EU Defence Commissioner: ‘Quick Decisions’ Needed to be Ready to Face Off Against Putin in Six Years
The EU is getting a defence commissioner for the first time and he warns war with Russia is just years away, calling to “properly prepare”.

The EU is getting a defence commissioner for the first time and he warns war with Russia is just years away, calling to “properly prepare”.

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday to reportedly discuss “continuous and lasting” cooperation, days after Shoigu made a similar stop in North Korea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Russian Army to add 180,000 more troops, which would bring its total to 1.5 million active-duty soldiers — the second largest army in the world after China.

An assassination attempt by a radical supporter of Ukraine occurred less than a week after Vice President Kamala Harris lied that former President Donald Trump had told Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

British PM Starmer is in Washington for war talks with President Biden as Moscow threatens dire repercussions for long-range weapon strikes.

Former President Donald Trump said during Tuesday night’s ABC News debate that the Russia-Ukraine war is “dying to be settled” and he wants to end it to “save lives.”

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed at Tuesday’s debate that Russian president Vladamir Putin would “be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe” if former President Donald Trump had been commander-in-chief the past four years.

Former President Donald Trump asserted that President Joe Biden “approved” the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during the debate with former President Donald Trump that Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin he could “do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that military units had arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, to participate in joint military exercises with Moscow, part of a greater plan to for China to also host the Russian military in exercises in the Sea of Japan.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping sent a message to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un on Monday congratulating his country on its anniversary, a note international observers described as relatively cold and a potential sign of discord between the two countries.

The Kremlin says people should judge for themselves if Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about endorsing Kamala Harris.

The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on Wednesday alleging that two Russian nationals funded right wing influencers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his support for Vice President Kamala Harris at a press conference on Thursday, saying he prefers her as the next U.S. president because he wants the Biden administration to continue, and because she “laughs so expressively and infectiously.”

The Mongolian government chose not to honor its obligations to the International Criminal Court and arrest Vladimir Putin for war crimes.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a Russian TV interview on Sunday that Moscow would prefer seeing Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House next year because she is more “predictable” than her opponent Donald Trump.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Tuesday that his country will “finalize” a peace plan to end the Russian invasion by November — the month of the scheduled American presidential election.

The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency has documented over 13,000 shipping containers, believed to contain weapons, traveling from North Korea to Russia throughout the course of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker revealed Tuesday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, touching base with the Russian leader three days after returning from a visit to Ukraine.

The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod claimed on Tuesday that Ukrainian troops had launched an attempt to “break through the border,” potentially expanding the surprise ground campaign targeting neighboring Kursk that began on August 6.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered an alarming update on nationwide Russian bombings of his country on Monday, describing blackouts “everywhere” and significant harm to Ukraine’s power grid.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) pointed out that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris bragged about a trip to Europe she took to warn Russia not to invade Ukraine days before Russia

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in a speech Thursday evening as she accepted the Democrat presidential nomination that her opponent, former President Donald Trump, encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade U.S. allies and that he said Russia could “do whatever the hell they want.”

During his visit to Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed kissing a gold-leafed Quran at a major mosque.

The IAEA announced its Director-General Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian region of Kursk next week to examine its nuclear power plant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years on Tuesday, meeting with erratic Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently on a visit to Poland, announced on Wednesday that he would travel to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and work on “deepening” India’s ties to the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday extending temporary residency to foreigners who share “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” and would like to take a vacation from “the destructive neoliberal ideological agenda.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for a two-day state visit, looking to bolster Russia’s relationship with the aggressive Islamist power even as relations with Armenia — Russia’s former best friend in the region — deteriorate.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the goals of a surprise attack by his military in Russian territory, stating Sunday that Kyiv is seeking to create a “buffer zone” in Russia to stop incoming soldiers.

Two senior U.S. officials said on Thursday that Russia has diverted “several thousand troops” from Ukraine to defend against the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk.

Belgorod declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as Ukrainian forces pummeled the region with missile and drone strikes.

The acting governor of Kursk, Russia – a border region Ukraine launched an invasion into last week – told Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Monday that he has evacuated 121,000 people from their homes and plans to move another 59,000 out of threatened areas as soon as possible.

The Russian government began evacuating residents from the Belgorod region on Monday in response to an ongoing Ukrainian invasion across the border.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Thursday that Russia “should feel what it has done to his country,” apparently obliquely referencing an ongoing reported invasion of Russian territory by Ukrainian troops that began this week.

Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday evening that he intends to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine as President-elect before he even is sworn in as the next president of the United States.

Russians living in the border region of Kursk are criticizing the slow and confused response by civic and military officials to the Ukrainian military incursion that began on Tuesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Tuesday that about 300 Ukrainian troops penetrated the border on a sabotage mission into Russia’s Kursk region and engaged Russian forces near the border towns of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya.

The Kremlin said it would consider allowing freed hostage Evan Gershkovich to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The U.S.-Russian deal that traded eight Russian criminals, spies, and assassins for hostages Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and others on Thursday was the first known prisoner exchange to include international cybercriminals.
