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European Union (EU) Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson announced that the EU is ready for the possibility of no Russian gas flowing through Ukraine when the current transit contract expires at the end of the year. “Central and Southeastern Europe have diversified their supply options to fully replace the 14 billion cubic meters of Russian gas…
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Libya has been in political turmoil since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The International Criminal Court has unsealed arrest warrants for six men allegedly linked to a Libyan militia blamed for multiple killings in a strategically important western town where mass graves were discovered in 2020. Libya has been in…
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Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine’s allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use long-range missiles against…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West and NATO countries that they will be “at war with Russia” if Ukraine is given the green light to use long-range missiles on targets inside his country, Reuters and Agence France-Presse reported. Putin’s comments came a day before President Joe Biden is set to discuss…
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The US has charged a Russian TV pundit and his wife over two separate schemes to violate sanctions imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Department of Justice alleges that Dimitri Simes, 76, and Anastasia Simes, 55, took part in a plot to violate sanctions “for the benefit of sanctioned Russian broadcaster Channel One Russia”,…
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Russian forces have taken control of the village of Serhiivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, according to the Russian defence ministry. MEZIESBLOG cannot independently verify the claim. Ukraine has also ordered the evacuation of the Donetsk city of Pokrovsk today as Russian forces approach. The head of the city’s military administration urged residents not to…
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Ukraine’s invasion in Kursk has raised the possibility of an armed provocation of Belarus, according to the Belarusian defence minister. Viktor Khrenin’s said the situation at the border remained “tense”, in comments quoted by the state-run Belta news agency. “Given the presence of Ukrainian armed formations in the border areas, there is a high probability…
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An anti-Putin group of Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine has urged Russian soldiers in Kursk to surrender and fight with Kyiv’s army. In a call to Russian servicemen on Telegram, the Freedom of Russia Legion paramilitary group said political officers were telling them “to blow yourself up with your own grenade”. “But hundreds of…
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A top aide to Vladimir Putin has accused NATO and the West of being directly involved in the planning for Ukraine’s invasion in Kursk. In an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev said Washington was lying when it said it had no prior knowledge of the attacks. “The operation in the Kursk region was also…
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The Ukrainian invasion inside Russia has brought the world close to a “third world war”, Russian media has cited an MP in the country as saying. Ukrainian forces broke through the border into Kursk last Tuesday and have since made significant advances, forcing Russia to evacuate more than 200,000 people. State news agency RIA quoted…
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The recent geopolitical landscape, marked by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and return of great power competition, necessitates a reevaluation of NATO’s stance on cluster munitions. Under the leadership of Jens Stoltenberg, NATO embraced the Convention on Cluster Munitions, or CMC, in 2008, which barred 124 member nations from stockpiling, using or manufacturing these weapons due to their…
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Britain plans to equip its armed forces with a homegrown hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the decade, according to a report. Military chiefs are under pressure to catch up with China, Russia and the US by developing a weapon capable of flying at speeds higher than Mach 5 – five times the speed…
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Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO’s successive waves of eastern enlargement are a fixation of President Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine two years ago with the stated aim of preventing the alliance from coming closer to Russia’s…
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Europe is currently in a “pre-war” era, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Mr Tusk said the continent needed to step up defence investment, adding that Europe was in a situation “not seen since 1945”. He said: “I know it sounds devastating, especially for the younger…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has listed the order of the countries he believes Russia will target if it succeeds with its goals in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president said he believes Vladimir Putin will turn to Kazakhstan next, before moving on to the Baltic states, Poland, and Germany. “For him, we are a satellite of the Russian Federation,”…
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Estonia’s top military chief says the country must double its defence spending over the next two years so it can not only defend against a possible Russian invasion, but instead inflict a “decisive” defeat. During in an interview in Japan, where he was meeting defence officials, General Martin Herem said neither the threat of a…
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