Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent reaffirmation of his country’s goals in the Ukrainian Conflict signal that the Kremlin regards the US’ reportedly finalized peace plan as unacceptable. Ukraine must withdraw from the entirety of the disputed territories, at...
The US and Ukraine finally signed their minerals deal after amending the draft agreement to remove a proposal for Ukraine to pay back past US military aid. A clause was added though whereby future US military aid, including technology...
Russia has long warned that any unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine of the 30-day sort that Zelensky has proposed could create an opening for NATO to expand its military influence in that country. Hitherto dismissed as a conspiracy theory by...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski compared outgoing President Andrzej Duda to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after Duda suggested in a recent interview with Euronews that Ukraine compromise with Russia. For context, Trump had by then begun to...
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov’s acknowledgement that North Korean troops helped expel Ukraine from Kursk ended around nine months of speculation about their role in the conflict. Rumors began to circulate after Russia and North Korea...
The Kremlin announced on Monday that Russia will temporarily suspend military action against Ukraine from midnight on May 7-8 to midnight on May 10-11 for humanitarian reasons in honor of Victory Day. Just like with the recent Easter truce,...
India’s Economic Times reported that a key plotter of last spring’s Crocus terrorist attack, which the Russian authorities determined to have been carried out by ISIS-K in collusion with the Ukrainian military-intelligence agency GUR, might have been detained in...
Trump speculated that Russia’s bombing of civilian areas might signal that “maybe doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along”, and then reiterated his earlier threat to impose “secondary sanctions” against those who violate the...
The Russian and Uzbek Transport Ministries agreed earlier in the month to begin practical implementation of the Trans-Afghan Railway project, also known as the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan (PAKAFUZ) railway, by carrying out feasibility studies. They also plan to hold talks with...
Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who ran the FSB for nearly a decade (1999-2008) before chairing the Security Council for over 15 years till recently (2008-2024) and then becoming the Chairman of the Russian Naval Board until now, shared...
