NATO will boost its high-readiness forces to more than 300,000 troops, the alliance’s chief announced on Monday, in part of plans that he described as “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense and deterrence since MORE
Boris Bondarev, a counselor in the Russian mission since 2019 who described himself as a 20-year veteran of Russia’s Foreign Ministry, announced his resignation in an email sent to diplomats in Geneva on Monday. His MORE
Paging Rene Boucher The top Democrat and Republican in the US Senate joined forces in a rare moment of unity on Thursday in an attempt to pass $40bn in aid for Ukraine, only to be MORE
Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted “Nazi filth” in Ukraine in remarks he made to commemorate Victory Day, the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Putin’s remarks also noted that he sent congratulatory messages to the Russian MORE
Cancer has been among a number of armchair diagnoses of Putin that have emerged in the last few weeks, which include dementia and Parkinson’s Disease. A clip of the Russian leader holding the corner of MORE
“I feel that before going to Kyiv, I must go to Moscow,” he told Corriere Della Sera in an interview that ran Tuesday. But the meeting would not exactly be to condemn Putin, based on what he MORE
The European Union is racing to find alternative suppliers of natural gas .after Russia’s Gazprom cut flows to two EU nations, sparking fears that others will soon follow. The developments come as Brussels is fearful about nations MORE
The U.S. has credible evidence Russia executed Ukrainians who tried to surrender in the Donetsk region, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack said at a United Nations (U.N.) meeting on Wednesday. “We now have MORE
Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, is convening a meeting of her security council on Tuesday following a series of incidents in the breakaway Moldovan republic of Transnistria and a warning from Moscow that the Russian-backed region MORE
An adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking the Azovstal steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol. Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser MORE
Clad in combat gear and armed with an assault rifle, longtime MSNBC intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance revealed Monday that he had joined Ukrainian forces fighting on the ground against the Russian invasion. “I spent quite a bit of time MORE
For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short MORE
Slovakia said it sent Ukraine an S-300 air defense system to defend against Russian attacks. The Soviet-era S-300 is a long-range surface-to-air missile system that can shoot down cruise missiles and aircraft. The small Eastern MORE
As the staging ground for an assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, one of the most toxic places on earth, was probably not the best choice. But that did not MORE
“The brutal war crimes being documented in Ukraine are a warning Americans should heed.“ Over the past several days, reporters and social-media users have documented what appear to be some truly horrific outrages perpetrated on the Ukrainian MORE
A personal assistant to several sanctioned Russian oligarchs said they have witnessed the men break down in tears due to their assets being frozen. The Mirror first reported the news. Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine has led MORE
“Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction” As war envelops Ukraine, Russian sources have strived to create a miasma of disinformation about the invasion. Among ample efforts to MORE
Ukraine’s military said on Thursday that it had destroyed a Russian ship at a port under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine, in what would be a success for the Ukrainians as they seek to keep MORE
A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE
President Biden took a chilling message to a Business Roundtable meeting in Washington on Monday, warning the private sector that it was time to immediately harden its online defenses as a “patriotic obligation.” “The magnitude MORE
Russia has sanctioned President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and several administration officials in retaliation for U.S. sanctions on various Russian banks, oligarchs, and commodities over the Ukraine invasion. Included in the Russian MORE
Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor of Russia’s state Channel One television station, stormed the set during a live broadcast to protest Putin’s War; she’s now missing. The anchor began speaking louder in an attempt to drown out MORE
This week, we will combine both blogs, In Case You Missed It and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Please feel free to share any headlines we may have missed or new developments occurring in Ukraine or Russia MORE
Fiona Hill, Russian affairs and Vladimir Putin expert, explained who Putin should be worried about if his Ukraine invasion doesn’t go as planned. Putin shouldn’t worry about the Russian citizens or the oligarchs, but the MORE
The White House is not interested in banning Russian oil imports warning of price increases for Americans. “We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy and that would raise prices MORE