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North Korea Leader Visits Aviation Plant in Russian Far East Town

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Vostochny Cosmodrome to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin (dpa)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Vostochny Cosmodrome to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin (dpa)
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North Korea Leader Visits Aviation Plant in Russian Far East Town

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Vostochny Cosmodrome to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin (dpa)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Vostochny Cosmodrome to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin (dpa)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday morning arrived at a Russian industrial city to visit a military aviation factory, as part of his days-long trip to Russia, Russian agencies reported.

TASS news agency said the North Korean leader arrived by train in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur to visit an aviation plant. Interfax for its part indicated that Kim was to visit a company in the aviation sector producing “combat and civilian equipment.”

Kim's visit to Russia is his first official trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim held a summit at the Vostochny cosmodrome, where they visited the site and met for about two hours for talks on enhancing relationships, particularly at the military level.

On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kim's far east visit will last a few more days, without giving further details.

Putin said on television that Kim will visit factories where civilian and combat aviation equipment is produced in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

“There is also a military component in Vladivostok... to demonstrate the capabilities of the Pacific Fleet,” Putin told state media. Kim had visited the Russian city in 2019.

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Russia Condemns Israel's Killing of Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's suburbs November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan/File Photo
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's suburbs November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan/File Photo
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Russia Condemns Israel's Killing of Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's suburbs November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan/File Photo
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's suburbs November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan/File Photo

Russia strongly condemns Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, calling on Israel to stop hostilities in Lebanon.

"This forceful action is fraught with even greater dramatic consequences for Lebanon and the entire Middle East," the ministry said in a statement.

Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday Nasrallah had been killed, issuing a statement hours after the Israeli military said it had eliminated him in an airstrike on the group's headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday.
Nasrallah's death marked a devastating blow to Hezbollah as it reels from an intense campaign of Israeli attacks, and even as the news emerged some of the group's supporters were desperately hoping that somehow he was still alive, Reuters reported.

"God, I hope it's not true. It's a disaster if it's true," said Zahraa, a young woman who had been displaced overnight from Hezbollah's stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
"He was leading us. He was everything to us. We were under his wings," she told Reuters tearfully by phone.
She said other displaced people around her fainted or began to scream when they received notifications on their phone of Hezbollah's statement confirming his death.
Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah since the group's previous leader was killed in an Israeli operation in 1992, was known for his televised addresses - watched carefully by both the group's backers and its opponents.
"We're still waiting for him to come out on the television at 5 p.m. and tell us that everything is okay, that we can go back home," Zahraa said.
In some parts of Beirut, armed men came into shops and told owners to shut them down, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear what faction the armed men belonged to.
Sprays of gunshots were heard in the Hamra district in the city's west as mourners fired in the air, residents there said. Crowds were heard chanting, "For you, Nasrallah!"