Author: Steven Sahiounie

Among them 127 aircraft, 98 helicopters, 234 surface-to-air missile systems The Russian troops have destroyed 436 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 232 multiple launch rocket systems and 2,052 tanks and armored vehicles since the beginning of their special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday. “Overall, 127 aircraft, 98 helicopters, 234 surface-to-air missile systems, 436 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,052 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 232 multiple launch rocket systems, 894 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1,975 special military motor vehicles, have been destroyed since the beginning of the special…

The change comes after the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the bloc’s chief says NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the bloc will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on the eastern flank to deter Russia. The move comes in response to Moscow’s military campaign against Ukraine. In an interview published by The Telegraph on Saturday, Stoltenberg explained that the US-led military organisation has been focused on “a very fundamental transformation” in order to better reflect the “new reality” in Europe. “We have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a more longer-term adaptation of NATO,” he…

On April 8, first footage from the port of Mariupol confirmed that the Armed Forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation partially took control over several facilities and reached the port moving from the west along the sea coast. The port of Mariupol is one of the three main strongholds of the AFU, including militants of the nationalist Azov regiment, in the city. According to some reports, most of the seaport is already under the control of the Russian military. Currently, clashes continue in the area and joint forces are likely pushing Ukrainian fighters towards the large industrial plant…

The current unprecedented measures of illegal influence will cause a total disregard for the norms of international law, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council pointed out The current unprecedented sanctions against Russia will cause further collapse of all international institutions, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said. He wrote in his Telegram channel on Friday that unlawful sanctions always cause a degradation of the international law system. “The current unprecedented in breadth, scope and degree of cynicism measures of illegal influence will cause further collapse of all international institutions, including above all the UN, and…

Moscow claims Kiev will stage an event in Irpin to manipulate Western media The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday that Ukraine will use the bodies of captured Russian soldiers to manipulate Western reporters in Irpin, a town near Kiev. Ukraine previously accused Moscow of killing hundreds of civilians in the area around the capital, which Russia denies. Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said Kiev is “preparing another provocation with the goal of accusing Russia of mass killings of civilians.” Konashenkov claimed that Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officials are planning to take the bodies of people who “died from…

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…