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Ukraine on Saturday, May 14, claimed it was holding back a Russian assault in the eastern Donbas region and vowed to extract its last remaining fighters from a besieged steel plant. Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, however, predicted a turning point in the months ahead, and claimed that one of Europe’s biggest conflicts since World […]

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu spoke with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday after months of refusing direct contact with his American counterpart. But officials said the call didn’t appear to signal any change in Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on […]

On May 12, the parliament approved a package of important legislation. It covered the forcible seizure of Russian property in Ukraine, the functioning of local self-government, simplified the rebuilding of housing destroyed in the current war, and unlocked VAT refunds to businesses. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Parliamentarians approved the law for the nationalization of the […]

His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, passed away on Friday, May 13, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin […]

The “Flying Kremlin,” also known as Russia’s “Doomsday plane,” was planned to make its first appearance in over a decade at Moscow’s Victory Day parade on Monday. However, the huge aircraft designed to protect President Vladimir Putin in the event of a nuclear attack noticeably absent due to weather conditions, according to Russian officials, despite […]

Brussels seeks to utilize alternative routes into Ukraine by rail, road and river ahead of the wheat harvest season to limit the effects of the Russian blockade in the Black Sea, a European Commission plan outlined Thursday. An aerial view shows a tractor spreading fertilizer on a wheat field near the village of Yakovlivka after it was […]

The Russian leader noted that a number of countries were already encountering the threats of hunger and if the sanctions against Russia continued, the EU could also encounter consequences which would be difficult to reverse © Mikhail Klimentyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS MOSCOW, May 12. /TASS/. The culpability for the global consequences of sanctions […]

The Russian occupation forces continue to suffer losses in almost all directions, and they also fail in assault actions. This is stated in the operational update of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Thursday, May 12. In the Siverskyi direction, the enemy fired at the border regions of Ukraine in order […]

North Korea fired another ballistic missile into the East Sea on Thursday, continuing a series of launches that have raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula. An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched from Pyongyang International Airport on March 24, 2022, in this photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. North Korean leader […]

Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova (L) speaks with German […]