Today’s Interfax Ukraine reports American chargé d’affaires to Ukraine Kristina Kvien adjuring Russia to cease “aggressive actions” against Ukraine – though she didn’t cite any specific examples of such actions – or it would face consequences. What in diplomatic...
With New Backing From the West, Ukrainian President Says ‘The Army Is Ready’
The same day that U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order leveling new sanctions against Russia and expelling ten of its diplomats, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky participated in a session of the National Security and Defense Council and afterward...
Biden Declares National Emergency: US and NATO Brand Russia an International Pariah
The thirty-member North Atlantic Council, the political decision-making body of NATO consisting of the ambassadors of all member states, posted a statement supporting the Joe Biden administration’s declaration of a national emergency attributed to Russian actions,...
Ukrainian Envoy: NATO or Nuclear Weapons
Today Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seconded a statement by Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili that “it is time for concrete proposals for Ukraine and Georgia to obtain a NATO MAP and a plan to join the EU.” The two countries have been paired as partners...
Leading Ukrainian Official Warns Russia of Possible World War III
The stark threat in the headline was made by Leonid Kravchuk, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbass conflict, currently suspended because of Ukraine’s objection to the site of the talks to date, the Belarusian capital of...
Top Belarus Commander Warns of NATO Build-Up Near Belarusian, Russian Borders
The Belarusian Telegraph Agency reported today on a statement by the nation’s top commander concerning the build-up of NATO military infrastructure on the borders of both his nation and Russia. Speaking at a meeting of the six-nation Collective Security Treaty...
Top US/NATO Commander Prepared to Use ‘Full Weight of the Transatlantic Alliance’ Against Russia and China
General Tod Wolters, the dual-hatted top commander of U.S. European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 13 as part of a review of the 2022 Pentagon authorization request and the Future Years...
Syria Demands US Compensate It for Seven Years of War and Plundering
The Syrian Arab News Agency reported the nation’s foreign ministry issuing a statement that brands Washington responsible for what the government calls a terrorist war against Syria and its people. It condemns both military and economic aggression against the country...
Russia Deploys Two Armies, Three Airborne Units to Counter Threat From 40,000 NATO Troops on Its Border
Major Russian officials today have warned of military threats posed by the U.S.-led thirty-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization to its western border: its entire western border. And its northern one as well. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that...
International Crisis Looms as NATO To Hold Emergency Meeting With Ukraine
The government of Ukraine announced today that Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit NATO Headquarters tomorrow for an emergency session of the Ukraine-NATO Commission. Kuleba will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and possibly with the North...