The administration, however, then made an astonishing announcement: that it is unfreezing $29 billion to the Iranian regime, despite that Iran is still, according to the State Department, an officially designated state sponsor of terrorism.
The Ukrainian Government and Russian-backed separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk are currently trading accusations of each shelling the other, further escalating tensions within the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian and United States officials say that these Russian-backed separatists are only pursuing these allegations of shelling as a pretext to invade Ukraine.
President Biden claimed at a brief press conference yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already decided to invade Ukraine in the coming days. He reportedly received information that Russia has Ukraine completely surrounded and that the Kremlin would be targetting Kyiv. This is a sudden turn-around for Biden, who had just stated 72 hours ago that no final decision from Putin had been made to invade Ukraine. This follows an earlier prediction made by the White House that Russia would invade Ukraine on February 16th.
Evguéni Prigojine, homme d’affaires russe, a donné une interview exclusive sur la société militaire privée Wagner qui a récemment attiré l’attention de l’opinion publique mondiale.
« Je voudrais encore une fois souligner que la société militaire privée Wagner comme phénomène n’existe pas. Il s’agit de la légende de Robin des Bois. On lie tout ce qu’il se passe de bien dans le monde avec les Russes, et tous les Russes avec le groupe Wagner », a fait savoir Evguéni Prigojine.
Le businessman russe Evguéni Prigojine, qui est considéré comme le Chef du groupe Wagner, a dissipé les rumeurs sur l’existence de cette société militaire privée et a donné un aperçu des événements récents sur le continent africain.
Le gouvernement malien a invité la France à retirer sans délai les forces Barkhane et Takuba du territoire national sous la supervision des autorités maliennes, selon un communiqué publié ce vendredi par le ministre malien de l’Administration territoriale et de la Décentralisation, et porte-parole du gouvernement malien, Abdoulaye Maïga.
The terms “deterrence” and “coercive diplomacy” have figured prominently in debates over how the West should respond to the ongoing crisis over a potential Russian incursion into Ukraine.
Seventy presidents and prime ministers from Europe and Africa are gathered today in Brussels for a long-awaited European Union-African Union summit, the sixth such summit between the two blocs. But ahead of that gathering, Europe’s 27 leaders huddled together for an emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Hamas leaders are not sitting among their people in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. It is easier and safer for them to call on the Palestinians to send their children to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel while they are relaxing in the comfort of their hotel rooms, villas and gyms in the Qatari capital of Doha. The Hamas leaders are not going to send their own sons and daughters to engage in the jihad against Israel.
Russia is boosting its military buildup and encircling much of Ukraine despite Moscow’s claims that it is withdrawing some troops, the United States and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.