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.

Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian Federation's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said on 16 December that Russia does not accept any scenarios for freezing the war and that Moscow considers Zelenskyy's peace initiatives an attempt to gain time to intensify the fight against Russia.

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,

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.

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

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,

The United States has accused China of supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine, highlighting that Beijing's actions contradict its claims of pursuing peace. Source: US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood during the UN Security Council meeting on 20 Details: Wood emphasised that China's support for Russia goes against the principles of the UN Charter.

The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) on Monday said at least 100 North Korean soldiers have died while another 1,000 suffered injuries in the bordering Kursk region, where Moscow's forces have been battling a Ukrainian ground incursion since August.

South Korea's military said on Monday it has detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. Pyongyang has already provided 240mm multiple rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzers to Russia,