Eurasia Press & News

Macron will stay in close contact with Zelenskiy and European and G7 members to extend support. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to augment military assistance to strengthen Ukrainian armed forces as Russian attacks intensify. The announcement comes close after attacks by Russia across Ukrainian cities that reportedly claimed several …

Immediately upon Monday’s major wave of airstrikes on dozens of cities and towns across Ukraine, the Zelensky government renewed its appeal for Washington to urgently send more anti-air defense systems to help “close the skies” – as President Zelensky had earlier in the war said to Congress. President Biden in …

President Vladimir Putin may meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan this week to discuss a Turkish proposal to host talks between Russia and the West on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia had not received any signals about the prospect of negotiations with …

Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country’s west amid protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police as oil workers demonstrated at a key refinery, activists said. Riot police fired into residential neighborhoods in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan …

Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman have spread to workers in the oil and gas sector, online videos appear to show. Videos posted on social media Monday show demonstrations taking place at Asaluyeh, Iran’s large offshore natural gas field on the Persian Gulf. Workers can be …

The Biden administration, unlike the administration of President Barack Obama, has decided to take an activist approach to aiding anti-government protests in Iran in response to the death of a young woman (this time for not wearing the required headscarf properly). Not only did President Joe Biden publicly side with …

The Albanian President Bajram Begaj called a meeting of the National Security Council in Tirana on Monday, with senior government officials in attendance, to discuss matters related to the ongoing cyberattacks against state infrastructure by Iran. Over the weekend, the Homeland Justice Telegram channel, which has served as an outlet …

A U.S.-led coalition drone strike in northeastern Syria on Monday killed an Islamic State group militant, a a Kurdish-Syrian security official said. Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, the official told The Associated Press that the strike targeted the IS member driving a motorcycle in the village …

The delivery of the artillery systems from Slovakia to Ukraine is scheduled to start from 2023. Germany, Norway, and Denmark have decided to jointly purchase 16 ZUZANA-2 self-propelled wheeled tank howitzers from Slovakia to provide additional assistance to Ukraine. The move was announced on 2 October. The procurement of the …

Zelenskiy also thanked the US for providing HIMARS to strengthen the Ukrainian troops’ offensive stance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed the delivery of national advanced surface-to-air missile systems (NASAMS) from the US, according to media reports. The development follows a recent announcement made by US President Joe Biden to …