Nuclear-capable missiles will be moved onto the doorstep of two NATO nations as Russia rewards its ally Belarus. Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s announcement came on the same day Ukrainian officials said the first missile attack launched from Belarus struck Kyiv, according to Newsweek. On Saturday, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who met with Putin in St. […]
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US Rockets arrive in Ukraine – Russia warned of missile strikes
kraine’s Foreign Minister Oleksii Reznikov hailed the arrival of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) sent as military aid to the Eastern European nation from the U.S.—issuing a dire warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces attacking his country. Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, drawing swift international condemnation and global […]
How will Russia react if Ukraine joins the EU?
Ukraine is set to become an official candidate for European Union (EU) membership, the first step to joining the 27-country bloc. EU leaders are expected to back the move at a summit being held on 23 and 24 June. And the Ukrainian president has warned Russia may increase its military attacks in retaliation to the […]
US price tag on Ukraine currently 54 billion: They say they need much more
Ukraine has said it has only a fraction of the weapons it needs to take on Russia, and has urged the west to speed up the delivery of more arms as it faces a bitter fight in the eastern Donbas region. In an urgent televised plea, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister Hanna Maliar said on Tuesday […]
Putin’s frightning warning to US over missile shipments
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a renewed threat to Western leaders that Moscow would order strikes on new targets should the U.S. supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, according to a state-owned mouthpiece. The TASS news agency quoted Putin’s comments from a Sunday, June 5, interview on Rossiya-1, where the Russian leader mentioned the delivery […]
Is Putin winning in Ukraine after 100 days?
On February 24, tens of thousands of Russian troops invaded Ukraine with the military aim of securing the capital in a matter of days. That operation failed when Ukrainians, both those in uniform and those in civil society, banded together to defend their country. However, as redeployed Russian forces make incremental territorial gains in Ukraine’s […]
‘World War Three has already started’, announces Russian TV
Russian propagandists have claimed World War Three has already begun and warned that Britain and the US will be made to ‘pay a heavy price’ for interfering in the war with Ukraine. In her latest sabre-rattling broadcast, state television channel Russia One’s Olga Skabeyeva effectively declared war on the UK, US and NATO and advocated […]
Putin is ‘angry’ and focused on ‘Revenge’ After Ukraine War Failures
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “very angry man” thinking about revenge after a series of military failures in Ukraine, said Nile Gardiner, a foreign policy expert and ex-aide to former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in an interview published Saturday. Gardiner made the comments in an article published in Express.co.uk about Russia’s ongoing war […]
USA spending more on Ukraine than infrastructure
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has claimed on Twitter the federal government has spent more on Ukraine in the past six months than it has on road infrastructure annually. Massie was one of 57 members of the House of Representatives who voted against the package, which was later blocked in the Senate by one dissenting vote […]
Russian soldiers are reportedly raping Ukrainian men and boys as well as women
Russian soldiers allegedly raped Ukrainian men and boys as well as women, UN and Kyiv officials said on Tuesday, amid an on-going investigation into dozens of cases. Speaking on Tuesday, UN special representative on sexual violence in war Pramila Patten warned cases already under investigation were just ‘the tip of the iceberg.’ ‘I have received […]
US food prices could blow sky-high on account of Russia / Ukraine war
As war continues to ravage Ukraine, Americans, particularly those who live paycheck to paycheck, are beginning to feel the financial squeeze on their food prices from the conflict half a world away. It began with a rapid rise in gas prices. Now, with Russian oil banned in the United States and energy scarcity heightened globally, […]
No stop in Ukraine on Biden’s European trip, Psaki says
President Biden’s trip to Europe this week does not include plans to visit Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a tweet on Sunday. The announcement comes after former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told CNN on Saturday that Biden should visit Ukraine during his trip as a “symbol of our solidarity.” “The trip […]