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Kyiv: Ukraine began to prepare for Russian invasion last year
Adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Mykhailo Podolyak said that Ukraine began to prepare for war last year, while weapons from the allies began to arrive only in January.
"If Ukraine did not prepare for war, why did the first Russian strikes fell on mock-up targets, all ammunition was spread out, and exercised were held in January and February ?" Podolyak wrote on Twitter, arguing that not only the Western intelligence was acting on the data about the Kremlin's …
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Rebranded McDonald’s to reopen in Russia under new name and ownership
Former McDonald’s fast food restaurants will reopen in Russia on Sunday under new branding and ownership, after the American company pulled out of Russia last month in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
The new restaurant chain is yet to be named, but its logo will have an orange circle and two diagonal yellow lines, according to Sistema PBO, the Russian firm that purchased the former McDonald’s restaurants.
The relaunch will begin on Russia Day, a patriotic day celebrating the country’s …
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Putin: our goal is to ‘take back and strengthen’
At a meeting with young entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the goal of modern Russia is to "take back and strengthen."
Putin compared the current situation with the events of the Northern War (1700-1721) between Russia and Sweden and stressed that Peter I did not take anything away from the neighboring country during this period, instead "he took it back."
"Peter I waged the Northern War for 21 years," Putin explained. - It would seem that he fought with …
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Russian-backed separatists sentence two British and one Moroccan Mariupol defenders to death
A tribunal in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, which now controls the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, has sentences two UK citizens and one Moroccan to death, Russian state media has reported.
Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner of Britain and Saadun Brahim of Morocco were charged as working as foreign mercenaries. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic was recognized by Moscow on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The tribunal is not internationally recognized.
Russian media …
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Huawei closing its stores in Russia
One of the world's largest telecommunications companies, Huawei, began to close its official stores in Russia, reports RIA Novosti, citing a source close to the company.
"The first store closed down in the Riviera shopping center in Moscow on February 28. Then the stores in Novokuznetsk, Ufa and Rostov-on-Don were closed. Thus, out of 19 official stores, only 15 continue to operate," RIA Novosti’s source said.
The source claims that the main reason for the closure is the shortage of products …