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The war in Ukraine could last another year, the United Kingdom has warned. Ben Wallace, UK Defence Secretary made this declaration on Wednesday February 22.    Asked whether we could see the war lingering on in another 12 months, he told LBC: ‘I think we will. ‘I think Russia has …

Mr. Wang met with Western officials, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, at the Munich conference last weekend, and promised that China would try to use diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine. But the televised portion of Mr. Wang’s meeting with Mr. Patrushev focused on Russia and China’s …

Russia has suspended its participation in the New START treaty, said Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in a speech to the Federal Assembly and members of the Russian political elite on Monday, Feb. 21. The nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and Russia was signed in 2010 in Prague, and …

A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead after falling from a high-rise window in an apartment building.   Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered Wednesday,  Feb. 15, by a passerby at the entrance of a high-rise on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg, Russian news Telegram channel Mash reported.  …

Yevgeny Prigozhin, a well known Putin ally and the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has said it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian regions whose capture it has stated as a key goal of the war.     In a rare …

Transatlantic military alliance, NATO and Japan have pledged to strengthen ties, saying Beijing and Moscow are leading “an authoritarian pushback against the international rules-based order.” According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who met on Tuesday, January 31 in Tokyo, a win for Putin …

The Russian government has accused former British prime minister Boris Johnson of lying when he said President Vladimir Putin had threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.   This is coming after Johnson disclosed to the BBC for a documentary, that the Russian leader had threatened him with a missile …

Vladimir Putin has ordered strippers and pole dancers to be sent to the front line in a move to cheer up his troops and boost morale.   The move comes as the Kremlin announces a medal for all Russian soldiers which have deployed in what he calls the “special military …

Novak Djokovic has launched an ardent defence of his dad Srdjan after he was captured posing for photographs with Vladimir Putin supporters, claiming his father didn’t know he was with such people and was “misused” by them. After watching his son defeat Andrey Rublev in an Australian Open quarter-final on …

The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.   The Putin ally’s message on Sunday, January 22 comes after new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment by NATO and Western countries …