Author: Steven Sahiounie

German Chancellor had reportedly attempted to convince the Ukrainian leader to drop NATO membership plan German chancellor Olaf Scholz had offered Volodymyr Zelensky a chance for peace just days before the launch of the Russian military offensive, but the Ukrainian president turned it down, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported. Scholz had made what the US outlet described as “one last push for a settlement between Moscow and Kiev” less than a week before the Russian forces were sent into Ukraine on February 24. The chancellor told Zelensky in Munich on February 19 “that Ukraine should renounce its NATO aspirations and declare…

Steven Sahiounie, Journalist and political commentator Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan will remain in office after the no-confidence motion to be voted on today was rejected. President Arif Alvi has dissolved the National Assembly after the Deputy Speaker suspended the session and rejected the no-confidence motion on grounds of it being part of a ‘foreign conspiracy, and Khan has asked his nation to prepare for elections. It had appeared that Khan might have been voted out of office after he lost his majority in the National Assembly on Wednesday when a key ally quit his coalition, which could give…

No country will be “respected” unless it “stands on its own two feet,” Imran Khan said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has complimented regional rival India for maintaining an “independent foreign policy” amid US and allied pressure to adopt a harsher stance toward Russia. Speaking Friday after accusing Washington of “interference” in Pakistan’s internal affairs, Khan went on to praise New Delhi’s unwillingness to go along with a barrage of sanctions and economic restrictions against Moscow. “They protect their independent foreign policy which is centered on its people,” he said, as cited by local media. Facing a no-confidence vote on Sunday after losing his parliamentary majority following…

Iran says it wants to implement agreements with Russia to conduct trade using the two countries’ national currencies. The Vice Governor of Iran’s Central Bank, Mohsen Karimi, says that Iran would like to conduct trade with Russia using the national currencies of both countries. “The relevant agreements and opportunities already exist. Iran would like to use them to conduct trade operations with Russia in rubles and tomans,” Karimi told Sputnik on Friday. Read more: Iran’s experience in facing sanctions available to Russia and may inspire it – Experts Iran and Russia’s trade hit new highs in 2021, exceeding $4 billion. Russian imports from Iran…

Written by Piero Messina The Russian Defense Ministry has a correspondence between Hunter Biden, the son of the President of the United States, with employees of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Pentagon contractors. The documents would be evidence of Biden jr’s role in providing funding for work with pathogens in Ukraine. The head of the Russian radiation protection forces, chemical and biological, Igor Kirillov said at a press conference, as reported by Tass. LINK From Moscow, thus, new accusations come to Joe’s son. According to Igor Kirillov “The existence of this material is confirmed by the Western media and the…

The main military developments of the last days of fighting in Ukraine were the partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions and their advance in the East of the country, taking full control of the strategically important town of Izyum in the Kharkiv region. In the Kiev region, in the North-Western direction from the capital, the AFU took control of several towns, where fierce fighting continued for weeks. The Kiev grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed control over the cities of Borodyanka, Bucha, Vorzen, Gostomel, Ivankov. The Ukrainian Armed Forces unblocked the Kiev-Zhytomyr highway as…

According to the spokesman, the new US aid package includes laser-guided rocket systems, Switchblade tactical unmanned aerial systems, Puma unmanned aerial systems he US Department of Defense [DoD] will allocate another $300 million in military aid to Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. “Through USAI [Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative], DoD will provide up to $300 million in security assistance to bolster Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself,” the spokesman said in a statement. In his words, the United States has now committed more than $2.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration (since January 2021),…

The restrictions are meant to ensure that RT and Sputnik “will not be able to find [their] way back on UK televisions” A new round of sanctions on Russia announced by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Thursday will target state funded TV-Novosti, which runs RT, and Rossiya Segodnya, which runs Sputnik News. The sanctions were imposed against what London described as “Russian propagandists and state media who spread lies and deceit about Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.” Earlier in March, UK media regulator Ofcom stripped broadcasting licenses from Russian media, claiming that they were in no position to cover the…

The mopping-up of Mariupol continues. On 30 and 31 March, DPR and Russian Federation units achieved significant success in destroying the manpower and equipment of the Azov regiment’s defending units. Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance units launch operations at Azovstal plant. The AFU grouping in Mariupol is dissipated and operates in isolated fortified areas. In their turn, separate units of the Azov regiment continue active defence operations in the heavily fortified industrial area of the Azovstal plant. Casualties on both sides are reported. On the morning of 31 March, another attempt was made to evacuate the Azov Regiment commanders from the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the US dollar dominance as the global trading currency could be threatened by the sweeping sanctions taken against Russia from the late February ‘military operations’ undertaken in Ukraine.  The IMF is worried that using currencies as a weapon will fragment the world economy while making it less efficient. There are now countries rushing to find ways of transacting and storing money that circumvent the US currencies and financial markets, as well as those of their allies. Some countries are renegotiating the currency in which they get…