Afghan commandos who had been trained by Allied forces to fight the Taliban are now being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine. Up to 30,000 members of the elite National Army Commando Corps were abandoned by the West when the country fell to the hardline Islamist group last year. Now, the US-trained light infantry force that fought side by side with allied troops for nearly 20 years could be joining... 

The Russian Su-34 which smashed into an apartment block last week in a huge fireball killing 15 people malfunctioned after seagulls entered the engine, investigators have said. The fighter-bomber was taking off from an airfield in the southern Russian city of Yeysk, near the border with Ukraine, on Monday evening when it plunged from the sky moments later with one engine on fire — slamming into... 

Big Tech mogul Bill Gates recently said that the European energy crisis brought by the Russia-Ukraine war is actually a good thing. “It’s good for the long run because people won’t want to be dependent on Russian natural gas – so they’ll move to these new approaches more rapidly,” Gates said as he promoted his Breakthrough Energy Ventures climate-technology (carbon tax) investment company... 

Vladimir Zelensky, president of Ukraine, said this week that if Russia chose to use nuclear weapons on Kiev, the world should make it known that it would be met with an immediate military response. The head of Ukraine claimed that Moscow only speaks the language of force and has been utilizing “terrorist” blackmail techniques. Zelensky asserted that Moscow has frequently threatened to... 

Vladimir Putin is confronted with a significant political uprising as Bashkiri nationalists demand independence from Russia, posing a threat to the country’s territorial integrity and potentially inspiring other dissident regions. The Bashkirs, an ethnic minority of Kipchak Turkic descent, inhabit their autonomous republic, Bashkortostan, located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains... 

Russia has mined a huge hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine in a plot to unleash a devastating flood, officials in Kyiv have warned. Moscow’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ had failed and the Kremlin was now resorting to new scare tactics, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak said last night. ‘Ukraine will not succumb to peace by coercion,’ he added. ‘They won’t break us.... 

Western newspapers are incorrectly naming these Iranian flying weapons as “drones” or “suicide drones” or “kamikaze drones”, while in fact they aren’t really drones but just remote controlled missiles. However for the sake of of it, we will just go along with the Western description…. ok fine…. drones! Whatever…. but they really aren’t,... 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the Ukraine war for actually “accelerating” the “energy transition” away from fossil fuels. At the Canadian Climate Institute in Ottawa hosted by Bloomberg on Tuesday, Trudeau was asked if the Ukraine war would “delay Canada’s energy transition.” Trudeau replied, “No! It’s accelerating it.” “It is absolutely accelerating it. As people... 

Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine as officials began evacuating civilians from the city of Kherson, with a battle for control of the stronghold now looming. Putin said the order will come into effect from midnight in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – giving him sweeping powers to curtail the freedoms of civilians, repurpose industries,... 

A group of leading Congressional Democrats are seeking to punish longtime US ally Saudi Arabia for the latest “shock” oil output cuts recently announced by OPEC, which was taken by the Biden administration as a direct slap in the face and shot across the bow. Senator Chris Murphy and Rep. Ro Khanna are leading the charge to get advanced anti-air missile systems which the Pentagon has stationed... 

A Ukrainian conductor has been shot dead in his own home by Russian troops for refusing to take part in a concert in occupied territory, Kyiv has claimed. Yuriy Kerpatenko snubbed the Kremlin-backed concert ‘intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson’, the Ukrainian culture ministry said. The October 1 concert was scheduled... 

On Monday, amid rising tensions with Russia over the Ukraine war, NATO drills using nuclear-capable strategic planes will begin in an effort to strengthen the alliance’s deterrent capabilities. The “Steadfast Noon” exercises will be conducted over Belgium, the North Sea, and the UK through October 30. While certain that no live ammunition would be used, NATO has termed the drills... 

NATO has announced plans to ‘rebuild’ Ukraine’s army and defense industry amid mounting fears about nuclear war with Russia. According to a Politico report, the first meeting about the new alliance between NATO and the Ukrainian government will be held next week. Moscow will only take this as further evidence the Western military alliance is intent on expanding its military infrastructure right... 

In a bold and relentless move, Ukraine’s army executed a strategic assault on critical Russian infrastructure, leaving Vladimir Putin reeling and the Belgorod region in chaos. The two-day offensive targeted key installations, including an ammunition warehouse and a power substation, escalating tensions in the border region. The assault began with the destruction of an ammunition depot in a Belgorod... 

Vladimir Putin has been warned by the European Union’s top diplomat the Russian Army would be “annihilated” if it follows through with threats of a nuclear attack against Ukraine. Tensions have exploded over fears Russia could use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, with Putin issuing threats as he staged the annexation of four occupied regions in the face of devastating losses...