Ukraine plans to reorganize its troops and launch a new counteroffensive this year, the commander of the ground forces has said. Speaking to ICTV on Wednesday, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said the most pressing goal is to stop Russian advances and to regroup Ukrainian units, so that exhausted forces can …
Read More »Trump rival quits race
Former US President Donald Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 election, after Nikki Haley suspended her campaign following the Super Tuesday primaries. Trump swept 14 out of 15 states that held primaries, with Haley only winning in Vermont. At the end of the day, Trump stood …
Read More »Western ‘expertise’ on the Ukraine conflict could lead the world to a nuclear disaster
In order to assess the professionalism of any expert, their initial statements and forecasts must be compared with the actual course of events. In this sense, it’s interesting that none of the predictions made by mainstream Western experts regarding the Ukraine conflict have come true – either in military, political, …
Read More »Musk lashes out at ‘eco-terrorists’ over power outage at Tesla plant
A shadowy left-wing group has said it was behind the suspected arson that prompted the shutdown of a major Tesla plant near Berlin. The authorities and Tesla owner Elon Musk have condemned the actions of “terrorists.” Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Gruenheide was evacuated on Tuesday when a nearby electricity pylon …
Read More »Victoria Nuland quits
US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is poised to leave her post in the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. The senior official, widely regarded as a foreign policy hawk, played a key role in the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014. In December 2013, she visited Kiev …
Read More »UK weighs in on Luftwaffe leak
The UK has urged Germany and other Western nations to donate long-range weapons to Ukraine despite a leaked tape of top German military commanders discussing how Taurus missiles could be used against Russia. The UK and France have already provided to Kiev dozens of air-launched Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, …
Read More »Elon Musk sued by former Twitter executives
Former Twitter executives who lost their jobs after Elon Musk bought the social media platform have sued the billionaire technology magnate, claiming he owes them $128 million in unpaid severance. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in US District Court in San Francisco on behalf of ex-CEO Parag Agrawal and …
Read More »‘Ukraine is Russia’ – Medvedev
Ukraine lies within the sphere of Russian strategic interests and has no future in any other capacity, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, has stated. Russian people consider Ukraine to be part of the larger Russian civilization, the senior official said in a speech at a …
Read More »Russian soldier thanks Biden for sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine
Russian soldiers have apparently recorded a video in which one of them mockingly thanks US President Joe Biden for supplying Kiev with Abrams tanks and giving the troops the opportunity to earn some extra cash for destroying them. This comes amid reports of several US-made heavy armor pieces being destroyed in …
Read More »E-bikes caused a year’s worth of fires in last two months, New York fire chief warns
Lithium-ion batteries used in electronic bikes and scooters caused more fires in the last two months than in all of 2019, the New York City Fire Department’s (FDNY) chief fire marshall has told the New York Post. The FDNY recorded 30 fires involving lithium batteries in 2019, a number that …
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