Military Casualties In Russia-Ukraine War Are Likely Less Than Commonly Stated

At the start of March, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated that the Russian military casualties exceeded 150,000. Meanwhile, several reports indicate that Ukrainian military casua...

Secretary Of State Blinken Unexpectedly Meets With Russian Counterpart At G20 Meeting

Topline Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had an unscheduled meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in New Delhi, multiple outlets report, as tensions esca...

Iran Sees Ukraine War As Marketing Opportunity For Drones It Denies Supplying Russia

The U.S. has disclosed further evidence that Iran is arming Russia with armed drones for the war against Ukraine. While Iran maintains this is not the case, it sees the European war as a ripe opportun...

Covert Israeli Operations Against Iranian Missiles And Drone Plants Might Help Ukraine

Israel is the prime suspect behind the suspected drone attack on Saturday against a military target near the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The attack occurred a little over a day after an Israeli o...

Why Russian Officials Are Referencing The Cyprus Missile Crisis

Russian officials have referenced the Cypriot Missile Crisis of the late 1990s in their warnings to Greece about potentially transferring its Russian-built S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine...

America’s Tough M2/M3 Bradley Mini-Tanks Are Perfect For Ukraine

U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicles maneuver near the Iraqi border Getty Images A report from Bloomberg suggests the U.S. Government is “considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine” in a ...

Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles

Greece has reportedly expressed its willingness to transfer its Russian-built long-range S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine if the United States replaces them with a MIM-104 Patriot. “...

Iran Is Once Again Using Its Civilian Airliners To Ferry Arms

Iran is presently using its fleet of civil airliners to ferry armed drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine. It is the latest example of Tehran using these aged aircraft to transport armaments and mil...

Iran’s Burgeoning Arms Exports To Russia Could Be A Sign Of Desperation

Iran is exporting a record number of its domestically-produced armed drones to Russia and will soon export its indigenous ballistic missiles to Moscow. A top Iranian general has also said that 22 coun...

Rival Middle East Powers Are Now Arming Both Sides Of A European War

On Sept. 13, Ukraine’s defense ministry tweeted photos of the remains of an Iranian-built Shahed-136 drone its forces had shot down over the country’s eastern Kharkiv province. The incident occurred j...

Russia’s Arms Acquisitions Mirror That Of Pariah 1980s Iran

Shortly after Russia received its first batch of the “hundreds” of armed drones the White House said it is importing from Iran in August, declassified U.S. intelligence revealed that Mosco...

H&M Fully Exits Russia, Joining Global Brands Like Nike And McDonald’s

Topline Fashion retail giant H&M is undertaking steps to completely shut down its business operations in Russia, the company announced on Monday, joining other major global brands like Nike and Mc...

The Sudden Surge In Gas Prices Didn’t Happen Overnight. Here’s Why.

Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar HOUSTON, TEXAS – JUNE 09: A gas pump is seen at a Chevron gas station on June 09, 2022 in Houston, … [+] Texas. Gas prices are breaching record highs as d...

Billionaire Former F1 Boss Bernie Ecclestone Says He’d ‘Take A Bullet’ For Putin

Topline British billionaire and former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “first-class person” in a TV interview on Thursday, breaking rank with several other business ...

Pope Decries Russian ‘Cruelty’ In Ukraine But Suggests War Was ‘Provoked’

Topline Pope Francis once again criticized the “brutality and ferocity” of Russian troops in their ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a conversation with the European Jesuit media published on Tuesday, st...

Kremlin Ousts Official Who Called Ukraine War A ‘Catastrophe’

Topline The Kremlin dismissed Natalia Poklonskaya from her government role Monday, just weeks after she became one of the few Russian officials to criticize its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in the late...

With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade

Any of these Black Sea ships, waiting to access a Romanian Port, can carry an anti ship missile. Getty Images In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break ...

Will Russia Annex Kherson From Ukraine Next? Kremlin And Local Authorities Lay Groundwork.

Topline A Russian-backed local official in the southern Ukrainian Kherson region said Wednesday he plans to formally seek for the Russian government to annex the region and the Kremlin hinted it may w...

Ukraine Halts Russian Gas Flow To Key Transit Point, Blames Disruption On Occupying Forces

Ukraine’s gas pipeline operator on Wednesday shut down the flow of Russian gas through a key transit point in the east of the country which is currently occupied by Russian troops, in a move that coul...

Nearly 60 Feared Dead After Russia Bombs School Building Sheltering Civilians, Ukrainian Governor Says

Topline Nearly 60 people are feared dead after a Russian bomb struck a school building in the eastern Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka, the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region said on Sunday, as ...

Kremlin Calls Reports Of May 9 War Declaration ‘Nonsense’—But The U.S. And U.K. Believe Putin Has Something Up His Sleeve

Topline Russia has no plans to declare war against Ukraine as part of its Victory Day celebration May 9, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, but mounting Western intelligence suggests Russ...

Russian Oligarch Oleg Tinkov, Who Lost Billions After Russian Invasion, Calls War On Ukraine ‘Evil’

Topline Oleg Tinkov, the former billionaire who is one of the few prominent Russian business figures to speak out against his country’s war on Ukraine, made his sharpest attack on the Kremlin yet in a...

Pope Seeks Putin Meeting And Compares Russian ‘Brutality’ To Rwandan Genocide

Topline Pope Francis said he’s offered to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an interview published Tuesday that included his firmest condemnation yet of Putin, comparing the viol...

Over 3,000 Civilians Killed In Ukraine Since Russia Invaded, U.N. Says

Topline The United Nations’ civilian death toll in Ukraine related to Russia’s invasion surpassed 3,000 Monday, a grim milestone as casualties from the war continue to pile up at an alarming rate. Pic...

Latest Estimates Suggest Russian Troops Have Been Hit Harder

Topline Tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have died since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and third parties estimate the losses among Russian troops are the greatest. Ukrainian soldiers...

Putin Alleges Ukraine And CIA Are Plotting To Kill Russian Journalists In Latest Conspiracy Theory

Topline Russian state media latched onto a dubious plot to assassinate some of the most famous Russians tied to the country’s state-run media operations Monday, a plot President Vladimir Putin alleged...

After Ukraine/Russia Pullout, Polish Fashion Group LPP’s Inventory Weighs On Share Price

Reserved shop inside Galeria Krakowska shopping mall in Krakow. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via … [+] Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is starting to sho...

Will Putin Nuke Ukraine?

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches training launches of ballistic missiles as part of the … [+] Grom-2022 Strategic Deterrence Force exercise, from the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow o...

Stocks Jump As Investors Prepare For Bigger Fed Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation

Topline The stock market finished slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing ...

Stocks Rise As Experts Call For Bigger Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation

Topline The stock market opened slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing nu...

Will Turkey Supply Ukraine S-400s And Get Back In U.S.’ Good Graces?

In recent weeks several proposals have been made to arm Ukraine with Russian-built military hardware from the arsenals of NATO member states. There was Poland’s widely-reported offer of its flee...

Ukrainian ‘Crypto Rainmaker’ To Testify In Senate Hearing On Digital Assets

On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing called “Understanding The Role of Digital Assets in Illicit Finance”. While hearings on cryptocurrency have...