President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that the future in store for the Crimea and the unrecognized republics of the Donbass would be worse than that of Chernobyl.  In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper, Zelensky said that the Donbass and th...

The Syrian pound has collapsed by 100 percent against the US dollar. According to the official rate set by the Central Bank of Syria, the dollar exchange rate now makes up 2,512 pounds for $1.  Before that, it was equal to 1,256 pounds for $1, SANA ...

Ukraine has two options in connection with the escalation of the crisis in the Donbass — either to join the North Atlantic Alliance or return the status of a nuclear power, Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andrey Melnik said on the air of Deutschland...

Ukraine may start hostilities against the Crimea by organizing US-backed provocations, in which Ukrainian servicemen would be killed, Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council believes. During a meeting in Sevastopol, he also said ...

Warships of Russia's Black Sea Fleet left the port of Sevastopol to conduct artillery exercises, the  Novy Sevastopol newspaper reports with reference to the information department of the fleet. The frigate Admiral Makarov, small missile ships Graiv...

Russia's Foreign Ministry is doing its part of the work to prepare for the Putin-Biden summit, Maria Zakharova, an official spokeswoman for the department told Vesti FM radio station on April 14. Zakharova noted that the organization of the meeting o...

US President Joseph Biden held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, April 12. The two presidents discussed regional and global issues, including the intention of the United States and Russia to maintain coo...

Russia has deployed two armies and three units of Airborne Forces to its western borders as part of a verification check, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu said at a meeting in Severomorsk, RIA Novosti reports. Shoygu said that such measures wer...

Russia has decided to suspend air communication with Turkey against the background of the depreciating epidemiological situation in Turkey, RBC reports with reference to a source in one of the airlines, as well as a federal official. On April 12, ope...

The passage of US warships into the Black Sea is accompanied by aggressive rhetoric, whereas Moscow does not understand Washington's goals in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said following talks with his Egyptian counterpart Samekh Sh...

India has approved the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, The Times of India newspaper wrote.  India already uses the local Covaxin vaccine and the drug by Swedish-British company AstraZeneca, which is marketed there under the ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the buildup of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine "is turning into an explosive region," RIA Novosti reports on Friday, April 9. “Ukraine is turning into a potentially ver...

Russia's Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) demanded Slovakia should return the supplied batch of Sputnik V vaccine due to a breach of contract, a message posted on the official Twitter account of the Russian vaccine said.  The laboratory, where the Russ...

Andrey Biletsky, the leader of the National Corps Party of Ukraine, formerly the head of Azov regiment, posted a few recommendations on his Telegram channel on how Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could raise the morale of the military. Biletski...

The US Air Force reported a failure in the test of its hypersonic weapons, Defense News reports.  The B-52 Stratofortress reportedly attempted to launch an ARRW cruise missile, but it failed to complete its launch sequence, and the bomber had to ret...

The United States Air Force (Air Force) reproduces large-scale air warfare between great powers by simulating the threats and challenges that they may face in combat.  An article penned by Kris Osborn for The National Interest says that the Red Flag...

George Soros's Open Society Foundations are set to invest as much as $20 million in the campaign to support infrastructure and social reforms proposed by US President Joe Biden, Axios reports. The organization is said to thus resonate with other Demo...

Residents of the village of Aleksandrovskoye, located on the territory of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, revealed details of the shelling of their village by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on April 3, in which a four-year-old boy was ...

Kiev admitted that Ukraine and NATO were conducting joint preparations for the war to win back the Crimea.  According to Alexei Arestovich, the press secretary of the Ukrainian delegation in the contact group on resolving the crisis in the Donbass, ...

Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner had to leave Georgia over protests that sparked in the former Soviet republic after his arrival there. Pozner came to Georgia to celebrate his 87th birthday. In the morning of Thursday, April 1, the Russian journali...