Newly released footage shows Russia and its quasi-ally China conducting a naval patrol in the Western Pacific as part of their military cooperation that challenges the United States. Newsweek has emailed the Russian and Chinese foreign ministries for further comment.

Report reveals China and India supporting Russia despite sanctions, with sale of explosive materials from India and Chinese drone engines powering Russian attacks.

Sanctions were imposed on Russia’s VTB Bank in February 2022, and it was kicked off the interbank payment system called SWIFT. SWIFT is the global messaging network that enables banks worldwide to communicate and process international money transfers, and without access, VTB should have been isolated from global finance.

China said it is open to playing a "constructive role" in resolving the Ukraine crisis after Russia suggested Beijing could be one of the guarantors of Ukrainian security under a peace deal—a proposal Kyiv rejected.

Russia expects to continue supplying oil to India despite warnings from the United States, Russian embassy officials in New Delhi said on Wednesday, adding that Moscow hopes trilateral talks will soon take place with India and China.

From India recalibrating its foreign policy as ties with the US nosedived and Indian exporters weighing Russia as a viable market, to the UN chief calling famine in Gaza a “failure of humanity” and Iran and European countries agreeing to resume nuclear talks,

Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, Ukraine has said.

China has taken countermeasures against two banks in the European Union, in response to the bloc placing two Chinese financial institutions on a Russia-related sanctions list, its commerce ministry said on Wednesday.

"If the U.S. is bent on imposing tariffs, China will fight to the end, and this is China's consistent official stance," said Tu Xinquan, director of the China Institute for WTO Studies at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. WTO is the acronym for the World Trade Organization.

The same group of Russian naval vessels was tracked sailing from the Sea of Japan toward the East China Sea via the Tsushima Strait between August 14 and 15, according to Japan's Defense Ministry. Details of its week-long mission in the East China Sea remain unknown.