Tag: Russia

“Putin has to be put on trial and hanged,” says former Vice President of the state-owned Gazprombank Igor Volobuev after leaving Russia and joining the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces.

Due to the high number of casualties in Ukraine, Russia is planning to ramp up its recruitment campaign of military “volunteers” to be done outside the Russian capital of Moscow.

Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and claims it will be entirely independent of Russian crude oil imports by late summer.

A Russian spy plane was reported to enter Danish and Swedish airspace. Russian ambassadors in both countries have been summoned to explain their actions amid heightened tensions in Europe.

Ukrainian military intel claims that Russia intends to open a new front in its invasion of Ukraine through Moldova, a former Soviet State.

Everyone I know with large business interests is hedging against a failed Russian state. The hedge looks like this, citizenship or the equivalent elsewhere. Family outside of Russia, ownership outside of Russia, in case Putin reinstates some sort of draft that seeks to scoop up fighting-age males to plus up the invading force. There are […]

Former US Army General Curtis Michael Scaparrotti said that the drawn-out fighting had left Russia “vulnerable” with the barrage of sanctions dealing significant blows to its economy and resources.

A group of Chechen fighters called the “Kadyrovtsy” killed badly wounded Russian troops rather than treat or evacuate them.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces admitted that the “Ghost of Kyiv,” the unsung hero of the Ukrainian skies, does not exist.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a cease-fire to allow civilians trapped in and below the steelworks in Mariupol to be evacuated.

There is a way Russia could introduce nuclear weapons into the Ukraine conflict and use NATO as justification for it.

Moscow’s ambassador to Washington has told the United States to stop sending additional arms to Ukraine. He warns that large western deliveries of weapons will pour more fuel on the fire and cause additional deaths on both sides of the conflict.