Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Thursday that US President Joe Biden offered his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than $11 billion in IMF assistance to ratify Sweden’s bid to join the NATO bloc. In an article posted to his Substack account, Hersh wrote that he had been …
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Moscow can’t ignore the nuclear capability of US-designed F-16 fighter jets that may be supplied to Ukraine by its Western backers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. By continuing to provide more sophisticated arms to Kiev, “the US and its NATO satellites create the risk of a direct armed …
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The Ukrainian crisis marks the first time in history that the United States has exposed itself to serious risks in defining the limits of its military presence in Europe. Any genuine move by Washington to invite Kiev into NATO would imply a willingness to enter into a direct military confrontation …
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Russia is planning to discuss a switch to national currencies in trade with countries in Southeast Asia, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. The move comes as part of Moscow’s push to ditch the US dollar and euro in business settlements. As a result of Western sanctions against Moscow, trade …
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US President Joe Biden’s administration has agreed to push forward with the controversial sale of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye, just hours after Ankara stopped standing in the way of Sweden’s membership in NATO. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed the decision on Tuesday, saying Biden would work …
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged NATO to promote a ceasefire and peace talks in Ukraine rather than continue to ship weapons to Kiev. He made the argument in a video clip posted on social media on Monday. “Instead of bringing weapons to Ukraine, we should bring peace,” Orban …
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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has failed to make Ukraine any concrete membership offer ahead of the US-led military bloc’s summit in Vilnius, instead proposing that Kiev is given the chance to ‘skip a step’ on the road to joining the bloc. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Stoltenberg insisted that NATO leaders will …
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US President Joe Biden will reportedly hold a one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky during this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania as a demonstration of unity amid disagreements over the Western military alliance’s proposed security commitments to Kiev. The talks will be held on Wednesday on the sidelines …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the head of the Wagner private military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, several days after the group aborted a mutiny as part of a Belarus-mediated deal, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Speaking to journalists, Peskov confirmed a report by French newspaper Liberation, which claimed …
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Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack three Russian regions with repurposed Soviet-era air defense systems on Sunday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, adding that the barrage did not result in any casualties or damage. The Russian military added that one of the missiles was meant to hit …
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