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FT: Ukraine arms procurement feud risks eroding Western trust

9:32 02.02.2025

FT: Ukraine arms procurement feud risks eroding Western trust

Western officials and anti-corruption groups have warned that a dispute between Ukraine’s defence minister and its weapons procurement chief could disrupt arms supplies and undermine US confidence in Kyiv, reveals ‘The Financial Times’. The conflict erupted last Friday, when Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov sacked Maryna Bezrukova, director of the …

London gold shortage: “People can’t get their hands on gold because so much has been shipped to New York”

9:31 02.02.2025

London gold shortage: “People can’t get their hands on gold because so much has been shipped to New York”

A surge in gold shipments to the US has led to a shortage of bullion in London, as traders amass an $82bn stockpile in New York over fears of Trump administration tariffs, writes ‘The Financial Times’. The wait to withdraw bullion stored in the Bank of England’s vaults has risen …

An appeal from the State Duma to the United States Congress

9:30 02.02.2025

An appeal from the State Duma to the United States Congress

An appeal from the State Duma to the United States Congress in conjunction with the information regarding the discussion held between former President of the United States of America Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken concerning the organization of assassination of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir …

View from New York: What Trump 2.0 Means for Ukraine and the World

11:00 01.02.2025

View from New York: What Trump 2.0 Means for Ukraine and the World

Recently ‘The New Yorker’ published an interview with Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what Trump’s foreign policy might mean for Ukraine, and for the world. Wertheim is no fan of Trump, though he is a so-called ‘realist …

Guns instead of butter: Germany in crisis, but spends billions on war

10:59 01.02.2025

Guns instead of butter: Germany in crisis, but spends billions on war

German lawmakers approved about €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion) worth of weapons and equipment orders for the armed forces in the last regular parliamentary session before the snap election on Feb. 23, Bloomberg reports. The purchase includes part of a new €1.8 billion communication system for the Bundeswehr, €417 million in …

Tucker Carlson during an interview with Piers Morgan challenges mainstream views

10:58 01.02.2025

Tucker Carlson during an interview with Piers Morgan challenges mainstream views

The amount of evil and crimes that emanate from Ukraine is off the scale. This was stated in an interview with TV presenter Piers Morgan on his YouTube channel by American journalist Tucker Carlson. "Ukraine is a source of madness. They have done everything possible to sow destabilization in the …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ‘counting up the costs’ if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine

10:56 01.02.2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ‘counting up the costs’ if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine

Marco Rubio in an interview on Sirius XM’s ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’. Yes, by all means, Secretary of State Marco Rubio should be “realistic” about Ukraine, notes ‘The Washington Post’. Ukraine is being destroyed by the fighting with Russia and the conflict must be swiftly settled through negotiations, US Secretary …

View from Washington: Biden must explain what the Ukraine war was for

11:26 31.01.2025

View from Washington: Biden must explain what the Ukraine war was for

Former President Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do, as does Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky, writes ‘The American Conservative’. It is no longer easy to tell what the Ukraine War was for. Very early on, U.S. goals got grafted onto Ukrainian goals, and the hybrid braid became hard to …

MFA: Organ trading schemes created in Ukraine, human organs sold on Internet

11:25 31.01.2025

MFA: Organ trading schemes created in Ukraine, human organs sold on Internet

"In Ukraine, in particular in places where combats were taking place and where servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces, national battalions were located, bodies and remains of people were found with clear signs that their organs had been removed," Maria Zakharova said. With the support of the West Kiev launched …

Trump’s secretary of State Rubio ghosts Europe

11:24 31.01.2025

Trump’s secretary of State Rubio ghosts Europe

EU diplomats tell POLITICO they fear a Trumpian strategy of spurning the EU and playing divide and rule among member countries. Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas made no secret on Monday that Brussels has sent an open invitation to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to attend a regular meeting …

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