The Russian military leadership has no plans to conduct mobilization as its current needs are fulfilled by career military service members, including those who volunteered to fight against Ukraine, according to a senior official. The pledge not to draft additional troops was reiterated on Friday by Vladimir Tsimlyansky, the deputy …
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Robert Fico’s Slovak Social Democracy is set to emerge as the largest party in a snap election on Saturday. Fico has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and promised that not “a single round” of ammunition would be sent to Kiev if he were prime minister. Fico’s party is currently …
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Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, revealed on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next month. This high-level encounter will take during the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation set for October. China had previously confirmed the …
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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) maintains contacts with the CIA, its head, Sergey Naryshkin, told the Russian ‘National Defense’ magazine last week. Such communication helps reduce unnecessary tensions even though uncertainty is growing over the outcome of the geopolitical standoff between Russia and the West, he said. “Consultations between …
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The EU should stop buying Russian natural gas and other goods, Romanian Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu has said, even though the drastic measure would cost the bloc “a bit of comfort” as a result of higher prices. Speaking to the Austrian daily Der Standard on Thursday, the Romanian leader called …
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In Russia, news of the European Commission’s clarifications on the import of sanctioned goods by our citizens has caused a stir. Now it appears that a notional Russian entering an EU country may lose more than just their car. They may also have confiscated their mobile phones, cameras, toilet paper, …
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Ukraine has suffered heavy losses during three months of its summer counteroffensive against Russia but has failed to achieve its goals at any part of the front line, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has reported. Kiev’s forces have lost more than 66,000 troops and over 7,600 heavy weapons since launching …
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Russian warplanes have prevented yet another landing attempt by Ukrainian forces, destroying four US-made military speedboats and their crews in the Black Sea west of the Crimean Peninsula, the Defense Ministry said on Monday morning. Russian Black Sea Fleet naval aircraft “destroyed four US-made Willard Sea Force high-speed military boats …
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An unmanned aircraft has targeted the Russian city of Kurchatov, an industrial hub near the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, the governor of Kursk Region said on Friday morning. The attack resulted in minor damage to a non-residential building, Roman Starovoyt wrote on Telegram. No one was hurt in the incident, …
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Over the past three summer months, media all over the world has closely followed Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive. However, nothing spectacular has happened. On reaching Russia’s line of defense, Kiev’s armed forces were able to capture several villages of no strategic value at the cost of significant casualties and destroyed Western …
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