Category: 1. Russia
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Trump Says He’ll Decide Within 2 Weeks On Next Steps To End War In Ukraine
US President Donald Trump says he will decide his position Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in the next two weeks and again warned that it could involve sanctions against Russia.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on August 22, he…
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‘He didn’t plan to overthrow Putin’ Two years after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, his mother says in a new interview that she warned him against marching on Moscow
Two years ago tomorrow, on August 23, 2023, a private plane crashed outside Moscow, killing three crew members and seven passengers, including Wagner Group private military company founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Two months prior, Prigozhin had led…
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Before Independence Day, War-Weary Ukrainians Vow To ‘Celebrate When We Win’
Just a handful of families live among the many abandoned houses in the village of Maksymivka in Ukraine’s Mykolayiv region near the Black Sea coast.
The fields nearby are dotted with signs warning of landmines and strewn with shell casings.
“You…
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Diplomacy May Be Putin’s Path To Victory, Not Peace, Warns Clifford May
As global leaders push for potential peace talks to take place between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin — the first in more than three years of Moscow’s full-scale war against Ukraine — there is…
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Russian soldier tells journalists he helped kill five Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk region — Meduza
A Russian soldier told journalists that he took part in the killing of five Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donetsk region in May 2024.
Thirty-one-year-old Ivan Okhlopkov, a member of Russia’s Somalia Battalion, told the outlet Vot…
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Putin visits home of USSR’s nuclear weapons program after Trump hints at allowing ‘Ukrainian offense’ — Meduza
In an apparent response to Donald Trump hinting that his administration might allow Ukraine to “fight back” by attacking Russia itself, Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit Friday to Sarov. The city, located in Russia’s Nizhny…
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Russian officials charge Kursk teenager with ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ for slipping gay porn star Billy Herrington into veterans collage — Meduza
Investigators in Russia’s Kursk region are charging a local teenager under a law against “rehabilitating Nazism” after the 16-year-old submitted a photo of Billy Herrington, a gay pornography actor associated with a popular Internet…
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Europe purchased $1.5 billion worth of weapons for Kyiv from the US in one month
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Europe purchased $1.5 billion worth of weapons for Kyiv from the US in one month.
“Our support remains unchanged, including within the framework of Ukraine’s new…
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Pyongyang’s ‘overseas heroes’ Kim Jong Un honors officers returned from Russia, fueling speculation that North Korea’s military intervention may be over
North Korea’s official state media reported on Friday that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, met in Pyongyang with senior officers who fought alongside Russian troops against Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. According…
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