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Mar 17 2023
News
Slovakia To Donate 13 MiG-29 Fighter Jets To Ukraine
Slovakia said Friday it will donate 13 MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine, becoming the second NATO member -- following Poland -- to pledge the aircraft, which the Kremlin warned would be "destroyed".
"We will hand over 13 of our MiG-29 jets to Ukraine," Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger told journalists, adding that Bratislava would also deliver a Kub air defence system to Ukraine.
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International Business TimesApr 01 2023
Analysis
Why Putin Is Watching Bulgaria's Election Closely
Bulgarian voters will go to the polls on Sunday for the fifth time in two years, hoping for an as-yet elusive result from the ongoing contest between Boyko Borissov of the center-right GERB party and Kiril Petkov, who leads the We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria anti-corruption coalition (PP-DB). Both are former prime ministers.
Bulgaria, a NATO nation since 2004 and a
NewsweekNov 15 2022
News
Russian missiles cross into Poland during strike on Ukraine
A Russian missile barrage on the Ukrainian power grid sent the war spilling over into neighboring countries Tuesday, hitting NATO member Poland and cutting electricity to much of Moldova.
The strikes plunged much of Ukraine into darkness and drew defiance from President Volodymr Zelenskyy, who shook his fist and declared: “We will survive everything.”
It was Russia’s biggest
Associated PressDec 15 2022
Opinion
Top 5 reasons America must support Ukraine and help it defeat Russia
The Congress is considering an end-of-year spending bill containing billions in new military aid to Ukraine. Is additional support to Ukraine in the interests of the U.S.?
First, consider Russia’s actions. Russia has long been a geo-strategic foe of the United States, and its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine is only the latest in a series of actions hostile to American security and
Fox News (Opinion)Apr 11 2023
Analysis
The ongoing scandal over leaked US intel documents, explained
On Friday, news organizations realized something quite remarkable: A trove of 100 secret US military and intelligence documents had been posted in the far-flung corners of the internet.
The files reveal closely held information about US operations, like a suggestion there are up to 100 NATO special operations officials in Ukraine, and details about casualty counts for both Russia and
VoxApr 14 2023
Analysis
When ‘Top Secret’ Is Not So Secret
Why would a 21-year-old national guardsman be in a position with access to top secret documents to begin with?
The dramatic arrest on Thursday of Jack Teixeira, an airman in an intelligence unit in the Massachusetts Air National Guard who federal authorities believe is linked to a leak of reams of classified documents, lays bare the sheer volume of people who have clearance to view a
New York Times (News)Jan 23 2023
News
Germany Will “Not Stand in the Way” of Shipments of Battle Tanks to Ukraine
Germany’s government has signaled it will allow NATO allies to ship German battle tanks to Ukraine, despite warnings from Russia that the move could escalate the war. Over the weekend, Germany’s foreign minister said she would “not stand in the way” if Poland decided to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine without German approval. In Ukraine, there’s fresh fighting along frontlines in
Democracy Now!Mar 21 2022
News
U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Says No U.S. Troops Will Join Proposed Ukraine Peacekeeping Mission
Ahead of an extraordinary NATO summit where Poland is expected to propose a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Sunday the U.S. would not provide troops for any such mission.
“I can’t preview what decisions will be made at this NATO conference and how NATO will respond to the Polish proposal,” Thomas-Greenfield told CNN’s “State of
CNSNews.comFeb 25 2023
Opinion
China’s ‘peace plan’ on Ukraine is utter self-serving bull
What a pack of self-serving bull Beijing just dropped in its supposed “peace proposal” for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Most glaringly, it ignores the fact that Russia is China’s “unshakable” ally, so declared at the Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin sitdown last February — at which Xi plainly signed off in advance on Putin’s decision to invade, asking only that Moscow hold off until the Olympics
New York Post (Opinion)Mar 27 2023
Perspectives Blog
What Just Happened in Tbilisi, Georgia — and Why it Matters
In Tbilisi, the capital of the country Georgia, citizens recently found themselves in a battle with their own government for what they believe is their Western future.
Georgia – a country not often covered in American media – is strikingly similar to one that now is. While battle rages in Ukraine, the also former Soviet Republic was in a similar situation as recently as 2008. With
Andy Gorel