The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today (April 13) that Moscow is sending 15 naval vessels from its Caspian Flotilla to waters off Ukraine to take part in military exercises there. Earlier, Russian and Ukrainian media had reported stories about a smaller number. Although the vessels must pass through a 100-kilometer-long canal with more than […]
Fake reports from the occupied territories are piling up. After the entire pool of Russian “blood-thirsty” propaganda pundits was deployed in the occupied Donetsk, it was worth expecting provocations that would be staged to imitate a Ukrainian offensive and shelling of the civilian neighborhoods in the stronghold of the “independent Donbas”. And so they kick […]
KYIV, April 13 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s central bank will probably raise its key interest rate this week for the second meeting in a row as it steps up a fight to bring inflation back into its target range, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday. Ten out of 16 analysts foresee the rate rising to 7% […]
For months, many argue that our Covid (C-19) response is a planetary fiasco, whose size is yet to surface with its mounting disproportionate and enduring secondary effects, causing tremendous socio-economic, demographic and cross-generational, political and psychosomatic contractions and convulsions. However, worse than our response is our silence about it. It is an established fact that […]
Russian special services have launched influence operations in Northern Ireland, aimed at fomenting an internal conflict between Republicans and loyalists. The measures being taken are aimed at provoking civil conflict in the country. That’s according to Oleksandr Danyliuk, chief of Center for Defense Reforms, coordinator of the interagency platform on countering hybrid threats, operating within […]
Russia is about to launch an offensive in Southern Ukraine. The strike is quite possible to be delivered from the annexed Crimea’s side and the breakaway territories of Donbas, in an effort to join them with Crimea, to get access to fresh water to meet the peninsula’s needs, and to have an overland link from […]
The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route came in the spotlight after one of the world’s largest container ships, Ever Given, lodged in the Suez Canal, halting maritime traffic for a week and causing billions of dollars in losses. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between […]
Pakistan attaches great importance to further strengthening bilateral relations with Ukraine. This was emphasized by the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, General Qamar Javed Bajwa. And this is primarily due to the key role that Pakistan plays in regional politics as a country […]
The last few days have seen the arrival in occupied Donetsk of Russian journalists and war correspondents, known for spreading fake stories about the war in Donbas, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, and also for their participation in a number of other crimes. Moreover, it would be wrong, to put it mildly, to consider these men actual journalists […]
Russian military movements in Crimea and along the Ukrainian border have sparked fears of a major escalation in Donbas. A full-scale war could break out in Ukraine’s eastern and even southern regions, under the pretext of protecting local Russian speakers from a potential assault by Kyiv. The military presence near the borders could be a warning to […]