Category: 1. Russia

Russia detained the oil tanker Green Admire in the Baltic Sea as it was departing the Estonian port of Sillamäe, Estonia’s Foreign Ministry said. The vessel had been traveling along a previously agreed route that passes through Russian…

Oscar Jenkins, a 33-year-old former teacher from Melbourne, was one of many foreigners who responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call in 2022 for volunteers to join Ukraine’s armed forces to help repel Russia’s…

Alas, the Russian-Ukrainian summit in Istanbul confirms the state of confusion of Western media when faced with the new international framework.

Opinion-driven reporting overshadowing factual analysis, interpretations…

Former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has told RFE/RL that preparations for a European force to deploy to Ukraine after a cease-fire or peace deal are “moving too slowly” and that the whole European security model was “at a turning point.”

“I…

Alexander Khinshtein, acting Governor of the Kursk region, said that an elderly woman was killed when an AFU drone struck a house in the village of Pody in the Khomutovsky district.

“Tonight [from 17 to 18 May –…

British analyst Alexander Merkouris said that Russia emerged “victorious” in the diplomatic battle with Ukraine in Istanbul.

“No matter how we view the events of the last week, there is no doubt who won this…

US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff expressed hope that the phone conversation between White House Chief of Staff Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be successful and will be able to…

The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name, to “silence” conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to talk to White House chief Donald Trump ahead of his possible phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bild reports, citing Merz’s comments to journalists.