Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ambassador accused the West of inciting “further bloodshed” in Ukraine Western countries, by “pumping” weapons into Ukraine, risk leading the US and Russia “onto the path of direct military confrontation,” Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said earlier this week. Since the launch of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, NATO countries and their allies have refrained from direct military involvement in the conflict, but have been actively providing Kiev with weapons and ammunition. By doing so, the ambassador said in an interview with Newsweek, Western states are “directly involved in the current events” and are inciting “further bloodshed.” Antonov called these…

Steven Sahiounie , journalist and political commentator Raad Fathi Hazem, 28, from the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine, was shot dead in the early hours of Friday by the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet). Hazem had shot and killed two Israeli men and wounded 10 others who were patrons of a bar on Dizengoff street in the heart of Tel Aviv just after 9 pm Thursday. Hazem was later found in a mosque in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel would broaden its operations against the “wave of terror” and…

The United States treads on Beijing’s red line and continues its military supply policy in Taiwan. This is the third supply in three years. Exactly fifty years have passed since US President Richard Nixon’s visit to China. That meeting between Nixon and Mao Dse Dong paved the way for stable diplomatic relations. Since then, one of the crucial issues has been the status of Taiwan. The administration led by Joe Biden, however, pretends to forget the past and aims to create tension between the two sides of China. It is yet another demonstration that Washington uses diplomatic agreements only when…

Beijing is closely following Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine and its consequences, the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet chief has said The fitting in Ukraine have made the window for a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan ‘highly unpredictable,’ the commander of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet, Admiral Samuel Paparo, has warned. During a roundtable with journalists from Indo-Pacific countries in Washington on Monday, Paparo was asked if he thought that the conflict in Ukraine and the draconian international sanctions slapped on Russia over it somehow affected Beijing’s plans to bring Taiwan back under its control. “China is undoubtedly watching what’s happened in…

According to Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, all three “conducted activities that are incompatible with their diplomatic status” The authorities of Norway decided to expel three Russian diplomats from the country, Norwegian Foreign Ministry reported on Wednesday. “Norway has decided to expel three diplomats from the Russian embassy in Oslo,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt stressed. According to her, all three “conducted activities that are incompatible with their diplomatic status”. Since the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine on February 24, the Western countries have declared a total of more than 300 Russian diplomats persona non grata, the…

Maria Zakharova drew attention to the fact that the expulsion of Russian diplomats has always been carried out publicly, loudly, and demonstratively Western countries in recent decades have begun using the declaration of Russian diplomats as personae non gratae as an information and political attack, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Sputnik radio on Wednesday. “Over the last decades, the collective West has begun to use the declaration of Russian diplomats as personae non gratae, that is, imposing sanctions on them, isolating them from the opportunity to work in the region they had studied, <…> as a…

It’s time for Kiev to stop making offensive comments about Hungary, Budapest has said Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador, on Wednesday, over Kiev’s harsh criticism of Budapest’s stance on Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine. It is “time for Ukrainian leaders to stop their insults directed at Hungary,” the EU country’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on Facebook. He also insisted that Kiev should “acknowledge the will of the Hungarian people,” referring to Sunday’s election, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban won by a landslide and secured his fourth term in office. Budapest had condemned the use of force by Russia,…

A few days ago, the media were actively discussing the question – who arranged the mass murders in Bucha? At that time, most of the media were inclined toward the actions of the Russian military. However, some facts now cast doubt on the earlier conclusions. The crux of the matter is that the Russian military was blamed for the massacre back in mid-March, but most of civilians were killed after the troops withdrew from Bucha. At that time, Maxar Technologies provided images that were proof of the massacre. Maxar Technologies has several satellites (models WorldView-1 32060, WorldView-2 35946, WorldView-3 40115,…

Dmitry Peskov recalled Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement one had an impression each time there was hope for “some progress, even very moderate” in the negotiations, some hindrances instantly emerged in the way The process of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev is continuing, but it has proved tougher than desirable, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday. “The working process is continuing, but it is far tougher than desirable. Of course, we would like to see greater progress on the Ukrainian side,” Peskov said. “There is still a long road ahead,” he added. Peskov recalled Russian…

The move could provoke conflicts in other parts of the world, similar to the one in Ukraine, China has warned Australia, UK and the US are going to expand their cooperation under the AUKUS trilateral pact to also include hypersonic technologies, the British government said in a statement on Tuesday. China was quick to condemn the announcement, with Beijing’s UN envoy Zhang Jun warning that it could “lead the other parts of the world into a crisis” like the one currently underway in Ukraine. Referring to the Western rejection of Russia’s military operation, Zhang had some advice for the US and its…