Author: Steven Sahiounie

“Those who claim that Israel only attacked Lebanon in retaliation to attacks from Lebanon on them are liars! The suffering of the people of the South began from the very first days of the Zionist occupation!,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday. Speaking at the Tyre and Nabatiye election campaign ceremony, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said: “The people of the South resorted to Resistance as a result of the Lebanese state’s abandonment of the South. I say to those who call for the disarmament of the Resistance, do not even dream of disarming the Resistance!” “They wanted to distinguish the Shias…

A Ukrainian sea and air assault on the island off the coast of Odessa was defeated with major losses, Moscow said An attempt by Ukrainian armed forces to seize the infamous Snake Island by air and sea over the weekend resulted in failure and substantial casualties, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Monday, noting that US and UK advisers were involved in planning the operation. “Over the past two days, the Kiev regime has made several desperate attempts to land by air and sea on Snake Island, which is important for ensuring control of the northwestern part of the…

Russian-led forces have recently claimed several victories in the region of Severodonetsk-Lisichansk in the Luhansk People’s Republic. After weeks-long battles in Rubezhnoe, the Luhansk People’s Militia claimed the control over the town and nearby areas. After the town of Rubezhnoye came under the LPR control, Russian forces advanced closer to the city of Severodonetsk. The LPR military showed an apartment used as a firing point by Ukrainian soldiers in Rubezhnoe. A lot of NATO weapons were left inside: Despite several attempts by the AFU to counterattack, the village of Voevodovka located between Rubezhnoe and Severodonetsk was completely mopped up of…

The Russian president said that the Russian troops “are fighting bravely, heroically and professionally” Russia would have used any opportunity to iron out the situation in Ukraine by peaceful means, but it had not been given any chance to do this, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “If there had been at least one chance to solve this issue by other, peaceful means, we would have certainly used this chance. But we were not given this chance, simply not,” Putin said at a meeting with Artyom Zhoga, the father of Vladimir Zhoga, also known as Vokha, the commander of…

As Russia celebrated the defeat of fascism in WWII, President Zelensky of Ukraine shared an image of a soldier wearing an SS patch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked World War II Victory Day by sharing an image of a Ukrainian soldier wearing the ‘death’s head’ patch of an elite Nazi Waffen SS unit. While the picture was soon deleted from his social media, the Ministry of Defense in Kiev also posted the photo. The offending item was placed on Instagram and Telegram by Zelensky, on Monday. In it, a soldier next to an artillery gun wears the ‘death’s head,’ or “totenkopf” insignia of…

Special forces from the Chechen Republic deployed on the Donbass front lines shared several videos showing the shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces taken by the joint Russian, LPR forces in the town of Popasnaya in the Luhansk People’s Republic. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov who is actively covering the work of Chechen units in Ukraine provided the following comments to the videos: “Almost every house and every street here is littered with modern weapons, which the nationalists abandoned at the first threat.Machine guns, javelins, dry rations and even Bandera food storages are now at our disposal. Thus, the…

Germany’s Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation, Svenja Schulze, is threatening against what could be the worst food crisis since WW2, due to damaged supply chains and stalled agricultural production. The coronavirus epidemic, drought, and the Ukraine crisis are driving up food prices to new highs, frightening the globe with the worst famine since World War II, according to Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation. “The World Food Programme believes that more than 300 million people are now suffering from acute hunger, and the projections constantly have to be adjusted upward. The unpleasant message is that we…

On May 8, six militants were killed and four others were wounded when a missile struck a vehicle that was taking them to the frontline in the al-Ghab Plains in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. The vehicle was reportedly targeted with a Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Some Syrian pro-opposition sources said that the missile was launched by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), while other claimed that Russian forces were responsible for the deadly strike. The slain militants, who were identified as Muhammad Darwish, Mukheiber al-Saeed, Abd al-Salam Darwish, Karmo Salama, Ali al-Ali and Mustafa al-Taw’am, were…

More than 6.5 million children inside Syria and 5.8 million refugees outside the country now depend on assistance, the United Nations warned on Sunday. More Syrian children are in need than ever since the country’s devastating war erupted over a decade ago. Still, their funding is “dwindling,” the United Nations (UN) warned on Sunday. “Syria’s children have suffered for far too long and should not suffer any longer,” the UN children’s agency Unicef said in a statement, noting that 12.3 million needed aid both inside the country and in the broader region where they had fled. “More than 6.5 million…

The officer claims to have been surprised by the reason his British troops gave for joining Kiev’s forces Foreign fighters are joining the Ukrainian military in search of “adventure,” the commander of Kiev’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade has told RT. He was captured by Russian forces during fighting in Mariupol. Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk said there were foreigners in the ranks of his unit, explaining that Ukrainian legislation allows citizens from other countries to join its armed forces. “They sign official contracts and serve,” he said. Baranyuk recalled at least two foreign troops – “both from Great Britain” – being under his command. “One was…