Amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov has disclosed that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed a willingness to engage in negotiations to bring an end to the war. This revelation came during a meeting with İbrahim Kalın, the Presidential Spokesperson of Turkey, in Moscow. Peskov conveyed that Putin acknowledged Russia’s openness to discussions on Ukraine... 

A prominent anti-Putin activist has raised concerns that the Russian president is laying the groundwork for unleashing nuclear warfare in Ukraine as a twisted message to the global community. The activist, Andrey Sidelnikov, conveyed that Putin has been escalating nuclear rhetoric as part of his desperate efforts to dissuade Western leaders from providing modern weaponry to Ukraine’s army. Putin’s... 

Finland terminated over 70 years of military neutrality on Tuesday by joining NATO, thereby significantly expanding the alliance’s border with Russia. The move dealt a major blow to Russian President Putin, who has been accused of escalating the risk of a significant conflict by the Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu. Shoigu, in a meeting with the country’s armed forces leaders, asserted... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed criticism over the UK’s donation of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, particularly objecting to the potential deployment of depleted uranium (DU) tank rounds. Putin characterized this move as a dangerous escalation towards nuclear war. The technical details of the Challenger 2 tank’s armament include a 120mm rifled gun with ammunition unique to... 

Deputy Head of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has intensified nuclear sabre-rattling, emphasizing that a Ukrainian attempt to retake Crimea could justify the use of nuclear weapons by Russia. This is not the first time the Kremlin has made such threats, with Medvedev criticizing the West and NATO allies, accusing them of attempting to dismantle Russia. In an interview with Russian... 

Arresting Vladimir Putin would be a declaration of war, Russia has warned, after the International Criminal Court issued an international arrest warrant for him. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council and former president, said should Germany – or any other nation – arrest the despot, it would trigger a nuclear strike on the offending country. Medvedev... 

Communist China is now actively challenging the international world order, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said. The growing influence of China now represents a “challenge” to the world order, Rishi Sunak has admitted, with the UK leader now calling for Western nations to stand up to the increasingly powerful Eastern nation. Sunak’s statement comes amid a newly agreed deal between the UK,... 

The $32 million MQ-9 Reaper drone downed in the Black Sea after a run-in with Russian fighter jets on Tuesday is the same type of aircraft used by the CIA to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul in July, 2022. Equipped for long-range surveillance missions, the unmanned spy aircraft is controlled by two pilots on the ground – sometimes as much as 5,000 miles away -can fly for 20 hours,... 

On Twitter, a video that appears to show a sizable amount of American military hardware in the Polish port city of Gdynia has been circulated. A number of American tanks, APCs, and military trucks can be seen at the port in the video, which was also released by a Latvian Twitter news outfit. According to the source, on February 22, 2023, “the equipment belonging to the US Army’s 3rd Armored... 

Accusing the West of a concerted effort to undermine and dismantle Russia, Vladimir Putin has cited this perceived threat as justification for Russia’s decision to withdraw from a nuclear arms treaty. In a recent interview, Putin cautioned that the United Kingdom’s nuclear capabilities would be factored into Russia’s response to what he characterizes as the West’s aggression. Putin’s... 

Ukraine will become a NATO member in the ‘long term’, the head of the western military alliance said today, amid Vladimir Putin’s on-going invasion of the country. But Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that the immediate issue at hand is Ukraine remaining an independent nation from Russia. ‘NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance,... 

Jens Stoltenberg, who has been head of NATO since 2014, will leave his position in October this year. The resignation has sparked speculation about his successor, as there is no consensus on who should take over as the organization’s top civilian official. It has been suggested that his current nine-year term should be extended to meet the challenges of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but this... 

With President Aleksandar Vucic’s administration refusing to denounce Russia’s special operation or support Western sanctions against Moscow and advocating for peace, Belgrade has made an effort to mediate between the alliance and Russia. Recently, Vucic claimed that Serbian weapons are in such high demand worldwide that the Balkan country must purposefully save part of its goods for its... 

Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban snubbed Wednesday’s meeting in Warsaw with President Joe Biden and the other Bucharest Nine leaders after insisting Donald Trump was the only person who could broker peace with Vladimir Putin. Orban is openly siding with Russia and Putin, thus betraying the alliance which his country is a member of, NATO. Orban has been an outlier on the... 

President Biden on the segment of his 4-day Ukraine and Poland trip has met with the heads of state of the NATO Eastern flank countries in Warsaw. The New York Times quite dramatically frames the meeting as follows at the opening of its reporting: “If Russian President Vladimir V. Putin were to order tanks into other European countries, the nine nations along NATO’s eastern flank would be...