The European Union has agreed a mammoth €50 billion ($54bn) aid package for Ukraine after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban was pushed into dropping his demand that funding be subject to annual confirmation votes, allegedly on pain of severe punishment by the bloc if he didn’t step aside. A large aid package for Ukraine from the…
THE HAGUE, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Judges at the top U.N. court on Wednesday found that Russia violated elements of a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. In the same ruling,…
The Moldovan government is struggling to cope with a sharp increase in citizenship applications filed by Russians, Reuters reported on Jan. 16. In response to the spike in applications for Moldovan citizenship, the country’s immigration agency has asked the government to extend the processing time from the current 20 days to six months. Officials attribute Russia’s war against Ukraine…
Greetings from Tyler, The atmosphere we find ourselves in is more than unsettling. It’s a whirlwind of unacceptable realities that we can scarcely believe. We’ve all seen the blocking of freeways and bridges, whether we wanted to or not. Now there can be no official statements from anyone denouncing what happened on October 7. The videos…
Russian hackers infiltrated Ukraine’s communications giant Kyivstar months before launching an attack that left customers without phone or internet access in December, the country’s cyber spy chief revealed, calling the breach “disastrous.” In an interview with Reuters published on Thursday, Illia Vitiuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, said Russian hackers…
Greetings from Tyler, It’s getting to where you can’t even watch anymore. The scenes they’re showing you, the incidents they are describing are not fit for human consumption. The “terrorists” committed atrocities reminiscent of the worst we’ve ever heard of. They’re mad at us for not supporting Ukraine. But we’re being invaded by…
BRUSSELS, Dec 14 (Reuters) – European Union leaders granted Ukraine a major political win on Thursday by agreeing to start membership negotiations at a time when its counter-offensive against Russia’s invasion has failed to make major gains and U.S. military aid has become more uncertain. EU diplomats and officials said the unexpected green light for…
Greetings from Tyler, We’re still shocked about these demonstrations. Where did these people come from? Do they have no idea the atrocities that were committed? What are they demonstrating about? They need to have their faces rubbed in the atrocities. Or better yet, get an all expenses paid trip to the war zone. No matter,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a rare trip abroad to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is also scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia. Mr Putin is expected to discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as oil production, with the UAE president. The UAE is currently hosting the COP28 UN climate…
A new video was released Tuesday showing the commander of the country’s Black Sea Fleet attending a video conference — a day after Ukrainian special forces claimed it had killed him in a missile strike. In video and photographs quietly put out by the Russian Ministry of Defense, Admiral Viktor Sokolov appears to be remotely…