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Russian nuclear blackmail
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This year will be a game changer in Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine’s Defense Minister says
Ukraine is one step closer to victory in the Russo-Ukrainian war as the Ukrainian counteroffensive gets underway, and…
Zelenskyy compares obliteration of Bakhmut to nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima (Japan) and compared the destruction…
IAEA Director General to visit Zaporizhzhia NPP next week
Next week, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, plans to visit…
Russia blocks access of IAEA to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
Russian forces do not allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts to rotate their monitoring group at the…
Putin plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus – Belarusian politician
There are signs indicating that Russia is getting ready to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in the…
From “nuclear backpacks” to “orgy” plans – Ukrainians brace for a nuclear strike
[editorial]As Russia’s nuclear threats increase, a possible nuclear attack is on everyone’s lips in Ukraine. Ukrainians chose to…
What if Russia nukes Ukraine? Military strategist Lawrence Freedman explains
[editorial] After Putin’s speech on 21 September 2022, some in the West, such as Elon Musk, called to…
Moscow moves up plan to finally scrap Soviet-era missiles
Thirty years after the end of the USSR, the Russian defense ministry has announced that it will begin…
The thorny road to the Kremlin’s desired Yalta-2021
In turn, Western leaders, including US President Joseph Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have been…
Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…
Kremlin’s ‘Mobilization Party’ believes limited nuclear strike would save its power at home and boost Russia’s abroad, Piontkovsky says
A newly coalescing “Mobilization Party” in the Kremlin is convinced that it can only save its own position…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Putin, his position shaky, may begin new aggression with nuclear blackmail, Piontkovsky says
Russia is not in a position to engage in an arms race with the United States, Andrey Piontkovsky…
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war against the West, Skobov says
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war, convinced that “the effete West will refuse…
Russian Orthodox Church: Performance of song about nuking US in St. Isaac’s Cathedral ‘in bad taste’
Few stories from Russia in recent times (other than anything connected with Vladimir Putin) have sparked a larger…
Putin has three goals in playing nuclear card against West now, Kirillova says
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what…
‘Undoubtedly Russia has put nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea,’ Felgenhauer says
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Russian military analyst, says that even though Moscow will not confirm or deny the…
FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say
The Zapad-2017 military exercise has ended “without the annexation of Belarus, a new round of aggression against Ukraine,…
Zapad-2017 – anything but a joint Russian-Belarusian exercise, Sivitsky says
Moscow has advertised Zapad-2017 as a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, but it is anything but as it includes…