Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a CNN town hall-style event in New Hampshire that the European Union needs to start paying “a lot more money” to subsidize the war in Ukraine, which he vowed to have “settled in one day” if elected.
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to take some verbal shots at Vladimir Putin, seemingly referring to him as a delusional “grandpa”.
The toll of Russia’s war on its own armed forces was apparently laid bare as a major military parade was graced by just one tank.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told his country during a speech Tuesday to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that the West was seeking to “destroy” Russia and “cross out the results” of the war, comparing the greater West to Nazis.
Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to pull troops out of Bakhmut, the centre of Ukraine’s fight against Moscow’s forces.
A “new level” of attack may be imminent after an alleged drone strike on the Kremlin — “the symbol of Russian power,” according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who warned of a major escalation that could determine the war’s outcome.
The Chinese Global Times government newspaper described the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin early Wednesday morning as the crossing of a “red line” in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine: the targeting of heads of state.
Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that leader Vladimir Putin was “calm and collected” in the face of what Russia claimed to be a Ukrainian assassination attempt against the president.
“Severe and inevitable punishment” is coming to Ukraine for a blast at the Kremlin, top allies of Vladimir Putin said.
Russia announced on Wednesday that security would be increased across Moscow, and Victory Day celebrations scaled back, due to the possibility of attacks by alleged Ukrainian saboteurs.
Ukrainian special forces used a military drone packed with explosives to try and kill Russian President Vladimir Putin, a newspaper claims.
Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, widely considered the worst event of its kind in human history, on Wednesday, condemning Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country and accusing it of using nuclear threats to “blackmail” the world.
“The US and its allies abandon diplomacy and demand that relations be clarified on the battlefield” claimed Russia, ironically enough.
President Joe Biden’s administration fears that a Ukrainian attack on Russian territory could escalate the war and drag the United States into a direct conflict with Russia, according to a report citing documents from last month’s alleged Pentagon leak.
Ukraine’s future is in the “Euro-Atlantic family” says the head of NATO, revealing every member now agrees the country will join.
French President Macron is reportedly working on a “secret plan” with Communist China to craft a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the occupied Donetsk region of the eastern Donbass on Tuesday, meeting wounded soldiers and assessing the battleground situation after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin revealed, had toured eastern Ukraine on Monday.
Putin visited the HQ of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine early Tuesday, his second trip to the Russian-held territories there since March.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira on Monday as part of Lavrov’s five-day Latin American tour to Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin welcomed Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu to Moscow on Sunday for a four-day visit meant to “deepen” cooperation between the militaries of the two nations and to execute on deals Putin signed when dictator Xi Jinping visited a month ago.
The U.S., UK, Canada, Japan, and France announced a nuclear power alliance “aimed at displacing Putin” from the international energy market.
Russian President Putin signed a bill to allow authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the war in Ukraine.
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the other “n-word” is nuclear because no one talks about the danger.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened to abandon a landmark grain deal with Ukraine if obstacles to Moscow’s exports remained.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday said that Russia’s partner China has “impressive potential for mediation” in the Ukraine war, as “eloquently demonstrated” by China’s recent brokering of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Russia again attempts to threaten NATO, claiming nuclear-capable missiles and jets now in Belarus, bordering Poland and Ukraine.
Ukraine’s national securitychief warned that the West must prepare for the collapse and fragmentation of Russia similar to the Soviet Union.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan strongman President Yoweri Museveni and a general in the Ugandan Army, said on Thursday that his country would send troops to defend Moscow if the Western world goes to war against Russia.
Prominent pro-Russia blogger killed by explosion in a St Petersburg cafe, with Moscow blaming anti-war activists, the opposition, and Ukraine.
Calls for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are “pure cynicism” a Kyiv government official claimed Saturday.
As is often the case in war, among those hardest hit – especially in an invasion – are the children. And while nuclear families tend to look out for their own, those who suffer the most are the orphans.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that there aren’t any plans to expel Russian diplomats over Russia’s detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the focus is on getting Gershkovich
A spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Thursday that China is ready to increase military cooperation with Russia after dictators Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in Moscow two weeks ago.
Russia announced on Wednesday that 31-year-old American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), was arrested in Ekaterinburg and charged with espionage.
Former President Donald Trump bashed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as “ignorant and foolish” on Wednesday for his attitude toward Russia, a posture Trump believes “makes it impossible to negotiate peace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the opportunity of an interview with the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday to once again invite communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to speak to him directly.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it was “remarkably naive” to not understand it is in the U.S. national interests to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus
Kremlin loudmouth Dmitry Medvedev made clear anyone who tries to arrest President Putin can expect to feel the wrath of “all our weapons”.
Biden is practically inviting China to impose a peace deal in Europe, much as Obama invited Russia back into the Middle East.
