Eurasia Press & News
On February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine, bombarding multiple cities, and killing soldiers and civilians. Russia’s attack plunged Europe into one of its most serious security crises since World War II. As a result, President Joe Biden, European leaders, and other US allies announced severe sanctions, targeting major Russian financial institutions …
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5 May
Russian Forces Storm Mariupol Azovstal Steel Plant After Civilian Evacuation
SOFREP’s Guy McCardle had recently reported on evacuations being underway at Mariupol’s Azovstal Steel Plant complex after months of heavy bombing from the Russian forces. Today, over 150 women and children who hid in underground bunkers have successfully reached safety in Zaporizhzhia as per the ICRC. According to reports, it …
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5 May
Ukrainian Special Forces Have ‘Stug-Buggies’ Out Hunting Russian Tanks
A peculiar Ukrainian military buggy has been spotted being used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight off Russian tanks. How do we know that these all-terrain vehicles are blowing up tanks? Well, it has a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile mounted on top of it. The resourceful Ukrainians are at …
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5 May
European Union Joins Germany in Phase Out Russian Oil by the End of the Year
The European Commission has announced its plan to eliminate regional imports of Russian oil gradually. The ban is part of the sixth proposed European Union sanction package imposed on Russia for its aggression against Ukraine. The proposal is yet to be approved by the members of the 27-nation bloc as …
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5 May
The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine
If there is indeed a shift in strategy to another level of confrontation with Russia, we need to know what we’re getting into. To judge by its latest statements, the Biden administration is increasingly committed to using the conflict in Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia, with as …
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5 May
Tell us how this war in Ukraine ends
As calls grow for a ‘victory’ over Russia, we should examine whether such a win-lose outcome is even possible. Tell me how this ends. General David Petraeus famously posed this question at the outset of the Iraq War in 2003. In retrospect, to say that the Bush administration’s expectations for …
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5 May
Reckless and ruthless? Yes. But is Putin insane? No.
Declaring someone irrational leads to a place in which no one wants to negotiate, because, no one wants to talk to crazy people. A number of things about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are not in doubt: that it was a deeply criminal act; that it has been accompanied by great …
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5 May
11 Years Later, al-Qaida Is Stronger, on Its Way To Recentralizing
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan paved the way for the Islamist group to regain a safe haven This week marks 11 years since the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaida. On May 1, 2011, US President Barack Obama announced his death, slain during a US …
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5 May
Russian Spy Chief Naryshkin Claims Poland Seeks To Dismember Ukraine, But Others Impute The Same Designs To Russia
On April 27, 2022, the Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service [SVR], Sergey Naryshkin, (whom Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) claimed that the Polish authorities are planning to take control of Ukraine. Russia has made these charges before[1] but Naryshkin now claimed that …
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5 May
Has Ukraine war given Erdogan free hand at home?
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be aiming to tighten his grip on the domestic front, taking advantage of Ankara’s rising profile amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Turkish court sentencing of prominent Turkish philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala and seven other defendants on April 25 in the trial …
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