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US transfers confiscated Russian funds to Estonia for Ukrainian aid
The United States has transferred $500,000 in confiscated Russian funds to Estonia to aid Ukraine, repoted the US Department of Justice.
According to the department, the funds were seized by the US following the interception in 2022 of an illicit attempt to import into Russia a high-precision coordinate grinding machine produced in America, intended for use "in the defense sector and in the sphere of nuclear weapons proliferation."
The machine does not require an export license to European …
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Czech Republic seeks funding to supply millions of ammunition rounds to Ukraine
Czech Republic has identified a way to procure 3.5 million rounds of ammunition for Ukraine but needs funding to do so, said the country’s president, Petr Pavel at the "Ukrainian Lunch", hosted by the Pinchuk Foundation in Munich.
Speaking during a panel discussion involving leaders from five EU member states, Pavel addressed the challenges related to supplying arms and ammunition to the Ukrainian forces. He stated that Prague has devised a means to arrange such deliveries.
"We need to …
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Bild: on the eve of his death Navalny was supposed to be part of prisoner exchange
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s foremost critic of President Vladimir Putin, is reportedly dead. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced this information on Friday, February 16. However, Western media are questioning why news of the supposed death of the key Russian political prisoner has emerged now, reports the German newspaper Bild.
The publication speculates that Navalny could have been exchanged in the coming weeks or months for Vadim Krasikov, who assassinated a former Chechen …
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NATO plans to supply Ukraine with one million drones
NATO member states are set to deliver one million drones to Ukraine, establish a training center, and also form a demining coalition, as announced by the Alliance's defense ministers.
"A group of allies is coming together with the purpose of sending one million drones to Ukraine. We need to move from the slow peacetime production rates to the high-speed production that the conflict demands," said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference following the defense ministers' …
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Russia faces banana shortage after suspending imports from Ecuador
Moscow faces a banana shortage after attempting to punish Ecuador over arms shipment to Ukraine, prompting Rosselkhozbank to suggest growing bananas in Russia, reports Agensvo Novosti.
In January, Ecuador agreed to hand over old Soviet military equipment to Ukraine, in exchange for new American weapons. In early February, Russia's agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said it had discovered medfly infestations in Ecuadorian bananas and suspended their import from February 5.
Moscow has …