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Vassily Nebenzia: “Ukrainians also become victims of trafficking in body organs”

11:26 13.09.2023

Vassily Nebenzia: “Ukrainians also become victims of trafficking in body organs”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine. Key points: - The main reason why we called this meeting was to raise again the issue of Western donors’ uncurtailed supply of various sorts of weapons to their beneficiaries in Kiev and its impact on settlement …

View from San Francisco: “To The Last Ukrainian”

11:18 13.09.2023

View from San Francisco: “To The Last Ukrainian”

The war is a disaster in every sense. It was Vladimir Putin who initially noted that the West is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Well, it looks like it’s finally happening — we’ve run out of Ukrainians, or at least we ran out of the ones willing …

Macron seeks to project a Pacific strategy distinct from that of the US and its western allies

11:18 13.09.2023

Macron seeks to project a Pacific strategy distinct from that of the US and its western allies

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Colombo late July, after a tour of Pacific island states. From 24-28 July he visited New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea (PNG) – the first a French colony, the second a former possession. The French Embassy described Macron’s brief stop in Colombo on 29 …

British lifestyle: The Government aims at slashing the £26 billion welfare budget

11:14 13.09.2023

British lifestyle: The Government aims at slashing the £26 billion welfare budget

One million people on sickness benefits could be forced to start looking for jobs including thousands with mobility and anxiety problems as the Government gets set to slash billions from its welfare budget. Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride hopes to slash £26b welfare budget, writes ‘Daily Mail’. But ministers …

Vladimir Putin: The Far East remains Russia strategic priority for the rest of the 21st century

18:50 12.09.2023

Vladimir Putin: The Far East remains Russia strategic priority for the rest of the 21st century

President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the 8th Eastern Economic Forum. His speech key points: - We can all see very well the changes that the global economy has experienced in recent years and continues to experience now, including due to certain countries, primarily Western ones, …

The weight of the Global South felt in the G20 Delhi Declaration text

11:25 12.09.2023

The weight of the Global South felt in the G20 Delhi Declaration text

The G20 Summit has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, with its success in delivering the New Delhi Leaders' Declaration. There was apprehension that much like the G20 meetings of the Foreign, Finance, and Development Ministers, which could not produce joint statements because of differences over the Ukraine conflict …

View from Sky News: Ukraine's objectives are no longer aligned with the Western’s objectives

11:24 12.09.2023

View from Sky News: Ukraine's objectives are no longer aligned with the Western’s objectives

Are the strategic objectives of the West and Ukraine still aligned? If not, what next? – Sean Bell, military analyst, put a question on the Sky News program (photo). Despite political rhetoric, most nations are driven by parochial self-interest. Wars rage around the world, but the international community rarely intervenes. …

Real War of Tanks: Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks

11:21 12.09.2023

Real War of Tanks: Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks

Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks: Challenger 2 kill follows Abrams, Leopard 2 and Merkava IV, “Military Watch Magazine” writes. Following confirmation on September 5 that Russian forces had destroyed a British Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine, Russian sources have widely reported that the Kornet …

22 years of drone warfare and no end in sight

11:20 12.09.2023

22 years of drone warfare and no end in sight

“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.” That’s what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years …

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

12:19 11.09.2023

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

In modern Ukraine, assassinations date back to at least 2015, when its domestic security service (SBU) created a new body. The elite fifth counter-intelligence directorate started life as a saboteur force in response to the invasion. It later came to focus on what is euphemistically called “wet work”, reveals “The …

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