Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ukrainian forces renewed bombing of Golovchino village in Belgorod region, near the Ukrainian borders, causing damage to several buildings. “The Ukrainian forces shelled again Golovchino village, which damaged a number of uninhabited buildings, in addition to four houses”, TASS news agency quoted Governor of the province, Vyacheslav Gladkov as saying. The governor added that fortunately, there were no casualties among civilians, meanwhile as for the other matters, we will overcome them. It is noteworthy that on April 19th, Golovchino village has been shelled by the Ukrainian side, injuring three of its residents and causing damage to about 76 houses and…

A senior US Department of State official says Washington is not ruling out military action against the Solomon Islands if it allows China to establish a military base. A senior US official in the Pacific did not rule out military action against Solomon Islands if Honiara allowed China to establish a military base. The US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink was part of the high-level US delegation that visited the Solomon Islands last week. Kritenbrink said the US team had a 90-minute meeting with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, which the former qualified as…

Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of the considerable risk of nuclear war and said the threat of World War III breaking out. “The risks now are considerable,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the West on Monday not to underestimate the elevated risks of nuclear conflict over Ukraine and said he viewed NATO as being in a proxy war with Russia. According to Lavrov, Russia was doing a lot to uphold the principle of striving to prevent nuclear war at all costs. “This is our key position on which we base everything. The risks now are considerable,” Lavrov said. “I would…

Earlier, two radio antennas were blown up in the Mayak settlement in Transnistria Moldovan President Maia Sandu will conduct a meeting of the country’s Supreme Security Council on Tuesday over rising tensions in the unrecognized Republic of Transnistria, the presidential press service said in a statement. “Sandu will conduct a meeting of the Supreme Security Council over recent incidents in the Transnitrian region,” the statement reads. Two radio antennas were blown up in the Mayak settlement in Transnistria earlier on Tuesday. On Monday, the building of the Transnistrian Ministry of State Security came under an attack involving hand-held grenade launchers.…

Russia claims it has struck six railway hubs in the West of the country Russian troops have destroyed six traction substations, – units that power the railways – which are being used for delivery of “foreign weapons and military hardware to the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass,” Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov announced on Monday. He added that the stations were located at the Krasnoye, Zdolbunov, Zhmerinka, Berdichev, Kovel, and Korosten railway hubs, all in western Ukraine. According to Konashenkov, 27 military targets were also destroyed by airstrikes, including four command centers. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said last month that pushing…

On April 25, two men detonated a RGD-5 grenade in the residential sector in the town of Irpen in the Kiev region. As a result of the attack, two women were injured, one of them is in critical condition. According to the claims of eyewitnesses, two men, father and son, were engaged in looting. Two women saw them and claimed that they were going to call the police. In response, the older man threw a grenade at them, which exploded and wounded the woman. Eyewitnesses of the incident, who turned out to be members of the local territorial defense, detained…

The social media platform is growing more receptive toward Musk’s $43 billion takeover bid, media report Twitter is in discussions over Elon Musk’s acquisition bid and could finalize a deal as soon as this week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Earlier this month, the billionaire unveiled a $43 billion offer to take the microblogging platform private, which could become one of the biggest internet acquisitions ever. According to the newspaper, Musk met with Twitter executives on Sunday who were generally more open to discussing a deal than they previously were. “Twitter is taking…

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the People’s Militia of the DPR unilaterally cease hostilities and withdraw their units to a safe distance from the Azovstal industrial area in Mariupol. These measures have been taken to organize a humanitarian corridor and the exit of civilians, including workers, women and children, from Azovstal in any direction. The Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response claimed that the fighting will be suspended on April 25, 2022 from 2 p.m. Moscow time. On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to avoid a direct storm of the fortified…

The would-be assassins were detained, and explosives and firearms seized, Russia says Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Monday that it detained a group of “neo-Nazis” instructed by Kiev to kill popular Russian TV host and journalist Vladimir Solovyov. According to the FSB, the hit was ordered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). “The members of the criminal group are confessing to preparing to kill Solovyov and flee abroad afterwards.” The FSB said that during searches, it seized an explosive device, eight Molotov cocktails, six handguns, a sawed-off hunting rifle, and a grenade. It added that more than…

It was stated that Turkey seeks to use diplomatic avenues outside the Montreux Convention and persuasion to keep NATO allies away from the Black Sea Ankara is not backing Washington’s plans to create NATO special deployment forces in the Black Sea region, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Monday, citing Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. The paper points out that the proposal to create such forces in the Black Sea region in order to contain Russia, which was presented by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin last year, particularly involves Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. “We told Romania and Bulgaria not to…