Opposition parties cried foul after Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, claimed victory with 54 percent support in a vote on Saturday. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said her country had fallen victim to a “Russia[n] special operation,” and vowed she wouldn’t accept the election results, demanding a re-run. She also called on Georgian citizens to take … Read more
Moscow has been “showing patience,” Medvedev said in a post on Telegram. “However, the pompous Anglo-Saxon imbeciles do not want to admit one thing: any patience comes to an end.” At the same time, Medvedev said “a nuclear conflict is really not needed by anyone,” adding that: “It is obvious that a nuclear response is … Read more
Information from Thursday indicated Ukrainian forces are in the Russian town of Sudzha, with reports of Ukrainian troops spotted as fas as the village of Ivnitsa, about 24 km inside Russia. Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory have been rare since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. This week’s advance … Read more
The U.S., which has supported Kyiv with military, energy and humanitarian aid since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, struggled late last year to pass aid packages in Congress because some Republican lawmakers refused to vote in favor. The impasse broke in April as lawmakers approved $61 billion in support. If current Vice President Kamala Harris — whom … Read more
Moscow does not “believe that the attempt to eliminate and assassinate Trump was organized by the current authorities,” Peskov said, but added “the atmosphere around candidate Trump … provoked what America is confronting today.” The Kremlin’s statement echoes Republican talking points, with some of Trump’s allies seeking to pin the blame for the shooting on … Read more
Indeed, the Moscow attack is reminiscent of the Islamic State attack in 2015 at the Bataclan theater in Paris, a killing spree that left 90 dead. Friday’s shooting rampage also bore similarities to the 2002 Nord Ost theater siege, when a group of Chechen gunmen and women occupied a packed theater in eastern Moscow and demanded an … Read more
Putin himself has not commented on the audio leak yet, but his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned Monday that, “The [military conversation] itself suggests that in the bowels of the Bundeswehr, plans for strikes on Russian territory are being discussed in a substantive and concrete manner.” Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS reported that Monday’s meeting between … Read more
POLITICO could not independently verify the content or authenticity of the recording. German media Der Spiegel quoted a spokesperson for German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius as saying the the Military Counterintelligence Service has started an investigation to find out “whether internal communications within the air force” could have been intercepted. During the recorded conversation, the military … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, Russia, February 23, 2018. Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images News | Getty Images A senior Russian official has signaled that Russian forces could make another attempt to capture Kyiv, after a failed attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital early in the war. Deputy chairman … Read more
