Western officials are engaged in behind-the-scenes talks with Kiev about potential peace negotiations with Moscow, trying to find out what concessions Ukraine might agree to, in order to end the conflict, NBC News reported on Saturday, citing sources.
The US Department of Defense announced a new $300 million military assistance package for Ukraine in addition to a $125 million drawdown, according to a release.
Western nations, which previously insisted that Ukraine should defeat Russia on the battlefield, are gradually changing their position, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
Paris’ idea to create a coalition against Palestinian movement Hamas is fraught with further escalation in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated.
Kiev’s attempts to advance on the front line remain fruitless and are resulting in high battlefield losses and decreasing morale among Ukrainian troops, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated on Wednesday.
If the US stops funding Ukraine, Russia will win the ongoing conflict between the two countries, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the US Senate Appropriations Committee, making the case for $44 billion more in military and other aid to the government in Kiev.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become robotic after feeling betrayed by his Western backers, Time magazine has reported, citing members of Zelensky’s inner circle.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted the West for the crisis in the Middle East, where Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip. He stated that the "ruling elites of the US" and their "satellites" stood behind the killing of Palestinians in the besieged enclave, and behind conflicts in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently trying to locate about 15,000 people who went missing during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and is working with all relevant authorities, including those in Moscow, ICRC Director of Operations Martin Schuepp told Sputnik.
The West is now seeking to expand the current European conflict, that it is responsible for, to Asia, Russia's Defense Minister has warned. Sergey Shoigu was speaking at China’s biggest annual military diplomacy event, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, on Monday.
Several dozen Ukrainian drones have been spotted and destroyed over the Black Sea and the northwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian military confirmed on Sunday.
A ceasefire and humanitarian programs are needed in the Gaza Strip to save the population, which has been blockaded without water, electricity, and food, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with the Belarusian news agency BELTA on Saturday. He warned that if the besieged enclave is destroyed, it will create a catastrophe for many more decades.
The Ukrainian military will run out of ammunition next year, and Kiev’s Western backers won’t be able to fully restock it until 2025, European military experts told Le Monde. With Russian arms production in full swing, Moscow is better prepared for a war of attrition, the analysts warned.
The European Union is struggling to make good on its promise to supply Ukraine with one million artillery shells by next spring, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has removed one of the final hurdles blocking Sweden from joining NATO by submitting a bill approving Stockholm’s membership bid to parliament for ratification.
The CIA has spent “tens of millions” of dollars on transforming Kiev’s Soviet-style spy services into “potent allies against Moscow”, The Washington Post has reported, citing multiple sources in the US and Ukrainian intelligence communities.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said war has come to an end in the South Caucasus and the time is now ripe for promotion of peace and progress in the region.
The foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday for the second meeting of “3+3” to discuss the issues of the South Caucasus region in order to help tackle the regional issues, according to Iranian news agency IRNA.
The US government and some European allies are pushing Israel to postpone its ground attack on the Gaza Strip in order to negotiate the release of more hostages held by Hamas, Bloomberg has reported.
The White House has released a sweeping set of proposals to bolster Israel and Ukraine in the midst of two wars in the Middle East and Europe as well as invest more in domestic defense manufacturing, humanitarian assistance and managing the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
US President Joe Biden’s comments linking Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the atrocities committed by Palestinian group Hamas were unworthy of his office, the Kremlin has announced. Hamas says its recent military operaiotn inside Israel, was a reaction to Tel Aviv's relentless violence against Palestinians and desecraton of the Al-Aqsa mosque.
Washingtin will give Israel tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that were originally set aside for Ukraine, Axios has reported. The Israeli military reportedly told the Pentagon that it needed the shells to prepare for a ground invasion of Gaza.
Relations between Russia and North Korea have now soared to new heights, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated during his landmark two-day trip to Pyongyang.
