Tag Archives: Russia-Ukraine war

Donald Trump furiously denied lifting major restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western long-range missiles, but left a cryptic message in doing so. The US president took to his Truth Social in response to a bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday night. Trump has effectively washed his hands of responsibility over Zelensky’s use of long-range missiles, which is …

Donald Trump could “topple” a weakened Russia and Vladimir Putin but has “chosen not to” for a disturbing reason, a former staffer has sensationally claimed. Anthony Scaramucci raised millions of dollars for the US president’s first election campaign in 2016 before becoming his White House director of communications. He was fired after just 11 days when he slammed colleagues in …

British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used by Ukraine to penetrate Russian air defences and attack one of the invading country’s facilities, it has been revealed. According to the Ukrainian military, the long-range air-to-air missiles were launched to strike a chemical plant in the Bryansk region that is believed to be making items vital to Russia‘s war effort. The operation, …

Hundreds of Russian troops have reportedly been left stranded and starving on a series of islands called the “death zone”. These territories on the Dnipro River, south of Kherson, have become a front line since Ukraine liberated the city in 2022. Now, the river’s right bank is controlled by Ukraine and the left by Russia. Ukrainian Colonel Oleksandr Zavtonov revealed …

Vladimir Putin has been warned that his jet could be forced down and he be handed over to The Hague on his way to a summit with Donald Trump. The Russian president is expected to travel to Hungary in the next few weeks to meet his US counterpart to discuss a potential peace deal to bring the war with Ukraine …

North Korean soldiers reportedly shot at Russian military vehicles in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, in another friendly fire fiasco. Pyongyang is believed to have sent around 15,000 troops to help bolster Putin’s army in the western region. This followed a pact signed last June between Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, whereby the two …

Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov and US counterpart Marco Rubio discussed preparations for a coming summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in a call on Monday, both sides said. Rubio “emphasised the importance of upcoming engagements as an opportunity for Moscow and Washington to collaborate on advancing a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war”, Tommy Pigott, principal deputy spokesman …

As Moscow faces growing economic challenges to fund its war against Ukraine, Russia is expected to be in a nearly £75 billion deficit by next year. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the news on Sunday, speaking at a briefing attended by the Ukrainian news outlet Kyiv Independent. “We already believe that next year Russia will have a significant deficit – almost …

A prominent exiled Russian oligarch believes that Vladimir Putin is prepared to strike a deal on Ukraine with Donald Trump to bring the war to an end. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon, spoke with U.K. broadcaster Trevor Phillips on Sunday, suggesting that any agreement could involve surrendering territory to Russia. He said, “I have the impression that Putin has sent …

Russia carried out a major strike on a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Sunday, leaving 192 workers trapped underground, according to Ukrainian energy firm DTEK. According to the most recent information from the Ukrainian National News agency, all of them were successfully rescued, and none of the workers were injured. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest privately owned energy company, has repeatedly …