In the midst of Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, the US Army has revealed that Raytheon has been given a $1.2 billion contract to construct six National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) for Ukraine. The Department of Defense said on Wednesday that “work would be undertaken in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, with an expected completion date of November 28, 2025.” Out of the... 

Reports suggest that Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia is displaying signs of fear in response to the potential threat of air strikes from Ukraine. Bomb shelter signs have been observed in various locations across Russia, including Belgorod (25 miles from Ukraine), Rostov-On-Don (400 miles away), Novokuznetsk (Siberia), and Moscow. The placement of these signs coincides with Russia’s Security... 

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Europe is likely to experience a number of hardships as a result of the situation in Ukraine. But he maintained that the US-led military bloc’s members and their allies should step up their efforts to support Ukrainian forces and continue the conflict. Stoltenberg acknowledged in his remarks that the turmoil in Ukraine had a detrimental effect... 

According to Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, will shortly outlaw foreigners paying Russian women to carry their children. Early December will see the passage of a measure on the subject, he added. On Sunday, Volodin said on his Telegram channel, “The selling of children is abhorrent.” “45,000 toddlers born to surrogate moms... 

Scientists have revived eons old ‘zombie viruses’ from the Siberian permafrost and have admitted there is a risk that “ancient viral particles” will remain infectious and “get back into circulation.” Out of the 13 new viruses that have been identified, the oldest is a 48,500-year-old amoeba virus, according to the findings posted by researchers in the pre-print server bioRxiv, who boasted... 

In an interview with the news source Welt am Sonntag, Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK) chief Ralph Tiesler advised Germans to be ready for brief power outages this winter. “Blackouts this winter must be seen as a certain. That refers to a localized, temporary power supply outage. The operators’ planned, brief closure of the networks with the intention of protecting... 

The Central Intelligence Agency is seeking to tap Russians as potential spies who are “disgusted” with Putin’s war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported this week, as part of a new push to bolster its ranks of Russian assets. The CIA’s deputy director of intelligence David Marlowe, who has been in the post since June 2021, said in a rare speech at George Mason University’s Hayden... 

Rishi Sunak confronted Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit overnight, telling him to ‘get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war’. In the first face-to-face clash between a British Prime Minister and a senior Kremlin figure since the war began, Mr Sunak said the ‘Putin regime’ had turned Russia into a pariah. He said it is unacceptable for any country... 

The United Nations General Assembly has taken a decisive step in holding Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine and violations of international law. Despite Russian despot Vladimir Putin’s attempts to evade repercussions, the assembly approved a resolution demanding accountability, including reparations to be paid by the dictatorship. In contrast to the UN Security Council, where Putin... 

Russia finds itself hurtling towards a potential internal conflict and a surge in nationalist uprisings, with forecasts of up to 30 to 40 new states emerging, according to a Bashkir independence leader. The repercussions of Vladimir Putin’s controversial decision to invade Ukraine have exacerbated separatist sentiments, particularly within Russia’s national republics, whose populations... 

Russia’s military may never recover from the damage it has suffered in Ukraine, the Pentagon has said. Colin Kahl, the under secretary for defence, revealed half of Vladimir Putin’s tanks have been destroyed and most of his precision missiles used up since he ordered the invasion a little over eight months ago. Sanctions mean it will be ‘very difficult’ for Moscow to rebuild... 

Russia will retreat from the city of Kherson in the most-humiliating loss yet for Putin’s military, its top commander has announced. General Sergei Surovikin, who is leading the war, said the city is now impossible to defend and that troops will withdraw across the Dnipro River ‘in the near future’ to defend the other bank. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has agreed to the plan Witnesses... 

Hundreds of freshly-dug graves have appeared at a mass burial site near the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as the death toll from Russia’s siege continues to grow. Some 1,500 new pits appeared in satellite images taken of Staryi Krym, around five miles from the centre of Mariupol, between late June and mid-October. Witnesses say Russian soldiers now occupying Mariupol have spent recent months removing... 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a global economic crisis and heightened the risk of a continent-wide conflict in Europe. Vladimir Putin’s decision to significantly reduce gas supplies to the EU, which previously relied on Moscow for 40 percent of its gas, has intensified geopolitical tensions. Accusations against Russia for the explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in... 

Serbia must choose between cooperating with Russia or joining the EU. This is stated by a representative of the German government to the news agency Reuters. There will be “consequences” for Serbia if the country continues to interact with Moscow, the German representative told Reuters. – The need for a decision is being drawn to its peak in view of the geopolitical development. The...