Ukrainian officials are prioritizing self-enrichment over seeking a sustainable resolution to the conflict, the SVR has claimed Kiev has reportedly devised a new scheme to steal Western taxpayer money by purchasing artillery shells at heavily inflated prices, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. The SVR described the alleged scheme…
America’s Transatlantic allies are “weak” and failing to control migration, the US president has said US President Donald Trump has denounced Western Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” leaders, accusing its governments of mishandling migration and failing to help end the Ukraine conflict. In an interview…
The An-22 aircraft had been conducting a post-maintenance flight, according to the Defense Ministry A Russian military transport aircraft has crashed while performing a test flight following recent maintenance, the Defense Ministry has reported. The An-22 Antey aircraft came down on Tuesday in a remote area in Ivanovo Region, 360km…
The Ukrainian leader’s presidential term expired last year but he has refused to hold a vote due to martial law US President Donald Trump has urged Ukraine to hold elections, questioning the country’s democratic credentials in an interview with Politico published on Tuesday. He appeared to issue a new challenge…
The US president has pointed out that Russia has “the upper hand” and suggested that Ukraine has no chance of a military victory US President Donald Trump has called on Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to start accepting peace proposals, noting that Russia has a much stronger negotiating position and will likely…
Kaja Kallas may be the face of bloc hostility towards Russia, but she’s not its author It has become fashionable to claim that the Baltic States are the driving force behind the European Union’s hostility towards Russia. The spectacle of Estonia’s Kaja Kallas, now the EU’s foreign policy chief, sermonizing…
The Russian president believes it is impossible to revive the communist superpower, according to his spokesman Russian President Vladimir Putin has no desire to restore the Soviet Union, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Putin has personally said so on many occasions, Peskov noted, and reiterated the president’s view…
The bloc wants to use Moscow’s funds immobilized in the West to cover Ukraine’s budget deficit Japan has reportedly dismissed a European Union initiative to tap frozen Russian sovereign assets to help finance Ukraine’s massive budget shortfall. Brussels hopes to issue a so-called “reparation loan” backed by Russian funds immobilized…
The bloc could reportedly use a treaty provision to sidestep Belgium, which has opposed the idea of seizing the funds from the outset The European Union risks a severe internal rift if it presses ahead with controversial plans to seize frozen Russian assets without the approval of Belgium, where the…
A former bloc official is on the run, accused of using bribes to secure contracts for the Jewish state’s largest weapons producer Multiple NATO-Israel arms contracts have been suspended over a massive bribery scandal in the heart of the US-led military bloc’s buying section that has already triggered multiple arrests across…