Tag Archives: Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainians are completely “baffled” by US President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping stance on ending the war, an aid volunteer has revealed to the Express. In the last 12 months, Peter White, 70, has bought and driven three ambulances from the West Midlands to war-torn Ukraine to help the plight of its missile-battered families and children. The first ‘ambulance’ was destroyed by …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to advocate for US-supplied Tomahawk cruise missiles during today’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump, viewing them as a means to extend Kyiv’s reach deep into Russian territory and incentivise Moscow toward a negotiated resolution. Such capabilities would surpass limitations of existing Western arms like ATACMS, which are capped at 300 kilometres, potentially …

Russia’s coal miners are feeling the pinch (Image: GETTY) Russia‘s coal sector, a cornerstone of its energy exports and regional economies, is plunging into what officials describe as its worst crisis in three decades, with losses doubling and dozens of firms on the brink of collapse. Deputy Energy Minister Dmitry Islamov delivered a stark assessment at the Russian Energy Week …

With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire holdings so far, Mr Trump is redirecting his efforts to resolving the Ukraine conflict through potential long-range arms to Kyiv. Ending wars in Ukraine and Gaza was a cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign, during which he criticised Biden’s management of both. Despite past frustrations in urging Putin for direct Zelensky talks, Mr Trump now …

Vladimir Putin has stuck two fingers up to Donald Trump by unleashing a massive blitz of aerial attacks on Ukraine just hours after the US president again called for the killing to stop. President Putin showed no signs of stepping into line with other world leaders by giving in to Trump’s demands for world peace, after the American leader’s recent …

Ukrainian drones have targeted and damaged 16 Russian fuel tanks at the Morskoi Neftianoi Terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia, Crimea , on the night of 13 October. The Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed the damage to the Marine Oil Terminal on 15 October, noting that these were the tanks that had survived a previous attack on 6 October. A fire ignited by …

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has launched a criminal investigation against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other high-profile Kremlin critics, accusing them of planning a violent coup. The FSB announced on Tuesday that it was probing all 22 members of the Russian Antiwar Committee, a group comprised of politicians, business people, journalists, lawyers, artists and academics based abroad who are …

Coalminers in Russia (Image: GETTY) Russia‘s war economy is teetering on the brink of meltdown as its coal industry endures a ‘once in 30 year crisis’, hammered by Western sanctions, surging costs and collapsing global prices. One top Russian businessman captured the despair, admitting the sector was “really deep s***.” Losses doubled to 225bIllion roubles (£2.1billion) in the first seven …

A long-time ally of Vladimir Putin has warned Donald Trump that supplying US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would ” end badly for everyone,” and especially for the US President. The missiles can be tipped with nuclear weapons, which has left some officials in Moscow furious. Former Russian President and Putin loyalist Dmitri Medvedev wrote on Telegram: “Trump said that …

Russian commentators have said that Vladimir Putin is outwitting Donald Trump over Ukraine peace negotiations. Journalist and political scientist Andrei Sidorchik said on television: “I see it absolutely the same way, because our people who don’t hold public office are a bit freer in their judgments, and therefore they see no need to stroke Donald Trump‘s ego that was wounded …