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Russia is expanding its military presence on the eastern border of Ukraine, according to the United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry, as Moscow targets the Donbas region. “Russia’s military presence on Ukraine’s eastern border continues to build, while fighting in the Donbas is intensifying as Russian forces seek to break through Ukrainian Defenses,” the U.K. Defense Ministry wrote in an intelligence update on Twitter. The British military intelligence said Russian air activity in northern Ukraine will likely remain at low levels since Moscow shifted its focus away from taking control of Kyiv. Russia tried to seize Kyiv earlier in its invasion...

The Hunter Biden tax probe is picking up speed, with prosecutors interviewing associates and witnesses about the first son's foreign business dealings. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware are interested in funds the first son received from the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and how he used that money to pay debts. A source also told the Journal that one person was extensively questioned in front of the grand jury in February on Biden's drug and alcohol use, spending habits and mental state. **SNIP** Prosecutors are looking into whether Biden violated...

Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks aired on Sunday. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The Ukrainian president also accused the West of cowardice, making an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to help defend his country from Russia's invading troops. Speaking after US President Joe Biden said in a lacerating speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not stay in power...

"The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change."

Donald Trump has teased a a 2024 presidential run saying he 'may have to do it again' during a rowdy Georgia rally where he slammed Joe Biden for 'giving up' on Ukraine and said the president should 'recuse himself' from the country altogether because of his son Hunter Biden's dealings with it. Trump returned on Saturday to Georgia, the state that has served as ground zero for his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and now will test his enduring influence over the Republican Party. The former president addressed many recent issues popular with conservatives, while...

GERMANY'S intelligence service believes Iraq has mobile laboratories capable of developing and producing chemical and biologial weapons, according to a German weekly magazine. The laboratories are hidden in trucks that appear completely normal from the outside, Focus magazine says, quoting the results of an investigation by the intelligence service, BND. A BND spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the report. Focus says BND officials gave details about the laboratories to the foreign affairs committee of the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in November. The head of the BND, August Hanning, told the deputies the Iraqi government had...