Berlin will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly alter Ukraine’s borders or impose the terms of peace, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed.
Russia's foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said London is preparing to send 2,000 forces to Ukraine. Sergey Naryshkin added any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a "priority" target for the Russian Army.
Active and former military personnel from NATO countries have long been operating in Ukraine, overseeing Kiev’s use of West-supplied weapons, El Pais has reported.
Moscow is well aware of NATO’s bids to court post-Soviet republics in the South Caucasus, but the bloc’s overtures will bring no benefit to the region, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Ukraine’s very survival in fighting Russia could be at stake unless the western states send more military aid, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned.
Yerevan could face a war with Azerbaijan if it does not compromise with Baku and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since the early 1990s, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in a video published on Tuesday.
China will boycott the negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict unless Moscow has a seat at the table, the Politico magazine has reported, citing officials familiar with the matter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that a direct conflict between Russia and the NATO military alliance would mean the planet was just one step away from World War Three but stressed hardly anyone wanted such a scenario.
Ukraine has told its western backers that munitions for some of its air defense systems could be almost used up by the end of March, the Washington Post has reported, citing American officials.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU does not want to see an Israeli invasion of Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is expected to win the presidential election, garnering over 87% of the votes, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported.
French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that western ground operations in Ukraine might be necessary “at some point”. He made the remarks days after meeting with German and Polish leaders.
Some Ukrainian villages and small towns are left with hardly any adult men amid aggressive and indiscriminate mobilization tactics by the army recruiters, who are desperate to refill the ranks of the depleted forces, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Deploying troops of the NATO bloc to the battlefields in Ukraine might result in an all-out global conflict, effectively a Third World War, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has cautioned. He has ruled out any possibility that his country’s forces will somehow end up deployed to support Kiev’s fight against Moscow.
European countries intend to create yet another “capability coalition” to arm Ukrainian soldiers with long-range weapons, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated, echoing an initiative floated by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The continuing Ukrainian incursions into and strikes on Russia's border regions are primarily aimed at disrupting the ongoing election in the country, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has claimed.
Kiev wants to mobilize up to 500,000 additional troops mostly to replace frontline soldiers that have not had a proper rest for months, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has announced quoted by the Financial Times daily.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned the West on Wednesday that Moscow was technically ready for a nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.
While Brussels is searching for legal loopholes to send frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, it must keep some of the cash as a “safety buffer”, should its clearing house Euroclear get in trouble, potentially jeopardizing the entire global financial system, a senior EU official has told Reuters.
Russia doesn’t want a direct conflict either with the United States or NATO, according to a report presented by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines during US Senate Intelligence Committee hearings.
European nations nearly doubled their ars imports over the last five years, with the conflict in Ukraine as the primary factor behind the increase, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).