Author: Steven Sahiounie

As Russia celebrated the defeat of fascism in WWII, President Zelensky of Ukraine shared an image of a soldier wearing an SS patch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked World War II Victory Day by sharing an image of a Ukrainian soldier wearing the ‘death’s head’ patch of an elite Nazi Waffen SS unit. While the picture was soon deleted from his social media, the Ministry of Defense in Kiev also posted the photo. The offending item was placed on Instagram and Telegram by Zelensky, on Monday. In it, a soldier next to an artillery gun wears the ‘death’s head,’ or “totenkopf” insignia of…

Special forces from the Chechen Republic deployed on the Donbass front lines shared several videos showing the shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces taken by the joint Russian, LPR forces in the town of Popasnaya in the Luhansk People’s Republic. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov who is actively covering the work of Chechen units in Ukraine provided the following comments to the videos: “Almost every house and every street here is littered with modern weapons, which the nationalists abandoned at the first threat.Machine guns, javelins, dry rations and even Bandera food storages are now at our disposal. Thus, the…

Germany’s Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation, Svenja Schulze, is threatening against what could be the worst food crisis since WW2, due to damaged supply chains and stalled agricultural production. The coronavirus epidemic, drought, and the Ukraine crisis are driving up food prices to new highs, frightening the globe with the worst famine since World War II, according to Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for Economic Development and Cooperation. “The World Food Programme believes that more than 300 million people are now suffering from acute hunger, and the projections constantly have to be adjusted upward. The unpleasant message is that we…

On May 8, six militants were killed and four others were wounded when a missile struck a vehicle that was taking them to the frontline in the al-Ghab Plains in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. The vehicle was reportedly targeted with a Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Some Syrian pro-opposition sources said that the missile was launched by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), while other claimed that Russian forces were responsible for the deadly strike. The slain militants, who were identified as Muhammad Darwish, Mukheiber al-Saeed, Abd al-Salam Darwish, Karmo Salama, Ali al-Ali and Mustafa al-Taw’am, were…

More than 6.5 million children inside Syria and 5.8 million refugees outside the country now depend on assistance, the United Nations warned on Sunday. More Syrian children are in need than ever since the country’s devastating war erupted over a decade ago. Still, their funding is “dwindling,” the United Nations (UN) warned on Sunday. “Syria’s children have suffered for far too long and should not suffer any longer,” the UN children’s agency Unicef said in a statement, noting that 12.3 million needed aid both inside the country and in the broader region where they had fled. “More than 6.5 million…

The officer claims to have been surprised by the reason his British troops gave for joining Kiev’s forces Foreign fighters are joining the Ukrainian military in search of “adventure,” the commander of Kiev’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade has told RT. He was captured by Russian forces during fighting in Mariupol. Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk said there were foreigners in the ranks of his unit, explaining that Ukrainian legislation allows citizens from other countries to join its armed forces. “They sign official contracts and serve,” he said. Baranyuk recalled at least two foreign troops – “both from Great Britain” – being under his command. “One was…

Snake Island (Zmiinyi Island), was attacked and captured by the Russian Navy, along with its entire garrison, on February 24th. In recent days, the Ukrainian Navy attempted to counter attack Russian Forces deployed on the island, but failed to land on the island and suffered significant material losses. At the same time, the Russian military was forced to leave the island. The control over Snake Island is of strategic importance, since it is a necessary bridgehead for the assault on the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa. The military developments on Snake Island are hard to be clearly covered, as the…

William Burns thinks that Beijing is learning as many lessons as it can to take Taiwan Chinese President Xi Jinping is “unsettled” by the West’s reaction to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and is looking “carefully at what lessons [he] should draw” and apply to a potential invasion of Taiwan, CIA Director William Burns speculated at a conference on Saturday. Speaking at a Financial Times event in Washington, Burns told his audience that his agency has assessed that Russia’s advance through Eastern Ukraine and the scale of the West’s response may be influencing Beijing’s plans for Taiwan. “It strikes us . . . that Xi Jinping is a little bit unsettled by…

The Kiev troops defending Mariupol couldn’t fire a single US-made missile, the captured officer claims The US-made Javelin anti-tank systems have been praised for their effectiveness by Washington officials and have been turned by Western Media into a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance in the conflict with Russia. But a commander of the Ukrainian marines, who ended up being captured during the fighting for Mariupol, has revealed to RT that the hardware doesn’t really live up to the claims. “The Javelins didn’t prove useful, especially in urban warfare,” Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk, the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, said. “We couldn’t…

On May 7, the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine reported that a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Azovstal plant was completed. From May 5 to May 7, 51 more civilians were evacuated from the basements. ” Thanks to unprecedented measures taken by the leadership of the Russian Federation, with the active participation of representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, a  humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Azovstal plant is now complete. During the period of the operation (from May 5, 2022), 51 people (18 men, 22 women, 11 children)…