The late Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary force has been accused of plotting attacks against Western infrastructure in Africa, including U.S. oil company Chevron's pipelines, according to the leaked correspondence of Prigozhin's Concord Group obtained by Ukraine's 24 Channel. Another accusation is that Wagner mercenaries have allegedly cooperated with terrorists, including Al Qaeda, in […]
Key developments on Jan. 22: Ukraine's Special Forces say they killed 21 North Korean soldiers, show combat footage Kyiv court arrests three senior officers accused of failed defense of Kharkiv Oblast Russia lacks manpower for major breakthrough in Ukraine, top NATO general says Russia issued ultimatum to Ukraine in 2022 to replace Zelensky with Medvedchuk, […]
Warning: Footage includes violent and graphic content. Soldiers of the 8th Regiment of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces resisted a North Korean assault in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for eight hours before retreating, killing 21 and wounding 40 soldiers, the unit said on Jan. 22. The statement comes as Russia ramps up efforts to push out Ukrainian […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to congratulate his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, issuing a short statement before the start of the inauguration ceremony in Washington. "We were always ready to support relations of equal cooperation with any American administration," Putin told members of the country's National Security Council in a call on Jan. 20, […]
The West must get it across to Vladimir Putin that Russia is no longer an empire, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an online interview with Delfi published on Jan. 10, calling the Russian leader a "f***ing idiot." Johnson made a parallel to the British Empire, saying that though almost nothing is left […]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) investigation project Sistema reported on Nov. 4 it had obtained the first draft of Moscow's peace offer to Kyiv, issued days after the start of Russia's all-out war against Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv held unsuccessful talks in Belarus and Turkey in the early months of the full-scale war, with no […]
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party captured 53% of the vote in the Oct. 26 parliamentary election, with 70% of precincts counted, according to the country's central electoral commission. The commission reported that the final voter turnout reached 58.94%. Some 3.5 million Georgians were eligible […]
Satellite imagery shows signs of a major renovation and expansion at a restricted military facility near Moscow that once housed a Cold War biological weapons program, the Washington Post (WP) reported on Oct. 25. Sergiyev Posad-6, a military site northeast of Moscow, was a Soviet biological weapons research center during the Cold War. The Soviet […]
Video Summary Here is a 100-word summary of the article: In the 1940s, the United States was racing against the Soviet Union to develop the atomic bomb. The pollutin core, a 14-pound sphere of plutonium, was meant to be the heart of the third atomic bomb. After Japan’s surrender, the bomb was no longer needed, […]