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Russia is not prepared for negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine, nor for a de-escalation of military actions, stated the German Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, after meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. “To all those who continue to say that Germany must negotiate, that Germany must talk to Russia, I tell them now: we are doing this. And, unfortunately, Russia does not currently show a willingness to adopt a constructive negotiating position,” said Wadephul, according to Moscow Times. According to him, the first meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Germany and Russia in January 2022 took place with…

Russian oligarchs are studying how billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman managed to escape the sanctions of the European Union, although few of them believe they could soon use these precedents to get their own restrictions lifted. This is the conclusion of an investigation published by Bloomberg. After years of asset freezing and legal disputes related to various sanction regimes, many of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen do not yet see a quick way to escape their pariah status. Most of those questioned believe that the unexpected exceptions granted by the EU to Usmanov and Fridman were due to particular circumstances, specific…

Russia would have rebuilt and expanded an underground nuclear command center located under Kosvinski Kamen mountain, in the Ural region, according to an investigation conducted by The Sunday Times, Danish media group Danwatch, and Dossier Center. The center, known as “Objective 1335”, would be part of the Russian infrastructure designed to maintain command and control capabilities over nuclear forces in the event of an attack. The center was initially built during the Cold War period. According to the investigation, reconstruction and expansion works have begun in recent years, and the scale of the project indicates an investment of the order…

Marine Le Pen still intends to withdraw France from NATO’s integrated military command structure, but says she will not take this step as long as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues. The leader of the National Rally, a favorite in the polls for next year’s presidential elections, told POLITICO that, “as long as there is a war at the gates of Europe”, it is not the time for such a decision. “As long as we have a war at the gates of Europe, it is not the time to act in this direction, but, of course, my intention remains the same”,…

Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, a former fervent supporter of Donald Trump, has called for the President of the United States to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment of the Constitution. Carlson made this statement on Thursday, during an interview given to NPR’s “Newsmakers” podcast. Although Carlson has long been a public supporter of Trump, he has been particularly critical of the president’s war against Iran, writes The Independent. “He will not be punished for this. They will catch him for corruption or something else,” Carlson declared for NPR when asked if Trump should be the subject of…

Ukraine is rapidly adapting its tactics to slow down the Russian offensive, increasingly relying on long-range drones, strikes on logistics, fortifications, and robotic systems. Meanwhile, Moscow is facing high losses and increasing pressure on its recruitment system. The war in Ukraine enters a new stage, where technology and the ability to strike military infrastructure behind the front lines become as important as the battles on the contact line. According to recent assessments, Russian commanders would have asked the Kremlin for up to 800,000 additional soldiers to support and expand operations. However, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes…

The Kremlin’s forces could carry out a “limited military attack” on a NATO country “bordering Russia” in the coming months, warned Thursday the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS). According to the assessment of the Danish secret services, the risk of such a scenario remains “low, but increasing”. Instead, Russia will intensify its hybrid warfare actions against the countries of the Northern Alliance. Thus, according to DDIS, there is a possibility that Russia may deploy a small number of troops, without military insignia, on the territory of a NATO country “under the pretext of protecting local Russian minorities”. “A limited attack…

The Russian communists declared on Thursday that in the legislative elections in the Krasnodar region (south), where the Kremlin’s party, United Russia, won the majority, as in the rest of the country, ‘nearly half a million votes were stolen from them’, reports EFE. The fraud was denounced by Aleksandr Safronov, the secretary of the Krasnodar committee of the Communist Party of Russia, as quoted by the independent Russian publication Meduza, even though the Electoral Commission had earlier declared that there were no irregularities recorded in this region overall. The fact that the elections took place over three days, between September…

The invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit, which will take place in December in the USA, in Miami, could encourage Russia to continue its aggression against Ukraine, claimed Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday, according to Reuters. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced this invitation publicly on Wednesday, after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The head of American diplomacy expressed his hope that the Russian president will accept the invitation, especially as this would be an opportunity to…

The Russian government forecasts that the budget deficit will equal 2% of the Gross Domestic Product over the next three years and has proposed a series of tax increases to support military expenditures, according to documents presented on Thursday by the Ministry of Finance, reports Reuters. The Ministry of Finance announced that it has submitted the budget project to the Government, which will analyze it before October 1st and will send it to the Parliament. The institution specified that the needs related to defense and security represent a ‘strategic priority’ in the new budget. “The planned resources will allow the…