The 2014 Minsk Agreement was indeed a ploy to buy Ukraine time and should be credited for Kiev’s “successful resilience” now, former French president Francois Hollande said on Friday. Confirming former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s assessment of the truce, Hollande Read more…
The Football Association have confirmed the Wembley Arch will be lit up in the Brazil colours tonight, and they have also released the following statement. ‘Everyone who loves football, loves Pele.‘His unique talent lit up the game, and inspired football. Read more…
Relations between Moscow and Brussels are now at their “lowest point,” Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told TASS in an interview published on Tuesday. The EU has declared a “hybrid war” on Moscow by unquestioningly following the US, the minister Read more…
China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the self-ruled island, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Monday, after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions i n a U.S. annual defense spending Read more…
The US needs to stop arming Kiev and recognize reality on the ground in Ukraine for any talks on security guarantees between Moscow and Washington to begin, Alexander Darchiyev, who heads the North America department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, Read more…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise visit to the US, amid opposition from the Republican far right to US support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Zelenskyy early Wednesday announced he was on his Read more…
The new model has already been successfully tested and will enter service next year, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said. Russia’s first new silo-based Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) will be deployed into service next year, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu Read more…
The Kremlin has commented on a statement by Andrey Gurulev, a retired general and MP, who seemed to indicate, on Tuesday, that Russian President Vladimir Putin had visited the zone of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Gurulev claimed that Putin “personally talked Read more…
Pope Francis revealed for the first time in an interview on Sunday that he had signed a resignation letter nearly a decade ago should poor health prevent him from carrying out his duties. Francis – who turned 86 on Saturday Read more…
Urgently negotiating an end to hostilities in Ukraine would prevent another world war, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in an essay published on Friday. The 99-year-old statesman noted that, in 1916, the US government had the chance Read more…
STORY: When asked about a $60 per barrel cap imposed by the Group of Seven states and the European Union on Russian seaborne oil over Russia’s war in Ukraine, he said: “Up until now we actually haven’t received nor are Read more…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is trying to find excuses for his own failures, the Russian Foreign Ministry has suggested on Wednesday. Moscow was responding to the speech Scholz delivered earlier this week, criticizing Russia’s foreign policy and speculating about the Read more…