Russia is calling on parties to the conflict in Niger to settle their dispute through dialogue, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Six people have been killed and another nine suffered injuries in a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crash in Siberia, a Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesperson told TASS.

International Criminal Court judge Tomoko Akane, who issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, has been formally designated as wanted on criminal charges, according to the wanted list maintained by the Russian Interior Ministry.

Russia’s Federal Security Service has foiled an attempt by Ukrainian special services to carry out a terror attack aboard a Black Sea Fleet ship carrying precision missile armament, the FSB’s press office told TASS.

More than 30 promising energy projects with Russia’s participation in 16 African countries are at various stages of development now, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum.

Russia continues to be a reliable food supplier for African countries with exports of Russian food products to Africa totaling $4.7 bln in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russia is ready to supply the neediest African countries with grain at no cost at all, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a plenary meeting of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the formation of a common information space to be shared between Russia and Africa, within which objective information on world events would be broadcast to Russian and African audiences, in his speech at the plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

Russia considers Burundi its trusted ally on the African continent, and today's talks will provide another opportunity to discuss plans for further development of bilateral cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his Burundian counterpart Evariste Ndayishimiye.

It is precisely Russia that is making a significant contribution to global food security, with Russia's share in the world wheat market at 20% compared to Ukraine's less-than-5% share, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in remarks to the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

More than 70% of cargoes shipped from Ukraine under the grain deal arrived in rich countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a plenary meeting of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

Moscow expects the launch of Russia’s industrial zone near the Suez Canal in Egypt in the near future, President Vladimir Putin said at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum.

Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, the leader of the mutiny in Niger, has said on state television that political parties were ordered to suspend their activities, Reuters reported.

Russia is ready to supply free grain to a number of particularly needy African countries in the coming months and can act as a replacement to Ukraine in delivering food to Africa in general, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

Russian forces delivered strikes by precision weapons against Ukrainian military airfields and Western-supplied armament storage sites, destroying all the designated targets over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported.

The second Russia-Africa summit, as well as an economic forum organized within its framework, is taking place on July 27-28, 2023 in St. Petersburg. TASS has assembled files on Russia’s main trade partners on the African continent.

The situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant gives cause for alarm but nevertheless remains under control, Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Russian state nuclear power operator Rosatom, told reporters on the sidelines of the second Russia-Africa Summit.

The Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa of the Russian Orthodox Church has opened more than 200 parishes in 25 African countries over the past year-and-a-half, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told the plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

Sources in US intelligence think that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been thwarted while US authorities do not know what to do about Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky next, US Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in an article published on the Substack platform.

Ukraine exploited the grain deal to smuggle narcotics and oil through Odessa, US publicist, Pulitzer Prize laureate Seymour Hersh says in his article, published on the Substack platform.