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Russian President Vladimir Putin is the one who approved the Novichok neurotoxic agent attack on ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal in 2018, concludes an independent investigation conducted in the UK, according to Agerpres, which quotes Reuters. It was a “stunning act of recklessness” that led to the death of an innocent British woman, the investigation concludes, made public on Thursday. Putin bears the “moral responsibility” for the death of this woman, a collateral victim of the assassination attempt on Skripal, who survived the attack, the investigators further state. Skripal was found along with his daughter, Julia, unconscious on a bench in…
Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India, his first in 2022 since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, will include significant discussions on military cooperation between the two countries. According to Bloomberg, the Russian Federation and India have concluded a multi-year negotiation process for the Indian army to lease a nuclear submarine. The event can be seen as a turning point for the government in New Delhi, which has been attempting to perform a tense balancing act between Russia and Western countries in the context of the invasion of Ukraine. In the past, the US threatened to impose sanctions after…
French President Emmanuel Macron warned in a phone call attended by several European leaders on Monday that the US could “betray” Ukraine on the issue of ceding territories that the Russian army has not occupied on the front, according to revelations made by the publication Der Spiegel. During the talks, Emmanuel Macron directly addressed a concern of Europeans and Ukraine in the context of discussions about peace negotiations. “There is a possibility that the US could betray Ukraine on the issue of territory, without clarity regarding security guarantees,” Macron said, according to the cited source. He added that there is…
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview with India Today that some proposals from the US plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable for the Kremlin, saying that any agreement is still far from being concluded. He also spoke about the negotiations with Witkoff, which he said took a very long time. “It lasted 5 hours. Honestly, even I got tired. Five hours is too much,” Putin said. Putin stated that his five-hour talks on Tuesday at the Kremlin with Witkoff and Kushner were “necessary” and “useful”, but also “hard work”, and some proposals were unacceptable. Putin…
Russia is using the same narratives it previously used to justify its war in Ukraine, but this time they are directed against the Republic of Moldova and the Baltic states, members of NATO, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Recently, the head of diplomacy in Moscow, Sergei Lavrov, accused authorities in the Baltic states and in the Republic of Moldova of adopting “racist laws” and of discriminating against the Russian population. The Institute for the Study of War stated that Lavrov’s claims closely resemble the Kremlin’s narratives used to justify the war in Ukraine. “The OSCE…
Volodimir Zelenski’s plane was followed by four military-type drones before landing, on Monday, at Dublin airport. The drones took off from a location in the northeast of the Irish capital and headed towards the flight path of the aircraft in which the Ukrainian president was traveling, violating a no-fly zone, notes The Independent. Irish authorities are investigating the incident, but cannot yet comment on the most important details: where the drones came from and who controlled them. It seems that the drones missed their target, which was Zelenski’s plane, and veered towards the LÉ William Butler Yeats, a military ship…
The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, stated during a broadcast on “Moscow 24” that all economic sectors of the capital are experiencing an acute labor shortage, estimating the deficit at about 500 thousand specialists. “Of these, 70% are skilled workers, namely people with technical professions and advanced practical skills,” the mayor clarified. According to him, the lack of skilled workers has been a constant problem, but currently “the situation has worsened even more”. Sobyanin explained that this deficit is fueled by demographic factors and the accelerated pace of economic development. The mayor further added that, in the past, the educational…
Margarita Simonian, chief editor of the state television Russia Today, confessed that she was unpleasantly surprised by the conditions in Russian hospitals. The Russian propagandist, who is undergoing cancer treatment, recounts how, during a visit to one of the hospitals with her 12-year-old daughter, the medical staff yelled at them right at the reception, writes Dialog.ua. Simonian recounted that the hospital employees spoke in a loud tone and continued to be rude even after they recognized her. One of the employees allegedly told her directly: “Tell the minister that we are not paid to speak nicely.” She added that she…
The Foreign Minister of Poland stated on Wednesday, in Brussels, after the NATO meeting, that Europe and the Alliance are building their security “against Russia”, not together with Russia. The NATO-Russia Council “no longer exists,” says Radosław Sikorski, emphasizing that the focus is on ensuring Europe’s security against Russia, not together with it. The Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, told reporters that the NATO-Russia Council, a consultative forum established in 2002, “no longer exists,” according to The Guardian. He said that the body was “created at a time when it seemed that European security could be built together with Russia,…
From August until now, approximately 120,000 Ukrainians have taken advantage of relaxed travel restrictions and crossed the border into Poland to escape the war, reports Tvp World. Before the relaxation of restrictions at the end of August, all men aged between 18 and 60 were prohibited from crossing the border, except under exceptional circumstances. Now, all men aged between 18 and 22 can leave Ukraine, with Border Guard figures showing that between August and the end of November over 120,000 people entered Poland. Some of these numbers could be multiple entries and exits by the same individuals, warned the Border…