From railways and automobiles to diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/10/economy/russia-companies-workers-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #russia #russiaukrainewar #globaleconomy #vladimirputin
Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine’s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend €1.9 billion on fuel imports to survive the looming winter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/world/russian-ukraine-strikes-gas-winter/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Despite mounting economic and demographic pressures, Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue to feed the war machine so long as he gains ground in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/08/world/putins-economic-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #russia #vladimirputin #russiaukrainewar #ukraine #russianeconomy
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to voluntarily maintain limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons "sounds like a good idea." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/world/politics/trump-putin-nuclear-arms-control/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #us #vladimirputin #donaldtrump #russiaukrainewar #nuclearweapons #missiles #defense
Thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles hover above more than 1,000 kilometers of front lines in Ukraine's east and south at any one time, making even small infantry advances dangerous and costly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/world/ukraine-front-line-cities/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
What is billed as the biggest exhibition of North Korean art held outside the reclusive state is the latest sign of warming ties between Moscow and Pyongyang. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/30/asia-pacific/russia-north-korea-art-exhibit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #russia #northkorea #vladimirputin #kimjongun #russiaukrainewar #art #museums
A Russian drone and missile attack against Ukraine lasting 12 hours killed at least four people in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl, Ukrainian authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/world/russian-drone-missile-attack-kyiv/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #kyiv #drones
Even if the guns fall silent in Ukraine, Russia’s economy may never step off the battlefield as years of massive defense outlays have locked the country in a state of militarization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/world/politics/putin-war-machine-russian-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #economy #defense
U.S President Donald Trump’s newly upbeat view of Kyiv’s prospects in its war against the Russian invasion bore signs of a familiar move — his upping the pressure not on Russia but on Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/25/world/politics/trump-shift-ukraine-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us #donaldtrump #eu #un #nato #europe
China, Russia and North Korea used the Beijing parade to signal a united challenge to the West, underscoring the need for stronger allied responses amid a growing revisionist threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/24/world/orwellian-lesson-from-xi-and-putin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #russia #northkorea #xijinping #vladimirputin #kimjongun #defense #ukraine #us #russiaukrainewar #donaldtrump
In a 180-degree shift, U.S. President Donald Trump now says Ukraine might be able to win all of its territory back from Russia, but Kyiv and its supporters are concerned the Trump could be washing his hands of the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/world/politics/trump-ukraine-nato-europe-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #donaldtrump #volodymyrzelenskyy #un #europe #eu #nato #us #vladimirputin
At an event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Canada and Ukraine's leaders cast the spotlight on the plight of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/world/politics/carney-zelenskyy-ukraine-children-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #markcarney #canada #un #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia, in an astonishing turnaround on the war after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/world/politics/trump-ukraine-policy-shift/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #donaldtrump #volodymyrzelenskyy #un #europe #eu #nato #us #vladimirputin
Donald Trump has shown an almost pathological desire to tout his “fantastic” relationship with Vladimir Putin, even as Putin has discounted, disregarded and defied him. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/23/world/trump-putins-useful-idiot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #vladimirputin #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the U.S. agreed to do the same. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/politics/putin-new-start-nuclear-treaty-extension/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #russia #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump #vladimirputin
The only reason Vladimir Putin is expressing an openness to talks is because he wants to reduce international support for Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/22/world/putins-negotiations-are-a-trap/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #vladimirputin #donaldtrump #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
Trump keeps treating the nation’s allies with such contempt that the consequences will be lasting and ugly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/22/world/allies-no-longer-trust-the-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #vladimirputin #benjaminnetanyahu #russia #poland #nato #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #china #taiwan #aukus #thequad
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says two foreign laboratories carried out tests on biological samples obtained from her husband that showed he was poisoned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/world/navalny-poison-tests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #alexeinavalny #russia #vladimirputin
New sanctions and frozen Russian assets are potential game changers — but only if Kyiv’s allies make use of them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/17/putin-overplays-ukraine-hand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #europe #donaldtrump #eu #nato #vladimirputin #russianeconomy