After a year and a half since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, the question of where the leaders of different countries stand on russia, Ukraine, and the war is becoming crucial. While the vast majority of Western countries have responded to the aggression with political, military, and financial support for Ukraine, the situation is…
Igor strelkov (Girkin), a former fsb officer and leader of the terrorist quasi-entity “DPR”, who was arrested in russia on charges of “calling for extremism”, announced on August 31 that he would run for president in the upcoming presidential election. Moreover, he listed point by point his advantages and disadvantages over putin. In particular, strelkov…
On the night of August 29-30, at least six regions of the russian federation were subjected to a massive drone attack. In particular, 4 Il-76 transport aircraft were destroyed and 2 damaged at a military airfield near Pskov. This airfield is home to the 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment, which in February 2022 was tasked…
As you know, on July 17, 2023, moscow withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement between the UN, Turkey, russia and Ukraine on sea corridors for the export of grain and related products from Ukraine. The kremlin has threatened to sink every ship heading to Ukrainian ports. Fortunately, so far this has not…
According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, on 25 August 2023, a meeting was held in the putin administration to discuss the next stage of the information war in the Ukrainian and global media spaces. Following the meeting, with the participation of first deputy chief of staff of…
The central election commission of russia has decided to hold simultaneous elections for heads and deputies of legislative bodies of state authorities of the russian federation and local “elections” in the temporarily occupied parts of Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions within the framework of the so-called single election day. Why does the kremlin need…
The international community continues to debate over the format of a tribunal that would bring russia to justice for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. So far, the opinion of European Commissioner for Justice D. Reynders and the U.S. Department of State on the idea of creating a “hybrid tribunal” that would be part of…
The information about the death of the odious owner of the “wagner” PMC, prigozhin, has been confirmed by an increasing number of russian sources. According to the russian federal air transport agency, on August, 23, an Embraer plane flying from moscow to st. petersburg crashed in the tver region. Among the 10 dead, the passenger…
According to the russian propaganda resource RIA Novosti, citing an informed source, general surovikin was dismissed from the post of commander-in-chief of the russian aerospace forces (VKS) by a secret presidential decree. colonel-general v.afzalov, chief of the VKS general staff, was appointed as the interim acting commander-in-chief. The news was not a sensation, as the…
It is no secret that the main source of some of russia’s military successes in Ukraine was the mercenaries of the “wagner” PMC. The russian generals did not care that the “meat assaults” on Popasna, Soledar and Bakhmut cost “wagner” more than 20,000 lives of ex-convicts. However, after the “march” of prigozhin, such a resource…
russia continues to commit war crimes – on the weekend of August 19, at about 11:30 a.m., the russians fired a ballistic missile at the drama theater in the center of Chernihiv. The missile attack killed 7 people and injured 156 people, including 15 children and 15 police officers. The drama theater building, 66 residential…
According to the moscow stock exchange, on August 14 (for the first time since March 23, 2022), the dollar exchange rate in russia exceeded the 100 ruble mark and is now among the top three weakest currencies in the world. The authorities are trying to stop the ruble’s decline, but the Central Bank’s efforts, which…
