RUSSIA – Russia and Ukraine are planning a prisoner swap before April 12, which is the Orthodox Easter, according to the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova on Thursday. “A great deal of work is underway today to prepare for prisoner exchanges ahead of Easter,” Moskalkova said. “Russia strives to get to an agreement with […]
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Overnight Ukrainian Attack Targets Russkaya Compressor Station
RUSSIA – An overnight Ukrainian attack targeted the Russkaya compressor station that serves the TurkStream gas pipeline, according to the Russian energy company Gazprom on Thursday, adding that the drone attack was successfully repelled. “Tonight, between 00:40 and 01:00, the Russkaya compressor station, which ensures the reliability of export gas supplies via the TurkStream gas […]
Russia Claims Complete Control of Luhansk People’s Republic
RUSSIA – The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that its forces had complete control of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR). “Units of the West military group have completed the liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic,” it said in a statement. In other reports, the ministry said that air defenses had downed 261 drones, […]
Overnight Ukrainian Drone Attack on Rostov Region Kills 1
RUSSIA – An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Taganrog city in Rostov region killed 1 person and injured 8 others, according to authorities on Monday. In a Telegram statement, Rostov region’s Governor Yury Slyusar described the drone attack as “the most powerful” since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “More than 60 drones were destroyed […]
Ukrainian Drone Strike on Residential Building Kills Child
RUSSIA – A Ukrainian drone strike on residential building in Yaroslavl Region killed a child and left both parents and another woman in nearby building injured, according to the regional governor on Saturday. “One child was killed, who was in one of the private residential buildings in a rural area… His parents were hospitalized in […]
Russia and Ukraine Report Overnight Drone Attacks
RUSSIA – Both Russia and Ukraine reported overnight drone attacks targeting various locations on Thursday, with each side accusing the other. Leningrad Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said in a statement on Telegram that a Ukrainian drone attack caused damage at an industrial zone in the northwestern region’s Kirishsky district. Expressing that no casualties were reported due […]
Hungary to Stop Supplying Gas to Ukraine; Viktor Orban
HUNGARY – The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Wednesday that Hungary will stop supplying gas to Ukraine until Kyiv restores the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline. “In order to break the blockade and ensure Hungary’s energy supply, new measures are now necessary. Therefore, we will gradually stop gas supplies….. until Ukraine supplies […]
Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Baltic Sea Port of Ust-Luga Causes Fire
RUSSIA – An overnight Ukrainian drone attack targeting the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga resulted into fire, according to authorities on Wednesday. Aleksandr Drozdenko, the governor of the country’s northwestern Leningrad region, said on Telegram that a total of 56 drones were shot down in the region after an air alert sounded overnight. The […]
Russian Airstrikes on Ukraine Kill 4
UKRAINE – Russian airstrikes on Ukraine targeting several regions overnight and on Tuesday morning left at least 4 people dead and 19 others wounded, according to Ukraine. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Telegram that two people were killed and seven others injured in overnight strikes in the Poltava region, including its administrative center, which […]
Russia Captures Pishchane in the Kharkiv Region
RUSSIA – The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had captured the village of Pishchane in the Kharkiv region in a Telegram statement. “Units of the North military group have established control over the village of Pishchane,” the statement said. At least 230 Ukrainian militants were killed in Sumy region, the ministry […]
Report About Russia-US Intelligence Sharing Deal on Iran and Ukraine is False; Kremlin
RUSSIA – Media reports claiming that Russia had offered US to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine, for a reciprocal move on Iran was on Monday debunked as false by the Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “We have seen this report, certainly. It falls into the category of untruthful, or more precisely, false reports,” Peskov told a […]
Russia Warns Against US Ground Operation in Iran
RUSSIA – Russia on Monday warned against a US ground operation in Iran, adding that it’ll only worsen the Middle East crisis. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko made these remarks while speaking at the plenary session of the international conference “Russia and India: Towards a New Agenda for Bilateral Relations” in Moscow. However, he expressed […]
Russia and Ukraine Report Overnight Airstrikes as Ukrainian Delegation Heads to US
RUSSIA – Russia and Ukraine reported overnight airstrikes on Saturday, with Russia saying it downed 283 Ukrainian drones across the country overnight. The most intensive attack was against the southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, where 90 drones were intercepted, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. In the administrative center of the Bashkortostan region, […]
Reasons Why the Global South Shouldn’t Trust India
Asia and the Global South are the future, but I’d like to warn that relationship with India should be approached with utmost caution, as far as Asian countries and the Global South are concerned. Personally I have nothing against India or Indians, but there’ certain facts about this nation and its current leadership that might […]
EU’s Kaja Kallas Decries Ease of US Sanctions on Russian Oil
BELGIUM – EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday decried the ease of US sanctions on Russian oil, despite the ongoing energy disruptions due to the Middle East war, saying that it sets a dangerous precedent. “We see the easing of sanctions on oil, on Russia, by US is a dangerous precedent, because right […]