The first few hundred recruits are receiving instruction at sites across Britain in the first phase of a programme that aims to train up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to travel to Moscow in the next few weeks to win the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and other senior officials of the Gaza-ruling terror group said it was incumbent on the Palestinians to start looking to form strategic alliances with Russia, Iran and China, since the U.S. is likely to lose its global hegemony once the Russia-Ukraine war is over.
The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.
The British public should turn down their heating and switch the time when they eat dinner this winter in order to avoid rolling blackouts, government advisors have warned.
Muslims make up almost 1 per cent of the population in Ukraine, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian. There is a large Muslim population in Crimea — home to the Crimean Tatars and illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Numbers there jump to 12 per cent. There is also a sizeable Muslim community in eastern Ukraine, the result of waves of economic migration as the region industrialised and many Muslims immigrated to the Donbas region to work in the mines and factories.
Germany’s economics minister believes that his country could soon face a collapse of “social peace” as a result of rising energy prices.
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk warned Friday that the Russian army is making serious inroads in its ongoing armed assault on Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports of them taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while the government in Kyiv urged people in Russian-occupied southern areas to evacuate “by all possible means” ahead of a Ukrainian offensive.
The Kremlin is hailing the downfall of Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said he wanted to “lead the West” against Russia in February.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the eccentric leader of the Chechen Republic and a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Thursday hired a not-terribly-convincing stand-in for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to star in series of short videos where the Ukrainian leader breaks down in tears, signs a surrender document, and begs Kadyrov to forgive him for resisting the Russian invasion of his country.
In a rather suspiciously timed coincidence, several billboards reading “Alaska Is Ours” appeared in Siberia on Thursday, the day after State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested Russia “take back” Alaska from the United States in retaliation for sanctions.
WNBA star Brittney Griner has been one of the league’s most outspoken players when it comes to protesting the national anthem, even as she makes patriotic appeals for the U.S. to arrange her release from a Russian prison sentence.
Envoys for North Korea have apparently increased contact with Russia and its proxy separatist organizations in Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics,” in the months following the escalation of Moscow’s eight-year invasion of the eastern European country, the Pyongyang news site NK News observed Thursday.
WNBA star Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to possession of a banned drug, but denies intentionally breaking Russia’s strict drug laws.
Embattled socialist President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka revealed on Wednesday that he had called Russian strongman Vladimir Putin seeking help to purchase oil amid what the nation’s prime minister has called the “complete collapse” of Sri Lanka’s economy.
On the tail of a letter by WNBA star Britney Griner sent to Joe Biden pleading for help, MSNBC host Al Sharpton says he wants to visit her.
A senior EU commissioner has once again told Germany to delay shutting down its nuclear power stations as the climate-crazy government sees its popularity fade.
Three Russian warships sailed through a contiguous maritime zone bordering Japanese territorial waters on Monday night, Japan’s defense ministry said Tuesday, noting that the ships traveled near the Japan-administered and China-claimed Senkaku Islands.
The coach of WNBA star Brittney Griner blasted Joe Biden’s White House for doing next to nothing to help get the player out of a Russian jail.
Russian scientist Dmitry Kolker reportedly died on Saturday, two days after he was arrested in Novosibirsk, dragged from the ward where he was receiving treatment for Stage Four cancer, and whisked to the infamous Lefortovo prison in Moscow.
Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA player Brittney Griner, said President Biden’s silence on her wife’s detainment is “very disheartening” after identifying him as the “one person that can go get her.”
The EU Commission vowed to create a new emergency plan to reduce or remove Russian energy products, including pushing for more renewables.
Britain’s ministry of defence has predicted that Ukrainian food exports will fall by nearly two-thirds this year.
America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, while captive people around the world hope they might one day celebrate their own.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday hailed Israel’s High Court decision to cancel its quota on non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees, in opposition to the government’s position.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s defence minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region.
A potential cutting-off of Russian gas would lead to recession and “chaotic conditions”, various German officials are now warning.
Slovyansk is a city of splintered loyalties. With a large retired population, it is not uncommon to hear older residents express sympathy towards Russia or nostalgia for their Soviet past. There is also distrust of the Ukrainian army and government.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) reacted to President Joe Biden’s declaration that gas prices will remain high for “as long as it takes” to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by
BERLIN (AP) – Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.
Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges connected recent Russian missile strikes with G7 and NATO summits, saying Russia was purposely “humiliating the leaders of the West.” he said.
While the German government prevaricates around its self-imposed energy crisis, citizens are taking matters into their own hands to keep themselves warm this coming winter with sales of cheap, reliable wood burners soaring in Europe.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, commonly known by the nickname “Jokowi,” said on Friday after meeting with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia that the situation between them is “still very difficult.”
Russia’s FSB security service arrested a doctor of physics and mathematics named Dmitry Kolker at Novosibirsk State University in Siberia and took him to Moscow on Thursday, where he will face charges of high treason for collaborating with Chinese intelligence agents.
Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday made her first visit to the U.K. since both countries signed a free trade agreement.
Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) reacted to President Joe Biden blaming Russia for the high prices of gas and food.
Pope Francis met with a delegation of Orthodox Christians from the Patriarchate of Constantinople Thursday in which he condemned Russia’s “war of aggression” against Ukraine.
