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Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed 197 people under observation or precautionary isolation after an employee at a plague-control institute died amid suspicions that she had contracted a highly dangerous infection. None of the contacts has symptoms and preliminary laboratory results were negative, making a wider outbreak unlikely for now.
Twenty-eight-year-old laboratory technician Daria Shipilova has died after contracting plague in Russia’s Irkutsk region. Local reports suggested she contracted pneumonic plague after a test tube broke, while up to 200 potential contacts were placed in quarantine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was ready to resume negotiations on the war in Ukraine on terms acceptable to Russia, accusing Kyiv of complicating the process through attacks during Russia’s elections. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the first combat mission using a domestically developed Ukrainian tactical ballistic missile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would immediately consider using all weapons available to it in the event of a direct attack on Kaliningrad or other Russian territory, stressing that the type of response would be determined by the circumstances. His remarks came after a Russian message to NATO and mutual warnings over security in the Baltic Sea region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said any direct attack on Kaliningrad or other Russian territory would immediately raise the question of using all weapons available to Moscow. His remarks followed a Russian diplomatic warning to NATO against attempting to isolate the region, which referred to the possible use of nuclear weapons.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov said Moscow’s readiness to negotiate on Ukraine did not mean abandoning its positions or rushing to make concessions. He stressed that Russia was keeping the door open to dialogue with Western countries, and that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held more than 40 bilateral meetings during the week of high-level UN General Assembly meetings.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that more than 8,000 North Korean soldiers were in Russia and that preparations were under way to deploy another 10,000. The announcement came amid a dispute between Kyiv and Seoul over the disclosure that two North Korean prisoners had been transferred to South Korea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree raising the authorised number of military personnel in the armed forces to 1,550,500, an increase of 15,500. The decree sets the total authorised strength of the armed forces, including military and civilian personnel, at 2,441,630.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 8,000 North Korean troops are on Russian territory and that Pyongyang is preparing to deploy 10,000 more. His remarks came amid Ukrainian and South Korean estimates of military support provided by North Korea to Moscow since 2024.
