https://freerepublic.com/tag/russophrenia/ en-us Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:25:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371623/posts Russia proposed a deal to the US under which Moscow would halt intelligence sharing with Iran if Washington stopped providing intelligence to Ukraine about Russian military activity, according to a report on Friday by Politico. Two individuals familiar with the discussions told Politico that the proposal was presented by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev during a meeting last week in Miami with Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. According to the report, the arrangement would have required the Kremlin to stop providing Tehran with intelligence such as the precise coordinates of US military assets in the Middle East. In... Israel National News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371623/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:25:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371551/posts The Great Russian Lockdown — Putin Turns His Country Into a Cage! Business Basics https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371551/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:55:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371498/posts Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to the U.S. under which the Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence information with Iran, such as the precise coordinates of U.S. military assets in the Middle East, if Washington ceased supplying Ukraine with intel about Russia.Two people familiar with the U.S.-Russia negotiations said that such a proposal was made by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during their meeting last week in Miami.The U.S. rejected the proposal, the people added. They, like all other officials cited in this article, were granted anonymity due to the sensitivity of... Politico.eu https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371498/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:15:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369844/posts MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would respond if Finland ​placed nuclear weapons on its territory, saying such a move would make the Nordic country more vulnerable. ‌The Kremlin reacted sharply after NATO member Finland said on Thursday it was planning to lift a longstanding ban on hosting such weapons, in a move that could open the door to placing them there during times of war. "This is a statement that leads to an escalation ​of tensions on the European continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "This statement adds to Finland's vulnerability, a ​vulnerability provoked... Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369844/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2026 16:57:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369575/posts Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran on the location of US forces in the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back, according to a new report. The Kremlin has passed on the locations of American warships, aircrafts and other military assets ever since “Operation Epic Fury” kicked off a week ago, three sources told the Washington Post Friday. “It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,” one official familiar with the intel told the outlet. The New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369575/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:55:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369234/posts CAIRO (AP) — A Russian-flagged tanker carrying liquefied natural gas exploded and erupted in flames before sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, authorities in the North African country said Wednesday. No casualties were reported.The tanker was under Western sanctions, suspected to be part of Russia’s shadow fleet of energy tankers trying to bypass sanctions imposed on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. According to the Libyan Maritime Authority, there was a “sudden explosions, followed by a massive fire” on the Arctic Metagaz on Tuesday while the LNG... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369234/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2026 13:23:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369187/posts Today, the most important developments come from the Huliaipole direction. Here, north of the main stronghold, Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian positions and are expanding their advance. Russian defenses began to fall apart more quickly than anticipated, allowing even deeper penetration by Ukrainian forces. Recently, the Ukrainian command reported restoring control over more than 400 square kilometers through counterattacks, while daily combat intensity in the direction has reached roughly fifty engagements per day. As Ukrainian forces regain control over key terrain, they improve their ability to observe Russian movement, making it harder for Russian forces to reposition without being... RFU News — Strategic Geopolitics https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369187/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2026 03:26:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368906/posts March 1 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that the changes in Iran ‌brought about by U.S. and Israeli strikes ‌should be "used properly" to benefit the country's people who had ​withstood violence from their authorities. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, said Iran's authorities had killed "tens of thousands of people in the last couple of ‌months alone," referring ⁠to a crackdown on protests. Iran, he said, had "predetermined the way it is treated" ⁠by supplying attack drones to Russia in Moscow's four-year-old conflict in Ukraine and had also "fomented wars ​in the ​region." "It... Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368906/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2026 00:27:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368701/posts As events in the Middle East and the Gulf region unfold “extremely rapidly,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine knows “all too well” what such escalation means, pointing to Iran’s role in supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine. “Although Ukrainians never threatened Iran, the Iranian regime chose to become Putin’s accomplice,” Zelensky said in a statement on Saturday. He said Iran supplied Russia not only with Shahed drones but also with technologies to produce them, as well as other weapons. According to Zelensky, Russia has used more than 57,000 Shahed-type attack drones during the full-scale war, targeting Ukrainian civilians, cities and... Kyiv Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368701/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:46:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368461/posts Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Trump administration is pressing Kyiv to agree to painful territorial concessions as the price for peace. In a draft peace agreement first reported by Axios in November, the administration proposed that the entire regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk be recognized as de facto Russian territory and that Russia retain control of the parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia its forces now occupy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pushing back, refusing to do anything that would violate his country’s territorial integrity. Yet the realities of the battlefield are not on his side.... Foreign Policy https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368461/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:34:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368174/posts Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of trying to obtain a nuclear weapon with help from Britain and France, an allegation Kyiv called an absurd lie. A French foreign ministry spokesperson said the allegation was "blatant disinformation". A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: "There's no truth to this." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has previously criticised Kyiv's decision to give up its former Soviet nuclear arsenal in the 1990s without obtaining proper, binding security guarantees. But Kyiv has said it does not seek to re-acquire nuclear weapons, and respects all international treaties. NUCLEAR THREATSIn a statement published on the... Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368174/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:26:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368110/posts KYIV, Ukraine, and MOSCOW — When the Kremlin launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the assumption in Moscow, and much of the West, was that Russian forces would take the country in a matter of days. Instead, what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation" has become the biggest land war in Europe since World War II and has lasted longer than the Soviet army's fight against Nazi Germany. Russia's war on Ukraine is a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has managed to hold a much larger army to minimal gains while adjusting to a life under constant... NPR https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368110/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:47:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367902/posts Ukraine is outmatched by Russian forces and requires significantly more infantry and weapons if it hopes to win the war, according to military intelligence and independent battlefield monitors. Although Moscow is paying an extraordinary price for comparatively minimal gains, western officials believe the country can sustain at least another year of war at the current rate of attrition. On Tuesday it will be four years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After months of incremental advances, it appears to be on the verge of capturing a series of strategic locations in Ukraine’s so-called “fortress belt” and is expanding... The Sunday Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367902/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:10:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367883/posts When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine surpassed 1,418 days last month, it officially exceeded a historic milestone — the same span of time it took Moscow to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. And unlike the Red Army that pushed all the way to Berlin eight decades ago in what it called the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s 4-year-old, all-out invasion of its neighbor is still struggling to fully capture Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. After Moscow failed to seize the capital of Kyiv and install a puppet government in February 2022, the conflict turned into trench warfare with tremendous cost.... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367883/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:38:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4367747/posts Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV15hWow. Our military is even more powerful than I realized. This also explains the psychological and cultural warfare that’s currently taking place in our country….VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~First man: We have the number one military in the world.But I don't think people really understand what that means. We have the number one air force in the world. Do you know what the number two air force in the world is? 2nd man: China? First man: The United States Navy Number three, China or Russia, if you believe their numbers. Number four/five? Space Force. Three of the top five air... x.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4367747/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:41:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367733/posts Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK and its allies should deploy non-combat troops to Ukraine right now, to "flip a switch" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's head. Speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg alongside the former head of the military, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, Johnson said troops should be sent to peaceful regions in non-fighting roles. He said: "If we can have a plan for boots on the ground after the war, after Putin has condescended to have a ceasefire, then why not do it now?" The UK government is currently working with its allies to... BBC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367733/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:28:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367676/posts Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them. As the fourth anniversary of the invasion approaches and the world enters a new period of geopolitical uncertainty, Europe’s politicians and spy services continue to draw lessons from the failures of 2022. The phone call William Burns had travelled halfway around the world to speak with Vladimir Putin, but in the end he had... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367676/posts#comment Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:51:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4367353/posts US-mediated peace talks on Ukraine collapsed in less than two hours after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky claimed it was unfair that Donald Trump was placing more pressure on his country than on Russia.The second day of talks concluded on Wednesday, though neither side signalled they were any closer to ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.The talks wrapped up after just two hours, much shorter than the six hours of meetings on Tuesday, according to the head of Russia's delegation. Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4367353/posts#comment Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:18:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366909/posts During a Friday appearance before the press on the White House lawn, President Donald Trump warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “is gonna have to get moving, otherwise he’s gonna miss a great opportunity” because “Russia wants to make a deal.”Responding to a reporter who questioned whether the president will still “demand” that Zelensky “hold elections before summer,” Trump said, “Well, Zelensky is gonna have to get moving. Russia wants to make a deal, and Zelensky’s gonna have to get moving, otherwise he’s gonna miss a great opportunity. He has to move.”Late on Wednesday, Zelensky told reporters that he has... Mediaite via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366909/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:19:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366862/posts Meanwhile, Moscow is citing fictitious Ukrainian counter-offensives to explain why it doesn’t control territories its forces were claiming they’d seized in Zaporizhia oblast; it looks like Putin’s frontline commanders are afraid to tell the high command they’re failing. Poor Vlad: Having caught on to how Putin’s thugs were using hijacked Starlink terminals to guide their drones in massive long-distance attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian population, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now blocking of Russian access to Starlink, disabling Moscow’s frontline command-and-control communications for another game-changer. Russia’s damning whine: Blocking it from Starlink is (somehow) a violation of international law.... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366862/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:03:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4366840/posts Today, I'm going to have a special episode. What this episode is going to be is an extension on the episode we had 4 days ago regarding this offer from Russia to America regarding a massive amount of resources. Of course, resources carry with it a massive amount of money. Today we have a little bit more information on this that may make it unbelievably attractive, almost too good to turn away potentially for Trump that this would be in US dollars as of course what we have seen over the past years is many nations Russia at the helm... Youtube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4366840/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:40:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4366844/posts Zelensky: The Ukrainian Army is the strongest army in Europe. And I think it is simply not smart to keep this army outside NATO Rumble https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4366844/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:38:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366726/posts .....To date, the UK has supplied more than 12,000 anti-tank weapons, 300,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, thousands of air defence missiles, self-propelled artillery, and more than 200,000 pieces of non-lethal equipment, including extreme cold weather clothing, mine detection equipment, and industrial strength generators.... Gov.UK https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4366726/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:54:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4366668/posts The opposition leader, who is leading the polls ahead of April's elections, says Viktor Orbán's party is orchestrating a smear campaign with secretly recorded intimate videos. Hungary's opposition leader Péter Magyar has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ruling Fidesz party of preparing a blackmail campaign against him involving a secretly recorded sex tape, escalating tensions ahead of April's parliamentary elections. Magyar, whose Tisza party leads Fidesz in opinion polls, said he suspects the governing party plans to release intimate recordings made with surveillance equipment. "I suspect they are planning to release a recording, recorded with secret service equipment and possibly... Euronews https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4366668/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:44:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4366669/posts Retired British Army Col. Richard Kemp, who commanded U.K. forces in Afghanistan in the early 2000s, is warning about the current sad state of his country’s military. In a Wednesday piece for The Telegraph, he wrote that the British military has an alarmingly low level of ammunition on hand. “Knowledgeable observers have suggested that our munitions stocks — from rifle bullets and artillery shells to long range missiles and drones — would see out only about a week of intensive fighting,” Kemp recounted. “That’s even taking account of the fact that our Armed Forces are now very small, having been... The Western Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4366669/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:56:58 GMT