First Look UK determined to send migrants to Rwanda, despite ‘unlawful’ ruling The British government’s response to the growing number of migrants arriving from around the world was to give them a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled the plan unlawful. The government vows to make changes and press on with the plan.…
Responsibility Europe Russia’s nuclear saber rattling: A threat or wake-up call for the West? | View caption Hide caption Threats would appear to signal conflict. But the Kremlin’s nuclear diplomacy, seen by the West as risking escalation, is categorized as a longer-term strategy of deterrence in Russia. Tensions have been rising in the East-West confrontation…
Cooperation Europe As Poland votes, its close partner Ukraine becomes a political football | View caption Hide caption If one European nation has stood by Ukraine in its war with Russia, it is Poland. But that partnership is under strain as Poland nears crucial national elections and parties try to take advantage of voters’ frustrations.…
First Look Poland freed itself from communism. Now it’s fighting for democracy. Sunday’s elections in Poland may be the most important since 1989, when the nation threw off communist rule. Those activists who once fought communism are now divided – and many are worried that Polish democracy is at stake. | View caption Hide caption…
Yevgeny Balitsky, the top Moscow-appointed official in the Zaporizhzhia region, has confirmed that Russian forces have abandoned the Ukrainian village of Robotyne. This revelation comes after Kyiv declared the successful recapture of the village. Mr Balitsky has issued a statement addressing the situation in Robotyne. He reported that Russian forces had “tactically abandoned” the settlement,…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian former convict and restaurateur who founded the Wagner mercenary army, is presumed dead after a plane he was reportedly traveling in crashed Wednesday in a field between Moscow and St. Petersburg, his hometown. Russia’s civil aviation agency said Prigozhin’s name was on the flight manifest of the Embraer private jet, along…
Vladimir Putin’s Russia could have handed Kyiv a huge boost after Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly killed when a private jet crashed just outside Moscow. As the leader of Wagner, Prigozhin had controlled the private military group as it worked alongside the Kremlin as Russian forces battled into Ukraine. But the warlord became…
Moscow has accused Ukraine of carrying out a “terrorist attack” after an airbase on was targeted. Images show thick smoke billowing over , after the Soltsy military airport was hit by explosives this morning. The said the at around 10am local time. “The Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack using a copter-type UAV on…
Seven people — including a 23-day-old baby girl — were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on Sunday, the country’s Internal Affairs Ministry said. Artillery shelling in the village of Shiroka Balka, on the banks of the Dnieper River killed a family — a husband, wife, 12-year-old boy and 23-day-old girl —…
Eastern European countries should expect “further provocation” by Belarusian leader and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Polish Ambassador to the US has warned. As on Tuesday, one high-ranking official issued a warning about Minsk and Moscow’s “growing aggressiveness”. Speaking as Warsaw is sending 10,000 troops to its border with in support to the al:…