Tag Archives: Russia

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership, shows what happens when people make deals with Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Speaking on Friday, September 8, to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Zelensky rejected …

X chief Elon Musk is calling for a truce between Russia and Ukraine after revealing that he refused a request by Ukrainian officials to provide Starlink satellite communications access as a means to carry out an attack on the Russian naval fleet off the coast of Crimea. The incident was …

North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un is planning to meet with Russian President, Vladimir Putin on a rare trip beyond his country’s borders, US authorities have revealed. The pair will discuss the possibility of Pyongyang supplying weapons for Putin’s soldiers to use on the battlefield in Ukraine and what North Korea …

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, plans to travel to Russia this month to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin to discuss the possibility of supplying Russia with more weaponry for its war in Ukraine and other military cooperation, according to American and allied officials. In a rare foray …

The Nobel Foundation reversed course on Saturday and said it would not invite the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, acknowledging that an earlier decision to do so had prompted backlash. Both Russia and Belarus were disinvited from the ceremony last year after Russia’s full-scale …

Russian space agency chief Yuri Borisov says new intercontinental ballistic missile system is now in service, Russia’s news agencies report. Moscow has put into service an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that Russian President Vladimir Putin has said would make Russia’s enemies “think twice” about their threats, according to reported comments …

An FBI whistleblower said that Rudy Giuliani was compromised by Russian intelligence while he was trying to find dirt on Joe Biden during the 2020 election. Mother Jones reported: That contention is among a host of explosive assertions from Johnathan Buma, an FBI agent …

The Ukrainian government has told its critics stating the the country is being slow about the counter-offensive against Russia, to “shut up”.    This is coming after Ukrainian soldiers spent three months on its counter offensive to reclaim a territory lost to Russia,  The statement from Kyiv is the sharpest …

United Nations sanctions in Mali will end on Thursday, August 31 after Russia vetoed a renewal of the regime that targeted anyone violating or obstructing a 2015 peace deal, hindering aid delivery, committing rights abuses, and recruiting child soldiers. Independent UN sanctions monitors have been reporting to the UN Security …

Ben Simmons‘ name was back in the news yesterday thanks to a lengthy one-on-one interview he did with Marc Spears for Andscape. Simmons has not been effective on a basketball court for over a year thanks to a back injury (and the whole Philadelphia 76ers thing) so this interview was …