Czechoslovak Group to Buy U.S. Ammo Makers with Financing from JP Morgan Chase
CSG is reiterating its intention to pay $1.91 billion for numerous U.S. ammunition makers, having secured financing through JP Morgan Chase.
CSG is reiterating its intention to pay $1.91 billion for numerous U.S. ammunition makers, having secured financing through JP Morgan Chase.
Russian oil firms are reportedly having trouble collecting payments from customers in China, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because buyers have grown more nervous about triggering U.S. sanctions against Russia.
Mourners gathered for the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny faced a heavy police presence in Moscow on Friday.
Friends and allies of Alexei Navalny say they cannot find a public or private funeral agency in Moscow willing to host a ceremony.
The Kremlin dismissed a U.S. warning about Russia developing nuclear capabilities in space as a hoax to get more money for Ukraine.
The interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announced by Tucker Carlson has been confirmed to have taken place by the Kremlin.
The Kremlin and Russian state media have attempted to blame Ukrainian “interference” for the shocking scenes witnessed in Dagestan on Sunday.
The Hamas terrorist organization sent a delegation to Moscow on Thursday for a meeting with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
The Kremlin denies a rumor that President Vladimir Putin was recently crippled by a stroke and replaced with a body double.
Poland has begun to enforce a ban on Russian-registered passenger cars, as the Kremlin threatened to cut diplomatic ties with Brussels.
Several Russian journalists on Monday published photos of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander known as “General Armageddon” for his aggressive tactics who has not been seen in public since Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his ill-fated mutiny in June.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fatal plane crash might have been caused on purpose, but Russia will not allow an investigation measuring up to international standards to discover the truth.
Ukrainian political and religious leaders have objected strongly to a speech by Pope Francis exalting Russian history.
Vladimir Putin signed a decree requiring paramilitary fighters in “volunteer formations” to swear an oath of allegiance to the Russian flag.
The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed Western suggestions Wagner Group warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin had been murdered on its orders in a plane crash as an “absolute lie” while adding confirmation of his death is dependent on test results.
Russia accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the aircraft fall near the Defense Ministry.
A top spokesman for Russian leader Vladimir Putin confirmed on Monday that the strongman met with the head of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), Yevgeny Prigozhin, on June 29, five days after Prigozhin led thousands of his soldiers in an abruptly halted mutiny against the Russian military.
Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner is not capable of staging a coup against the Kremlin, following speculation that he may seek to overthrow and replace Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine denied responsibility after fighting broke out in Russia’s Belgorod region, saying it is the work of anti-Putin freedom fighters.
The car of prominent pro-Kremlin novelist Zakhar Prilepin exploded in Russia on Saturday, injuring him and killing his driver.
A “new level” of attack may be imminent after an alleged drone strike on the Kremlin — “the symbol of Russian power,” according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who warned of a major escalation that could determine the war’s outcome.
The Chinese Global Times government newspaper described the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin early Wednesday morning as the crossing of a “red line” in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine: the targeting of heads of state.
Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that leader Vladimir Putin was “calm and collected” in the face of what Russia claimed to be a Ukrainian assassination attempt against the president.
Russia announced on Wednesday that security would be increased across Moscow, and Victory Day celebrations scaled back, due to the possibility of attacks by alleged Ukrainian saboteurs.
Russia says it prevented a drone strike on Kremlin, as dramatic video footage shows what they claimed to be a “terrorist attack”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the occupied Donetsk region of the eastern Donbass on Tuesday, meeting wounded soldiers and assessing the battleground situation after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin revealed, had toured eastern Ukraine on Monday.
A top Kremlin foe was convicted Monday on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military and sentenced him to 25 years.
Russia’s “high priority” to gaining ground near Donetsk, a British intelligence says, noting “minimal gains” despite “significant resources”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday refused to comment on the arrest of former President Donald Trump, ostensibly because doing so would constitute interference with America’s internal affairs. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, however, ventured that Trump’s arrest represented a “crisis of liberalism.”
Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s top spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, departing Moscow after a friendly visit this week, did not discuss “the Ukrainian peace formula” in their hours of dialogue together.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin lavished praise on visiting Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday as Xi began his visit to Moscow.
Russia is taking passports from “increasingly disaffected” officials to prevent them fleeing abroad, the British Ministry of Defence said.
Western sanctions against Moscow have insulated the Russian financial system from the banking crisis, the Kremlin claims to believe.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit the White House on Friday for a private meeting with President Joe Biden. The two will reportedly spend time alone together as both allies look to secure further weapons and funding for Ukraine while working on a joint plan to stymie any attempt by China to do the same in support of Russia.
The Kremlin on Friday confirmed a report that Russian President Vladimir Putin will give his long-delayed 2022 annual address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023, a date chosen to coincide with the anniversary of his attack on Ukraine.
Moscow has slammed suggestions that the West should send fighter jets to Ukraine, labelling the idea that such a transfer of weapons might not escalate tensions “absurd”.
The Russian military on Monday claimed it was able to make advances against Ukrainian forces in the Kherson and Kursk regions.
The toll from a devastating strike was expected to rise past 40 as rescuers searched the rubble for 25 people still missing.
Military aid due to be sent from Western nations to Ukraine will only “prolong the suffering” of the country, Russia has warned.