Saudi Arabia is set to ramp up oil production in a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s war machine and his invasion of Ukraine. Saudi Arabia is prepared to abandon its $100-a-barrel crude oil price target as it moves to increase output, signaling its acceptance of lower prices, according to the Financial Times. This decision…
Five days before President Vladimir Putin announced that he would loosen the conditions under which Russia might use a nuclear weapon against an adversary, one of those very same nuclear weapons had a spectacularly explosive mishap. The Sarmat, Russia’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, a next-generation projectile that Putin has bragged about, erupted in an unexplained…
MOSCOW (AP) — Changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine are intended to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on Russia, the Kremlin said Thursday. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the revisions in the document announced by President Vladimir Putin are a “warning signal to those countries about the consequences in case of…
London — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in London this week to discuss progress made by the U.S., Britain and Australia toward their shared goal of deterring China’s increasingly assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific. The London summit is the third Defense Ministerial for the allies’ trilateral AUKUS partnership, and according to defense officials, it will…
Russian President Vladimir Putin at an expanded Prosecutor General’s Office meeting on March 26, 2024, in Moscow. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin announced proposed changes to Moscow’s rule book on the use of nuclear weapons in another thinly-veiled warning to Western nations that continue to back Kyiv in…
Former US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Former US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows with his comments on the Russia-Ukraine war after described Ukraine as “pitiful” and “mournful,” referring to its people as “dead” and the country as “demolished.”In a recent speech in North Carolina, Trump argued that Ukraine should have made…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia could respond with nuclear weapons if it were attacked with conventional arms in the latest changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. In a televised meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Putin announced that under the planned revisions, an attack against the country by a non-nuclear power with the…
Foreign Secretary David Lammy ripped into Russia at the UN today in an extraordinary tirade referencing slavery, “Putin’s imperialism” and his African heritage. Addressing delegates at the United Nations’ HQ in New York City, Lammy directly took aim at Russia’s envoy to the organisation, Vasily Nebenzya, as he “called out” imperialism. Lammy said: “I say…
Russia is building military drones in China, according to an exclusive released by Reuters on Wednesday. Drones have become a mainstay of the conflict, sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kyiv has in recent weeks stepped up its own UAV offensives, deploying them deep into Russian territory to target infrastructure and supply…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site. High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia’s Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows…