Former Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has stated that he will be withdrawing from politics, following the victory of a pro-EU candidate in a presidential election rerun from which he was banned, earlier this month. Georgescu, a former UN official, ran as an independent in Romania’s November 2024 presidential election, …
Read More »Situation on the front lines ‘difficult’ – Ukraine’s top military commander
Ukraine is having a hard time fighting Russia, the commander-in-chief of the nation’s armed forces, General Aleksandr Syrsky, has admitted this week. The situation on the front lines is “difficult,” he told Kiev’s Western backers during a virtual Ramstein group meeting on Friday. His words came amid the continued Russian …
Read More »Voice from the front lines: The story of how Russia’s ‘Biden’ and his ‘Anime battalion’ captured an American M2 Bradley
Despite the pouring rain, the main hall of St. Petersburg’s Listva bookstore is almost full. A slim, bespectacled young man dressed in a suit sits in front of the audience. He’s the type of person you could easily meet in a university auditorium, and it looks like he’s going to …
Read More »‘At the front, you start looking at things differently’: An interview with a Russian conscript fighting Ukraine
Almost a year has passed since partial mobilization was announced in Russia. In September of last year, around 300,000 men were called to the front. Although all of them had previously done their army service, they were ordinary workers, office clerks, managers, and businessmen before being conscripted. A soldier with …
Read More »No quiet on the Eastern front: How the US has worked to prevent Russia and Japan from putting a formal end to World War Two
“Give back the Northern Territories! You’re illegally occupying our land!” Every year, on February 7, slogans like this blare out through loudspeakers opposite the Russian embassy in Japan. This is the day when Japan celebrates the so-called Northern Territories Day.” This refers to what Russia calls the Southern Kurils — Iturup, …
Read More »Brazilian front-runner slams US billions for Ukraine
Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called out US President Joe Biden in two campaign speeches this week, citing the $40 billion in military aid Washington has pledged to Ukraine. Lula is polling far ahead of the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in the upcoming presidential election. “Biden, who has never …
Read More »Biden is Obama’s ‘front man’ – Tulsi Gabbard
Ex-Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard has claimed that former President Barack Obama is behind the White House’s new Disinformation Governance Board, suggesting the current commander in chief is merely a figurehead for the project. “Biden is just a front man,” Gabbard said in a tweet on Sunday, sharing footage from an …
Read More »Letter ‘Z’ on Elle Russia’s front page draws hate
Elle USA stated on Tuesday that it has disavowed all links with its Russian sister company after supporters of the Ukrainian cause accused the Russian magazine of secretly supporting the ongoing military action against Ukraine. The issue centers on a headline about Gen Z. The American magazine said it “terminated …
Read More »Ex-US soldiers with alleged neo-Nazi links arrive at Ukrainian front line
At least half a dozen former US military servicemen have made their presence known at the front line in the Ukrainian conflict – so far by just posting a string of photos and videos on Instagram, with geotags suggesting the men are in eastern Ukraine. The Americans are depicted in …
Read More »Woman pushed in front of train in Brussels (VIDEO)
A man pushed a woman in front of an oncoming train in the Belgian capital, with the driver coming to a halt inches from her body. The incident was captured on video and the man arrested shortly afterwards. Video captured at Rogier metro station on Friday evening shows the man …
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