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The United Nations warned Friday that renewed Russian strikes on Ukraine’s battered energy infrastructure could bring severe hardship and trigger further mass displacement. “If they were to target the energy sector again, this could be a tipping point,” said Matthias Schmale, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine. Such attacks, he added, could “tip the scale […]
Ukraine detains military commander who delivered secret information to Russia The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a lieutenant colonel, commander of one of the units of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, who passed on to the Russian side the plans of special operations of Defense Forces in the Russian rear. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org by President Of […]
NATO official believes Russia can make three concessions for Ukraine conflict to end Former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller believes that Russia can make three concessions to Donald Trump to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Photo: мультимедиа.минобороны.рф by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, CC BY 4.0 In particular, she suggested using Germany’s post-war […]
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – On the last day of January, a woman took her son to see paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova at Polyclinic No. 140 in northwest Moscow. The boy, aged seven, had a problem with one of his eyes. The conversation that the boy’s mother alleged took place during an 18-minute encounter at […]
The EU has for the first time funded member states’ joint procurement of weapons, including missiles and ammunition, which will in part be sent to Ukraine. It had previously financed arms purchases for Ukraine ad hoc and from outside its budget. The European Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager said the EU was investing €300 million to […]
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we also had to Google “Who is Pete Hegseth?” Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: A Trump enforcer heads to the Defense Department, the president-elect reportedly asks Putin not to escalate in Ukraine, and the death toll in Sudan’s civil war may be even worse than […]
Ukraine released a video showing an attack on a Russian armored convoy. The brigade said a Leopard 2 tank and other weaponry destroyed tanks and other vehicles. Russia has suffered major tank losses in the war, but it hasn’t stopped it from advancing. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed […]
Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region was rocked by protests this week after five activists opposing a controversial investment treaty with Russia were detained and held by security services. Though all detainees were released on Tuesday after nearly 24 hours of protests, tensions persist as the region’s parliament is set to vote on ratification of the divisive […]
EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to soon appoint a Ukrainian peace envoy to lead negotiations on ending the war with Russia, multiple sources told Fox News Digital. “You’re going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of credibility, who will be given a task to find a resolution, to get […]
A Russian court on Wednesday ordered the arrest in absentia of International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou on charges of “unlawful detention.” Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled to place Alapini-Gansou in pre-trial detention for two months from the date of her extradition to Russia. Alapini-Gansou is the second ICC judge in less than a week to […]