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The oil-producing country coalition OPEC+ announced dramatic production cuts on Sunday totaling 1.16 million barrels per day (bpd), sending oil prices surging on Monday morning.

Calls for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are “pure cynicism” a Kyiv government official claimed Saturday.

As is often the case in war, among those hardest hit – especially in an invasion – are the children. And while nuclear families tend to look out for their own, those who suffer the most are the orphans.

Ukraine’s top security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that there aren’t any plans to expel Russian diplomats over Russia’s detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the focus is on getting Gershkovich

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said the United States government has not been able to get access to Evan Gershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal detained in Russia. Kirby answered, “Sadly,

A spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Thursday that China is ready to increase military cooperation with Russia after dictators Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in Moscow two weeks ago.

A company linked to Russia is set to help continue the work of a major nuclear project operating in Germany.

Russia announced on Wednesday that 31-year-old American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), was arrested in Ekaterinburg and charged with espionage.

Authorities in Kyiv have reportedly expelled a large number of Christian monks from a historic monastery in the country amid claims they are “pro-Russian”.

The British defence minister appeared to have an unguarded moment on Wednesday, before his office walked the comments back hours later.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that defeat in Bakhmut, despite the narrative that it is strategically unimportant, would result in the international community and a “tired” Ukrainian public pressuring him to compromise with Russia – which he does not want to do.

The U.S. State Department’s second Summit for Democracy, running from Tuesday to Thursday this week, was a disappointing affair — snubbed outright by Pakistan and mocked by the rising authoritarian powers of China and Russia.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin dodging questions on whether the U.S. altered where it operates drones over the Black Sea in the wake

Former President Donald Trump bashed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as “ignorant and foolish” on Wednesday for his attitude toward Russia, a posture Trump believes “makes it impossible to negotiate peace.” 

The Russian oil corporation Rosneft announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement with the government-owned Indian Oil Corporation to “substantially increase oil supplies as well as diversify the grades to India.”

Russia’s casualties including dead and wounded in Ukraine is on the road to hitting a quarter-million people, the United Kingdom says.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the opportunity of an interview with the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday to once again invite communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to speak to him directly.

Western tanks are now arriving in Ukraine in larger numbers, including consignments of British Challenger 2 and German Leopard 2 MBTs.

A TikTok data centre is using so much electricity there isn’t any spare to power the expansion of an arms manufacturing plant, they claim. 

Several dozen schools across Bulgaria were shut on Monday and Tuesday after receiving emailed bomb threats with suspected links to Russia.

A former general has called on the EU to act militarily in Africa, blaming PMC Wagner Group for the current wave of illegal immigrants. 

There will be no Ukrainian counter-offensive until Kyiv’s Western “partners” send more weapons and ammunition, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Ghana on Monday. She praised the “democratic principles” of President Nana Akufo-Addo and pledged $139 million in assistance for the coming fiscal year, plus a share of various regional initiatives, including economic support and counter-terrorism programs.

Prosecutors in Poland said a foreign national suspected of spying for Russia will remain in custody until an investigation is completed.

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said on Friday the United States needs to work with China and Russia on climate change.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden’s “weak foreign policy out of fear” is inviting aggression from our global adversaries.

Ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks have been removed from storage and may soon be joining the slightly less ancient T-62s that Russia has already dusted off for use in Ukraine.

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it was “remarkably naive” to not understand it is in the U.S. national interests to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Budapest has been irked by “the very disrespectful behaviour of the political elites of [Finland and Sweden] towards Hungary.”

The Kremlin cites the termination of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s lease as further proof that Russia’s actions over the past year in Ukraine are justified — claiming that Russia is defending a beleaguered Orthodox population.

Some recruits were offered about $100 a day for “involvement in active offensive operations” and $650 “for each kilometre of advancement within assault teams.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The top commander of Ukraine’s military said Saturday that his forces are pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut, and British military intelligence says Russia appears to be moving to a defensive strategy in eastern Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine have been accused of torturing and executing prisoners of war over the past year by the United Nations.

Russia’s strenuous efforts to capture Bakhmut, in the Donetsk Oblast, has “largely stalled”, according to British intelligence, which cited the “extreme attrition” of the Kremlin’s forces in the fight for the shattered city.