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"Europeans must be ready to sacrifice some “luxuries” to pay to support Ukraine and to prevent a “wartime scenario” coming to the nations of the continent if they are insufficiently prepared, NATO’s most senior military officer said in a speech namechecking both Russia and China as threats..."- from the article

MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The US missile defense base in Poland has long been considered a priority target for potential neutralization by the Russian Armed Forces, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated during a briefing. "Given the level of threats posed by such Western military facilities, the missile defense base in Poland has long been included among the priority targets for potential neutralization. If necessary, this can be achieved using a wide range of advanced weaponry," the diplomat said. Zakharova stated that the US-NATO construction project, ongoing for nearly a decade with complete disregard to Russian security concerns, has consistently...

U.S. President Joe Biden has submitted to Congress a statement of intent to cancel half of Ukraine's economic aid debt, a sum of around $4.65 billion, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press briefing on Nov. 20. The supplemental security assistance package worth $61 billion that Congress provided to Ukraine in April included about $10 billion in economic aid as a loan, rather than a grant. The terms of the offer gave Biden the authority to forgive up to 50 percent of the loan. "We have taken the step that was outlined in the law to cancel...

The Russian media is in a state of panic as inflation soars and the Ruble slumps, leaving many to struggle. Moscow's print news outlets, heavily controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin, were uncharacteristically negative in their coverage as they raised concerns about the economic well-being of ordinary Russians. As reported by the BBC's Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, the front page of Russian newspaper Nezavismaya Gazeta said: "Some products have gone up in price this year by tens of percent." The report highlighted that butter is 6.6% more expensive than it was in September, and 30% more expensive than this time...

Ukraine may have used British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike a secretive Russian presidential facility in the Kursk region today, emerging reports claim. The missiles could have struck a building with an underground 'control room' where Russian and North Korean military officials are believed to be holed up, according to Ukrainian defence experts.

British-made Storm Shadow missiles have been fired into Russian territory by Ukraine for the first time, a source has told Sky News. What are Storm Shadow missiles? The UK became the first country to publicly supply Kyiv with longer-range cruise missiles last summer. It allowed Ukrainian forces to hit Russian troops and supply depots far behind the front lines before it launched what would become a limited counteroffensive last year. The decision prompted an angry Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to deem Britain "at the forefront" of allies "pumping weapons into Ukraine". The five-metre, air-to-air missiles were invented in the mid-1990s...

The Biden administration has approved supplying Ukraine with American anti-personnel mines to bolster defenses against Russian attacks as Ukrainian front lines in the country’s east have buckled, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.The decision is the latest in a series of moves by Russia and the United States related to the war in Ukraine that have escalated tensions between the two.The White House recently granted permission to Ukraine to fire longer-range American missiles at targets in Russia, which the Ukrainians did for the first time on Tuesday. Moscow in response formalized a new doctrine lowering the threshold for when...

The United States Embassy in Kyiv issued an urgent warning on Wednesday that Russia was planning “a significant air attack,” closing the embassy and telling employees to shelter in place. Air raid alerts are a daily fact of life in Ukraine and the capital comes under frequent drone and missile attacks, but the embassy rarely issues such a specific alert. The warning came one day after Ukraine’s military used American-made ballistic missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time, after President Biden lifted restrictions on their use. Ukraine struck an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia...

US President Joe Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel land mines, a US defence official told the BBC, a move seen as an attempt to slow Russian troops who have been steadily advancing in Ukraine's east in recent months. The official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said such mines would be delivered soon and Washington expected that they would be used on Ukraine's territory. Ukraine was also committed to not using the mines in densely-populated areas, the official said.

"This is another step up the escalation ladder, and no one knows where this is going," Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., Trump’s incoming national security adviser, said on Fox News. "​​No one anticipated that Joe Biden would ESCALATE the war in Ukraine during the transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war," Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Everything has changed now – all previous calculations are null and void. And all for politics." "On his way out of office, Joe Biden is dangerously trying to start WWIII...

Key points Moscow says Ukraine has hit Russia with US long-range missiles . Putin signs doctrine lowering threshold for nuclear weapons use after US missile decision . Kremlin warns Ukraine's use of Western-supplied missiles against Russia could trigger nuclear response . Ukrainian region hit by deadly Russian attack for second day

Moscow signaled to the West that it’s ready for a nuclear confrontation. Ukrainian news outlets reported early Tuesday that the missiles had been used to attack a Russian military facility in the Bryansk border region.

Ukraine has carried out its first strike on Russian territory with US-supplied long-range missiles just days after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light despite fears it could escalate the conflict beyond control. A fiery explosion at an ammunition depot in Karachev around 75 miles from the Ukrainian border in Russia's Bryansk region lit up the night sky early this morning on what is the 1,000th day of war in Ukraine. Eyewitnesses along with Russian and Ukrainian military bloggers first reported the attack, with anonymous Ukrainian military officials later telling RBC Ukraine the strike was conducted with the US-manufactured...

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles. The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles early Tuesday at a military facility in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, adding that air defenses shot down five of them and damaged one...

Biden’s surprise decision on Sunday, November 17, 2024, to authorize Ukraine to utilize long-range U.S. missiles capable of reaching 186 miles into Russia requires explanation. (As of this writing, Ukraine has already fired a missile into Russia.) Does the U.S. military believe that allowing Ukraine to fire a few U.S.-manufactured Army Tactical Missile systems (“ATACMS”) into Russia will win the war for Ukraine? Or is Biden’s decision evidence that the United States is in a military coup d’etat aimed at escalating the war in Ukraine so Donald Trump will not be able to settle the war should he manage to...

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President-elect Trump, claimed the Biden administration is trying to cause “World War 3” by helping Ukraine in its war with Russia.“The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” Trump Jr. posted on the social platform X. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be dammed!!! Imbeciles!”

Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, the Russian government said, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. US officials also confirmed use of the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) to CBS news, the BBC's US partner. Ukraine has not commented. Russia's defence ministry said the strike targeted the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine to the north on Tuesday morning. Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its fragments causing a fire at a military facility in the region, the ministry said. Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov accused Washington of...

Q: Okay. Totally separate topic, sure. Ukraine aid the President has said he's committed to getting about $7.1 billion in PDA to Ukraine before his administration ends. How do you get $7.1 billion off the shelf of the Pentagon's stockpiles in such a short time?DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: It is a short time, but it's also, you know, just under 70 days. This department can do incredible work in that amount of time. The president made clear that, you know, he wants to spend every, you know, spend down the authority that Congress has allocated and authorized before he leaves...

President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US has sparked a furious response in Russia. "Departing US president Joe Biden… has taken one of the most provocative, uncalculated decisions of his administration, which risks catastrophic consequences," declared the website of the Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday morning. Russian MP Leonid Slutsky, head of the pro-Kremlin Liberal-Democratic Party, predicted that the decision would "inevitably lead to a serious escalation, threatening serious consequences". Russian senator Vladimir Dzhabarov called it "an unprecedented step towards World War Three". Anger, yes. But no real...