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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday that thousands of North Korean troops currently stationed in Russia are expected to enter combat against Ukraine “soon.” Speaking during a visit to Fiji, Austin said around 10,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to be in Russia’s Kursk region, near the border with Ukraine, where they are being […]
The No 2 US envoy warned on Friday that the ties between China and Russia are growing and threatening the interests of Washington and its allies, two months before the current administration turns over control of the government to Donald Trump. Speaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, US Deputy Secretary of State […]
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 […]
President Vladimir Putin will not agree to freeze the war in Ukraine along the current front lines, the Kremlin said Wednesday, countering reports that he might consider such an arrangement in discussions with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. “The [Russian] president has repeatedly said that any option of freezing the conflict won’t work for us,” Kremlin […]
President Vladimir Putin has approved updates to Russia’s nuclear doctrine which will lower the threshold for Moscow to launch a nuclear strike against its opponents, prompint the U.S. and Britain to condemn the Kremlin as “irresponsible.” Under the changes, an attack on Russian soil by a non-nuclear power could be grounds for nuclear retaliation if […]
The international chemical weapons watchdog said Monday that banned CS riot gas had been found in shell and soil samples provided by Ukraine from the zone where it is fighting Russian forces. An Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) convention bans the use of CS gas and other toxic weapons in war zones. […]
A Russian missile strike killed 11 people, including two children, in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday evening, authorities in Ukraine said Monday. The missile strike on a nine-story apartment building prompted an evacuation of more than 400 residents from the damaged building, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office identified two […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections offered clues about the new administration’s Russia policy, and potentially the future of U.S. support for Ukraine. Here is an overview of where Trump’s cabinet nominees stood on Russia and Ukraine just after Russia’s invasion in February 2022 — and where they stand today: Senator Marco Rubio, Secretary of State […]
Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview published Friday that Donald Trump privately held “more nuanced” positions on Ukraine, days after he spoke with the president-elect of the United States by phone. Trump’s reelection in last week’s US presidential vote has raised concerns he could withdraw Washington’s significant support for Ukraine once back […]
Olaf Scholz calls Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said that agreements on Ukraine should take Russia’s interests into account. Photo: kremlin.ru by Presidential Executive Office of Russia, CC BY 4.0 “Possible agreements should take into account the interests of the Russian Federation in the […]