Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Europe on Tuesday for meetings with NATO leaders as Russia added more military forces around Ukraine’s border for an invasion that is expected any day. Austin will first meet with NATO defense ministers in Belgium, and then travel to Poland on the alliance’s eastern flank, where he will … Read more
MOSCOW — In ordinary times, not being able to influence your country’s politics can feel frustrating. When that country is on the brink of war, it can feel like torture. “It is utterly horrible to find yourself helpless, a person on whom nothing depends,” said Andrei Makarevich, a veteran Russian rock star. His is one … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Russian President Vladimir Putin and his trusty foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, signaled on Monday that there would be no imminent military strike on Ukraine and that they were prepared to continue diplomatic dialogue with the West, led by the United States. Coming after the US warned that a … Read more
Russia’s ambassador to Sweden, Viktor Tatarintsev, made the strong comments during an interview with the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet after more than a dozen countries told their citizens to leave Ukraine as the risk of war with Russia rises Russian state TV shows ‘offensive’ Ukrainian war preparations Vladimir Putin “does not give as**t” about sanctions and … Read more
Ukraine is again looking warily over its eastern border as Russia threatens its territorial integrity† In recent weeks, a buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border has rattled Western leaders fearful of an incursion similar to, or perhaps even more wide-ranging than, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014† Then, on Dec. 17, 2021, Vladimir … Read more
As many British families plan to flee Ukraine amid fears Russia will invade others have vowed to stay in the country they now call home – and even fight for the cause. The Foreign Office has appealed for all British passport holders to evacuate the country immediately amid fears of war with Russia. Yesterday the … Read more
This year’s event in Munich marks the 15th anniversary of a landmark speech Putin delivered to the gathering that has been widely seen as foreshadowing his policy of opposing NATO expansion. “NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the Alliance itself,” Putin said in the combative 2007 address. “On the contrary, … Read more
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday as Western nations warned a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment. Putin requested the telephone call between the leaders to take place on Monday, a White House official said, but Biden wanted to conduct … Read more
Russia’s Vladimir Putin has amassed an enormous number of troops on the border with Ukraine and has publicly threatened NATO if it does not back down. His statements worried many in the UK, that if threatened, Putin could unleash a war unlike anything we have seen in the nuclear era. Putin has deployed over 100,000 … Read more
Russia on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take a Kremlin-performed Covid test. The leaders sat at opposite ends of an unusually long table in the Kremlin on Monday, when Macron came to Moscow with a … Read more