According to a CNN report (make of that what you will) leading Democrats have begun reaching out to “possible replacements” for Joe Biden because they know that the 80 year old president will not run for a second term. The report states that “top Democrats and donors” are having conversations with potential presidential candidates within the party because the pace of Biden’s apparent campaign... 

Russia is ‘planning to use Wagner fighters to invade a key strategic strip of land straddling the border between Poland and Lithuania’, Putin’s crony has revealed. A top Putin parliamentarian revealed on Russian state television that mercenary forces were ready to march on the sought-after territory ‘in a matter of hours’, in a move that could trigger World War Three. The... 

The ‘completely mad West’ risks a third world war by supporting Ukraine, the former Russian president has claimed. The comedy about this is that Russia can’t beat Ukraine which only gets a little help from “the West”…. imagine Russia trying to face off against NATO itself but let them yap their mouths anyway, its all they’ve got Dmitry Medvedev, now Deputy... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that Russia would take “appropriate” actions in response to the potential accession of Sweden and Ukraine to NATO, emphasizing the protection of Russia’s “legitimate security interests.” Lavrov’s remarks came as global leaders convened in Vilnius, Lithuania for the commencement of a NATO summit. The summit aimed to... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now making further demands to admit Sweden into NATO. Now he wants the negotiations on Turkish membership in the EU to be resumed. First: Open the way for Turkey’s membership in the European Union and then we will open up for Sweden, as we did for Finland, says Erdogan. The move came before Erdogan left Ankara to travel to Vilnius and attend the NATO... 

French President Emmanuel Macron’s stance on NATO has undergone a significant shift as he recognizes the growing influence of Eastern European states within the alliance, according to a report by Bloomberg. Macron, who was once considered a NATO-skeptic leader, has recently expressed support for Ukraine’s potential NATO membership. Previously, Macron made headlines by describing NATO as... 

While London is pushing to ‘fast-track’ Ukraine’s membership in NATO, Washington and many European countries have urged caution and resisted these calls, given especially Kiev is in an active hot war with Russia (which would automatically trigger Article 5), and could be for years to come. But most of Ukraine’s Western backers are at least on board with offering Kiev security guarantees, but... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now releasing the draft peace agreement that Moscow and Kiev negotiated in the spring of 2022. At the same time, he is accusing Ukraine of being the party that saw to it that the peace negotiations collapsed at the last moment. The document shows that the parties’ delegations actually agreed on the general terms of Ukraine’s neutrality and on some security... 

But behind closed doors, Ukraine’s leader has proposed going in a more audacious direction — occupying Russian villages to gain leverage over Moscow, bombing a pipeline that transfers Russian oil to Hungary, a NATO member, and privately pining for long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia’s borders, according to classified U.S. intelligence documents detailing his internal communications... 

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the behavior of Hungary and its relations with Russia do not correspond to the status of a NATO ally. He said this in an interview with Finnish, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian journalists. “How to resolve the dispute with Budapest? The question is only Budapest’s desire. It seems to me that there is a political entanglement of the political elites... 

Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, is reportedly in talks with the United States on a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) that would allow American troops to deploy freely to Finland, which was recently admitted into NATO in April. Mikael Antell, the deputy director-general for political affairs at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is leading the bilateral negotiations, according to Helsingin... 

Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region are appealing for more weapons to counter Russian attacks on the key city of Bakhmut. Russian forces, after months of unrelenting attacks over the winter, are on the brink of capturing the city. The Russian advance has reportedly come at a significant cost, with tens of thousands of casualties, and the city remains contested. Ukrainian soldiers are requesting... 

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg today said all members have agreed that Ukraine will join the military alliance in a major boost for Volodymyr Zelensky. The chief said that Ukraine must have ‘the deterrence to prevent new attacks’ from Russia once the war ends – and joining would give Kyiv protection. Mr Stoltenberg said the NATO allies had agreed that Ukraine would eventually... 

Russia said Thursday it had cut off Ukrainian forces inside Bakhmut, while Kyiv insisted supply lines were still open into the besieged city, as video emerged showing incendiary munitions raining down from above. Russian troops have been battling since last summer to capture the city, which had a pre-war population of 70,000, and whose fall would now mostly present a symbolic victory for Vladimir... 

According to senior Biden administration officials, classified war documents that contained secret American and NATO plans to enhance the Ukrainian military before a planned offensive against Russia were posted on social media platforms this week. The Pentagon is currently investigating who might be behind the leak of the documents, which were posted on Twitter and Telegram, a widely accessible platform...