Proposals regarding international security should be considered in the context of global realities, Moscow has said, after China called for the world’s largest nuclear powers to negotiate a new treaty. The Russian Foreign Ministry told business daily RBK that Moscow and Beijing treat each other’s initiatives with special attention and …
Read More »Biden a ‘rare kind of idiot’ – Medvedev
US President Joe Biden’s recent blunder in which he mixed up Ukraine and the Middle East sums up his poor mental state, former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. Biden’s gaffe came in an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, as he discussed the Israeli military campaign in Gaza with host …
Read More »Kiev rejects pope’s ‘white flag’ appeal
Pope Francis was wrong to suggest that Kiev should restart negotiations with Moscow, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has said. The pontiff ruffled some feathers in Ukraine this week by speaking about the importance of having “the courage of the white flag.” “When it comes to the white flag, we …
Read More »Erdogan among ‘greatest anti-Semites in history’ – Israeli FM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ranks among the worst anti-Semites in history because of his stance on the Gaza conflict, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has claimed. In a speech on Saturday, Erdogan compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler, referring to the relentless IDF …
Read More »Ireland votes to keep ‘sexist’ language in the constitution
Irish voters have overwhelmingly rejected the proposal to revise the definition of families in the country’s conservative constitution and remove the mention of women’s “duties in the home.” Both the government and opposition parties have argued that the current text contains old-fashioned and sexist language about women and their role …
Read More »NATO should prepare for US to leave – reports
NATO could face a serious risk of the US leaving the alliance if Donald Trump is re-elected in November, the Telegraph said on Saturday, citing several diplomats from the bloc’s member states. Europe’s NATO countries should develop some strategy to deal with the consequences of such an eventuality and reconsider …
Read More »Russian military destroys Ukrainian S-300 air defense system (VIDEO)
The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of a missile strike which destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 air defense system deployed in the People’s Republic of Donetsk. The hardware was hit near the town of Pokrovsk, located some 67km north-west of the Russian region’s capital, Donetsk, the ministry said in …
Read More »Peaceful times are over – EU state’s PM
The peaceful times in Europe are long gone, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, painting a grim picture of the future of the continent amid the continuing tensions with Russia. “The times of peace are over. The post-war era is over,” Tusk said at a meeting of the European People’s Party …
Read More »Abrams and HIMARS kills, Russia’s push west from Adveeka: this week’s Ukraine conflict updates (VIDEOS)
The conflict between Moscow and Kiev has entered its third year with Russian troops reporting new gains against Ukrainian forces. Last Friday, the country’s Defense Ministry announced the full liberation of Lastochkino, Severnoye and Petrovskoye, small villages located to the west and northwest of the town Avdeevka. The northern suburb …
Read More »US ‘will not bow down’ to Russia – Biden
The US will not stop supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address on Thursday night. Russian President Vladimir Putin is hell-bent on “sowing chaos around Europe,” Biden claimed. “If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop in Ukraine, I …
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