German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara BERLIN: They have opposing views on Israel’s war with Hamas and conflicting attitudes to Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine, but when Germany and Turkey’s leaders meet in Berlin on Friday they have powerful economic and electoral incentives to talk. Tayyip Erdogan’s … Read more
A Russian artist who replaced supermarket price tags with messages calling for an end to Moscow’s war in Ukraine was jailed for seven years on Thursday, a verdict her supporters called a disgraceful mockery of justice. Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician, who faces charges of spreading false information about the army. (Reuters) … Read more
“FAIR RESPONSE” Air defences last downed a missile in Kyiv on Sep 21. The falling debris wounded seven people, including a child. There were no reported casualties or damage in the capital itself on Saturday. But two missiles hit a field between two settlements in the wider Kyiv region, the head of the regional military … Read more
Ukraine is bracing for a renewed Russian aerial onslaught this winter, after systematic strikes last year targeted the country’s energy grid, leaving thousands without heating or electricity in freezing temperatures for long periods. “After a long pause of 52 days, the enemy renewed missile attacks on Kyiv,” said the head of the Kyiv city military … Read more
Image Source : AP Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. In a shocking development, Russian troops in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia shot and killed a Georgian civilian near the line of control. This is the first fatal incident in the Georgian province since a brief war with Russia in 2008 and threatens another conflict … Read more
‘Risk that nuclear, chemical and biological weapons will be used is increasing,’ says Russian security chief The Russian security council secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, said on Wednesday that the “destructive” policies of the US and its allies were increasing the risk that nuclear, chemical or biological weapons would be used, Reuters reports. State news agency Tass … Read more
KYIV — Russia bombed the Odesa region on Sunday, damaging an art museum and warehouses, a day after Ukrainian forces struck a Russian missile carrier at a Kerch shipyard. A Russian Kalibr missile carrier was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack on Saturday, Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Forces, said in a statement Sunday. … Read more
Lev Skoryakin has apparently been kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan, in all likelihood by Russian unique administrations He is a left-wing resistance dissident and revolutionary He has to deal with penalties of outfitted “hooliganism” for partaking in a showing in 2021 with lobbyist Ruslan Abasov Lev Skoryakin is a left-wing resistance dissident who was purportedly snatched in … Read more
Mr Sidyakin was not arrested but was not permitted to continue his journey. A Russian hockey player threatened to blow up a plane after he was refused alcohol on a domestic flight, as per a report in Newsweek. Andrei Sidyakin from the Russian Hockey League team Monetka in Yekaterinburg, approached flight attendants and demanded Vodka, … Read more
The new bomb is a variation of the B61 gravity bomb developed in the 1960s The USA is building a nuclear weapon, touted to be 24 times more powerful than the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The new bomb is a variation of the B61 gravity bomb developed in the 1960s, during the Cold … Read more
Ukrainian shelling of the Russian-occupied part of the southern Kherson region killed nine people Friday, the Moscow-installed occupational authorities said. Local Moscow-backed official Konstantin Basyuk had earlier put the toll at seven, adding that medics were “fighting for the life” of another two people. (Reuters/File) The strikes came as Kyiv is pushing a counteroffensive to … Read more
Danish brewer Carlsberg operates eight breweries and employs more than 8,000 people through its Russian unit, Baltika Breweries. But, as of early October, the brewer has had it: It has ended its relationship with Baltika Breweries. “There is no way around the fact that they have stolen our business in Russia, and we are not … Read more