Pacific Rim leaders showed divisions over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza after a two-day summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum on Friday.

Fighting along the northern portion of Ukraine’s eastern front has “significantly worsened” in recent days, the commander of Kyiv’s ground forces said on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS summit via video conference: The aim of the Russian military operation is to end the war in Ukraine.

The ambassador and permanent representative of Russia to the international organizations based in Vienna, the capital of Austria, criticized the Jeddah international meeting to stop the war in Ukraine.

In an article referring to the upcoming NATO meeting in Lithuania, Politico wrote: Many Western leaders are worried about the prolongation of support for Kiev and the costs this war has imposed on them.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, answered in the negative when asked by reporters whether he would take a step to facilitate Ukraine's membership in NATO.

Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, along with other leaders of African countries, in a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia in St. Petersburg, called for an end to the war in Ukraine.

Germany's defense minister announced that if Western countries stop sending weapons to Ukraine, this country will be destroyed.

In a speech, the Russian president called for his country to be more self-sufficient, implying that Russia's national pride had been strengthened, referring to tensions between the West and Moscow.

A week after Russia's decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, the United Nations warned of an increase in nuclear tensions in the world.

The Russian Foreign Minister said that the West does not want the end of the war in Ukraine.

Sayed Reza Mir Taher/UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has revealed his concern about the war in Ukraine. According to him, the war in Ukraine, with the intervention of the Westerners and the sending of heavy weapons to Kiev, risks turning into a world war.

Following the increase in tensions in the West regarding the sending of heavy weapons to Ukraine, Belgium also refused to send F-16 fighter jets to Kiev after the United States.

During an interview, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, while pointing out that the United States has the main role in starting the war in Ukraine, stated that Washington is the main user of this war and benefits from it.

In a press conference, the President of Croatia considered the war in Ukraine to be a proxy war started by America and Europe. By stating that they (Europe and America) only go from one war to another, he called sanctions against Russia ineffective.

Iran's National Security Council rejected the rumor of registration and recruitment of former Afghan soldiers in Iran to send them to the war in Ukraine and considered its publication to be the work of the media, which are known for creating fake news. Also, the special representative of Russia in Afghanistan has also said in response to a question ...