While US President Joe Biden got personal and threatened sanctions on Vladimir Putin if he invaded Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping tendered a warm welcome to the Russian leader as a guest of honour at the grand Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing on Friday. And while Read more…
Russia will ask NATO to clarify whether it intends to implement key security commitments, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday, after Moscow said the alliance’s response to its demands did not go far enough. Russia has forced the U.S.-led Read more…
The US is to keep its planned sanctions against Russia completely secret, so Moscow doesn’t have the opportunity to mitigate them in advance, a senior American official said on Sunday. Speaking to CBS, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland Read more…
Prince Ngoma was just about to depart a mining site in Central African Republic’s (CAR) eastern village of Aïgbado when heavily armed Russian mercenaries in a pickup truck drove in, opened fire, and burned down the houses in the area. “They Read more…
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Sunday that while the U.S. still hopes to avoid any conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin could possibly invade his neighboring country at any point now, and that there are a number of methods at Read more…
UK’s PM Boris Johnson has unveiled London’s ‘biggest possible’ offer to the North-Atlantic bloc to help it in the standoff with Russia. Downing Street has announced its “biggest possible offer” to NATO in a statement late on Saturday. The UK’s prime minister Read more…
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slams the bloc’s reply as ideological NATO’s reply to Moscow’s proposals for a European security treaty is entirely ideological and has too much of a focus on the bloc’s so-called “special purpose” and “exceptionalism,” Russian Foreign Minister Read more…
The two countries don’t want to fight against each other, but the West is pushing for it, Russia insists The threat of an open war between Russia and Ukraine is coming from Western governments, which appear to be actively working Read more…
The Kremlin said on Thursday there was room to continue dialogue with the United States, but that it looked clear Russia’s main security demands had not been taken into account by Washington. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would not Read more…
Russia on Tuesday posted footage of drills including soldiers, tanks, and missile launchers near its border with Ukraine. The video from Russia’s Western Military District comes as countries including Ukraine, the US, and Britain increasingly warn of an invasion. Russia has Read more…
Energy supplies to Europe would be threatened if sector hit by financial measures Germany has reportedly demanded that proposed sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine do not include restrictions on energy, insisting that the sector be exempted if Read more…
Fears of a potential Russian attack on Ukraine haven’t let up, helping push oil futures on Wednesday back toward seven-year highs. Traders were also keeping a close eye on the Middle East after recent drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels Read more…