US journalist Evan Gershkovich will go on trial on espionage charges in Russia’s Urals city of Yekaterinburg behind closed doors on June 26, the court overseeing the process said on Monday. The Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in March 2023 while on a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg and has been held in Moscow’s notorious … Read more
Europe’s gas imports from Russia overtook supplies from the US for the first time in almost two years in May, despite the region’s efforts to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels since the full scale invasion of Ukraine. While one-off factors drove the reversal, it highlights the difficulty of further reducing Europe’s dependence on gas … Read more
RUSSIA will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to bolster the West African nation’s defence capabilities and fight terrorism. This announcement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a visit to Burkina Faso, as reported by Russian state media on Wednesday. ‘From the very first contacts between our countries after … Read more
RUSSIA air defences have shot down 10 U.S.-made ATACMS missiles over the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea overnight, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday morning. It was not possible to independently verify the claim. The Defence Ministry also reported that 17 Ukrainian drones and other projectiles were shot down over the Russian … Read more
IN a landmark ruling, the Press Council of South Africa ruled that Die Vrye Weekblad, a South African online publication, breached various clauses of the Press Code that governs South African media in its reporting on the African Peace Mission to Ukraine and Russia, in June 2023. The publication and its editor were instructed to apologise to Paramount and … Read more
UKRAINE has received the bodies of 140 soldiers killed while trying to defend the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson from Russian attacks. The authority responsible for prisoner of war matters said on Telegram on Friday. Five bodies were from the Sumy section in northern Ukraine. Russia has no Ukrainian territories under its control … Read more
IN a fervent display of dissent, hundreds of demonstrators converged on the streets of Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Saturday, demanding the withdrawal of US troops. The protest follows a significant policy shift by the ruling junta, which terminated a military agreement with the United States and welcomed Russian military instructors. Marching in solidarity through central Niamey, protesters … Read more
UKRAINE has accused Russia of illegal chemical gas attacks against its soldiers. Ukrainian troops told the UK Daily Telegraph that Russia has regularly attacked them with small drones dropping teargas and other chemicals. Trojan News reports that the use of such substances, also known as CS, is banned during wartime under the Chemical Weapons Convention. … Read more
RUSSIAN President, Vladimir Putin, had said last month that the country was “one step away” from developing vaccines against cancer. With adequate funding and support from lawmakers, Russian medical researchers might be able to roll out oncological vaccines within the next couple of years, a high-ranking official at the Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said … Read more
AN Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane crashed in Russia on Tuesday, after one of its engines failed during take-off, the Defense Ministry has reported. RT reports that the aircraft had 15 people on board, including eight crew members and seven passengers, citing a statement from the Defence Ministry. According to the report, the incident happened … Read more