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Military experts fear Putin will launch Christmas offensive
Concerns have been expressed about a possible Russian offensive in Ukraine over the Christmas period…
Concerns have been expressed about a possible Russian offensive in Ukraine over the Christmas period…
MOSCOW, December 23. / TASS /. Russia hopes Kiev will commit to a ceasefire in…
Everyone made sacrifices during WWII to defeat Nazi Germany – and it seems old Saint…
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have a history dating back to the Middle Ages. The…
Seven years after the tragic crash of a Malaysia Airlines commercial flight, here’s all we…
It is difficult to be objective about the Ukrainian crisis. Russia is massing tanks and…
The Russian president said he was not trying to “spill blood” in Ukraine and explained…
Anadolu 9:15 am | December 21, 2021 The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday declared two…
Russia has not abandoned military build-up along the border with Ukraine since US President Joe…
In the event of war, Russia will be able to call 2.5 times more reservists…
As Russian troops crowd Ukrainian border, experts examine growing risks Calendar An icon of a…
Turkey is trying to position itself as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine amid fears…
Pro-Russian rebel sappers march towards the destroyed Donetsk international airport on October 13, 2015. -…
RUSSIAN-backed militias have reportedly deployed “sacrificial militias” in Ukraine in an attempt to locate and…
MOSCOW, December 18. / TASS /. The Russian military cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid to…
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is considering a plan to redirect helicopters and other military…
A Ukrainian soldier has been killed and another injured in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in…
The 9M133 Kornet (NATO name: AT-14 Spriggan) first entered service with the Russian military in…
NEW DELHI: Indian analysts are hopeful that the United States will keep its strategic interests…
The T-64BV mod 2017 is the best tank in Ukraine. Wikimedia Commons The Russian army…
A delegation of 66 members of the Indian armed forces, including 30 retirees who fought…
Some lawmakers, part of a three-day bipartisan delegation, recommend cutting Russia off from financial markets…
Ukraine, including its capital Kiev, is preparing for Russian military aggression and is counting on…
On December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with President Biden about the tensions over…
Soldiers patrolling the trenches dug in a former village on the industrial side of town…
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) – The Group of Seven Economic Powers on Sunday called on Russia…
In 2021, China and Russia stepped up their close-to-alliance military understanding to the point of…
If the Germans had succeeded in their Operation Winter Storm (Operation Wintergewitter), all the efforts…
LIVERPOOL, England – High-level diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized countries gathered along the…
‘Donbas’ in happier days in 2012. Wikimedia Commons photo Russia apparently tried – and mostly…
Russia has called on NATO to withdraw its 2008 pledge to admit Ukraine and Georgia…
Soldiers are seen near the village of Zolote, a zone of disengagement of government and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the conflict in eastern Ukraine between the Kiev army…
KYIV, Ukraine – On the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian armed forces…
According to its latest ongoing security assessment – shared with CNN by Ukrainian security sources…
American paratroopers disembarking in the Baltic countries, army cavalry and artillerymen coming from Germany and…
Following a video call Tuesday between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin over…
More than 100 Florida National Guard troops are currently deployed in Ukraine as U.S. intelligence…
Reznikov urged US President Joe Biden – who was scheduled to speak with Russia’s Vladimir…
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine – Machine gun fire broke the silence just after 8 p.m. when Captain…
The US-led NATO alliance, which includes most of the world’s richest countries, has suffered 115.3…
MOSCOW – As the Kremlin is massing troops near Ukraine, it signals a core belief:…
WASHINGTON / MOSCOW, December 4 (Reuters) – US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir…
Russia has deployed its first regular unit of Terminator combat support tanks. The first regular…
Half boastful, half warning, Vladimir Putin’s comment that Russia will have a sea-based hypersonic missile…
Turkey has offered to mediate the Ukraine crisis as tensions between NATO and Russia escalate…
Army General Mark Milley said the Russian military was moving around the country enough to…
MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military has deployed coastal defense missile systems near the Kuril…
