The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in what a US defense official said was the first time the two countries have been intercepted while operating together. The bombers remained in international airspace in Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and were “not seen as […]
Valentina Bondarenko, a top Russian economist, has died at the age of 82 after falling out of her apartment window in Moscow, Russian state-run media reported on Tuesday. Bondarenko, a leading research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, fell out of her apartment window on Monday evening, […]
Around 120,000 Russian troops have been killed since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, averaging around 250 a day, according to independent Russian media outlets which have cited government data. Since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, Ukraine’s defense ministry has given daily updates on Russian troop casualties, which as of […]
Russia has blamed the US and vowed “consequences” for a Ukrainian missile strike on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on Sunday, which officials say killed four people – including two children.Around 150 more were injured in the attack as missile debris fell on a beach nearby.Russia’s defence ministry said the missiles used by Ukraine were US-supplied […]
NATO countries are discussing putting more nuclear weapons on standby amid the threat posed by Russia and China, the alliance’s secretary general said, according to The Telegraph. Jens Stoltenberg outlined the plans in an interview in which he called for NATO members to show their nuclear arsenal to the world to send a strong message […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that the “selfishness and hypocrisy of Western countries” had led to a “dangerous turn of events” and the world was “close to the point of no return.” Putin made the ominous remarks at a meeting with Russian foreign ministry officials and accused the U.S. of undermining global security because […]
A Russian navy frigate and a nuclear-powered submarine churned into Havana harbor on Wednesday, a stopover the U.S. and Cuba said posed no threat but which was widely seen as a Russian show of force as tensions rise over the Ukraine war.Curious onlookers, fishermen and police lined the Malecon seafront boulevard under gray skies to […]
An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has said on state TV that World War III is already underway. Vladimir Solovyov, a state TV host and one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin-backed media, made the remarks on the Russia-1 channel. An excerpt of the broadcast was shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, […]
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.A Berlin spokesman said Germany was convinced Ukraine had the right to defend itself from Russia, especially from cross-border attacks […]
Russian troops began practicing major exercises to ensure troops’ readiness for the potential deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield, as Moscow warned against an encroaching threat from Western allies. The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video Tuesday of troops practicing affixing missiles and warheads onto fighter jets and on the backs of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered tactical nuclear weapons drills in response to what the defense ministry has described as provocative statements and threats from the West. Moscow will carry out the drills “in the near future” to increase the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to perform combat missions, the defense ministry said in a […]
Russia is making “incremental progress” in Ukraine “with the potential for tactical breakthroughs along the front lines in areas such as Donetsk and Kharkiv,” Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, told Congress on Thursday, and that has Russian President Vladimir Putin thinking “domestic and the international trends are in his favor.” Testifying before the Senate […]
