That is according to the chief of the Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Force.

Moscow has announced a partial mobilization of Russian forces, calling reservists into active service as the country faces a protracted conflict in the Ukraine and Donbas.

Any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons could be “used for such protection,” Medvedev said.

Iran says it is reviewing the US response to the European Union draft proposal aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal but stresses the importance of "stronger guarantees" from the American side to clinch the deal

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently on a three-nation African tour, vying for US military, political and economic influence in the continent.

Russia says the grain deal between Moscow and Kiev stands despite a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s port city of Odessa.

The Russian foreign minister has reassured Cairo that Egypt will receive its ordered Russian grain ‘in full.’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Tehran for talks with Iranian officials.

The Russian foreign minister says the decision by three Eastern European countries to block his plane was ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unthinkable.’

Lavrov says Russian and Bahrain share common views on the need for a political and diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis, and the restoration of Damascus membership in the Arab League.