• As sanctions set in, Russian oligarchs putting up their private jets for sale

    Russian billionaires are putting up their private jets for sale. Vladimir Potanin, Yuri Shefler, Rustem Teregulov, Alexander Svetakov, Arkady Volozh, Eduard Berman are selling their aircraft, reports Ukrainska Pravda, citing its sources.

    The newspaper notes that information about the sale of the Gulfstream G650 business-class aircraft owned by oligarch Vladimir Potanin, president of the Interros holding and Norilsk Nickel, has been posted on the classified website Controller. The price of the …

  • Slovenian PM: No one in Europe will pay Russia for gas in rubles

    Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša said no European country will pay Russia for gas in rubles, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported. The remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will demand “unfriendly” countries pay for gas with Russian rubles.

    “I have decided to implement a set of measures to transfer payments for our gas supplies to unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin stated.

    Speaking ahead of the EU Summit in Brussels, Janša explained, “I don’t …

  • NATO calls on China to condemn Russia over invasion of Ukraine

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the leaders of the alliance urge China to uphold international order and condemn Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

     “Our message to China is that they should join the rest of the world and clearly condemn the brutal war against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg stated during a press conference following a meeting of the alliance’s leadership.

    China is retaining its diplomatic and economic ties with Russia and has thus far failed to provide any …

  • US State Department formally accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine

    US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released a statement on Wednesday formally accusing Russia of committing war crimes during the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

    “We’ve seen numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks deliberately targeting civilians, as well as other atrocities.  Russia’s forces have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, civilian vehicles, shopping centers, and ambulances, leaving thousands of innocent civilians …

  • Russian Defense Minister disappears from public eye for 12 days

    Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu has stopped appearing in public since March 11, that is, he has not been seen for 12 days out of 28 that Russian troops have been in Ukraine, said the journalist from the news outlets Mediazona and Agentstvo, Dmitry Treshchanin.

    Shoygu's associates are saying that he is unwell and is having heart problems, Shoygu’s friend told Agentstvo.

    The Russian Defense Minister was mentioned in a message on the Kremlin's website on March 18, which says that Vladimir …