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The Oreshnik missile launched Tuesday apparently took off from Russia’s Kapustin Yar rocket base roughly 800 kilometers from Dnipro, well away from intense fighting. This is the first time any IRBM has been used in combat. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, ratified by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1988, banned ground-launched IRBMs. […]
Even for a new Labour government which has proved to be repeatedly accident-prone –adept only at scoring own goals – there was something particularly cack-handed about announcing cuts to our defence capabilities on the same day British-made Storm Shadow missiles started smashing into military bases on Russian soil. Allowing Ukraine to use longer-range US and […]
Reuters “What will Vladimir Putin do next?” It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot this week. Understandably so. After all, this was the week the Kremlin leader lowered the threshold for the use of Russian nuclear weapons. It was the week the US and UK crossed (another) Putin red line, allowing Ukraine to fire […]
In Ukraine, a surge in military hostilities has again thrown the safety of the country’s operational nuclear plants into jeopardy. Russia has been targeting conventional Ukrainian power stations, the transmission grid, and substations with the heaviest barrages in months—likely a reaction to the Biden administration’s recent authorization that allowed Ukraine to fire long-range U.S. missiles […]
The US imposed fresh sanctions on Russia’s Gazprombank on Thursday, the Treasury Department said, wielding its most powerful sanctioning tool against the bank as US President Joe Biden steps up actions to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine before leaving office in January. The move effectively kicks Gazprombank – one of Russia’s largest banks […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian central bank’s First Deputy Governor Olga Skorobogatova, who was in charge of the regulator’s digital projects including the digital rouble and the domestic payments system, has resigned, the bank said on Thursday. Skorobogatova, a former executive at the Russian arm of France’s Societe General, joined the central bank in 2014. […]
Ordinary citizens from Slovakia and other countries have collected some $55,000 for Russian civilians displaced by the Ukrainian incursion Social activists from Slovakia have donated over €52,000 to residents of Russia’s Kursk Region who were forced to abandon their homes due to Ukraine’s incursion in August. The funds were formally handed over to representatives from […]
Ukraine’s military reportedly fired U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time on Wednesday, with pro-war bloggers claiming that the weapons targeted southwestern Russia’s Kursk region. Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnov said Russian air defense systems intercepted two Ukrainian missiles but he did not specify what type of missiles they were. “A missile’s […]
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine, a contentious New Zealand bill that could hurt the Maori people, and the sentencing of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. ‘That Means World War III’ Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered Moscow’s nuclear threshold on Tuesday in response to U.S. President Joe […]
Ireland’s Taoiseach Simon Harris issued a statement marking 1,000 days of “Russia’s horrific war against our friends in Ukraine” today, Tuesday, November 19. “The destruction and loss of life inflicted by Russia is devastating,” the Taoiseach said in his statement. “It is the worst loss of life in Europe since World War II – a […]