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Russia, Ukraine Swap 150 POWs In First Exchange In Months
01.06.2024, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia, Ukraine Swap 150 POWs In First Exchange In Months Zelensky and his Western backers, especially the US and UK, have long claimed that it's 'impossible' to sit down with Russia at the negotiating table. Zelensky even just six months into the war had vowed not to re-enter negotiations with Moscow until Putin is no longer in power. But as if inadvertently...
"A Full-Scale War Isn't A Foregone Conclusion", Warns Russian Think Tank Head
01.06.2024, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "A Full-Scale War Isn't A Foregone Conclusion", Warns Russian Think Tank Head Ahead of the "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era" conference in Moscow on Thursday, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Director General Ivan Timofeev told Russian state-owned news agency Tass about the increasing likelihood of a full-scale war between...
Russian Firms Adopt Stablecoins In Cross-Border Transactions With Chinese
31.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Firms Adopt Stablecoins In Cross-Border Transactions With Chinese The stablecoin sector is gaining momentum after a new Bloomberg report revealed that Russian commodities firms have adopted fiat-pegged digital currencies to execute cross-border transactions with Chinese counterparts. Russian commodities firms, trading anything from base...
The Improvement Of Russian-Taliban Ties Opens Up New Opportunities For India
31.05.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Improvement Of Russian-Taliban Ties Opens Up New Opportunities For India Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia is poised to strategically partner with the Taliban upon the impending removal of its domestic terrorist designation, which will in turn revolutionize bilateral relations with Afghanistan. Readers can learn more about each complementary...
Iran's Khamenei Receives Assad, Hails Syria's Resistance To Regime Change Efforts
31.05.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Khamenei Receives Assad, Hails Syria's Resistance To Regime Change Efforts Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Tehran on Thursday for a rare state as part of a condolence message in the wake of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash earlier this month. Assad met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well...
Putin’s Baltic Provocations Are Raising Western Hackles
30.05.2024, 19:55 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - From redrawn maritime borders to suspected sabotage, Moscow is trying to exert power in a long-coveted region....
Ukraine Targets Radars That Are Part Of Russia's Nuclear Warning System
30.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Targets Radars That Are Part Of Russia's Nuclear Warning System Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters that a Ukrainian drone targeted a radar deep inside Russian territory that’s part of Russia’s early-warning system to detect nuclear missiles. The incident marks the second time within a...
Trouble In Paradise: Zelensky Insults Biden Over Absence At Peace Summit
29.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trouble In Paradise: Zelensky Insults Biden Over Absence At Peace Summit Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has increasingly of late lashed out publicly at the proverbial hand that feeds him. He and his top officials have long complained that the billions in approved Western defense aid and shipments have been much too slow to reach Ukraine, giving...
Kremlin Claims 'NATO Training For Nuclear Strike On Russian Territory'
29.05.2024, 18:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kremlin Claims 'NATO Training For Nuclear Strike On Russian Territory' The week following Russia holding tactical nearly drills in its southern military district, near Ukraine, the Kremlin is alleging that NATO is secretly engaged in drills which seek to prepare for a potential nuclear strike on Russian territory. General Vladimir Kulishov, First Deputy...
Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban?
29.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Taliban remain international outcasts due to their refusal to implement a truly ethno-politically inclusive government per their prior promises as well as their treatment of women. Although no tangible progress has been made on either of those...
Putin Threatens West's 'Dense Populations' In 'Small Land Masses' In Response To NATO Escalation
29.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Threatens West's 'Dense Populations' In 'Small Land Masses' In Response To NATO Escalation More and more European officials and NATO countries are on board with allowing Ukraine to use Western-supplied weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory. Among the latest to speak openly about this are NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU foreign...
UK's Sunak Vows Mandatory Conscription For 18-Year-Olds If Elected
28.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK's Sunak Vows Mandatory Conscription For 18-Year-Olds If Elected In another ominous sign of things to come, leading Western governments appear to be preparing for 'something big' at a moment the proxy war between Russian and NATO centered in Ukraine is escalating at uncontrollable pace. "Rishi Sunak has vowed to introduce mandatory national service...
"Global Trade War Looms, But It's Not Just Trade War To Fear"
28.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Global Trade War Looms, But It's Not Just Trade War To Fear" By Michael Every of Rabobank History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking The UK election and the “I will protect you, but forgot my umbrella” Tory campaign have both been shaken up by its pledge to bring back conscription for 18-year-olds. This is seen as a desperate gamble and sad joke by...
The Endgame, Part II: How The Conflict In Ukraine Ends
27.05.2024, 04:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Endgame, Part II: How The Conflict In Ukraine Ends By Tuomas Malinen In this piece I present four scenarios for the ‘endgame’ to the Russo-Ukrainian war. They are: The overruling majority (peace). The immovable majority (wider war). Regime change in Russia (risky conflict). World War III (nuclear holocaust). Scenarios concentrate on the drivers...
