Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill into law that formally withdrew Russia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The CTBT prohibits all nuclear weapons tests but has not been ratified by many nuclear powers,...
Russian Forces Pushing to Encircle Eastern Ukrainian City of Avdiivka
Russian forces are pushing to encircle Avdiivka, a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast that's about three miles north of the provincial capital, as fighting continues to rage along the entire front. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that Russian forces had...
Russia to Withdraw Ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Russia is set to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a treaty that prohibits all nuclear weapons tests and explosions, which the US has never ratified. Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, approved a bill...
Russia Says It’s Aware of US Support for Ukraine’s Intelligence Agencies
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russian intelligence agencies are aware of the support Ukrainian intelligence receives from the US and Britain. The comments came in response to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday that detailed how the CIA has funded and...
US Secretly Provided Ukraine With Cluster Bomb ATACMS
CNN reported Tuesday that the US has secretly provided Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), munitions that typically have a range of about 190 miles and can be fired from the HIMARS rocket systems. US officials told The New York Times that the ATACMS...
Putin Says Prigozhin’s Plane Was Not Downed by ‘External Impact’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane was not downed by an "external impact" and claimed grenade fragments were found in the recovered bodies. "The head of the Investigative Committee briefed me just the other day....
Russia Says It Repelled Massive Drone Attack on Russian Border Regions
The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday said that air defenses downed 31 Ukrainian drones over three Russian oblasts that border Ukraine, Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk. According to AP, the incident appeared to be Ukraine's single largest cross-border drone attack on...
Russia Has Gained More Territory This Year Than Ukraine
Russian forces have gained more territory in Ukraine this year than the Ukrainian side despite the Ukrainian counteroffensive that was launched in June, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The report noted that despite nine months of heavy fighting in Ukraine,...
Russia Says US and UK Helped Coordinate Attack on Crimea
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that the US and Britain helped Ukraine with the September 22 missile strike that targeted the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea. "There is not the slightest doubt that this attack was...
Kremlin Says US Abrams Tanks ‘Will Burn’ in Ukraine
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said US-provided Abrams tanks in Ukraine will not impact Russia's operations and will "burn" like other Western armored vehicles. "There is no panacea, no single weapon that can change the balance of power on the battlefield," said Kremlin...