Liz Truss said that the UK’s ‘Baltic allies’ were located on the Black Sea, despite them being over 1,000km apart. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been slammed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry after a geography error confusing two different bodies of water in Europe, over 1,000km away from each other.
Gazprom is fulfilling its contracts. The energy company is under no obligation to increase supplies of natural gas to the EU, despite some politicians in Brussels accusing Moscow of using its exports as a weapon, Russia’s permanent representative to the bloc stated on Wednesday.
EDITORIAL: The only enemy Ukraine has is Washington DC (NATO) and the Brussels European Union. Is there a difference? No. A fellow Ukrainian explains: ‘Support by the United States is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.’ – Nikita Khrushchev.
Despite claims from the West and its state-affiliated corporate media that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is just around the corner, the chance of a serious escalation on the Russian border remains low, the Ukrainian defence minister said on Sunday.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko provided his take on the current and future impact of the Ukrainian standoff, in an interview with YouTube channel Soloviev Live partly aired by Russian media on Sunday.
Russian soldiers could be sent to Nicaragua, one of the seven nations separating the US from Latin America and Venezuela under laws already in place in the Central American nation. This was the persuasive prediction made by Moscow’s ambassador in Managua.
On Friday, Bloomberg news agency published the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ only to remove it half an hour later, lamely claiming that it was a pre-written headline rolled out inadvertently.
Millions of Ukrainians would welcome annexation by Russia with open arms, gladly separating from the control of Kiev in the event of an invasion, one of the country’s former top army officers has declared as tensions skyrocket between the two former Soviet republics.
‘Using the UN Security Council to debate the standoff on the border between Russia and Ukraine is inappropriate, and consultations would be better held in a different setting,’ China’s envoy has said as tensions flare in Eastern Europe.
With tensions heating up in eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warmly met his Hungarian counterpart Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for talks in Moscow on Tuesday, at which the pair underscored their friendly partnership, despite worsening relations between East and West.
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