Two days ago President Trump tried to distract from the diesel shortages caused by his Iran war by blaming it all on Ukrainian strikes on Russian refiners. Trump assured reporters that he would be able to force Ukraine's Zelensky to stop hitting Russ
Another week, and another wave of scandals hitting an increasingly disunified Zelensky government. The Ukrainian President on Sunday took the unprecedented step of slapping sanctions on his own former press secretary.
The mainstream media is turning on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and more and more of his population may be doing the same, at a moment of multiple high level corruption cases running straight through the presidential office.
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held more than three hours of talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sept. 5, marking their first visit to the city since January.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin in Moscow as Washington seeks to revive stalled peace efforts, with both Russia and Ukraine agreeing to temporarily halt strikes on each other's capitals.
A bizarre mini civil war of sorts has erupted among rival Ukrainian security agencies, complete with a wild street shootout and police standoff which has threatened to create more political scandal for President Zelensky
Ukraine is facing a new problem in its war with Russia: the enemy is mass-producing and deploying jet-powered strike drones whose capabilities are already far beyond what we traditionally call "Shaheds."
Throughout most of the more than four-year long Russia-Ukraine war, Russian forces have largely held off from any sustained and large-scale attack against the key southern port city of Odesa, but this restraint has clearly changed.
It was Ratcliffe's first visit to actually meet with the Russian leadership, most notably the FSB national security's Aleksandr Bortnikov and Sergei Naryshkin, his foreign intelligence counterpart, with whom he had had some telephone discussions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree this week allowing the government to temporarily take control of privately owned critical infrastructure if authorities determine that its owners have failed to adequately protect or restore facilities
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing mounting pressure to hold elections. The Ukrainian leader was elected to a five-year term in 2019, which expired in May 2024.
The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia's core aims.
The reported plan to overwhelm Moscow's air defences with AI-powered drones comes as Russia intensifies its long-range attacks, killing at least 16 people in Ukraine.
Another top official has been dismissed in Ukraine's government, accompanied with the usual police raids on homes amid fresh corruption probes... but this time the scandal once again runs straight through Zelensky's office.