NATO Country Says Goal Should Be Breakup Of The Russian Federation
26.05.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Country Says Goal Should Be Breakup Of The Russian Federation Last week, Russian media took note of the latest provocative statements by Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. She has led Russia's tiny Baltic neighbor into a firm hawkish anti-Moscow position. The country was part of the wave of eastern European nations to join NATO in the mid-2000s...
Putin Wants Ceasefire Which Freezes Current Lines In Ukraine
25.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Wants Ceasefire Which Freezes Current Lines In Ukraine President Vladimir Putin is offering a ceasefire with Ukraine and its Western backers to end what has long been a full-fledged proxy war. But it's unlikely to be agreed to by Kiev as he reportedly wants to freeze current positions. "Putin can fight for as long as it takes, but Putin is also...
"Hybrid Pressure": Russian Proposal To Change Baltic Sea Border Briefly Appears Online
24.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Hybrid Pressure": Russian Proposal To Change Baltic Sea Border Briefly Appears Online Russia just gave its Baltic neighbors a big scare this week, after a new draft decree appeared on a government website published by the defense ministry which proposed redrawing 100+ year old borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland as well as around...
China's Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening US Dominance In The Sector
24.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening US Dominance In The Sector Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, China is quickly becoming the world's leading producer of nuclear energy, raising concerns for US competitiveness. China's plans for floating nuclear plants in the disputed South China Sea create tension with neighboring countries. China...
Russia Blasts As 'Fake News' Fresh Pentagon Charge Of Anti-Satellite Weapon In Space
22.05.2024, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Blasts As 'Fake News' Fresh Pentagon Charge Of Anti-Satellite Weapon In Space At a moment nuclear tensions are soaring due to Russia launching tactical nuclear military drills in its southern district near Ukraine this week, Washington and Moscow are trading barbs over allegations of banned weapons in space. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov asserted...
Yellen Threatens German Banks With Sanctions; EU Approves Using Russian Asset Profits For Ukraine's Defense
22.05.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yellen Threatens German Banks With Sanctions; EU Approves Using Russian Asset Profits For Ukraine's Defense In a rare moment of tensions among allies, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is demanding that German bank executives get serious about complying with anti-Russia sanctions, warning further that German banks could find themselves under sanctions...
Putin’s Sleeper Agents
22.05.2024, 09:59 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Europe has kicked out around 400 Russian diplomats since 2022 and caught at least 15 suspected spies. Some of these spies are rumored to be “ghosts” – agents using fake identities of deceased people. In August 2023, Britain shocked its neighbors by charging three Bulgarians with spying for Moscow. These seemingly ordinary people were allegedly...
Russia Confiscates €800 Million From Deutsche Bank, Unicredit And Commerzbank
21.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - The Financial Times reported that a Russian court confiscated €800 million from Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, and Commerzbank. Moscow has had enough after two years of being the target of a weaponized global reserve currency, being kicked out of SWIFT, countless (toothless) sanctions, and witnessing the freezing and eventual confiscation of about $350...
Russia Confiscates €800 Million From Deutsche Bank, Unicredit And Commerzbank
21.05.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Confiscates €800 Million From Deutsche Bank, Unicredit And Commerzbank After two years of being on the receiving end of a weaponized global reserve currency, getting booted from SWIFT, countless (toothless) sanctions and watching some $350 billion of its assets be frozen and soon confiscated, Moscow has had enough, and over the weekend the...
Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi's Helicopter "Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated"
20.05.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi's Helicopter "Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated" Following Tehran's early Monday confirmation of the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials after their helicopter went down over mountainous terrain near the border with Azerbaijan...
Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub
20.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Continued maritime exports to the Indian Ocean Region across the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean Seas might be deemed strategically undependable due to tensions with the West, hence the need to pioneer a more reliable alternative...
Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: Russia & China - Two Against One
19.05.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: Russia & China - Two Against One Authored by Ray McGovern via Consortium News Chinese President Xi Jinping’s extremely warm reception of President Vladimir Putin yesterday in Beijing sealed the increasingly formidable Russia-China strategic relationship. It amounts to a tectonic shift in the world balance of power. The Russia-China...
Ukraine Launched Its Largest-Ever Drone Attack On Russia While Putin Was In China
18.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Launched Its Largest-Ever Drone Attack On Russia While Putin Was In China In what appears an intentionally-timed message, Ukraine's military launched its largest-ever drone attack on Russian territory while President Putin was visiting China where he held two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. "Fifty-one UAVs were destroyed and intercepted over...
White House Reacts To Ultra-Rare Putin-Xi Hug During Visit Highlighting Closer Military Ties
18.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Reacts To Ultra-Rare Putin-Xi Hug During Visit Highlighting Closer Military Ties The Biden administration has reacted to what might be called the hug heard around the world (or 'felt' perhaps). During the last day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to China where he met with President Xi Jinping, the two shared an ultra-rare...
Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery
17.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery In defiance of repeated warnings from the Biden administration, the Ukrainian military continues ramping up kamikaze drone attacks on the Russian energy complex, a move to crush the nation's crude oil and...
Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling
17.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling The continued inevitable and disastrous slide into a WW3 nuclear-armed confrontation between Russian and the West continues as The New York Times reports NATO appears to actually be seriously mulling sending troops to Ukraine to serve in the role as 'trainers' at a moment Kiev...
Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat
17.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat Russia has hit back at the UK's latest diplomatic moves against Moscow, on Thursday ordering the expulsion of the British defense attache from the country. "The defense attaché at the British Embassy in Moscow, A. T. Coghill, has been declared persona non grata. He must leave the territory...
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable"
16.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" Interview with Martin Armstrong by Piero Messina for SouthFront Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
FBI And DHS Issue Warning On Foreign Terrorist Groups For June "Pride Month'
16.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI And DHS Issue Warning On Foreign Terrorist Groups For June "Pride Month' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a public service announcement saying that foreign terrorist organizations like ISIS and related terrorist organizations could target certain events across the United...
'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up
16.05.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up Russian President Vladimir Putin has for the first time explained the rationale behind this week's major cabinet reshuffling, which for the first time of the Ukraine operation saw Sergey Shoigu removed as defense minister (and 'promoted' to head of the national security council),...
Russia Advances on Kharkiv as Ukraine Struggles to Fight Back
15.05.2024, 20:44 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Moscow is exploiting Biden’s restrictive rules on U.S. weapons use to make gains, Ukrainian officials say....
Gazprom’s Declining Fortunes Spell Trouble for Moscow
15.05.2024, 11:24 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The gas giant’s record loss should worry the Kremlin on several fronts....
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation'
14.05.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation' The Biden administration has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin's significant cabinet shake-up announced Sunday, wherein Putin tapped Andrey Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to move into the position of defense minister. Sergei Shoigu...
Who Is Russia’s New Defense Minister?
13.05.2024, 21:25 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Putin’s appointment of economist Andrei Belousov suggests Moscow is digging in for the long haul....
Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing
13.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing For the first time since Russia launched its major cross-border offensive into Ukraine's Kharkiv region (it began last Friday), Ukraine's government has acknowledged that Moscow forces have made rapid gains. Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the military administration of the Kharkov Region, has said Russia...
Ukraine Warns Against Questioning Zelensky's Legitimacy Due To Wartime Suspension Of Elections
13.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Against Questioning Zelensky's Legitimacy Due To Wartime Suspension Of Elections The end of Volodymyr Zelensky's five year term as president of Ukraine is set to end by the close of May, at least according to what was stipulated upon his getting elected, however, the government has made it clear there will be no new election. Officials...
Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region
12.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region By Andrew Korybko of the Korybko substack The five objectives that are enumerated in this piece encapsulate what Russia nowadays aims to achieve after over two years of intense proxy warfare with NATO. Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia’s long-awaited offensive had finally...
First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter?
11.05.2024, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter? A high-ranking UK military source has told London's daily Evening Standard newspaper that F-16 fighters will be delivered by the Western allies to Ukraine "within weeks". The official indicated that the aircraft are due to arrive by June, or at least July at the latest...
Embracing Communist China Was Washington's Greatest Strategic Failure
11.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Embracing Communist China Was Washington's Greatest Strategic Failure Authored by James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer via RealClearPolitics.com, From the war in Ukraine to the horrific terror attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent conflict in the Middle East to the roiling waters of the South China Sea, the world today is in crisis. The causes are not...
Biden Unveils Latest $400M Package For Ukraine, But US Artillery Shells Already Depleted
11.05.2024, 00:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Unveils Latest $400M Package For Ukraine, But US Artillery Shells Already Depleted The Biden administration on Friday announced its third tranche of new aid for Ukraine since President Biden signed into effect Congress' $95 billion foreign aid package, which includes $60 billion total funding for Ukraine. This newest authorized package is for $400...
Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine
10.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine Following several more cross-border attacks from Ukraine, including direct drone hits on Russian oil facilities over the past 48 hours, Russian forces have launched a surprise ground offensive which seeks to break through front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv...
West Fueling Global Conflicts, Trying To Topple Moscow, Putin Says On WW2 Victory Day
10.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - West Fueling Global Conflicts, Trying To Topple Moscow, Putin Says On WW2 Victory Day As fully expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a defiant tone in his speech at Moscow’s Red Square for the annual events commemorating Russia's WW2 victory. Addressing thousands of soldiers in ceremonial attire, Putin accused the "arrogant" West of stoking...
Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes
09.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes Large-scale Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become an almost daily event, but Wednesday saw a "massive" wave of Russian missiles launched on vital power grid sites, according to Ukraine authorities. Ukraine is now warning of nationwide power cuts...