One of Russia’s most powerful men, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is set to visit North Korea this weekend, in a sign of deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as North Korea gets pulled deeper into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Since Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Kronstadt Group, which specializes in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the Molniya, Orion, Sirius, and Grom drones, has been under sanctions by the European Union,

U.S. relations continues and has not faded, although the U.S. administration is acting in a zigzag manner, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA news agency in remarks published on Friday.

The Russian defence ministry said that its air defence systems destroyed four drones over the Lipetsk region that lies in Russia’s southwest. The ministry only reports the number of drones that its units destroy, not how many Ukraine launches.

Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty joins Isa’s Book Club to discuss her memoir, ‘My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin.’

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