Some people, if anyone, outside Putin’s inner circle know what he’s planning. Analysts say this…
The effects of climate change are opening up new areas of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition.…
But Western officials privately admit that in practice Ukraine is unlikely to join NATO in…
Three Russian military transport planes left for Afghanistan to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid.…
A letter due to be auctioned this week shows that Sovereign Catherine the Great was…
Foreign Minister Liz Truss attends her first meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Latvia this…
The T-72 tank is almost 50 years old, but it still has a central role…
through: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Posted: November 29, 2021 / 9:02 AM EST / Update:…
Russian mercenaries have taken command of at least one EU-formed battalion in the Central African…
If Vladimir Poutine intends to destroy Ukraine, Olaf Scholz is the only one in Europe…
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov announced that on January 30, nearly twenty-seven…
MOSCOW, November 26. / TASS /. Russian armed forces have helped more than 15 states…
MOSCOW, November 27. / TASS /. The Russian Association for Research and Military-Industrial Machine Building…
BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday warned Russia that any attempt…
Members of the People’s Liberation Army wearing masks to protect themselves against the coronavirus march…
By the mid-19th century, the Qing Empire had seen better days: the country was in…
In this archive image, Syrian air defenses intercept and destroy a missile launched by Israeli…
Joe Biden is preparing for a virtual summit with Vladimir Putin in an effort to…
For centuries, Russian rulers have sought to maintain a physical buffer zone between themselves and…
MOSCOW – Ukrainian and Western officials fear that a Russian military build-up near Ukraine signals…
A delegation from the Russian General Staff visited Tripoli on November 10. The Russian army…
Last week Ukraine said it was seeking more military aid from its Western allies. (To…
By Richard Weitz The Russian military destroyed a Soviet-era Tselina radio surveillance satellite, Cosmos 1408,…
A senior Ukrainian government official urges Canada to step up support for the Eastern European…
A senior Ukrainian government official urges Canada to step up support for the Eastern European…
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned a shadow…
Russia has amassed more than 92,000 troops around Ukraine’s borders and is preparing for an…
Recent geopolitical crises, notably the disorderly withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, have cemented the idea…
WASHINGTON – US intelligence officials warn allies that there is a short window of time…
South Korea said it had sent fighter jets to respond to a group of Russian…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea said on Friday it had sent fighter jets…
President Vladimir Putin has said that the West takes Russia’s warnings lightly not to cross…
US Special Operators have played a pivotal role in the fight against terrorists for the…
MOSCOW, November 18. / TASS /. Weapons maker Kalashnikov has delivered a batch of 9M333…
Here’s what you need to know to Get operational and get on with your day.…
“Slava, bring me some condoms!” Repin yelled back. Condoms were scarce in the USSR, and…
November 9, 2021 10:57 am (UTC + 04:00 am) 254 By trend Azerbaijan’s victory in…
MOSCOW, November 7. / TASS /. Russian defense companies cannot be stranded due to their…
Russia-based arms maker Kalashnikov Concern unveiled a prototype of its new RPL-20 belt-fed light machine…
Naftali Bennett’s October summit with Vladimir Putin worked overtime. Its unforeseen five-hour duration meant the…
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Operation Motherland adds a host of new content to the game. The…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine complained on Wednesday that Russia had kept tens of thousands…
New commercial satellite images taken on Monday confirm recent reports that Russia re-accumulates troops and…
Sudan has pledged to build a Russian naval base in the country. The Commander-in-Chief of…
Russia says its navy has followed the movement of an American guided-missile destroyer that entered…
Secessionist aspirations of the Republika Srpska (RS), as well as general political insecurity and the…
Cooperation between Turkey and Ukraine is vital for security in the Black Sea region, Kyiv…
A German was convicted in Berlin on Thursday for sending the defense attache of the…
GENEVA (October 27, 2021) – Civilians, including peacekeepers, journalists, aid workers and minorities in the…
MOSCOW, October 26. / TASS /. A reunion of World War II veterans from allied…
The head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms…
Novy Yurkovich [Russia], Oct. 24 (ANI / Sputnik) – Russian research organizations transferred the remains…