Author: Steven Sahiounie

Previous negotiations did not result in significant progress A new round of talks intended to end the Ukraine conflict began in Istanbul on Tuesday morning. Moscow and Kiev have previously held three rounds of in-person talks and further contacts via video link, but the exchanges have failed to yield a major result. “We hope the meetings will be beneficial for both countries and the region, as Turkey is deeply worried about the conflict,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, welcoming the negotiators. He also expressed hope that the summit would pave a way for direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani, also known by the initials HBJ, has been talking to the media and opening up the “black box” of Qatar’s policies. He is warning the oil rich Gulf countries neighboring Qatar that the West is once again looking to the Gulf to finance Western projects, without consideration of the interests of the Gulf. Former President Trump insulted the King of Saudi Arabia publically, referring to the nation as a cash-cow to be milked in exchange for security. However, on past and…

LPR head Leonid Pasechnik told reporters earlier that a referendum on joining Russia may be held in the Lugansk People’s Republic in the near future where its residents will express their opinion on this matter Head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Kalashnikov believes that now it is not the right time to hold the LPR’s referendum on becoming part of Russia. “I think it is not the right moment for this now. There is no need to be concerned about such issues for the time being, when the fate is decided at the front,” he told…

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Air Force succeeded in destroying ammunition and weapons depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a mission last night. The ministry released today a footage showing the destruction of Ukrainian military depots by a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft during a night bombing. The footage showed the moment the bomber took off to carry out a night combat mission, then a recording from the plane’s aiming device showed the process of hitting the target with unguided missiles. It also showed footage of the process of hitting…

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have shamed the West for paying more attention to the war in Ukraine than to events in the Middle East The US’ major non-NATO ally Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia, have shamed the West for paying disproportionately more attention to Ukraine than to conflicts in nations across the Middle East. “The humanitarian suffering that we have seen in Ukraine … has been the suffering of a lot of countries in this region for years, and nothing happened,” Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said during roundtable talks at the annual Doha Forum on Saturday. He…

More and more shocking facts that show the essence of the criminal Ukrainian regime are being revealed. The whole world must see this footage so they realize that this is not a war between Russia and Ukraine, which is supported by the NATO countries, but the war between good and evil. In this video, Ukrainian soldiers shoot Russian prisoners of war in their legs and afterwards give them a severe beating. At the beginning of the video, it is possible to see Russian POWs lying on the ground with bullet wounds in their legs. Some of them have got their…

“I am sure that this is exactly how it will be,” Leonid Pasechnik said A referendum on becoming part of Russia may be held in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) in the near future, LPR head Leonid Pasechnik told reporters on Sunday. “I think that in the near future a referendum will be held on the territory of the republic where people will exercise their constitutional right and express their opinion on joining Russia. For some reason, I am sure that this is exactly how it will be,” Pasechnik assured. The situation on the line of engagement in Donbass escalated…

Early on March 26, the Saudi-led coalition renewed its airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the western city of al-Hudaydah, which are both held by the Houthis (Ansar Allah). The airstrikes came in the woke of a large-scale missile and drone attack by the Houthis that targeted vital facilities in different parts of Saudi Arabia. The group carried out the attack in response to coalition’s siege on Yemen. In a statement, the Saudi-led coalition said that it had launched an operation to neutralize threats in Sanaa and al-Hudaydah and protect energy sources in Saudi Arabia. “The military operation will continue until…

Holding a humanitarian operation in Mariupol will be among the issues to be discussed French President Emmanuel Macron said he planned to hold another conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days to discuss the situation in Ukraine. “I expect a new conversation with President Putin in the next 48-72 hours,” Macron said after the European Council meeting in Brussels on Friday, adding that holding a humanitarian operation in Mariupol will be among the issues to be discussed. Macron visited Moscow on February 7 to hold talks with the Russian president. On the following day, the French leader…

On March 25, militants of the Belarusian battalion named after Kastus Kalinousk took the oath and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Previously, it operated as part of the territorial defense of Kiev. “Our battalion is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The vow was written in Belarusian by our volunteers. We are confident that in the future this text will become the basis of the oath for the real Belarusian army,” the battalion’s report reads. The Belarusian battalion named after Kastus Kalinousk is a volunteer group of Belarusians, which was created on March 9 to “protect Ukraine from…