Putin increases defense spending for 2024; Lavrov speaks to the UN about how America and the Allies are lying about the Ukraine situation and are in fact an “empire of lies”, that we are using MORE
McCarthy refuses to allow Zelenskyy opportunity to speak to Congress during his visit. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the US Capitol to meet lawmakers and ask for continued support for the country’s defense against MORE
Author Walter Isaacson took to social media to try to “clarify” an excerpt from his upcoming book, “Elon Musk.” The excerpt received swift backlash after it described how Musk thwarted a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships. Isaacson’s MORE
Excerpt from the G20 Declaration: In line with the UN Charter, all states must refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition against the territorial integrity and sovereignty or political independence MORE
“Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.” Elon Musk In a MORE
Some of this cannot be confirmed, so keep that in mind. For example, the flight attendant’s story, but it came from a usually good source so I included it. American and other Western officials said MORE
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine attacked the Crimean Bridge, a key link from Russia to the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula, killing two people and disrupting vehicle traffic early Monday, Russian and Ukrainian officials said. A railroad MORE
Russian Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who vanished from public view after he was accused of having advance knowledge of last month’s violent Wagner Group uprising, is “resting” and “not available” right now, according to a top MORE
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia held a lengthy meeting with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin just five days after his Wagner private military company launched a brief mutiny, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said on Monday, MORE
President Biden had long resisted calls to provide cluster munitions—which are currently sitting in U.S. stockpiles and on the verge of expiring—because of how controversial the weapons are globally. The small bomblets are banned in MORE
Quote: “On 4 July, at 17:00, a 7-Series BMW and a Land Cruiser with security guards accompanying it drove up to the building of the Federal Security Service Department of St Petersburg and [Leningrad] Oblast MORE
First of all let me say that I’m not crazy about The Telegraph as a source. But here we go anyway. Daily Telegraph (UK) – Bias and Credibility Russian security services threatened the families of MORE
From NPR: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday gave his first formal confirmation that Ukraine’s long-awaited offensive was underway against Russian troops. “Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. At what stage, I will not MORE
Russia’s Interior Ministry issued a warrant for the arrest of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday after he praised U.S. military aid to Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” The Russians reacted to a video MORE
First a blast from the past.This is from a CNN article dated March 1, 2018. Moscow CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted Thursday of new weaponry he claims will render NATO defenses “completely useless,” MORE
Yevgeny Prigozhin points to his dead troops that he blames on Putin’s lack of support and supplies Russian Troops in Exchange for Sparing His Wagner For-Hire Army US military intelligence documents allegedly shared on a MORE
“Squelching through muddy trenches under mortar fire may seem far from romantic, but war forges intense bonds quickly — something noticed early on by Khrystyna Biliakovska, a 28-year-old communications manager who came up with the MORE
The leak of U.S. secret documents about Ukraine continued on social media on Friday. Also included in the documents were secrets about Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea’s missile program, and documents from other regions of MORE
“All 30 Nato allies have now ratified the accession protocol,” Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. “Finland will formally join our alliance in the coming days.” Finland’s membership represents the first enlargement since North Macedonia joined the alliance MORE
Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, deep behind the front line, on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out MORE
“while the U.S. has many vital national interests … becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.” Ron DeSantis Several writers from The Atlantic met with President MORE
Feb 27 (Reuters) – Belarusian anti-government activists said they had blown up a sophisticated Russian military surveillance aircraft in a drone attack at an airfield near the Belarusian capital Minsk, a claim that neither Russia MORE
Survivors’ disgust as children thank ‘rescuers’ in a lavish Moscow celebration Guardian: At the climax of the pageantry in Moscow to mark the first anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine, MORE
As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its second year, Beijing is pushing harder for a negotiated end to the war. It has repeatedly suggested it would be willing to broker any cease-fire negotiations, a proposal MORE
President Biden took a nearly 10-hour train ride from the border of Poland to show his administration’s “unwavering support” nearly a year into Russia’s invasion. Biden arrived unannounced early Monday morning to meet with President MORE