Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, on Saturday, that he doesn’t support the latter’s suggestion of offering “a mirror response” to NATO aircraft training flights. During their meeting, in St. Petersburg, Lukashenko shared his concern over Read more…
Ukraine has accepted that NATO membership is off the table, and will not take any further steps toward joining the US-led military alliance, Igor Zhovkva, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, told the Financial Times on Saturday. Nevertheless, Kiev wants Read more…
Up to 2,000 Ukrainian troops, nationalists and foreign fighters have been surrounded by the Russian forces and the Donbass militias, Moscow claimed on Friday. The forces were encircled in two neighboring towns in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Four Ukrainian battalions. Read more…
A UK court denied Nigerian lawmaker Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice bail over a conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child. Arise TV reports that Ekweremadu and Beatrice appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The “alleged Read more…
The conflict in Ukraine has “sounded an alarm for humanity,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday, as China continues to assume a position of neutrality while backing its ally Russia. China has refused to criticize Russia’s war in Ukraine or Read more…
The German government is alarmed over upcoming maintenance at a major Russian pipeline, fearing that the flow of gas will not be turned back on, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. According to the paper, last week’s 60% reduction of Read more…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday hailed the European Union’s expected offer of candidate status for his battle-weary nation as Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s second-biggest city Kharkiv and the eastern Donbas region. European leaders will formally set Ukraine on the Read more…
Russia can’t guarantee that the former Americans servicemen that were captured in Ukraine won’t face the death penalty, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with NBC television that was aired on Monday. “I cannot guarantee anything. It depends Read more…
He went to Ukraine to help beat back the Russian invasion. But a moment of clumsiness, or merely a stroke of bad luck, cost Stephen D. Zabielski his life. The U.S. Army veteran was killed by a landmine in southeastern Read more…
The Russian military is in the process of deploying the S-500, the most advanced air-defense system in the country, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. The Russian leader made the announcements during an address to the graduates of military colleges Read more…
Russia warned NATO member Lithuania on Monday that unless the transit of goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea was swiftly restored then Moscow would take undisclosed measures to defend its national interests. With east-west relations at a Read more…
Three people were injured and seven missing following a suspected Ukrainian attack on drilling rigs off the coast of Crimea, the head of the Russian region, Sergey Aksyonov, revealed on Monday. Earlier, he said that three missile strikes hit three Read more…