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President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ukraine’s army chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, following days of street protests across major cities. The Ukrainian leader appointed Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi to replace the Soviet-trained commander on Tuesday evening. The abrupt shake-up follows a political crisis triggered by the firing of former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov last week. Protesters…
Nuclear-armed states are pulling warheads out of storage and mounting them on delivery systems, researchers warned on Monday, as weapons of mass destruction take on a sharper role in global politics at a moment when arms control frameworks are crumbling. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said the world’s nuclear powers held an estimated…
Armenians went to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election widely viewed as a referendum on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s pivot toward the West, a shift that has strained the country’s traditional alliance with former imperial ruler Russia. The election is seen as a test of the government’s efforts to forge a peace…
Seven heavyweights of the OPEC+ alliance will add 188,000 barrels per day to the global market in June. Saudi Arabia and Russia led the group in a virtual meeting on May 3 to tweak supply levels. This small increase forms part of a wider effort to unwind voluntary cuts first made in 2023. The move…
President Donald Trump will invite Vladimir Putin to December’s G20 summit in Miami. The administration maintains that all members must attend the leaders’ gathering. This move signals a deliberate shift in Western diplomatic posture. It prioritizes direct engagement over the isolation seen since 2022. The Kremlin has yet to confirm the Russian leader’s attendance. Trump…
A 32-hour temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for Orthodox Easter commenced Saturday afternoon, even as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the four-year conflict remain stalled. The Kremlin announced it had ordered a truce from Saturday at 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) until the end of Sunday. Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and army chief…
Russia has committed to ending the recruitment of Kenyan nationals into its military forces following high-level diplomatic talks in Moscow between Kenyan Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday, March 16, 2026. Mudavadi announced the breakthrough agreement during a joint press briefing with Lavrov, confirming that Kenyan citizens would…
A devastating drone attack targeted a civilian passenger train in Ukraine on Wednesday morning. Multiple news agencies report that the strike resulted in several fatalities and numerous injuries among passengers. This incident represents a significant escalation in the targeting of critical civilian transport infrastructure. Emergency services arrived quickly at the scene to manage the…
Since late 2021 when the Russian government started massing troops and military supplies close to the Ukrainian border, fears of war and military aggression in Eastern Europe spiked beyond any level since 2014 when same Russia annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine. The border move was repeatedly criticized by the US government as provocative and…