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The train carrying North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has already arrived in Russia, RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday. The Russian agency, citing one of its correspondents in Russia's Far East, where Kim is expected, posted also a video of a train, with dark green and grey cars, moving forward and saying it was the train carrying the North Korean leader.

Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that is likely to focus on Russia's desire to buy ammunition to refill reserves drained by its war in Ukraine. The meeting will also underscore deepening cooperation as the two isolated leaders are locked in separate confrontations with the U.S. In return for providing ammunition, North Korea will likely want shipments of food and energy and transfers of sophisticated weapons technologies. A meeting with Putin would be Kim's first with a foreign leader since North Korea closed its borders in January 2020. They met for the first time in April 2019, two months after Kim's high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with then-U.S.

Also Read: Kim Jong Un Travels to Russia, His Bulletproof Train Spotted Ahead of Putin Meeting "The presence of Jo Chun Ryong indicates that North Korea and Russia will conclude some type of agreement for munitions purchases," said Michael Madden, a North Korea leadership expert at the Washington-based Stimson Center. Reuters reported that images released by state media depicted military honour guards and crowds of individuals in formal attire, including both dark suits and colourful dresses.

As Washington seeks to exploit cracks in Russia’s traditional sphere of influence, U.S. forces began joint military exercises with troops from Armenia, the small South Caucasus country that has been a close Russian ally for nearly 200 years. In a possible sign of the geopolitical realignment driven by Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, U.S.

Russia’ as the latter embarks on a visit to Russia where he is expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The meet, as declared by Russia and North Korea on Monday, has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

SEOUL—As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia, he likely did so in the preferred manner of Pyongyang’s ruling family: cloaked in secrecy, self-protection and style. Kim, the third-generation dictator, plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media from both countries said on Monday—the first official confirmation of the summit between the two leaders. The reports didn’t specify when or where specifically the exchange will take place.

Indian Foreign Service officers played pivotal roles in India's successful bid to secure a consensus at the recent G20 Leaders Summit. As per a TOI report, these officers, working closely with India's G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant, were instrumental in navigating the challenging negotiations that spanned over 200 hours, involving 300 bilateral meetings and 15 draft revisions. Announcing the achievement on the microblogging site X, Amitabh Kant shared his appreciation for the tireless efforts of these diplomats.

Brazil's leader withdrew on Monday his personal assurance that Russia President Vladimir Putin would not be arrested if he attends next year's G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, saying it would be up to the judiciary to decide. Putin missed this year's gathering in the Indian capital New Delhi, avoiding possible political opprobrium and any risk of criminal detention under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. Brazil is an ICC member but President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raised eyebrows at the weekend when he told Indian news network Firstpost: «If I'm the president of Brazil and if he comes to Brazil, there's no way that he will be arrested.» He changed tack on Monday, telling reporters: «I don't know if Brazil's justice will detain him.

Vladimir Putin amidst criticism of vote rigging and Kyiv's push to reclaim its land. The Council of Europe, Europe's leading rights group, called the week-long vote a flagrant violation of international law, and Kyiv and its allies say it was an illegal attempt to tighten Moscow's grip over regions in Ukraine's south and east. The overwhelming vote across Russia and in the annexed regions for the dominance of Putin's United Russia party has delivered on the Kremlin's long-repeated domestic message that Putin is by far the strongest guarantor of stability. But in the regions voting, electoral competition was limited, as strong candidates, including some from Russia's main opposition Communist Party, were blocked from running by authorities.Stanislav Andreychuk, co-chair of Golos, a voter rights' group designated a «foreign agent» by the Russian government, said instances of vote rigging in many parts of the country showed that «these are not real elections». Andreychuk said his organisation had received reports of opposition candidates being detained, having their cars vandalised, and, in one case, military draft papers being served to election observers. «They are doing some absolutely unthinkable things», he said. The Kremlin says opinion polls and numerous election wins show that Putin is by far the most popular politician in Russia and that elections are free and fair.MAJOR PARTIES LOYAL TO PUTINAll significant, legal political forces in Russia, including the patchwork of opposition parties that provide a semblance of competition at the polls, are broadly loyal to Putin and his 18-month-old war in Ukraine. Across the country, United Russia won every provincial governor's race it contested. Among the regional chiefs

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his country as well-placed to bridge gaps in the Group of 20 top economies and solve global problems

Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine

By Katya Golubkova, Michel Rose and Manoj Kumar

Black Sea grain deal that excludes Russia will not be sustainable. «A process for the grain issue that excludes Russia is unlikely to be sustainable,» Erdogan said at a press meet after the G-20 summit in India. This July, Moscow suspended its participation in the Black Sea grain deal, brokered by Türkiye and the UN, to resume grain exports from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports that were paused after the Ukraine war in February 2022. Moscow has complained that the West failed to meet its obligations on Russian grain exports and that not enough Ukrainian grain was going to countries in need. It says restrictions on payments, logistics, and insurance have stood in the way of its shipments. Türkiye says the deal should be resumed by addressing deficiencies, and there is no alternative as other proposals have failed to offer a «sustainable, secure and lasting» model. «We are making intense efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

Two foreign aid workers have reportedly been killed in eastern Ukraine when Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO

Narendra Modi to Russian President Vladimir Putin. For a substantive outcome, consider what the world gains from Russia’s own back-down. In unison, the G20 has called for a revival of the Black Sea grain deal.

G20 Summit meet on Sunday. “Our Indian friends said they would propose promising areas they can be invested in," Lavrov told reporters, citing talks with Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the side lines of the East Asia summit prior to his arrival to India. “Right now our governments are talking how to use and invest them to mutual benefit.", Bloomberg quoted Russia's Foreign Minister.

Sergei Lavrov claimed a diplomatic win on Sunday, declaring a G20 summit in India a «success» after the bloc shied away from direct criticism of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. «We were able to prevent the West's attempts to 'Ukrainize' the summit agenda» Lavrov said as the two-day meeting of leaders closed.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his country as well-placed to bridge gaps in the Group of 20 top economies and solve global problems

Russia and the U.S. both praised a G20 summit declaration that stopped short of directly criticising Moscow for the war in Ukraine as the bloc's leaders headed into the final day of deliberations on Sunday. The world's biggest economies adopted a consensus declaration in New Delhi on Saturday that avoided condemning Russia for the war but highlighted the human suffering the conflict had caused and called on all states not to use force to grab territory. «Everything was reflected in a balanced form,» Svetlana Lukash, the Russian G20 sherpa, or government negotiator, was quoted as saying by Russian news agency Interfax. «All members of the G20 have agreed to act as one in the interests of peace, security and conflict resolution around the world.» White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters the declaration «does a very good job of standing up for the principle that states cannot use force to seek territorial acquisition or to violate the territorial integrity and sovereignty or political independence of other states». Germany and Britain have also praised the resolution but Ukraine has said «it was nothing to be proud of».CATCH ALL LIVE UPDATES OF G20 SUMMIT HERE In the weeks leading to the summit, sharply differing views on the war had threatened to derail the meeting, with the West demanding members call out Moscow for the invasion and Russia saying it would block any resolution that did not reflect its position. The summit also admitted the African Union which includes 55 member states, as a permanent member of the G20. On Sunday, the leaders, including U.S.

Vietnam plan to elevate their relations as U.S. President Joe Biden visits the country from Sunday, with officials saying the focus of the talks will be semiconductors and critical minerals. The U.S.

G20 summit declaration, which refrained from explicitly condemning Moscow for its actions in the Ukraine conflict. Russia expressed the view that the leaders of the G20 acted in the spirit of conflict resolution as discussions continued on Sunday, Reuters reported.