Alexander Demidenko, who guided refugees back to their homeland, was arrested and tortured by Kremlin forces. One of the many he helped recalls his courage and kindnessLost and disoriented, Olena Primak stood at Belgorod’s train station, holding tightly to her young daughter’s arm. The scorching summer heat and the long journey had left the Ukrainian refugee on the brink of collapse. Primak had been told to wait for a Russian volunteer called “Alexander” who would help her get back to...
A new Moscow-backed political grouping in Moldova has Vladimir Putin's support to destabilize the former Soviet country as it seeks European Union membership, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said.Ilan Shor, a U.S.-sanctioned fugitive oligarch, has announced the creation of the pro-Russian electoral bloc, which plans to run a candidate in Moldova's presidential elections on October 20.However, Dionis Cenusa, an expert on Moldovan politics, told Newsweek an overt Moscow operation in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by asserting the existence of a singular “Russian world” that needs protection and reunification. He set aside the secular socialist ideological rationales that the Soviet Union used to justify its expansion favoring the Tsarist Russia, rooted in religion and culture. But the history of political More
MOSCOW >> Russia’s President Vladimir Putin today mocked a scheduled round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not accept any enforced plans that ignore its interests.
If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready.
President Vladimir Putin's Russia repeatedly demanded the creation of a new European security architecture before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Moscow wanted NATO expansion frozen, and perhaps even reversed. Russia, it said, must win new security guarantees from its Western rivals and be central to a new understanding of power on the continent. The Kremlin's demands were rejected by NATO leaders, and Moscow subsequently rolled the dice with its disastrous assault on...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called on House lawmakers to help push forward further funding for Ukraine, predicting Russian President Vladimir Putin will target a NATO nation should Russia win its war with Kyiv. "I have no doubt in my mind having met Vladimir Putin that if Putin were allowed to overrun Ukraine,
West African state turned to Russia to help in fight against insurgents throwing into doubt future of operations with USRussian military trainers have arrived to reinforce Niger’s air defenses as the west African country pulls away from close cooperation with the US in counterterrorism efforts, turning instead to Moscow for help as it fights Islamist insurgents.State television in the country broadcast footage of Russian military trainers arriving in the country aboard a plane equipped with...
Two injured in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod Oblast
If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready. The pain that followed was the price Yevgeny
Model and masseur David Putman, who is 23 years younger than fun loving Alison, 49, dived into the water at remote beauty in the Caucasus Mountains close to where he was born.
Vladimir Putin issued a new warning to the West with the suspected test of an experimental nuclear-capable missile. Footage shows the mystery ballistic launch from the Kapustin Yar test range.