The BRICS summit in Russia will be the "the largest foreign policy event ever held" by Russia, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov has said. The summit with include 36 countries with over 20 represented by heads of state. Russian President Vladimir Putin has positioned the BRICS summit as a counterweight to the West.

The gathering defies predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant against Putin would keep him off the global stage.

Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone,

In his first BBC interview since standing down as chief of the general staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders joins us to discuss why he thinks the the world order is under threat and why Ukraine must prevail. Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.

A video has been released by a Russian independent news outlet, which it says shows North Korean troops in Russian territory. The outlet, Astra, said on Telegram it geolocated the footage to Russia's far eastern region, Primorski krai.

South Korea warned Tuesday it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia, as both North Korea and Russia denied the movements. The South Korean statement is apparently meant to pressure Russia not to bring in North Korean troops in its war against Ukraine.