Ukraine did math on Tuapse — and Russian reaction tells rest
Ukraine's drones hit Tuapse four times in a single month. Each strike deepening the wound on Russia's only Black Sea oil refinery.
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Zelenskyy asks Trump whether Putin’s 9 May ceasefire means more than hours of safety for his own propaganda parade
Russia has used temporary pauses before, framed as humanitarian gestures or goodwill signals, to regroup forces, rotate units, resupply front-line positions, and then resume offensive operations.
Russia’s Victory Day parade goes without armor in 2026 after losing 24,486 combat vehicles in Ukraine
Russia built this parade for decades as its ultimate display of military might — a propaganda spectacle designed to intimidate the world and justify its war against Ukraine.
Sanctions on Russia: Do they work? Why? Why not? Blame? Changes?
For the past 50 months, the West has steadily increased its sanctions on Russia – at least on paper. A conference in Kyiv this weekend is analyzing sanctions roll back, accountability, the role of civil society, war profiteering, Putin’s enablers, and which sanctions have worked and not.
Moscow claims G20 invitation at highest level as US prepares December summit in Miami
Russia's deputy FM says Moscow got a G20 invitation at the highest level for the December 2026 Miami summit, weeks after the Kremlin denied any Putin visit was being discussed.
Kremlin claims Putin is ready to meet Zelenskyy — but only in Moscow, and only to “finalize agreements”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says Putin is ready to meet Zelenskyy, but only in Moscow and only to finalize agreements already reached in negotiations.
Russia dismissed Ukraine’s Easter truce offer – then declared its own days later
A year ago, Russia declared the same kind of ceasefire – and violated it more than 2,000 times.
While West watches Middle East, Russia quietly secured foothold in world’s second-largest graphite producer
Russia got cobalt, graphite, rare earths, and access to a key Indian Ocean shipping route.
“I am at your service”: Bloomberg transcript shows Orbán pledged full assistance to Putin
Bloomberg reviewed a transcript of Orbán's 17 October 2025 call with Putin: "I am at your service." Budapest summit talks, fables, and Hungary's election Sunday.
Why is Russia asking its billionaires to fund a war its $190 billion defense budget should cover?
Kerimov pledged $1.2 billion. The Kremlin called it spontaneous.
WP: Russian Intelligence planned to stage an assassination attempt on Orban to influence the election results
Russian intelligence operatives, alarmed by Orbán's declining poll numbers, drew up a plan they called "the Gamechanger" — a staged attack on the Hungarian prime minister designed to move the election away from economics and toward security, The Washington Post reported
‘He’s got nothing to gain’: Ex-US envoy says Putin, not Zelenskyy, is blocking a ceasefire
With Russian casualties potentially reaching 1.4 million and sanctions cutting into the economy, former US special envoy Keith Kellogg says Putin still has not accepted the core condition for peace: that "he's not going to gain any more land."
Trump confirms Putin call, administration weighs easing Russia oil sanctions amid Iran-driven price surge
In a phone call that lasted roughly an hour, Donald Trump told Vladimir Putin that ending the Ukraine war would be more "helpful" than proposals on Iran — then his administration announced it was weighing sanctions relief that would allow countries like India to buy Russian crude without US penalties.
Putin is collecting gifts from Iran’s war he didn’t even ask for: huge oil check and permission to kill
The US went to war against Iran to neutralize a threat. For Putin, it's a gift basket.
Russia removes giant “victory will be ours” propaganda banner from Seoul embassy after South Korean backlash
Meanwhile, South Korean activists confront the Russian embassy on war anniversary.
Putin has already started World War Three — “the question is how to stop him,” Zelenskyy tells BBC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the BBC in an interview that a ceasefire built on territorial concessions would only buy Russia a two-year pause before it attacks again, and that the only answer is "intense military and economic pressure" to force Moscow to step back.
“Putin and his friends are not in prison” – Zelenskyy says world already made its biggest compromise with Russia
Ukrainian president pushes back on US calls for concessions.
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe’s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.
Thorbjørn Jagland offered to connect Jeffrey Epstein to Lavrov. KGB defectors had named him "Yuri" decades earlier.
Under Jagland Europe ignored Russia’s annexation of Crimea — files reveal his link with Putin and role in Epstein’s obsession
There are 1,055 Putin mentions in Epstein files.
She spent 15 years decoding Russian talks. Her verdict: the battlefield will decide.
A seasoned former diplomat on reading Russia's negotiation theater