Russia

Slovakia said it was considering donating its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine after sending its S-300 air defense system.

Ukraine is claiming they hit the Russian flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with two cruise missiles, US furnished Mi-17 helicopters going and then not going to Ukraine, A report from an American serving in Ukraine and Russian losses in perspective.

The Azov regiment claimed on April 11th that the Russian forces had used an unknown poisonous chemical substance against Ukrainian Forces in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Russia has defaulted on its foreign loans after it attempted to pay bondholders in rubles instead of dollars.

Pro-Russian politician and close Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk was captured by Ukrainian secret services in a “lightning-fast and dangerous” mission.

Russian President Putin stated that the peace talks with Ukraine were at a “dead end” and claimed that the killings in Bucha were fake.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, confronted him about the war crimes, and called to end the war.

Slovakia has given its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine in exchange for Patriot systems. Russia claims they’ve destroyed the delivery of the Soviet-era air defense system near the city of Dnipro.

NATO intends to deploy a full-scale permanent military force on the border of its member-states, Estonia and Latvia, to defend against any potential military offensives by Russia.

Some 60 Russian paratroopers from Pskov, Northern Russia, refused to fight the Ukrainians and left the battlefield to go home, defying orders from their superiors.

Finland and Sweden’s application to become NATO members becomes likely due to Russian aggression, with Finland expected to apply in June.

The Russians are recruiting veterans and troops from the unrecognized region of Transnistria in Moldova amid huge losses in its invasion.