Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (January 24) as Ukraine marked 11 months of war that Russian athletes should have “no place” at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “I particularly emphasised that athletes from Russia should have no place at the Olympic Games in Paris,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram […]
Continue ReadingRussian military leadership caught some flak from Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov on Thursday for prohibiting the wearing of beards for Russian soldiers. He joined Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch, in the outburst against the Russian army administration. Kadyrov’s statement came a day after Viktor Sobolev’s interview with the RBC news site. During the interview, the […]
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A former senior FBI agent in New York had been arrested due to his affiliations with a Russian oligarch, ABC News reported on Monday. Charles McGonigal, a special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York Field Office, has been arrested because of his ties with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who the US has sanctioned […]
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Next month’s joint military drills between China, South Africa and Russia will reportedly feature the participation of frigate ‘Admiral Gorshkov’, a new-generation hypersonic cruise weapons-armed Russian warship. A Monday report by the Russian news agency TASS officially made the first announcement of the participation of the frigate. Watch | WION Fineprint | War in Ukraine: Ukraine asks […]
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Ukraine has urged the western nations to expedite the supply of weapons as Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine, bleeds from the attacks by Russian missiles.
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Russia’s Yakutsk region recorded -50 degrees this week as abnormally harsh winter continues to batter the Siberian city. Residents of the city, which is located 5,000 km east of Moscow on the permafrost of the Russian Far East, have been facing a harrowing time as they brave through long winter which often plunges the temperatures […]
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Russian missiles on Saturday (January 14) struck key infrastructures in Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv and Kharkiv, with the governor of another Ukrainian region warning of a missile strike in the coming hours. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said that 60,000 people died due to Covid between December 8 and January 12, releasing the death […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated his deputy Prime Minister Denis Maturov during their first official virtual meeting of 2023 on Wednesday. President Putin accused Manturov, the minister for trade and industry, of fooling around instead of acquiring new aircraft for the nation. RIA Novosti news agency has released the deputy PM’s humiliation tape. In […]
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A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons held exercises in the Norwegian Sea, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. “The crew of the frigate ‘Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov’ conducted an air defense exercise in the Norwegian Sea,” the ministry said. “The crew… conducted an exercise to repel the means […]
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A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts. Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend its territory, Cold River […]
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