies — one linked to Russian-Israeli billionaire — supplied 75% of chemicals shipped to Russian explosive factories from war’s start to September 2024, Reuters finds
By Stephen Grey, John Shiffman and Grant Smith
El Al planes, parked at the Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 30, 2024, 3:06 pm
El Al halts Moscow route until April 1 after Russia apparently downs Azeri plane
Flagship carrier suspends its 5 weekly flights; says passengers stuck in Moscow can fly home to Israel from any destination in Europe at no additional cost, if they can get there
By Sharon Wrobel
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