Author: Steven Sahiounie

It depends on the investigation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia can’t guarantee that the former Americans servicemen that were captured in Ukraine won’t face the death penalty, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with NBC television that was aired on Monday. “I cannot guarantee anything. It depends on the investigation,” he said when asked if he could guarantee that the US prisoners of war won’t face the same fate as Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoun who were earlier sentenced to death by a court in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Daily…

Texas Republicans are advocating for a vote in 2023 on whether the state should split from the United States and become an independent nation. Texas Republicans are advocating for a vote on whether the state should split from the United States. The call for Texans to be able to vote on the subject in 2023 was one of several initiatives accepted in the Texas Republican Party’s platform following last week’s state conference in Houston. Under a section titled “State Sovereignty”, the platform states, “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right…

Moscow will retaliate to the transport “blockade” of Kaliningrad Region, the top security official says Moscow’s retaliation to Lithuania’s transport “blockade” of Russia’s Kaliningrad Region will seriously affect Lithuanian citizens, Nikolay Patrushev, the head of Russia’s Security Council, has said. “Of course, Russia will respond to hostile actions. Appropriate measures are in the works, and will be adopted in the near future,” Patrushev told reporters during a trip to Kaliningrad on Tuesday. He added that the consequences of Moscow’s response will “have a serious negative impact on the people of Lithuania.” On Saturday, Lithuania’s national railway operator banned the flow of sanctioned goods between…

South Korea has successfully launched its first domestically developed space rocket, the science ministry said, in the second attempt months after a launch last October failed. The Korea Satellite Launch Vehicle II, a 200-tonne liquid fuel rocket informally called Nuri, lifted off from the launch site in Goheung at 4pm (07:00 GMT) on Tuesday, with a commentator saying: “it seems it’s going according to the plan”, Al Jazeera reported. Live TV footage showed the rocket with a national flag rising into the air with bright flames and above thick white smoke. South Korea’s second test launch of its homegrown space…

Russia’s first Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, has affirmed that the US is held responsible for the crisis of food and fuel in Syria. “Information about the food and fuel crisis in Syria, for which the United States bears responsibility raises more concern given the sanctions imposed by Washington and the occupation of the northeast of the country,” RT Website quoted Polyansky as saying during a session of UN security council. Polyansky went on saying that the statements by Washington and many other capitals that the unilateral sanctions are complying with its international commitments, and the…

Dario Soto Abril, Executive Secretary at the Global Water Partnership, described water security as an “essential matter of national security”, and suggested that countries may actually try to “weaponize” water. While conflicts over resources are hardly anything new, it appears that disputes regarding one particular resource may lead to catastrophic consequences such as civil uprisings and “nuclear war”, according to the Daily Express – and surprisingly, this isn’t about oil. Citing the data from the Pacific Institute, the media outlet notes that some 200 violent conflicts related to water occurred during the past three years, as our “warming planet” witnesses…

The vacationing US president has weighed in on European affairs US President Joe Biden thinks Ukraine is “very likely” to become a member of the European Union, he told reporters on Monday. He also said a visit to Kiev is still on the table, but probably not during his upcoming trip to Europe. Biden spoke to a press gaggle in Rehoboth, Delaware, where he’s vacationing ahead of the NATO summit in Madrid, scheduled to start on June 29. The 79-year-old US leader fell off his bicycle on Saturday, but the White House later said he was unharmed. Ukraine has yet to receive candidate status,…

When Kiev’s guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it’s simply brushed under the carpet By Eva Bartlett Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that the attack – which killed at least five civilians and struck a busy maternity hospital – was perpetrated by Russian forces. Why Moscow would launch rockets at its own allies wasn’t explained, nor would it make much sense. The Donetsk People’s Republic’s foreign ministry reported: “Such an unprecedented. in terms of power, density and duration of fire, raid on the DPR…

Josep Borrell yet again stressed Brussels’ position that “it is not the European sanctions which are creating this crisis” Anyone who wants to buy Russian food products and fertilizers can do so without any obstacles, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said upon arriving at a meeting of EU top diplomats in Luxembourg on Monday. He also stressed that the EU fully supports “the United Nations’ efforts to deblock the [grain] exports from Ukraine” within the framework of consultations between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. “And I hope <…> that the United Nations will at the…

The Israeli regime’s prime minister and foreign minister have decided to vote on dissolving the Knesset next week. The regime’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have agreed to hold a vote on dissolving the Knesset next week. If the vote passes, Lapid will become the interim prime minister, according to the Israeli media. Bennett and Lapid said in a joint statement that they had “exhausted options to stabilize” their diverse coalition, a year after it was established. If the bill passes, it will result in the Israeli regime’s fifth general election in around three and a…