Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced on Wednesday that his country has begun receiving Russian tactical nuclear weapons and “everything is ready” for their deployment.
Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission of loss, but Ukraine says they’ve destroyed twice as many.
While Ukraine celebrates counteroffensive taking back territory from Russian occupation, Kremlin makes boast about ‘trophy’ tanks.
Speaking at a splashy award ceremony at the Kremlin on Monday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin invoked the National Day holiday and appealed to his subjects’ sense of “patriotism” during a “difficult time.”
Lukashenko said he didn’t want “a single bastard… set foot on Belarusian soil” and that if they did, “the response will be immediate”.
Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik of Pakistan confirmed on Monday that his country made a major purchase of Russian crude oil using the Chinese yuan currency, presented as a rare public relations victory for a government struggling to contain routine riots.
The Biden administration is reportedly set to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium rounds to arm American Abrams tanks in the conflict.
Ramzan Kadyrov’s Islamist-Chechen paramilitary group signed a deal to come under the control of the Kremlin, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.
At least three killed and 25 wounded after missiles hit civilian buildings in an overnight attack in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
Saboteurs again knocked out a major rail link at the weekend, continuing a campaign of attacks to isolate Russian-occupied Crimea.
Musician Travis Michael Leake, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Moscow on charges of running a drug trafficking ring “involving young people.”
Against a background of Ukrainian battlefield losses of Western-built tanks, Kyiv is asking Germany to send more armour east.
An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO’s history and hosted by Germany got underway on Monday.
The long-discussed Ukrainian spring counteroffensive is underway, with the country reporting a handful of villages reclaimed.
Ukrainian farmers are already feeling the pain of the disappearing reservoir, said Dmytro Neveselyi, mayor of the village of Maryinske.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces.
Former President Donald Trump vowed to fight the pending indictment over allegedly classified documents in a defiant video message posted to Truth Social on Thursday.
Ukraine has sent Western tanks into battle with Russia for the first time as the counteroffensive appears to have started in earnest.
Residents of the Kherson region in Ukraine find themselves dealing with new hardships thanks to the breach of the Kakhovka Dam on Tuesday, including flooded homes, drowning, disease, and even landmines dislodged by floodwater from the Dnipro River.
Tucker Carlson aired his first episode of the Tucker Carlson Show on Twitter on Tuesday, and it has garnered more than 100 million views.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says Ukraine’s Zelensky will not be invited to the September G20 summit in New Delhi.
Chinese exports to the United States fell by 12.2 percent in May, a much larger drop than expected and the first net reduction since February.
Ukraine’s main counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion appears to have begun, multiple Western news agencies have reported.
Communist Cuba, long disregarded as a priority by leftist President Joe Biden, boasted of taking on a role as a “key partner” to Russia on Wednesday, shortly before a bombshell report claimed the island would soon host a Chinese “spy base.”
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the U.S. should arm Ukraine until they win the war against Russia.
Police detained Zhanna Romanovskaya, a 55-year-old employee of the Architecture and Construction Ministry of the Russian city of Vladimir, on Wednesday for throwing firebombs at a military recruiting center.
Ukraine says Russia is shelling flooded civilian areas around Kherson even as efforts to evacuate thousands goes on.
Belgium opened an investigation into whether NATO weapons have been used in attacks by pro-Ukraine paramilitary forces in Russian territory.
Biden blamed Russia for the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline last September, despite his administration receiving intelligence three months earlier that Ukrainian forces planned to conduct such an attack.
The Biden administration was forewarned through the CIA that the Ukraine military planned a covert attack on the undersea Nord Stream pipeline a full three months before the sabotage took place, a report Tuesday claims.
Forces on the Russian side of the ongoing Ukraine War have reportedly shot at each other, with politically-motivated infighting rising to new highs.
Ukraine accused Russia of blowing up a major dam up water from Kherson, unleashing a flood and prompting an evacuation.
Russia claims a television broadcast showing Vladimir Putin declaring martial law is actually an A.I.-generated fake deployed by hackers.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) stated that China sailing a warship in front of an American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait is an attempt by China to “normalize” this behavior, China
Until now establishment media outlets have been bullish on calling out discussion of Ukrainian neo-Nazi symbols as spreading “false claims”.
Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.
Russia stopped a “large-scale offensive” by Ukrainian forces from Sunday morning which continued through to Monday, they claim.
Saudi Arabia announced a million-barrel-per-day (bpd) oil production cut on Sunday that would begin in July, a policy change following a meeting of the OPEC+ oil cartel in which several members failed to meet their production quotas and one, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced a production increase.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that he is afraid of a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.
