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.
The German government has decided to deploy some of the nation’s top Special Forces units to Cyprus as it prepares for potential crisis situations in Israel, Gaza and the whole Middle East, the tabloid Bild has reported, citing security sources.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China to attend the Belt and Road Initiative conference and hold a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China.
Moscow is grateful to Beijing for its proposals on ways to end the Ukrainian crisis, but the government in Kiev keeps rejecting any constructive talks while stubbornly seeking Russia’s defeat on the battleground and suffering “enormous” losses in its failed counteroffensive, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
Tehran is discussing the possibility of Russian gas supplies with Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week.
The US abandoned international instruments and proposed its own solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has now been exposed as a complete failure, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
The UK government has urged police chiefs to consider whether waving a Palestinian flag could be a criminal offence in the wake of calls by senior figures for people deemed to have expressed support for Hamas, to be prosecuted.
