Author: Steven Sahiounie

Total US aid total aid to Kiev will allegedly pass the $2.4 billion mark US President Joe Biden is looking to mobilize his country’s military industry and send another $750 million worth of the Pentagon’s own weapons stockpiles to Ukraine, according to new reports citing the customary anonymous officials in Washington. This is on top of the $1.7 billion worth of materiel sent to Kiev, courtesy of American taxpayers, since Russia attacked its neighbor in late February. So far US “lethal” aid has consisted mainly of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger portable anti-air systems. Now, Biden is preparing to escalate the supplies to…

The Ukrainian military-industrial complex is not the most developed in the world because of Ukraine’s geographical and resource location. Therefore, the country has to fight for what it has. Ukraine does not refuse assistance from third countries and takes it positively. However, the countries that help Ukraine are also lobbying for their interests and one cannot say that they will not demand compensation in some form after the war is over. There is increasing concern that NATO is at war with Russia in Ukraine. For example, according to Western media reports, elite British and U.S. special forces units are deployed…

“We must try to end the war as soon as possible, but we care how it ends, and it will always end with negotiations,” the head of EU diplomacy said The European Union is not contributing to the spread of the conflict around Ukraine, but is trying to contain it, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in an interview published on Wednesday in the El Mundo newspaper. “We are not promoting war, we are not contributing to the spread of war,” he said, “We are trying to contain it, both in its spatial dimension,…

Over 1,000 of Kiev’s troops reported to have laid down their arms More than 1,000 service members of Ukraine’s 36th Marines Brigade have surrendered in the port city of Mariupol, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday during a daily briefing. According to a Russian military report, the troops laid down their arms at the Illich Steel and Iron Works, a giant metal mill they were using as a stronghold against Moscow’s forces. A total of 1,026 service members, including 162 officers, were among the captives, ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. He said 47 of the soldiers were female.…

By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Since the outbreak of military operations in Ukraine, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has encouraged Russian exports to be paid for in rubles. The process of buying rubles in a big enough quantity to make a large order for wheat, for example, is difficult. US sanctions make a direct order of Russian wheat dangerous for importers. There is a wheat importer in Egypt who is willing to buy Russian wheat in rubles, but has found a way to avoid sanctions by ordering from an Indian exporter.Russia is on track to grow 76 million…

Regardless of the onset of the 2014 restrictions, many spheres of the country’s sanctions-affected economy have come a long way, advancing by leaps and bounds, the Russian President underscored Russia is not going to seal itself off from the rest of the world and it is ready to cooperate with all its partners who wish to do so, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained. “We are not going to seal ourselves off. In today’s world, it is completely impossible to fully isolate anyone, and totally impossible [to isolate] such an enormous country like Russia. Therefore, we will work with those of…

On April 11, the video showing the Russian tank firing at close range at a group of soldiers was shared online. The footage raised a lot of questions and was used by Ukrainian propaganda. Ukrainian media immediately claimed that the Russian tank killed a group of Russian soldiers. LINK A new video from the spot leaves no doubts. The victims were Ukrainian soldiers. It is still unclear if the Russian crew hit a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or the crew of Ukrainian soldiers on a captured Russian tank hit a BMP with a Russian V sign on the road, killing…

In the Luhansk direction, the trap around Severodonetsk is gradually shrinking. The control zone of LPR forces has expanded on the southern outskirts of Rubezhnoe and to the west of Borovskoye. The offensive in the Novoshtokovskoye-Horskoye direction is developing. In Popasnaya, LPR troops are slowly advancing through the streets of the town. However, the major assault was likely repelled by the AFU, and LPR forces reportedly secured the Eastern outskirts of the town. On April 12, Russian artillery units inflicted fire strikes on six strongholds of units of the 24th Ukrainian separate mechanized brigade in the area of Popasnaya. As…

The purported massacre blamed on Russian troops is as “fake” as past “chemical attacks” in Syria, the president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed accusations that Russian troops are responsible for killing civilians in Kiev’s suburb of Bucha, labeling the case as fake. The president made the remarks during a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday. “I’ve been talking to colleagues from Western countries, often, up until now. And when they say ‘Bucha’ to me, I ask them: ‘Have you ever been to Raqqa? Have you seen how this Syrian city was completely…

Moscow said on Monday that the United States and Britain were helping Ukraine prepare fake claims about the alleged persecution of civilians in Ukraine to feed to international media in an attempt to smear Russia. Since Russian troops withdrew from towns and villages around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Ukrainian troops have been showing journalists corpses of what they say are civilians killed by Russian forces, destroyed houses and burnt-out cars. The West says the dead civilians are evidence of war crimes. Reuters reporters saw dead bodies in the town of Bucha but could not independently verify who was responsible for…