Ukraine's decision to bid for fast-track NATO membership sounds like a direct invitation to the alliance to come into direct conflict with Russia, the leader of the Liberal and Democratic Party, a member of the negotiating group with the Kyiv authori...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refused to negotiate with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin remains President of Russia. "Ukraine has been and remains the leader in negotiating efforts: it was our state that has always offered Russia to agr...

Moscow has stepped up its signals to the West to take a path of negotiations and agreements. On September 30, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said that there is a chance to "end the war in a few days," if the Europeans want it. It appears that...

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau admitted that the North Atlantic Alliance could participate in the conflict in Ukraine if Russia used nuclear weapons. If the Russian Federation strikes a nuclear blow on the territory of Ukraine, it will violate ...

Maria Zakharova, an official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, reacted to the statement from Poland's former Foreign Affairs Minister Radoslaw Sikorsky about the Nord Stream gas pipeline accident. "Sikorsky on Twitter* thanked the United...

The US Embassy in Moscow urged US citizens residing in Russia to leave the country immediately. "On September 21, the Russian government began a mobilization of its citizens to the armed forces in support of its invasion of Ukraine. Russia may refuse...

Two underground explosions were reported in the area of ​​gas leaks at Nord Stream pipeline, Swedish publication svt.se said. There is no doubt that there were explosions, seismologist Bjorn Lund said. Thirty measuring stations in southern Sweden...

The referenda in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Kherson and Zaporozhye (also spelled Zaporizhzhia) regions have ended, TASS reports. The Central Electoral Commission of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) entrusted local commissions to decide w...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that Moscow was ready to negotiate with Kyiv provided one fundamental principle was observed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov's commen...

A US Coast Guard patrol boat spotted Russian and Chinese ships in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, the Associated Press reports. The Kimball boat first spotted a Chinese missile cruiser. It was said that on September 19, the Chinese cruiser tr...

According to Chinese publication The Global Times, the world will experience an "economic earthquake” due to the decision of the US Federal Reserve System to raise the key rate. The Fed's decision was made in an attempt to reduce the effects of inf...

The simultaneous destruction of three gas pipeline strings in the Baltic Sea is unprecedented, operator Nord Stream AG announced, Interfax reports. According to company representatives, all incidents occurred in one day.  "It is not yet possible to ...

Program Director at the Russian International Affairs Council Ivan Timofeev expressed his opinion regarding the recent statement from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said that Turkey would not recognise the referenda in Donetsk and Luh...

Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who was released from Ukrainian captivity, has left Turkey for Russia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, during the exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kyi...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine. First and foremost, Lavrov noted that one is trying to make Russia the aggressor while turning a blind eye on how Kyiv was killing peo...

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, warned that "hypersound" (hypersonic weapons — ed.) could quickly reach targets both in the US and Europe. In his opinion, all residents of the NATO states should l...

"Any manifestations of Ukraine's military aggression after the announcement of the results of referendums should be regarded as acts of open aggression against the civilian population of Russia. All those responsible will be punished severely,” Cri...

Swiss metal processing centers have increased imports of gold of Russian origin to record levels over the past two years, Bloomberg reports with reference to the Swiss Customs Administration. Switzerland acquired as much as 5.7 tons of Russian gold w...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky about a diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. "The conversation took place before President Erdogan's speech at the UN General Assembly," the of...

Kyiv will continue fighting despite the referendums in the DPR, LPR and other Russian-controlled territories in the Zaporozhye (Zaporizhzhia) and Kherson regions, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba wrote on his personal Twitter account. “Refe...