Author: Steven Sahiounie

A court has banned two more parties, including the communists, bringing the total number of outlawed political groups to 15 A Ukrainian court on Tuesday banned the country’s Communist Party (CPU), marking the end of an eight-year saga, and adding the communists to the blacklist of 15 allegedly ‘pro-Russian’ political movements that are outlawed in Ukraine. The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in the western city of Lviv announced that “the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine are prohibited.” “Funds and other assets” of the party will be nationalized.Attempts to ban the party started in 2014, when the acting president at the…

American veterans can fight in the Ukraine war with no direct Pentagon command – and still exercise foreign policy. An article written in the New York Times reveals the role of American veterans in the war in Ukraine, with the US government freeing itself from responsibility and accountability from its citizens fighting in Ukraine. Nonetheless, when Biden made it clear that the US military will not be fighting Russia directly in the war, this brought up questions about Washington’s role in the war in Europe. Since the start of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on people around the world to “volunteer”…

Finland and Sweden will join the alliance after the documents are ratified by all NATO states Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde and the ambassadors of 30 NATO countries signed accession protocols for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in an official ceremony at NATO headquarters, a TASS on-site correspondent reported on Tuesday. Finland and Sweden will join the alliance after the documents are ratified by all NATO states. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO’s door remains open to European democracies who are ready and willing to contribute to shared security. “With 32…

On July 5, the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed shelling on civilians in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics from the very early morning. As of 5.20 local time, the AFU has fired 340 ammunition of various types, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition of 155, 152 and 122 mm caliber. As a result of the shelling in the Voroshilovsky district in the city of Donetsk, a 10-years-girl was killed. In the Kievsky district, a man born in 1959 was killed. 7 more civilians were injured in the city. As a result of the shelling of…

Former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Tokyo’s proposed oil price cap could push crude above $400 a barrel Tokyo’s proposal to place a cap on Russian oil prices would lead to significantly less oil on the market and could drastically push oil prices higher, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday. Responding to the idea put forward by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday, Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel that Japan “would have neither oil nor gas from Russia, as well as no participation in the Sakhalin-2 LNG project” if Tokyo decided to go through with the proposal.…

US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday on their first publicly announced visit since 2017 as the allies and nuclear-armed North Korean engage in an escalating cycle of displays of weapons. Joint military drills had been publicly scaled back in recent years, first in 2018 because of efforts to engage diplomatically with North Korea and later because of the COVID-19 pandemic. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has sought to increase public displays of allied military power, including exercises, to counter a record number of missile tests conducted by North Korea…

The region is located in southern Ukraine and borders Crimea A new government has been formed in the Kherson region, the regional military-civilian administration said in a statement on Telegram on Monday. “Having studied the experience of Russian regional government agencies, Head of the Kherson region’s military-civilian administration Vladimir Saldo decided to form a new government in the Kherson region, recruiting the best people not only from the Kherson region’s residents but also from Russian experts and managers,” the statement reads. Sergey Yeliseyev, who earlier served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia’s Kaliningrad region, will head the cabinet. There…

The Prime Minister of Palestine’s National Authority (PNA) reported that Israel uses the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs in its laboratories. Muhammad Ashtiyeh, the Prime Minister of Palestine’s National Authority (PNA), said in the weekly meeting of the Palestinian government held in Ramallah that the Israeli regime’s terrorist nature was endless. According to Rai al-Youm, Ashtiyeh said the Israeli regime’s authorities took the Palestinian martyrs’ bodies as hostages and used them in their medical laboratories. Since the beginning of the current year, the number of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces has reached 78, 15 of whom were minors.…

At least five people have been killed during a Fourth of July event in Highland Park, Illinois Five people have been killed and 16 more wounded in a shooting that hit an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, the local media reported on Monday, citing authorities. The shooting took place about 10 minutes after the parade began at 10am local time in the Chicago suburb. Police urged people to disperse and were seen patrolling the area with rifles in search of the shooter. A video has surfaced online, showing people running in panic as they hear shots being fired…

Two civilians were martyred during an airdrop by US occupation forces in al-Zir village, Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside. “US occupation’s helicopters carried out, on Monday at dawn, an airdrop in al-Zir village in Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside, supported by a group of SDF militiamen, causing the death of two civilians,” local sources told SANA reporter. The sources noted that the airdrop operation was accompanied by intensive firing, as part of the US occupation policy to harass locals in the areas which it occupies in the Syrian al-Jazeera region. Source: SANA