US President Joe Biden told American soldiers on Friday that “you’re going to see” Ukrainian civilians fighting Russian soldiers “when you’re there.” Despite signaling a potential US deployment to Ukraine, the White House says there’s been no change to Biden’s position of not sending troops into the country. “You’re going …
Read More »Putin hits back at attempts to ‘cancel’ Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared efforts by the elites in the West to weaponize “cancel culture” against famous Russian composers and writers – in response to the country’s military offensive in Ukraine – to Nazi book burnings. “Today, they are trying to cancel the whole of our thousand-year-old country, …
Read More »Turkey won’t transfer Russian missile systems to Ukraine – Erdogan
Turkey’s long-planned use of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems will not be reversed, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists on Friday as he was flying home from a summit of NATO leaders in Brussels. Western media claimed the US was negotiating a possible transfer of the weapons from Turkey to Ukraine, …
Read More »US clarifies position on use of chemical weapons
The United States has no intention of using chemical weapons under any circumstances, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Friday. The comment comes after President Joe Biden said on Thursday that a Russian deployment of such substances in Ukraine would trigger “a response in kind.” Biden’s statement led to …
Read More »Europe uses Russophobia to pursue its own interests – Russia’s ex-president
Russia’s military campaign against Ukraine has seen a dramatic rise in Russophobia all across Europe and in the US, with some leaders using rather undiplomatic language, Russia’s former president told RT and Ria Novosti on Thursday. Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s leader from 2008-2012 and currently the deputy chairman of the Security …
Read More »EU strikes deal to buy gas from US
The European Union has reached an agreement to buy at least 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) more from the US this year in order to lower its dependence on Russian natural gas, Bloomberg reported citing industry sources. However, American imports would cover just a fraction of …
Read More »US clarifies if it’ll use chemical weapons
The United States has no intention of using chemical weapons under any circumstance, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Friday. The comment comes after President Joe Biden said on Thursday that a Russian deployment of these weapons in Ukraine would trigger “a response in kind.” Biden’s statement led …
Read More »Ukraine requests 1,000 missiles per day from US – media
Ukraine has told the US that it urgently needs to be supplied with 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 500 Stinger air defense missiles per day, CNN reported on Thursday, citing a document presented to US lawmakers. Western countries have been sending weapons and military gear to Kiev but President Volodymyr Zelensky …
Read More »Moscow wants US to comment on Hunter Biden’s alleged link with Ukrainian biolabs
Russia wants to hear comments from the US government on the alleged involvement of Hunter Biden into financing a network of biolabs in Ukraine, which Moscow suspects of conducting bioweapons research, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. The embattled presidential son was financially linked to the Ukrainian labs by …
Read More »Qatar says replacing Russian gas is impossible
Replacing Russian natural gas on the European market is “not practically possible,” Qatari Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi said in an interview with CNN on Thursday. The official, who is also the president and CEO of state-owned QatarEnergy, noted that “from 30 to 40% of the total volume of gas supplied …
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