Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of the three Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) on Tuesday to inform them Moscow’s decision to expel a number of their diplomats from the Russian territory. RT website quoted a source at the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying that three ambassadors were summoned to the ministry’s headquarters and they will be informed of Russia’s decision to expel a number of diplomats from those countries on the basis of the principle of reciprocity. Source: SANA

Some are reportedly worried that sending jets and tanks to Ukraine will “pour oil on the fire” NATO allies strongly disagree about the extent of military aid the US-led bloc should provide to Ukraine and the prospects of talks with Russia, Bloomberg reported on Monday, quoting numerous sources and documents. Some members were said to have been “adamant” about wishing to avoid a direct war with Russia, and even suggested that President Vladimir Putin might deploy weapons of mass destruction if they armed Ukraine too heavily. A French official was quoted as saying that sending tanks and aircraft would “pour…

Moscow’s envoy described conditions for Putin’s talks with Zelensky Russia has agreed to meet Kiev half-way and will allow a meeting of its leaders to be held on the same day that the final version of a peace treaty is pre-approved by the two nation’s foreign ministers, Moscow’s top negotiator said on Tuesday, after a new round of talks in Istanbul. Previously, Moscow had insisted that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky could only be set after the deal would be finalized. Vladimir Medinsky described the talks in Turkey as ‘constructive’ and said…

Record Pentagon budget for 2023 to focus on Ukraine aid, build-up against China and Russia US President Joe Biden has proposed the largest-ever military budget, asking Congress for $813.3 billion in the coming year – $31 billion more than the budget approved for 2022. Lawmakers are likely to add even more funding, as representatives from both parties have complained it doesn’t go far enough because of inflation. “I’m calling for one of the largest investments in our national security in history, with the funds needed to ensure that our military remains the best-prepared, best-trained, best-equipped military in the world,” Biden said…

Tensions in the battlefields of Ukraine persist. Hostilities continued on various front lines. Some tactical successes were achieved during the night operations by the Russian and DPR/LPR troops. On the evening of March 28, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles destroyed a large fuel base near the settlement of Klevan in the Rivne region. Fuel supplies for Ukrainian military equipment to the suburbs of Kiev were carried out from this base. In terms of tactical maneuvers, there were no particular strategic accomplishments recorded. The Russian and Ukrainian armies engaged in exchanges of fire on all fronts during that night. The Russian military…

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…