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Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy commented on Donald Trump's opinion that the NYT newspaper poses a serious threat to national security and that its dissemination of false information should be stoppedMOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The globalist fake media machine, and not just The New York Times (NYT), has attacked US President Donald Trump, his peace efforts, and Russia, Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund has said. "It's not just the NYT. It's a globalist, well-funded, organized, and synchronized US/UK/EU deep-state-aligned fake media machine - targeting traditional values, common sense, economic prosperity - and...

Top US officials met with a Russian delegation in Miami for the latest round of Urkraine peace talks Saturday, despite the Trump administration failing to bring the warring countries to the table for face-to-face talks. Moscow envoy Kirill Dmitriev flew to the US to meet with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US envoy Steve Witkoff in the Sunshine State, but refgused to engage his Ukrainian counterpart, Reuters reported.

For my more seasoned readers, let’s say you could travel back in time and revisit a moment in your life. You’re not going back to change the past, but simply to sit as a silent guest and listen in on a conversation you might have had back then. Let’s say you decide to go back to the year 1993 when you and a friend are in a restaurant having lunch. At some point the conversation steers into the signs of the times and when you think the Lord will return. Your friend might mention the fact that the year 1993...

“The Venezuelan opposition leader was trying to get to Norway by Wednesday in time to receive the Nobel Peace Prize that she won for challenging Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. First she had to get from the Caracas suburb where she has been in hiding for a year to a coastal fishing village, where a skiff awaited her.”

President Donald Trump, appearing on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, said he was "a little bit disappointed" in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not yet reading the text of Washington's latest proposed peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump said Zelenskyy's top Ukrainian officials "love it," and "Russia is fine with it," but stressed that Zelenskyy himself had not reviewed the document as of several hours before the event. "We've been speaking to President [Vladimir] Putin, and we've been speaking to Ukrainian leaders, including President Zelenskyy, and I have to say that I'm a...

President Donald Trump was awarded the very first FIFA Peace Prize on Friday at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., during the World Cup final draw. FIFA President Gianni Infantino gave Trump the award, which included a trophy of golden hands holding a soccer ball. He was also awarded with a medal that he put on almost immediately. "The FIFA Peace Prize is presented annually on behalf of the billions of football-loving people from around the world to a distinguished individual who exemplifies an unwavering commitment to advancing peace and unity throughout the world through their notable leadership and action,"...

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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said he is ready to go to war with Europe, accusing EU leaders of sabotaging peace talks with the US. “We are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready right now,” Putin warned.

At least two people were killed and dozens injured after Russia launched a drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv which lasted through the night and left some 600,000 people without power.Video SummaryRussia struck Kyiv with drones and missiles before dawn, killing at least two and injuring dozens in residential areas—the second attack on the capital this week. Residents call it terrorism meant to exhaust civilians and force acceptance of a US-Russia 28-point peace plan widely seen as Moscow’s wishlist. A Ukrainian delegation is traveling to the US for talks after Zelensky replaced his scandal-hit chief of staff...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two U.S. officials said, in a ​highly unusual absence of the top U.S. diplomat from a key transatlantic gathering. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau will ‌represent Washington instead, said one of the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss matters that have not yet been made public. It was unclear why Rubio planned to skip the ‌December 3 meeting, and his plans could change. But his likely no-show comes when U.S. and Ukrainian officials have been scrambling to narrow gaps over...

Putin is offering Ukraine a deal: If Ukrainian forces withdraw from the contested territories, Russia will immediately cease all military operations. Should they refuse to do so, Russia will compel their withdrawal through force until peace is achieved.

LINES of dragons’ teeth bollards protect Ukraine from Russian attacks in the “fortress belt” tyrant Vladimir Putin insists must be surrendered before any ceasefire can be agreed. The Sun on Sunday’s Defence Editor Jerome Starkey visited to see the barricades and tank trap trenches that President Volodymyr Zelenksy says would take four years to breach. The UK’s Defence Intelligence experts predict 1.9million Russian troops would become casualties in the time it would take to overcome the belt — the best defended position in war-ravaged eastern Donbas. It stretches 30 miles from Slovyansk to Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Oblast [province] of which...

Russia on Wednesday shot down President Trump’s claim that the Kremlin had already agreed to some concessions on ending the war in Ukraine — as Moscow blasted innocent Ukrainians with fresh drone strikes overnight. Multiple Russian officials insisted it was too premature to speak about accepting any peace plan and that Moscow wouldn’t agree to anything that didn’t fully meet its demands. “There can be no talk of any concessions or surrender of our approaches to the key aspects of resolving the problems facing us, including in the context of the special operation [in Ukraine],” said Sergei Ryabkov, a Russian...

Vice President Vance fired back at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday after the former Senate republican leader warned the Trump administration not to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emerging Ukraine peace deal.“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy–left us,” Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X.“I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here,” he continued.Vance was responding to a quote from McConnell, who...

Ukraine has said a "common understanding" has been reached with the US on a peace deal aimed at ending the war with Russia.The proposal is based on a 28-point plan presented to Kyiv by the US last week, which American and Ukrainian officials worked on during weekend talks in Geneva.In a post on social media, US President Donald Trump said the original plan "has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides".He added: "I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will...

The problem is Moscow doesn’t want peace in Ukraine, it wants Ukraine in pieces. Every time the White House offers an olive branch, the Kremlin torches it and commits more heinous war crimes. Washington floated a leaders’ summit in October, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wiped his shoes with it, demanding Ukraine stop resisting and the West ignore kidnapped kids and beheaded prisoners. Well, Trump pulled the plug on Budapest, signaling he might punish the Kremlin, and a panicking Vladimir Putin dispatched Kirill Dmitriev with a “peace plan” so absurd it would shame a mid-level propagandist. To make sure...

Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Russia would “betray” its promise and “come back” if Ukraine was forced to reduce its army, as proposed under Donald Trump’s plan. The French president was among European leaders meeting at a G20 summit in South Africa who have pushed back at the one-sided plan by Trump that aims to end the war in Ukraine: “We know that if there are no elements of deterrence, the Russians will come back and break their promises,” Macron told journalists. He also said any plan “requires broader consultation” and had to allow for peace for Ukrainians and...

President Donald Trump blasted Ukrainian leaders for having “zero gratitude” towards the United States’ effort to end the Russia-Ukraine war. President Trump’s comments came in a Sunday Truth Social post, blaming former President Joe Biden’s administration for allowing the war to begin in the first place. “The War between Russia and Ukraine is a violent and terrible one that, with strong and proper U.S. and Ukrainian LEADERSHIP, would have NEVER HAPPENED. It began long before I took office for a Second Term, during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, and has only gotten worse. If the 2020 Presidential Election was not...

Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A U.S. peace plan may be his biggest test.It is another make-or-break moment of wartime leadership for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Late last week, the Trump administration delivered to Mr. Zelensky a 28-point peace plan that many Ukrainians and their Western allies have called a wish list for Russia, a reward for its aggression and a betrayal of Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader was given seven days to either accept it or potentially watch the United States walk away from any remaining...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio touched down in Geneva on Sunday morning for discussions on a 28-point plan for peace to end the Ukraine war, after Washington signalled flexibility on the controversial proposal.As Breitbart News detailed, the plan — reportedly drafted by President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — was first presented to Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umarov in Kyiv, who made some revisions and passed it along to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Umarov later denied expressing approval for much of the plan, saying he merely helped to organize discussions about it.Trump has given...