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A Group of Seven (G7) summit is opening Thursday with agreement on a US proposal to back a $50 billion loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets as collateral, giving Kyiv a strong show of support even as Europe's political chessboard shifts to the right. Diplomats confirmed that an agreement had been reached on the deal before the leaders even landed in southern Italy for the three-day summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be on hand and is expected to sign a separate bilateral security agreement with U.S. President Joe Biden. Fed rate decision: Implications on the European s...
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The United States expanded its sanctions against Russia on Wednesday as G7 leaders prepared to gather in Italy for a summit. The primary focus of the summit is to boost support for Ukraine and further debilitate Russia’s military capabilities. New sanctions target foreign entitiesThe latest sanctions package targets Chinese companies that aid Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and raises the stakes for foreign financial institutions doing business with sanctioned Russian entities. This move underscores the dynamic nature of sanctions, as noted by Aaron Forsberg, the State Department’s Director for...
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A Russian naval group is fast approaching Cuba on Wednesday. The military vessels flying the Saint Andrew's banner — the flag of the Russian navy — are being carefully observed by the US Navy, which is particularly interested in getting a closer look at the rival fleet's military capacity. The group is composed of two Russian Navy crown jewels: the nuclear-powered Yasen-class cruise missile submarine Kazan and the Russian missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov. Two auxiliary vessels, an oil tanker and a salvage tug, support the two sea combat units. War games under the Caribbean sun?The ships have b...
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A court in Moscow on Friday ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia be held in jail pending investigation and trial. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital on Thursday as tensions have flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about the possibility of deploying the country’s troops in Ukraine. The authorities accused Vinatier of failing to register as a “foreign agent” while collecting information about Russia's "military and military-technical activities," which could be used to the det...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a now-rare press conference with senior editors from international media outlets on June 5. Putin blamed Ukraine and the West for Russia's war crimes, and made a new round of threats and jaw-dropping lies. The Kyiv Independent examines some of the more notable statements. 'World has lost its mind'Before Putin began taking questions from journalists, he engaged in some light back-and-forth with the director general of Russian state media TASS, Andrei Kondrashov, who was hosting the event. Noting this was the first time Putin had met with international media...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a now-rare press conference with senior editors from international media outlets on June 5. Putin blamed Ukraine and the West for Russia's war crimes, and made a new round of threats and jaw-dropping lies. The Kyiv Independent examines some of the more notable statements. 'World has lost its mind'Before Putin began taking questions from journalists, he engaged in some light back-and-forth with the director general of Russian state media TASS, Andrei Kondrashov, who was hosting the event. Noting this was the first time Putin had met with international media...
Kyiv Independent
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a now-rare press conference with senior editors from international media outlets on June 5. Putin blamed Ukraine and the West for Russia's war crimes, and made a new round of threats and jaw-dropping lies. The Kyiv Independent examines some of the more notable statements. 'World has lost its mind'Before Putin began taking questions from journalists, he engaged in some light back-and-forth with the director general of Russian state media TASS, Andrei Kondrashov, who was hosting the event. Noting this was the first time Putin had met with international media...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The Qatargate crisis is the biggest corruption case to hit the European Parliament in decades — arguably the most serious. At the time, Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, addressed her colleagues in a crisis session by stating, "European democracy is under attack". Equally, the allegations of corruption and espionage surrounding MEP Maximilian Krah, the lead candidate of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), show how far Russia and China are willing to go in influencing the political decisions of the EU. The German judiciary launched two preliminary investigations against ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 5 said Moscow could supply advanced weapons to certain regions to enable strikes against "sensitive" Western targets as a response if Ukraine strikes Russia with Western arms. Recently, the U.S. and Germany partially lifted a ban on Ukraine using certain weapons supplied by them to strike Russian territory. Responding to a journalist's question on the matter during a meeting with the world's leading news agencies in St. Petersburg, Putin promised Russian air defenses would intercept these arms and that Moscow would respond in kind. "What should we do in...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 5 said Moscow could supply advanced weapons to certain regions to enable strikes against "sensitive" Western targets as a response if Ukraine strikes Russia with Western arms. Recently, the U.S. and Germany partially lifted a ban on Ukraine using certain weapons supplied by them to strike Russian territory. Responding to a journalist's question on the matter during a meeting with the world's leading news agencies in St. Petersburg, Putin promised Russian air defenses would intercept these arms and that Moscow would respond in kind. "What should we do in...
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