The announcement of a new €40 million tranche comes in the wake of a major graft scandal involving the Ukrainian power industry Germany has pledged to provide Ukraine with an additional €40 million in an effort to prop up its power generation during the winter, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has…
EU nations are “destroying their own economies” with runaway defense spending, Dmitry Peskov has said Moscow is aware that Western countries are rearming for a possible confrontation with Russia, and is fully prepared for such a scenario, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Peskov said he agrees with Serbian…
An individual facing forced conscription has reportedly shot and wounded two military commissioners A Ukrainian man opened fire on staff from the Territorial Center for Recruitment (TCR) in the city of Dnepr, wounding two draft officers after they attempted to forcibly conscript him, according to a video circulating on social…
The new unmanned systems units have been successfully integrated into combined arms operations, Colonel Sergey Ishtuganov has said Russia’s dedicated military drone combat arm is now fully integrated into the army and is close to full formation, according to its deputy commander. The creation of the Unmanned Systems Troops (UST)…
The UK’s power machine runs on war, and conflict in Eastern Europe is its new fuel When The Guardian reported last week that the British Army is preparing for operations in Ukraine, it was easy to treat it as another piece of saber-rattling. But Keir Starmer’s declaration that “we will…
Vitaly Klitschko says Ukraine faces “huge problems” finding soldiers as men continue to flee abroad to escape conscription Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko has called for the draft age to be lowered even further in Ukraine, admitting that the country faces “huge problems” finding soldiers as men flee abroad to avoid…
European nations are arming themselves at an alarming rate, Aleksandar Vucic has warned A direct military confrontation between Western nations and Russia is becoming unavoidable, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has warned, citing widespread rearmament efforts across Europe. Speaking during a televised interview on Tuesday, Vucic said the possibility of such…
Investigators are looking into an alleged large-scale corruption scheme in the energy industry Ukrainian Justice Minister German Galushchenko has been suspended as investigators pursue an anti-corruption probe which has reportedly forced a former business associate of Vladimir Zelensky to flee the country, and which could reach the highest levels of…
The Russian foreign minister criticized the Financial Times for claiming the planned meeting collapsed due to Moscow’s “hardline demands” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has hit out at the Western media over its “unprofessional and harmful” coverage of the Ukraine peace process. He singled out British newspaper the Financial Times…
The find is the first in its group in over 20 years, scientists have said A new species of bee has been discovered in Western Australia, named ‘Lucifer’ due to the devil-like horns found on its females. The discovery of the species, formally named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, was announced…