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Putin (Image: Getty) Russia has threatened to send hypersonic missiles to Venezuela in a major move against US President Donald Trump. Amid rising tensions over the significant US military presence in the Caribbean, a senior Russian MP suggested Moscow may send hypersonic missiles to help defend the country, run by President Nicolas Maduro. Alexei Zhuravlyov, the deputy chairman of Russia’s …

Russia’s army is reported to be making “rapid progress” in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, according to a Ukrainian military blogger. Ukraine is defending attacks on multiple fronts from Putin’s army, fighting in several regions along a frontline estimated to be over 1,000 kilometres long. Some of the fiercest battles have been fought in the Donetsk region, which along with …

As many as 1,000 Russian Shahed drones and more than 1,500 warheads worth as much as £60 million have been destroyed in a massive cruise missile and drone strike by Ukrainian forces, reports have claimed. Huge explosions rocked the area around the disused Russian-occupied Donetsk airport, northwest of Donetsk, Ukraine, as an ammunition depot was “completely destroyed”. A fuel depot …

روسی صدر ولادیمیر پیوٹن نے اعلیٰ حکام کو ہدایت کی ہے کہ وہ ممکنہ جوہری تجربات کے حوالے سے جامع تجاویز مرتب کریں، جو سوویت یونین کے 1991ء میں خاتمے کے بعد روس کی جانب سے پہلا جوہری تجربہ ہو سکتا ہے۔ برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے ’رائٹرز’ کے مطابق یہ اقدام امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کے حالیہ اعلان کے بعد …

Promises of passports and lucrative monthly salaries of £2,100 are drawing hundreds of young Iraqis into Moscow’s ranks to fight its war against Ukraine. Currently, one in three young Iraqis is unemployed and corruption is rampant, so the promise of these wages – more than four times the salary of an Iraqi soldier – has become irresistible to many. In …

A Russian general has launched a blistering attack on Vladimir Putin, saying the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is an unmitigated disaster. Leonid Ivashov is a well-known military figure and public official who served as the former President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems. The retired colonel general has been an outspoken critic of Putin’s war in Ukraine, accusing the Russian …

Russia has threatened to unleash its deadly nuclear torpedo on the UK, as tensions between London and Moscow continue to rise. The UK has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine‘s military since the beginning of Vladimir Putin‘s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It has provided Kyiv’s army with an array of weapons to help Ukraine’s troops repel Russia‘s vicious and …

The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight individuals and two entities who it said were involved in a variety of North Korean cyber-related money-laundering schemes. The Treasury said the move was aimed at cutting off funding for North Korea’s weapons programmes. “By generating revenue for Pyongyang’s weapons development, these actors directly threaten US and global security,” John Hurley, Treasury’s …

Ryazan is hardly alone. Lt. Gen. Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Ukrainian Security Service, said last week that Ukraine has carried out more than 160 successful attacks on Russian refineries and other energy targets this year; an Open Source Centre investigation identified more than 90 strikes between Aug. 2 and Oct. 14. In the last week alone, Ukraine has struck …

OPINION — “What should the U.S. role in the world be right now? We’re waiting for the [Trump administration] National Security Strategy to come out from the White House, which should come out in the next couple of months, which will be really interesting to see what they have to say. We are in the post-post-Cold War world. You know …