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Hungary claims it received concession from EU

Budapest has received guarantees from the EU that if something happens with the Druzhba pipeline, via which the landlocked country obtains about 60% of its crude from Russia, any shortfall will be replaced. That’s according to Balazs Orban, the prime minister’s political director, who was speaking on Tuesday.  Since Russia launched …

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Ukraine fires top official behind claims of Russian war crimes

Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to remove the nation’s human rights commissioner, Lyudmila Denisova, from her post. The official has been accused of failing to perform duties and in particular of spreading unverified information about atrocities supposedly committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Such actions only tarnished Ukraine’s image, MPs …

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Taiwan claims 30 Chinese war planes entered its air defense zone

Taiwanese Air Force jets scrambled to intercept some 30 Chinese military aircraft as they entered the island’s air defense zone, the authorities in Taipei reported on Monday. According to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, 22 of those planes were fighter jets, with the rest made up of electronic warfare, early warning, and …

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Russia to probe claims of suspicious activity by Red Cross

The Russian Investigative Committee said on Sunday it will look into allegations the Ukrainian Red Cross Society was involved in shady activities, including keeping records of children with “healthy organs” in the city of Mariupol. The claim came from Vladimir Taranenko, the head of the Donetsk-based civic organization called ‘Peoples …

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Russia claims seizure of major Ukrainian stronghold

Russian forces together with those from the Donetsk People’s Republic have taken over the Ukrainian town of Liman, Russia’s Defense Ministry has claimed. On Thursday, Alexey Arestovich, a key adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, admitted during a livestream that Ukrainian forces had lost the town. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman …

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Russians didn’t want to join NATO, US claims

Russia “decided” it didn’t want to join NATO in the 1990s, even though “people talked about” it, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told television host Stephen Colbert on his show on Thursday. Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have maintained that their nation’s attempt to join the bloc was …

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Western-backed coup foiled, government claims

A group of Malian officers attempted a coup last week with the help of a Western state, the government in Bamako has announced. While the military government did not name the alleged foreign culprit, the announcement comes amid the ongoing deterioration of relations with Mali’s former colonial ruler, France. “A …

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France denies Ukrainian president’s claims

French President Emmanuel Macron has “never” asked Volodymyr Zelensky to make territorial concessions to end the ongoing conflict with Russia, contrary to statements by the Ukrainian leader, the Elysee has insisted. During a Thursday interview with Italian broadcaster Rai 1, Zelensky accused Macron of suggesting that an effort should be …

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Poland claims Russia spreading ideological ‘cancer’

Russian nationalism is a mortal threat to the world and the West must do to Moscow what was once done to Nazi Germany, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote in an opinion piece published by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday. He left out the part that ‘denazification’ of Germany came after its …

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