At some point, Russia was persuading the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR) to waive their proclaimed sovereignty if Kiev fulfills the Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to France’s TF1 television. Read more…
Russia appears to have significantly scaled back its immediate ambitions in Ukraine, throwing the bulk of its remaining military might at a handful of cities in the eastern Donbas region. And the Russians are making inroads. Russia’s forces are on the Read more…
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Friday said Western countries won’t feel safe if Russia succeeds in Ukraine. “We must ensure Ukraine wins this great fight for freedom,” she said in a speech while visiting Prague. Truss stated that Russia Read more…
Russia is tightening the noose on Ukrainian troops in the country’s east. Moscow’s forces have advanced in a fierce ground and artillery assault, and they now appear close to encircling the last two holdout cities in Luhansk province. Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk Read more…
A veiled appeal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for direct peace talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin contradicts Kiev’s decision to freeze all negotiations with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out on Friday. Then again, the Ukrainian government Read more…
Kiev has reportedly admitted its forces in Donbass are greatly outnumbered by the Russian troops. Moscow’s forces have seven soldiers in Eastern Ukraine against each individual Ukrainian fighter, a Ukraine-based ABC correspondent, Tom Soufi Burridge, said on Twitter on Wednesday, citing Sergey Read more…
The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has sued UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, for not acknowledging that the IPOB leader, a UK citizen, has been a victim of extraordinary rendition and Read more…
Those who think Russia “will grasp any Western proposal” for a peace settlement do not understand anything about the current situation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, commenting on reports of an Italian plan to end Read more…
Four weeks ago, Germany agreed to send dozens of anti-aircraft tanks to help defend Ukraine from Russia’s invasion, part of what it called a turning-point after decades of military restraint. Berlin says it can deliver the first Gepard tanks in Read more…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, citing the conflict in Ukraine, just hours after parliament approved the measure as a way for Budapest to respond to crisis situations. Orban announced the emergency in a Read more…
The slowdown of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is intentional with a view to evacuating the population and avoiding casualties among civilians, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday. Russia’s Armed Forces are creating humanitarian corridors and announcing ceasefires Read more…
Russian forces on Tuesday attempted to encircle the twin cities that represent one of the last pockets of Ukrainian-controlled territory in Luhansk Oblast, The Guardian reports. According to Reuters, whether Russia’s assault on the cities from the north, south, and east succeeds “could determine the success or Read more…