U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted the apparent success of the “win-win” minerals agreement signed between Ukraine and the United States in an interview on Fox Business on May 1, suggesting a reset in relations between the two countries. “In terms of the deal, this is a total economic partnership. This isn’t just rare earths, […]
New Western intelligence suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have shifted his immediate war objectives towards holding occupied Ukrainian territories as well as growing his country’s struggling economy, CNN reported on May 1, citing Western officials familiar with the matter. The assessment, shared by unnamed U.S. and Western officials, suggests a shift in Putin’s […]
Ukraine could be partitioned into separate zones as part of a peace deal with Russia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said in an interview with the Times on April 11. Kellogg proposed establishing a “reassurance force” led by the U.K. and France in western Ukraine and concentrating Ukrainian troops east […]
Intercepted calls released by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) suggest a Russian commander losing his temper and ordering his soldiers to shoot at their own comrades in a neighbouring unit. “F**k the 55th (an adjacent Russian unit), shoot them, that’s the battalion commander’s order, shoot them,” a Russian commander can be heard saying in an audio […]
Ukrainian partisans have destroyed an electronic warfare system in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Ukraine’s military intelligence reported on March 30. A video published online by Ukraine’s military intelligence shows an anonymous partisan reportedly on the night of March 29, pouring gasoline over a vehicle on which the system was stationed, setting it on fire, and then […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance indicated on March 28 that a ban on strikes against Ukrainian and Russian energy facilities is in force, despite Kyiv accusing Moscow of repeated violations. “We’ve obviously got this energy infrastructure ceasefire. We’ve got a Black Sea commercial ceasefire that I think is almost done,” Vance told reporters during a […]
The United States is reportedly nearing a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, according to Steve Witkoff, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East. He said that any potential deal would require both territorial and economic concessions from both sides. “You will see concessions from both sides. And this is what the president does best. […]
Russia’s Investigative Committee launched a “terrorism” probe on Feb. 2 against the commander of Ukraine’s 19th Separate Missile Brigade over a deadly strike on a boarding school being used to shelter civilians in Sudzha, Kursk Oblast, which Ukraine says was carried out by Russia’s military. At least four people were killed and 84 rescued after […]
Far-right Romanian politician Calin Georgescu called Ukraine a “fictional state” and claimed that the eventual partition of its territories is “inevitable” in an interview published on Jan. 29. “On 100% it will happen,” Calin Georgescu said in the interview with journalist Ion Cristoiu about redrawing Ukraine’s borders as a consequence of the Russia-Ukraine war, suggesting […]
Olivia Dunne sounded the alarm about the lack of viewership in women’s gymnastics and suggested that the judges and the scoring system may be to blame. Dunne fired off an uncharacteristic critical post on X about the state of the sport. It came as LSU was upset in an SEC matchup against Arkansas. The Tigers […]