Highly decorated Russian general Andrey Mordvichev, 49, who distinguished himself in the assault on Mariupol port city (2022) and the Battle of Avdiivka (2023-2024), two defining moments in the Ukraine conflict, has been appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces on May 15, 2025 amidst expectations of a major Russian offensive on the anvil …
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Ukraine’s mineral resources, December 10, 2024 [SOURCE: NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence] Moscow and Kiev have been vying with each other to curry favour with the new US administration. Just as Russian diplomacy appeared to be outstripping Kiev, things changed dramatically on April 30 with the signing of the so-called minerals deal between the …
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Russian president’s Special Representative on investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev had two days of consultations with US administration officials, Washington, DC, April 3, 2025 The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the …
Ukraine’s president Vladimir Zelensky (L) with European leaders and NATO chief at the European summit, Paris, March 27, 2025 In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements who rule the roost in Kiev are a formidable obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. For …
The United States President Donald Trump (R) received the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Mark Rutte, White House, Washington, March 13, 2025 The US President Donald Trump by far outstrips any of his predecessors in post-cold war era in the transparency of his foreign policy agenda and in his attempt to connect the …
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US President Donald Trump (L) disclosed that he has addressed a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) suggesting talks on the nuclear issue, Washington, March 5, 2025 Through the past three year period, Moscow claimed that it faced an existential threat from the US-led proxy war in Ukraine. But in the past …
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) gave a highly public show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) greeting the Ukrainian president on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street, walking towards him and immediately throwing his arm around him. Inside No. 10, Starmer told Zelenskyy he has “full backing across the United Kingdom.” London, March 1, 2025 …
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A meeting between US President Donald Trump (C) and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) veered sharply off track in front of TV cameras and ended abruptly, White House, Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2025 The dramatic scene in the Oval Office on Friday evening signals that President Donald Trump is decoupling the US from the ‘forever …
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum, Vladivostok, September 5, 2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin has outwitted the West by his response to Ukraine’s Kursk offensive one month ago, which was widely celebrated as a tipping point in the conflict. The conflict is indeed at a tipping point today, …
The family photo of G7 summit in Italy, June 13, 2024 One hidden transformation of the international system in the most recent years has been the hijacking of the G7 by Washington as its ‘kitchen cabinet’ in the transatlantic system. The G8’s ‘shrinkage’ to G7 in March 2014 following the coup in Ukraine was a …
