Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to attend a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from November 30 to December 1. To facilitate Lavrov's trip, Bulgaria and North Macedonia have agreed to temporarily suspend a ban on...
US Denies It’s Pressuring Ukraine to Negotiate With Russia
A US official has denied that the Biden administration is nudging Ukraine toward negotiations with Russia, saying it's up to Kyiv when to seek peace talks. The comments from James O'Brien, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs, came in response...
Ukraine Takes Credit for Car Bombing That Killed Politician in Luhansk
Ukraine's CIA-backed military intelligence has taken credit for a car bombing that killed a politician in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine on Wednesday. Mikhail Filiponenko, a member of the local Russian-backed legislature in Luhansk and former police chief, was...
Russia Revokes Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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...