Author: Steven Sahiounie

“Nationalists” are holding the crews hostage in Mariupol, the Donetsk People’s Republic says The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Sunday that Ukrainian fighters seized two foreign ships in the Azov Sea port of Mariupol and are holding their crews hostage. DPR forces backed by Russia have been fighting with Ukrainians for control of the port since late February. Mariupol is part of the Donetsk region and has been controlled by Ukrainian forces since 2014. According to DPR military spokesman Eduard Basurin, “a group of retreating Ukrainian nationalists” from the Azov Battalion boarded two foreign ships, the Lady Augusta and the Tsarevna.…

Several people, including terrorists, were wounded in a car explosion in Al-Bab City, which is under the control of the Turkish occupation forces and its terrorist mercenaries in Aleppo northeastern countryside. An explosive device planted in a car went off near one of the checkpoints of the Turkish occupation mercenaries at the entrance to the city of al-Bab in the northeastern countryside, wounding several people, including a number of terrorists, and causing material damage to property, local sources told SANA. In areas controlled by terrorist groups backed by the Turkish regime, there are manifestations of chaos and lawlessness as a…

Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. Iran and the United States have engaged in indirect talks in Vienna over the past year to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers which then-U.S. President Donald Trump left in 2018 and Iran subsequently violated by ramping up its nuclear programme. Negotiations have now stalled as Tehran and Washington blame each other for failing to take the necessary political decisions to settle remaining…

Russia’s MoD has revealed that 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed by the Russian combat air force. According to Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov, Russian high-precision sea-based weapons targeted Ukraine’s nationalist battalion Dnipro in Dnipropetrovsk. During a briefing, Konashenkov detailed how “during the night, in the settlement of Zvonetskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region, high-precision sea-based missiles destroyed the headquarters and the base of the nationalist battalion Dnipro, where new foreign mercenaries have recently arrived.” 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed Additionally, Konashenkov revealed that 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed by the Russian combat air force on the evening of April…

The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a Palestinian woman near Beit Lahm claiming she was trying to carry out an operation, resulting in her martyrdom. Today, on Sunday, a 35-year-old woman was shot by the Israeli occupation forces in Husan village, west of Beit Lahm. The head of the Husan village council, Mohammad Sabateen, told Wafa that the occupation forces opened fire on the woman, a widow and mother of six, at the eastern entrance of the village. The woman, according to eyewitnesses in the area, was just walking by when Israeli occupation forces shot her and severely injured her. She…

Among them 127 aircraft, 98 helicopters, 234 surface-to-air missile systems The Russian troops have destroyed 436 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 232 multiple launch rocket systems and 2,052 tanks and armored vehicles since the beginning of their special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday. “Overall, 127 aircraft, 98 helicopters, 234 surface-to-air missile systems, 436 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,052 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 232 multiple launch rocket systems, 894 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1,975 special military motor vehicles, have been destroyed since the beginning of the special…

The change comes after the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the bloc’s chief says NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the bloc will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on the eastern flank to deter Russia. The move comes in response to Moscow’s military campaign against Ukraine. In an interview published by The Telegraph on Saturday, Stoltenberg explained that the US-led military organisation has been focused on “a very fundamental transformation” in order to better reflect the “new reality” in Europe. “We have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a more longer-term adaptation of NATO,” he…

On April 8, first footage from the port of Mariupol confirmed that the Armed Forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation partially took control over several facilities and reached the port moving from the west along the sea coast. The port of Mariupol is one of the three main strongholds of the AFU, including militants of the nationalist Azov regiment, in the city. According to some reports, most of the seaport is already under the control of the Russian military. Currently, clashes continue in the area and joint forces are likely pushing Ukrainian fighters towards the large industrial plant…

The current unprecedented measures of illegal influence will cause a total disregard for the norms of international law, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council pointed out The current unprecedented sanctions against Russia will cause further collapse of all international institutions, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said. He wrote in his Telegram channel on Friday that unlawful sanctions always cause a degradation of the international law system. “The current unprecedented in breadth, scope and degree of cynicism measures of illegal influence will cause further collapse of all international institutions, including above all the UN, and…

Moscow claims Kiev will stage an event in Irpin to manipulate Western media The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday that Ukraine will use the bodies of captured Russian soldiers to manipulate Western reporters in Irpin, a town near Kiev. Ukraine previously accused Moscow of killing hundreds of civilians in the area around the capital, which Russia denies. Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said Kiev is “preparing another provocation with the goal of accusing Russia of mass killings of civilians.” Konashenkov claimed that Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officials are planning to take the bodies of people who “died from…