Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday vowed that Ukraine will eventually join NATO, repeating a provocative promise that the alliance first made at a summit in Bucharest in 2008. "Ukraine will become a member of NATO," Blinken said in Brussels alongside...
Russian Defense Minister Warns French Counterpart Against Sending Troops to Ukraine
On Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu held talks with his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu, and warned against France sending troops to Ukraine. Since February, French President Emmanuel Macron has been openly discussing the idea of the West...
Speaker Johnson Says He Supports Giving Frozen Russian Assets to Ukraine
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in an interview on Sunday that he supports the idea of giving frozen Russian Central Bank funds to Ukraine to fuel the proxy war, a step that would significantly escalate the US economic campaign against Russia. Johnson expressed...
Joint Chiefs Chairman Claims Giving Ukraine Long-Range ATACMs Is No Longer as Risky
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown has claimed arming Ukraine with long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs) isn't as risky now as it was earlier in the war. "The risk of escalation is not as high as maybe it was at the beginning,"...
NYT: US Didn’t Give Russia All the Information It Had About Moscow Terrorist Plot
The US did not share all the information it had about a terrorist plot in Russia ahead of the shooting at a concert hall outside of Moscow that killed over 140 people, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The paper said that the "adversarial relationship between...
Russia Says Moscow Terrorist Attack Has Connection to ‘Ukrainian Nationalists’
Russian investigators said Thursday that they found evidence connecting the terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow to "Ukrainian nationalists." "Investigators have verified information that large amounts of money and cryptocurrency that the perpetrators of...
Russian FSB Chief Says US, UK, and Ukraine Could Have Been Involved in Moscow Terror Attack
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday that the US, the UK, and Ukraine could have been involved in the terrorist attack on a concert hall outside of Moscow that killed 139 people. FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov told reporters that Russia was...
Death Toll in Moscow Terrorist Attack Rises To 137
Russian authorities said on Sunday that the death toll in the terrorist attack on a music hall outside of Moscow that took place on Friday has risen to 137. "The identification of those dead continues. As of now, as many as 137 bodies have been found. Three of them...
Kremlin Says Russia Is in a ‘State of War’ in Ukraine Due to West’s Involvement
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Russia was in a "state of war" in Ukraine, marking a shift in rhetoric as Moscow has been referring to the conflict as a "special military operation." "We are in a state of war. Yes, it started out as a special...
Russia Says It Increased Artillery Shell Production By 150% in Past Year
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Thursday that Russia's production of artillery shells has increased by nearly 2.5 times over the past year as Moscow is significantly out-producing the West. Shoigu also said that Russia was producing components for...