Source link Foreign restrictions do not work the way they were intended, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Russia has managed to turn the tables on the West when it comes to sanctions placed on Moscow, the Kremlin said on Saturday, arguing that a myriad of restrictions failed to crash the Russian economy. “The Westerners are […]
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Ukrainian military pilot defects to Russia – media — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The pilot is already on Russian territory and is being interviewed by the security services, the TASS news agency says A military pilot with the Armed Forces of Ukraine has come to Russia, TASS reported on Saturday, citing a person who allegedly organized the pilot’s flight over the frontlines. The Ukrainian pilot in […]
Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine engage in bloody scuffle – media — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Foreign fighters at a drunken party in Kiev allegedly ended up in brawl that left US, Canadian and Romanian nationals injured Four members of Ukraine’s International Legion at a Saturday night party in Kiev had a drunken fight, the nation’s ‘Strana’ news media outlet reported, citing police sources. The off-duty soldiers’ antics ended […]
Polish-made howitzer explodes after being hit by Russian drone (VIDEO) — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The elimination of a Krab self-propelled gun by a Lancet loitering munition has been captured on video A video has surfaced online showing a Polish-supplied Krab howitzer, operated by Ukraine’s forces, being struck and destroyed by a Russian Lancet kamikaze drone. The footage was taken by a surveillance drone on the right side […]
Bidens welcomed the Russians – deputy PM — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Joe and Jill Biden “acted like polite people” on meeting the Russian delegation at the APEC summit in San Francisco, Aleksey Overchuk says US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden greeted visiting Russian dignitaries in full accordance with protocol during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, Russia’s Deputy […]
Zelensky’s top aide criticizes slow delivery of Western arms — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Weapons promised to Kiev should take a week to ship but instead delivery is being delayed for months, a senior official says The most senior adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, has said that the delivery of Western weapons to Kiev should be faster than it has been. In an interview […]
Putin says ‘something unexpected’ about LGBTQ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Russian president is okay with LGBTQ themes infusing cultural events, but they mustn’t become a mandatory requirement for winning Members of the LGBTQ community and its culture are part of a modern society and shouldn’t be barred from being represented at cultural events or contests, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. At the same […]
West failed to ‘cancel’ Russia – Putin — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Russian culture has been a target of “vulgar globalization,” the president says Attempts by the West to “cancel” Russia with economic and cultural sanctions have failed and were always doomed to fail, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Speaking at the International Culture Forum in St. Petersburg, the Russian leader accused the collective […]
Russian authorities want to outlaw ‘LGBT’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Justice Ministry has lodged a lawsuit seeking to designate the “international LGBT movement” an extremist group The Russian Justice Ministry said Friday it has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to label the “international LGBT public movement” as extremist and to outlaw its operations in the country. In a statement posted on […]
Russian military foils fresh Ukrainian plan to attack Crimea — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Naval aviation has found and destroyed a Ukrainian speedboat and seven sea drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense said You can share this story on social media: Follow RT on
Zelensky fears a new ‘Maidan’ – Bloomberg — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The Ukrainian president has reportedly claimed there may be Moscow-inspired mass protests in Kiev Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told journalists on Thursday that he has received tips about a Russian influence campaign aimed at destabilizing his government, according to a Bloomberg report. He claimed that various intelligence agencies had informed him about the […]
Why Ukraine is now claiming its disastrous counteroffensive was only a smokescreen? — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Kiev’s propagandists are trying to deny the reality that Russia is gaining the edge on the battlefield A few days ago, the Kiev TV channel 1 + 1 reported that the Ukrainian army did not conduct a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and all the information about it was merely a brilliant psychological […]
Dog bites president — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen ended up with a bandaged hand in Chisinau on Thursday, as the dog of his Moldovan counterpart, Maia Sandu, did not take kindly to an attempted petting. Van der Bellen and his Slovenian colleague Natasa Musar had arrived in Moldova to endorse Sandu’s push to join the […]
Number of Ukrainian terror attacks on Russian border regions revealed — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Ukraine has perpetrated some 128 terror attacks, with over 50 related crimes prevented, Russia’s security chief said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev revealed on Thursday that Russian regions bordering Ukraine were subjected to 128 “terror attacks” by Ukraine this year. Kiev’s forces also launched some 8,000 artillery attacks on these areas, inflicting […]
Russia-US relations risk ‘being severed’ – Moscow — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The Foreign Ministry warns such a scenario may materialize if Washington DC persists with its “rampant Russophobia” There is a real possibility that diplomatic relations between the US and Russia could be entirely severed, the Foreign Ministry in Mocow has warned. While Russia wants to avoid such a scenario, Washington’s insistence on confrontational […]