Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says “enemy sabotage groups” have entered Kyiv, the capital, as Russian forces close in. Two loud booms were heard from the city at around 4 a.m. local time. A residential building in Kyiv caught fire, sparked by what appeared to be rocket debris, and the capital’s …

Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar: Saldırıya geçen Rus askerlerinden ciddi kayıplar söz konusu. Ukrayna’yı savunan askerlerimizde de kayıplar var, siviller arasında da kayıplar olduğu bilgisi geliyor. ‘RUS ORDUSUNDA KAYIPLAR SÖZ KONUSU’ Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar, büyükelçilikte basın mensuplarının sorularını yanıtladı. Büyükelçi Bodnar, saldırıların devam ettiğini belirterek, “Ukrayna topraklarında Rus …

This morning, (February 24, 2022) Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the Russian public, after having addressed it three days earlier, announced the start of a ‘special operation’ in Ukraine. While still clinging to the narrative that this was a defensive action to protect the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk the Russian …

Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order. In that battle, Russian President Vladimir Putin is living up to the worst expectations of Western policymakers and analysts. Unlike Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr. Putin …

The leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania on February 23 signed a joint declaration in Kyiv on February 23 saying Ukraine deserves to be granted candidate status for membership in the European Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the declaration sent an important signal to the people of Ukraine, and …

The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in …

The entry of the Taiwanese delegation in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 served again as a reminder of the largest dilemma plaguing international relations in East Asia today. As the Guardian aptly reported, its “athletes had to march under a banner saying Chinese Taipei …

Pakistan’s Taliban movement, led by its most vicious and largest group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and apparently buoyed by the recent triumph of their ethnic Pashtun cousins in Afghanistan, is revitalizing its strategy either for regional autonomy or to overthrow Pakistan’s government and replace it with an Islamic Emirate of Pakistan …

In early January… in a bolder, less expected and potentially damaging geostrategic move that angered all four of Turkey’s Mediterranean rivals (Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt), the Biden administration silently abandoned an eastern Mediterranean pipeline project (EastMed) that would carry Israeli gas through Cyprus to Europe. “By undermining the project, …

Se a Europa não se der ao respeito através da reconfiguração da sua política de segurança e energética, todos os países do ex-Pacto de Varsóvia sentirão um medo constante e, nesse medo, as forças extremistas e pró-russas ganharão ainda mais peso, criando assim o sonho de Putin: dividir a Europa …