Russia should have launched its military campaign against Kiev earlier, after realizing that neither Ukraine nor its Western backers were committed to a peaceful settlement of the Donbass crisis, President Vladimir Putin has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday, Putin acknowledged that while it is …
Read More »US delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine is a crime – Putin
If Ukraine uses US-supplied cluster munitions on the battlefield, Moscow reserves the right to retaliate in kind, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned. Speaking to journalist Pavel Zarubin, Putin offered his take on the decision by the administration of US President Joe Biden to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions – …
Read More »Ukraine to seek war-crime charges against Western banks
The leaders of Western banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and HSBC are committing war crimes by continuing to indirectly finance the Russian state, an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Oleg Ustenko, said on Tuesday. In an interview with CNBC, Ustenko announced that Kiev continues to gather data …
Read More »Supermarket massacre probed as hate crime
An 18-year-old attacker was detained without bail on first-degree murder charges following a mass shooting at a supermarket in New York state, that authorities described as a “hate crime” and “racially motivated violent extremism.” The heavily-armed shooter wearing a bulletproof vest and a tactical helmet first opened fire at a parking …
Read More »US war crime claim ‘staggeringly hypocritical’, congresswoman says
US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has reportedly called out a key potential stumbling block in President Joe Biden’s push to have Russia prosecuted for alleged war crimes in Ukraine: Washington isn’t even a member of the international court that would handle the probe. The International Criminal Court (ICC) was set …
Read More »Footage shows Ukrainian troops brutalizing ‘crime bosses’
Footage published on Ukrainian social media on Tuesday appeared to show people in uniform beating up and harassing detainees. The mayor of the country’s fourth largest city, Dnepr, close to where the incidents happened, justified the mistreatment on social media, branding the arrestees as “crime bosses” and claiming they previously attacked …
Read More »New York office workers consider fleeing amid surging crime
Violent crime and lawlessness in New York City have escalated to the point that almost half of local workers are considering moving away because they feel unsafe, a new poll has revealed. A Morning Consult survey of more than 9,000 New York office workers found that 40% of those living …
Read More »Hate crime actor released from jail
Jussie Smollett, the disgraced ‘Empire’ actor found guilty of felony disorderly conduct for staging a hate crime against himself, will be released from a Chicago jail on a promise to show up for appeals hearings, an Illinois court ruled on Wednesday. In a 2-1 decision by the state’s First District …
Read More »NATO’s campaign made European region ‘a hotbed of crime’ – Lavrov to RT
Russia finds it hard to believe that NATO is a purely defensive bloc, giving its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia in 1999, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT on Friday. The minister made his comments while speaking about the talks between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Read More »Biden makes sexual harassment a military crime
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday making sexual harassment a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. “Today, I signed an Executive Order to strengthen how our military justice system addresses several forms of gender-based violence,” announced Biden in a statement, revealing that he had …
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