While Russia has struck a deal that enables it to deploy troops and military hardware on a long-term basis to sites across the Donbass, at present it has no concrete plans to establish installations in the newly recognized Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Moscow has revealed, despite speculation its troops …
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The US’ diplomatic mission to Russia warned on Sunday about potential “attacks” on hotels, metro stations, and other targets in Russia’s major cities. The US attributed these claims to unspecified “media sources,” and warned US citizens to prepare “evacuation plans,” but Russia’s Foreign Ministry has questioned Washington’s alert. “According to media sources, …
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that Russia is gearing up for what could be the largest and bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. “The plan that we’re seeing is for something that could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945 in just in terms …
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Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has reversed its decision to redistribute nearly $8 million (Can$10 million) in donations made to Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest following backlash on social media and threats of investigations by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and various state prosecutors. Announcing the reversal on Saturday, the site said it would …
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Moscow is prepared for the possibility that harsh US sanctions could restrict its banks’ access to dollar transactions, the Kremlin has said, admitting that the potentially unprecedented measures have officials worried. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday that Moscow is well aware of the threat of massive …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to develop partnerships in a range of areas, including stepping up military collaboration, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced. Speaking on Wednesday in an appearance in front of the Duma – Russia’s parliament – Lavrov reported …
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US President Joe Biden is considering deploying troops, aircraft, and warships to the Baltics and Eastern Europe as a means to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, The New York Times has reported. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper claims the White House is currently mulling over plans to deploy between 1,000 …
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The same US “intelligence community” that brought us ‘weapons of mass destruction in Iraq’ and ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ claimed in November that Moscow is preparing to invade Ukraine any day now. The harder Moscow denied it as ‘fake news’, the louder – and more vivid – the allegations became. Things went into …
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Authorities in Washington, along with several other Western powers, are working to derail and interfere with the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the head of Russia’s overseas intelligence-gathering agency has claimed. Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, told journalists on Tuesday that his agency had uncovered a …
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A Kazakh businessman living in France, described as the country’s “opposition leader” by US state-run media, has announced that he has a plan to take over the nation with the help of Western powers. Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh financier and political activist who has been living abroad for the past …
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