WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus, the prime minister said Saturday. Donald Tusk said work on the Shield-East project which includes building proper military fortifications has already begun. Poland is on the eastern flank of NATO […]
Russia’s war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict. Moscow has new defense leadership in place and is setting the stage for an offensive this summer. Putin is finally getting serious about the fight, and it’s not good for Ukraine. It took Russia more than two years of brutal […]
icon Semafor Signals Supported by Microsoft logo Insights from Verstka, Ukrainska Pravda, and Foreign Affairs Arrow Down Title icon The News A massive wave of Ukrainian drones and missiles struck oil refineries, ports, and electricity stations in southwestern Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea early Friday. The strike, which Russian authorities said involved more than 100 Ukrainian […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin concluded a two-day visit to China on Friday, emphasising the countries’ burgeoning strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they sought to present an alternative to US global influence. Mr Putin praised the growth in bilateral trade while touring a China-Russia Expo in […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone, but he has no plans to capture the city. Speaking to reporters on Friday on a visit to Harbin, China, Mr Putin said that Moscow launched attacks in the Kharkiv region in response to the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but he has no plans to capture the city. Speaking to reporters on Friday on a visit to Harbin, China, Mr Putin said that Moscow launched attacks in the Kharkiv region in response to the […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s diplomacy with the West is in crisis management mode and is focused on trying to ensure that tensions do not spill over into a large-scale conflict, the TASS news agency on Friday reported a top diplomat as saying. TASS cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as telling it in an interview […]
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again denied that her country has exported any weapons to Russia, labelling outside speculation on the countries’ arms dealings as “the most absurd paradox”. The US, South Korea and others have accused North Korea of supplying artillery, missiles and other conventional weapons to Russia […]
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday denied widespread allegations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia, calling the claim “absurd”. South Korea and the United States have repeatedly accused North Korea of supplying weapons to Moscow, despite a raft of UN sanctions on both countries that would ban any such arms transfers. Analysts have also […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday declared Britain’s defense attaché persona non grata and gave the diplomat a week to leave the country in response to London expelling the Russian defense attaché earlier this month over spying allegations. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it summoned a representative of the British Embassy in […]
Russian forces have launched a bid to capture the village of Lyptsi as they continue a new offensive on Ukraine’s north-eastern region of Kharkiv. “Next is the settlement of Lyptsi – our guys are already on the outskirts. Work is beginning to liberate it, aviation and artillery are working constantly, they do not stop,” said […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping for China’s proposals on ending the war in Ukraine, which have been rejected by Ukraine and its western supporters as largely following the Kremlin’s line. At their summit, Mr Putin and Mr Xi reaffirmed a “no-limits” partnership that has grown deeper as both countries face […]