According to "The New York Times," Kim Jong Un proposed sending his troops to Russia, not Vladimir Putin. U.S. intelligence suggests that North Korea hopes to gain future benefits through this action.

Russia will make a one-time voluntary contribution of 1 million euros to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), according to an executive order. The document says that the goal of the payment is to ensure the representation of Russian staffers in the convention's secretariat.

Serhii Kyslytsia, Ukraine's representative to the United Nations, has said that the numerous war crimes and atrocities committed by Russia in the war against Ukraine are not isolated acts of violence but a policy of the Kremlin to systematically destroy the culture,

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make what's likely his final trip in office to the United Nations this week.

The transfer marks the end of an era when Russia played an arguably oversized role in determining which countries could operate in Syria’s contested airspace.

Russia and North Korea have neither confirmed nor denied these claims, though Moscow and Pyongyong have spoken of their deepening military cooperation and Mr Kim has vowed to “invariably support Russia in its war” while calling out Nato’s “reckless” eastward advance.

Topless members of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.

Russia is deploying major resources to take back the entire region of Kursk, which Ukraine invaded in early August. Some 1,000 North Koreans have been sent to the area to assist 50,000 Russian soldiers,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said there have been more than 3,000 North Korean casualties in Russia's Kursk region.

North Korea has supplied Russia with thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine, intelligence officials said, but old footage that has resurfaced on social media does not show the funeral of a general deployed by Pyongyang to lead its troops in the ongoing invasion.

On Christmas Day, the Russian army launched a massive attack on the country's energy infrastructure. The national electricity company implemented restrictions, while temperatures barely exceeded 0°C.