Ukrainian defense ministry capture One day after The New York Times broke the news that President Joe Biden had authorized Ukraine to fire American-made Army Tactical Missile Systems rockets at targets inside Russia, a Ukrainian army battery flung six of the 3,700-pound, precision-guided rockets at a sprawling Russian munitions depot in Bryansk Oblast, 60 miles…
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For Xi Jinping, the main objective during two global summits was to push for a peaceful world with fewer trade barriers so he can focus on reviving China’s economy. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin disrupted those plans. In more than a dozen meetings with world leaders over a week in South America, Xi repeatedly sought…
Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to end the war in Ukraine, which, depending on your perspective, began when Russia invaded Ukraine, in early 2022, or when it annexed Crimea and fomented separatism in eastern Ukraine eight years earlier. Many Ukrainians fear that Trump—who is both skeptical of sending more military aid to Ukraine and…
European markets lurched after Ukraine used long-range US missiles to attack deep inside Russia for the first time and the Kremlin announced an updated nuclear-weapons doctrine. Polish stocks and the zloty currency led a wider transatlantic selloff as investors used the Eastern European country’s assets as a proxy for escalating risk. Traditional haven assets including…
The attack on the Russian Bryansk region from Ukraine, using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles is a signal that the West wants to escalate the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. The minister, who was speaking in Rio de Janeiro at the G20 Summit, told reporters: “The fact that ATACMS were used repeatedly in…
US stocks recovered from steeper losses in afternoon trading on Tuesday as fears over a nuclear escalation to the Russia-Ukraine war rattled markets, stealing focus from Nvidia (NVDA) earnings and other corporate results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the declines, down about 0.5% but off of the lows of the session. The benchmark…
Russian strikes continue in Ukraine, marking 1,000 days since the invasion – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s been 1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. A day after the U.S. approved Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against Russia, a Russian strike killed seven people in the country’s Sumy region. The U.S. gave permission for the…
Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, days after U.S. President Joe Biden eased restrictions on Ukrainian use of American-made weapons in the war that has reached its 1,000-day milestone. Ukraine claimed it hit a military weapons depot in Bryansk in the middle of the night, though…
Polish stocks and the zloty currency dropped as investors used the Eastern European country’s assets as a proxy for escalating risk in the region as Russia widened its scope for using nuclear weapons. Warsaw’s WIG20 index plunged as much as 3.5%, the biggest drop among key global equity indexes on Tuesday and its largest one-day…