Despite being silenced in the West and blotted out of history in Ukraine, the Odessa Trade Union massacre of May 2, 2014, remains a festering wound.

A resolution to the conflict in Ukraine is only possible if NATO abandons its goal to strategically defeat Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Andrey Belousov, the head of the Russian delegation to the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, said.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed to RIA Novosti the Pentagon's decision to withdraw 5,000 American troops from Germany within a year.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that hostilities against Iran, which began on February 28, have terminated, though the Pentagon continues to update its military posture in the region as the threat remains.