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Their absence has not deterred President Joe Biden from making the long journey to India (despite testing vigorously for Covid 19) for the gathering as the U.S has not lost its gusto to seize the opportunity.

At the beginning of the week, The New York Times had disclosed that Kim is considering a trip to Vladivostok, potentially utilizing an armored train for the journey.

Speaking to media, Saran said he believes President Putin's absence at the G20 Summit has nothing to do with his relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi or India

Manish Tewari said that with the absence of both President Putin and President Xi at the G20 Summit the principal challenge to restore the equilibrium of peace in the global order will not be addressed

Ukraine and Russia are major suppliers of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other goods that developing nations rely on

Russian forces fired 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones along the Danube River in the early hours of Sunday, 22 of which were shot down by air defenses

One naval drone was destroyed late Friday and two others early Saturday morning, according to Russia's Defence Ministry

Wagner, one of the most capable elements of Moscow's forces, played a key role in Ukraine where it captured the Ukrainian eastern stronghold of Bakhmut in late May

Igor Strelkov was convicted of murder in the Netherlands for his role in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet in 2014

Prigozhin was confirmed dead after DNA swabs of the bodies from last weeks plane crash were matched, Russian officials said on Sunday

The Wagner Group's presence extends from the ancient battlegrounds of Syria to the deserts of sub-Saharan Africa, projecting the Kremlin's global influence

The G20 world leaders' summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10

The founder of the Wagner military company and six other passengers were on a private jet that crashed Wednesday soon after taking off from Moscow, with a crew of three

Putin expressed condolences for those who were aboard the jet, including mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Overall, around 1,200 delegates from the five BRICS nations and dozens of other developing countries are in South Africa's biggest city.

President Vladimir Putin spoke about increased prices of agricultural products and crops and added that the impact of this inflation has made poor countries more vulnerable than others

Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko said last month that Moscow already had shipped some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus

The bloc, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is holding its first in-person meeting since before the Covid pandemic

Sweden abandoned its longstanding policy of military nonalignment to support Ukraine with weapons and other aid in the war against Russia

In June last year, the BBC's Clive Myrie and Orla Guerin were among journalists who have reported from Ukraine to be banned.