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Kremlin Responds to Zelensky’s “Unhinged” Christmas address
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has questioned the Ukrainian leader’s capacity to make any reasonable decisions regarding peace negotiations. FILE PHOTO. Kremlin. © Getty Images / Iuliia Leonteva Vladimir Zelensky’s “strange” Christmas address raises concerns over the Ukrainian leader’s ability to make any rational decisions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Zelensky published a video on his Telegram […]
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UK Planning Smear Campaign against Trump – Russian Intelligence
London is counting on arms contracts fueling the Ukraine conflict and won’t let the US just put and end to it, the SVR has warned. © Getty Images / Win McNamee; pcruciatti Britain is preparing a smear campaign aimed at damaging US President Donald Trump’s reputation in order to derail his efforts to end the Ukraine […]
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China’s Ten Noes: Sun Tzu Has Swallowed the Frog and Is Keeping His Smile to Himself
In a conversation lasting one hour and forty minutes according to the Chinese stopwatch– “a long meeting” on President Donald Trump’s clock — President Xi Jinping first knocked the stuffing out of Trump’s warmaking threats, then forced him to beat a retreat behind a 12-month ceasefire with the man the Pentagon has designated its principal enemy but whom […]
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Trump, Tomahawks and Telephone Calls
Zelensky arrived in Washington on Friday, attired in his newly tailored suit, but he found no red carpet or even a high-level Trump official to greet him. Anticipating a cache of Tomahawks, he was apparently unaware of the telephone call between Trump and Putin and the meeting in Budapest in two weeks, to which he’s […]
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French Monitor: Ukraine, NATO Provoked Russia in Donbass War
Benoit Paré is a former French defense ministry analyst who worked as an international monitor in eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2022. In his first interview with a US outlet, Paré speaks to The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté about the hidden reality of the Ukraine war in the Donbas region, where the US-backed Kyiv government fought […]
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When the Strategy of Words Fights the Strategy of Force, Who Wins the War
On the one hand, there are the words. In the analysis of Oleg Tsarev, the leading Ukrainian opposition leader now in Crimea, the end-of-war terms presented by the Russian side at Istanbul on Monday afternoon are “’not an ultimatum at all,’ [Russian delegation head Vladimir] Medinsky has stressed. Of course, Medinsky (lead image, left) is right. […]
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“No specific signals” from US on Resuming Dialogue – Moscow
FILE PHOTO: Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia. © Sputnik Russia is open to dialogue with the US, including on Ukraine, but has not yet received any “specific signals” from Washington’s new administration on resuming contacts, Moscow’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said on Sunday. In an interview with RIA Novosti, the diplomat stressed […]
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WaPo Putin-Trump Call Claim “Pure Fiction” – Kremlin
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have a phone conversation about the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The Washington Post claimed on Sunday that Trump called Putin after winning a new term as […]
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Armed Raid on Cathedral in Ukraine
Armed men raiding the St. Michael’s Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy. © The Union of Orthodox Journalists Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right, the UN Human Rights Office has stressed in a comment to the Russian newspaper Izvestia following an armed raid on a church […]
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Russia Confirms Liberation of Key Donbass Town
FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik/Alexey Maishev Russian forces have completely liberated the town of Ugledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed. Ukrainian forces had controlled the settlement since 2014, when the DPR declared independence following a US-backed coup in Kiev. Ugledar was a strategically important position, featuring high-rise buildings […]
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