Source link Lloyd Austin has admitted the true goal of Ukraine support is the modernization of the US’ military industry, Dmitry Medvedev says The Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has apparently revealed the true goal of his country’s enduring support for Ukraine and it has nothing to do with defending “democracy” or even battling Russia, but […]
Source link The energy giant expects production in Australia to decrease, pushing Moscow up in the rankings Russia could become the world’s third biggest producer of liquified natural gas (LNG), according to Gazprom, the country’s biggest state-run energy company. The gas giant expects a significant increase in production of the supper-chilled gas to be recorded […]
Source link The Defense Ministry has shown off its attack aircraft operating above the Donetsk People’s Republic The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of what it described as Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jets striking Ukrainian forces amid the ongoing conflict. The clip captured the attack aircraft operating in an undisclosed airspace in Russia’s Donetsk People’s […]
Source link Moscow should take seriously the US threat to halve Russia’s energy revenues, billionaire Oleg Deripaska said on Saturday, citing last year’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and a recent train derailment in Siberia. The Russian aluminum magnate urged the government to focus on transport networks and port infrastructure in the country’s Far […]
Source link Back in October, it seemed that Vladimir Zelensky’s days as president were numbered. Time magazine and other publications accused Ukraine’s leader of being responsible for failures at the front. He was described as having lost touch with reality, being unwilling to negotiate, with increasingly dictatorial and narcissistic tendencies, and so on. Prior to […]
Source link All of Ukraine is becoming dependent on the “mood” of a single person, Vitaly Klitschko says Ukraine’s municipal authorities now remain the only independent force in the country, which has grown increasingly authoritarian amid the conflict with Russia, the Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko has said. Klitschko shared his assessment of the state […]
Source link Back in 2018, Juergen Helfricht co-authored the publication without informing his employer, the tabloid BILD Germany’s BILD newspaper has sacked its reporter Juergen Helfricht after it emerged that he’d co-authored a book titled ‘To learn to love Russia’ in 2018 without informing the editors about the project. The media outlet explained that the […]
Source link The measures were supposed to bring Moscow to its knees, but all they’ve really achieved is make everyone in Europe poorer By Ivan Timofeev, programme director of the Valdai Club. Foreign media and analysts are increasingly accepting that sanctions against Russia have failed to produce the results that were expected. But much depends on […]
Source link The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed an “unhinged” Western campaign for the IMO vote Russia failed to secure re-election to the executive body of the UN ship agency, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), on Friday. Moscow has blamed the setback on the efforts of Kiev and its Western backers. The London-based IMO is responsible […]
Source link Moscow is aware that Washington will try to maintain its illegal embargo, but the US is not the entire world, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. Peskov was commenting on the statements by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt, published by the Financial Times earlier […]
Source link Kiev’s refusal to negotiate with Moscow has only caused the country heavy battlefield casualties, Aleksey Arestovich says Ukraine has lost up to 300,000 soldiers during its conflict with Russia, Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, has claimed. Arestovich made the revelation on Friday while speaking to journalist Yulia Latynina via […]
Source link Citing the NATO build-up, Moscow has increased the size of its active service to 1.3 million Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed an executive order increasing the size of the armed forces by 170,000 members, effective immediately. The order establishes the size of the armed forces of the Russian Federation at 2,209,130 […]
Source link Ex-president Poroshenko blamed Kiev for canceling his papers as he tried to enter Poland Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko blamed his successor Vladimir Zelensky for the incident on the Polish border on Friday, when border guards did not allow him to leave Ukraine. Poroshenko is a member of parliament and leader of the […]
Source link The country’s Supreme Court has designated the “international LGBT movement” an extremist group The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday outlawed the “international LGBT public movement,” designating it as extremist. The ruling took effect immediately and impacts the group’s subsidiaries, the court said, without naming any specific organizations. What led to the ban? Over […]
Source link The two Western officials did not want to discuss Moscow’s diplomats being denied access to international events, the foreign minister said Top US and EU diplomats who left the summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) early were simply too afraid to engage in a frank and substantive dialogue […]