Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia is technically prepared for a nuclear war, and that should the US send troops to Ukraine, it would be regarded as a considerable escalation of the war.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has stated that Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be welcome at the Olympic Games to be held in the French capital this year.
Republican Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, reported that Congress’s priority is to finalise the budget of the US government for the year 2024. As this matter is nearly resolved, attention will soon shift to the aid package for Ukraine and its partners.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Ukraine should be left as a “buffer zone” between Russia and the West, which would provide certain security guarantees but not admit Ukraine as a member of the EU or NATO.
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has reported that Major Oleg Stegachov, the crew commander of a Tu-95 strategic bomber, was shot dead in Engels, Russia.
László Toroczkai, leader of the Hungarian far-right Mi Hazank party, has announced claims to Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast if Ukraine loses its statehood as a result of the war.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has said that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will likely end the war against Ukraine only when he feels that he cannot win it, and it is dangerous to hope for any further agreements with Russia.
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, says the West is one step away from deploying troops in Ukraine, but Budapest does not want a war.
Russian and Belarusian Steam accounts can no longer activate games developed by Sony.
Vladimir Putin has expressed his dissatisfaction over Ukraine?s reluctance to engage in negotiations and condemned the Ukrainian side, saying that but for them, ?it would all have been over long ago?. The president of the aggressor state made the comments at a meeting with the heads of the municipalities of the constituent...
Poland will demand that Russia provide explanations after a Russian missile violated NATO airspace on the night of 23-24 March.
Russia produces almost three times as much artillery ammunition as the United States and Europe combined, according to Western intelligence estimates.
The United States does not provide Ukraine with capabilities to conduct strikes outside its territory, focusing instead on ensuring that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have everything they need to defend and protect their own country.
Pope Francis has once again urged Ukraine to hold peaceful negotiations with Russia after being criticised due to his position concerning the war in Ukraine.
russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes that it is Western countries that threaten to use nuclear weapons, not russian President Vladimir Putin.
Radio Liberty has analysed a video of Russian soldiers on the battlefield leading Ukrainian soldiers forward and firing at Ukrainian positions under their cover.
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President of the European Commission, has confirmed that the EU started working on the next 14th sanctions package against Russia due to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The residents of the Russian city of Orsk have started a protest due to the insufficient compensation provided to those affected by a massive flood by the authorities.
A Russian state-owned company exported almost 212,000 tonnes of grain from the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in 2023 alone, worth an estimated US$46 million. Ukrainian grain is being shipped to Türkiye, Libya, and Israel. European companies are also involved in the process.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that his intuition tells him that EU countries will eventually find arguments to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to unblock €50 billion in funding for Ukraine.
Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has instructed newly appointed Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Sergei Maslyak to search for oil in the country.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is “thinking” about replacing the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and changing the direction of the country’s leadership.
The Kremlin plans to carry out mass relocation of residents of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan to the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, believes that Russian propaganda gained some ground in the US Congress since the members of the Congress are spreading false narratives about Russia’s war against Ukraine.
ISW has yet to find any visual evidence that Ukrainian forces have damaged or destroyed aircraft or infrastructure at any of the four Russian airbases targeted by drones on the night of 4-5 April.
