Read more on the sham elections: Phony “elections” in Russia’s phony “republics” in Ukraine: a legitimization of the occupation The 9 persons are subject to EU restrictive measures, which involve a travel ban and asset freeze,...
On 13 December 2018, the summit of the European Council will be held, during which the issue of the continuation of sectoral sanctions against Russia will be discussed. Some EU member states, such as Italy, have already indicated that...
Vladimir Putin has assembled “hundreds of Russian T-64 and T-62M tanks and thousands of military vehicles” only 18 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border in the environs of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk of Rostov Oblast. All this can be...
The possibility that Vladimir Putin will return two or more of the Kurile Islands the Soviet Union seized at the end of World War II in exchange for a peace treaty with Japan has an important lesson for the world about Crimea: Russians...
One of the clearest early warning signs of Moscow’s plans are suggestions in the Russian media that the country’s opponents are planning to do the same thing, a tactic that helps to distract attention from what Russia is doing and then...
The 24 sailors Russia has seized and taken captive after a Russian attack on three Ukrainian Navy boats in the Azov Sea are prisoners of war, Ukrainian officials have said. This means that their arrest by Russia until 25 January 2019, and...
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) has published a video reconstructing the timeline of the Russian attack on three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait on 25 November, in the result of which 24 Ukrainian sailors were...
Pointing to a buildup in Russian forces near the border, the Ukrainian military says that the Russian threat to Ukraine is the highest it has been since 2014 when Moscow invaded, seized and annexed Crimea and launched the war in the...
As hard as it is to imagine in the 21st century, Vladimir Putin is perfectly prepared to go to war to ensure that Ukrainian Orthodoxy does not gain autocephaly because once it does and once its status is recognized by others, the Kremlin...
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir Putin is behaving toward them in exactly the same way Stalin treated his enemies in 1937, accusing them of...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
