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Russian Aggression

Russia resorts to nuclear blackmail amid Ukraine’s Kursk incursion

Ukraine refutes Russian propaganda suggesting it plans to attack nuclear plants. The allegations continue Russia's nuclear blackmail and hint at possible false-flag attack plans.

byYuri Zoria

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International

Ukraine now has neither weapons nor security: Zelenskyy demands Budapest Memorandum consultations

Ukraine wants peace. Europe wants peace. The world says it doesn’t want to fight, and Russia says it…

byVarious Ukrainian government sources

History's first test of a tactical nuclear weapon using artillery as a delivery mechanism was conducted by the United States in 1953. The Grable Event, a part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton nuclear charge fired from a 280-mm artillery gun on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

A heavily-protected Russian entry point into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia in March 2014 (Image: Kommersant.ru)

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Crimean Tatars see Budapest Memorandum as key to recovery of their homeland

Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatars, says that the goal of his nation is “the establishment…

byPaul A. Goble

Liftoff of a Ukrainian Dnipro launch vehicle, the design of which is based on the R-36MUTTH Intercontinental ballistic missile – called the SS-18 Satan by NATO – designed and manufactured by Ukraine's Yuzhmash. (Photo: Wikipedia)

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Moscow pushing Ukraine toward becoming a nuclear power again, Pastukhov says

Despite Russian military actions, Ukraine has shown itself unprepared for total war, hoping against hope that the West…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian nuclear-capable Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missile systems in a military exercise (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone).

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‘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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Budapest memorandum: non-proliferation diplomacy twenty years later

Almost immediately after signing the “Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Was Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament a blunder?

By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Kremlin nuclear hysteria: To wage or not to wage nuclear war

Kremlin nuclear hysteria is pervasive in Russia, touching nearly all aspects of Russian life. Nuclear war propaganda is everyday fare on Russian…

byKseniya Kirillova