ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Ankara could help end the Ukraine-Russia war, but Putin’s spokesman said Erdogan could not play the role of an intermediary in the 28-month-old conflict. Erdogan, speaking to Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan, said […]
Video emerged on social media showing a missile attack on the Ukraine’s Mirgorod Air Base in Poltava Oblast on Monday. The base, home to Ukraine’s 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, is located in central Ukraine, about 100 miles southwest of the border. The attack and loss of aircraft has been confirmed by the Ukrainian Air Force. […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that a Belarusian military report that Ukraine had been moving more troops, weapons and military equipment into its northern Zhytomyr region, which borders Belarus, was a cause for concern. The Belarusian Defence Ministry alleged that Ukraine was building up its forces on Saturday. A spokesman for Ukraine’s […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that the outcome of the first round of parliamentary elections in France confirmed trends already being observed in various European countries. Marine Le Pen‘s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France’s parliamentary election, but the final outcome will depend […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday it hoped calm would be restored in Bolivia in the wake of an attempted coup, after the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the plotters and expressed Moscow’s support for the government of President Luis Arce. Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia is considering a possible downgrading of diplomatic relations with the West due to the deeper involvement of the United States and its allies in the Ukraine war, though no decision has yet been made. “The issue of lowering the level of diplomatic relations is a […]
The Kremlin described the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Russia’s former defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the current military chief of staff, as “quite absurd.” “We do not recognize the court’s jurisdiction and are not a member of the relevant statute. Accordingly, we also do not recognize the […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -European banks leaving Russia would damage both Western and Russian companies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, pointing to the many Western businesses that still operate and use banking services in Russia. With most major Russian banks under Western sanctions over Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, foreign banks including Austria’s […]
Nigel Farage has come under fire for “cuddling up to the Kremlin” as a leading think tank accused his Reform party of poisoning the election debate. On another torrid day for the ex-Ukip leader, military experts queued up to criticise his claim that the West provoked Russia’s war on Ukraine. It follows days of condemnation […]
On a lazy summer weekend a year ago, Russia was jolted by the stunning news of an armed uprising. The swaggering chief of a Kremlin-sponsored mercenary army seized a military headquarters in the south and began marching toward Moscow to oust the Defense Ministry’s leaders, accusing them of starving his force of ammunition in Ukraine. […]
Russia has effectively dismantled and replaced the Wagner Group in the year since the mercenaries shocked the world by launching a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC. Yevgeny Prigozhin – the late leader of the paramilitary force – crossed from Ukraine on 23 June 2023 and seized the southern city […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that a U.S. decision to ban sales of Kaspersky’s software was a typical move by Washington to stifle foreign competition with American products. The Biden administration on Thursday said it would ban the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing […]