"Defense from a genocidal invasion is not an offensive capability. It's survival," argued Kelly, whose twin brother, Mark Kelly, is a Democratic U.S. senator from Arizona. In a pair of replies on Sunday,Musk tweetedthat "Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine," before say...
republics could be free to make a more considered decision on joining the revamped Soviet Union he is still struggling to create. In that sense, independence “can be the basis of a new union,” Gorbachev said, according to the Russian Information Agency. ...
“We know that Putin views the collapse of the Soviet Union as a disaster,” Bowman says. “We know he resents the success of NATO. We know that he genuinely reviles the expansion of NATO eastward. We know that he has an eye on history, he's getting older, he is mindful of how ...
The veteran foreign service officer, who has spent most of her career in the shadow of the former Soviet Union, was nominated to the position last month by President Joe Biden. She was confirmed unanimously by the Senate without a formal roll call vote. American diplomats evacuated Kyiv when ...
”Following him, in April 2021, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik,statedthat if the West did not help Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia, the country would launch a nuclear program and create an atomic bomb. And on February 19, 2022, before the start of Russia’s ...
U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan. A meeting of the leaders of those countries, along with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel concluded before 10:30 ...
Intelligence on Russian deaths have widely varied and been extremely difficult to calculate. But the large toll would represent a stunning loss for Russia, which expected a rapid takeover of the country. For comparison, the Soviet Union lost around 15,000 troops during its war in Afghanistan fro...
and "color revolution" in many states around the world in order to maintain its global hegemony. Russia, as the successor state of the Soviet Union, was unable to continue the competition with the US on the global stage, hence it chose to retain its traditional influence in Eurasia and the...
Ukraine at present has at least three Patriot systems, including one supplied by the US and two from Germany, before Berlin’s announcement last week. Kyiv also operates long-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the former Soviet Union, including the S-300 and S-200 systems. A...
world leaders addressed their nations to condemn what they cast as the most momentous challenge to the postwar order in Europe for 80 years. “[Putin] has much larger ambitions than Ukraine,” said Joe Biden, US president. “He wants to, in fact, re-establish the former Soviet Union. That...