Tag Archives: Russia

Fox Poll: 50% Say Back Ukraine As Long As It Takes

Fox News reports: Friday marks the one-year anniversary since Russia invaded Ukraine and half of American voters say the U.S. should back the embattled nation for as long as it takes, according to a new Fox News survey. The survey, released Thursday, asks what the timeframe should be for U.S. support in Ukraine: 50% think it should continue until Ukraine …

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Zelensky Marks Anniversary Of Russia’s Invasion

CNN reports: Ukraine is capable of putting an end to the Russian invasion this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address to a commemorative event in Berlin on the first anniversary of the war. Reflecting on the year that’s passed, Zelensky spoke boldly of the year ahead. Ukraine has the power to win “in unity, resolutely and …

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Putin Announces Plan To Deploy New Sarmat ICBMs

Reuters reports: After a series of strident speeches in the runup to the anniversary of his invasion, Putin announced plans on Thursday to deploy new Sarmat multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles this year. Earlier this week he suspended Russia’s participation in the START nuclear arms control treaty. “As before, we will pay increased attention to strengthening the nuclear triad,” said Putin, …

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Russian Propagandists Are Buying Twitter Blue Checks

The Washington Post reports: Accounts pushing Kremlin propaganda are using Twitter’s new paid verification system to appear more prominently on the global platform, another sign that Elon Musk’s takeover is accelerating the spread of politically charged misinformation, a nonprofit research group has found. The accounts claim to be based outside of Russia, so they can pay for verification without running …

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Putin Claims That The West Is “Normalizing Pedophilia”

“Look at what they are doing in the West. They distort historical facts, do not stop their attacks on Russian culture, on the Russian Orthodox Church. The West is perverting the family, the national identity. “They are making pedophilia the norm in their lives, and priests encourage same-sex marriage. Forgive them Father, they know not what they do. “The Anglican …

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Gabbard: “Warmonger” Biden Is Lying About Russia

“You look at the lies that Americans are being told by President Biden, by Mitch McConnell, by these warmongers in both parties selling this lie that this is about defending freedom and democracy. They are the ones who are undermining our democracy. They are the ones who are denying the American people our constitutional right to have a say in …

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Putin Suspends Participation In Nuclear Treaty With US

Reuters reports: President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides’ strategic nuclear arsenals. “In this regard, I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty,” Putin told lawmakers towards the end of a …

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Leaked Doc Shows Russian Plan To Take Over Belarus

Yahoo News reports: A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic …

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US Accuses Russia Of Crimes Against Humanity [Video]

Axios reports: The Biden administration has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity during the war in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said in her speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. The Biden administration has already accused Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine. But it’s the first time the U.S. has formally concluded that Russian …

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Top Russian Defense Official Dies In Fall From High-Rise

The New York Post reports: A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead Wednesday after falling from a 16th-floor window in an apartment building. Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a high-rise on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg, Russian news Telegram channel Mash reported. She is believed to have …

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Kirk Guest: Putin “Really Didn’t Start” The Ukraine War

“I think both the Russian people and the government would like to see this thing end. They’d like to negotiate an end to it. But they’re certainly not going to walk into a negotiation where they’re told, well, you have to accept guilt, quote unquote, for the war, which they really didn’t start. “And then they’re not going to give …

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At Least 500,000 Have Fled Russia Since Start Of War

The Washington Post reports: As Russian troops stormed into Ukraine last February, sending millions of Ukrainians fleeing for their lives, thousands of other Russians raced to pack their bags and leave home, fearing the Kremlin would shut the borders and impose martial law. Some had long opposed rising authoritarianism, and the invasion was a last straw. Others were driven by …

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US Urges Americans To Leave Russia “Immediately”

From the State Department: Do not travel to Russia due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces, the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials, the arbitrary enforcement of local law, limited flights into and out of Russia, the Embassy’s limited ability …

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Mercenary Who Brandished Ukrainian Skull Shot Dead

The BBC reports: Notorious Russian army captain and mercenary Igor Mangushev has died in hospital, days after he was shot in the head at close range in occupied Ukraine, his friends have said. He commanded an anti-drone unit in occupied Luhansk. He took to a stage last summer holding a man’s skull. In a video posted on social media in …

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Putin Implicated In 2014 Downing Of Malaysian Airliner

The Washington Post reports: Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday that it was likely Russian President Vladimir Putin personally signed off on a decision to supply long-range antiaircraft missiles systems to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine before they shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew. However, while the prosecutors said they had documented “strong …

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US Supports Blocking Russia From 2024 Paris Olympics

Politico Europe reports: The U.S. supports blocking Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics unless it is “absolutely clear” that they are not representing their respective countries, the White House announced on Thursday. As Russia continues to wage its almost yearlong war in Ukraine, a handful of Ukrainian allies have called on the International Olympic Committee to ban all …

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Trump: I Trust Putin Over US Intelligence “Lowlifes”

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our “Intelligence” lowlifes. My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people in the form of James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while …

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Johnson: Putin Threatened To Kill Me With Missile

Axios reports: Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims in a new BBC documentary that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile during an “extraordinary” phone call before the Ukraine invasion. “He threatened me at one point, and he said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute’ or …

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Russia Sentences Anti-Vax QAnon Monk To 7 Years

The Associated Press reports: A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, urged his followers to disobey the Russian government’s lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global …

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Doomsday Clock Reset To 90 Seconds Before Midnight

NPR reports: The world is closer to catastrophe than ever: the Doomsday Clock, the metaphorical measure of challenges to humanity, was reset to 90 seconds before midnight on Tuesday. The science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the move — the closest to widespread calamity humanity has ever been judged to be — was “largely, …

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