🇩🇪⚡The head of the German Navy resigned late Saturday after coming under fire at home and abroad for comments he made on Ukraine and Russia.
Speaking at an event in India on Friday, Vice Adm. Kay-Achim Schönbach had said Ukraine would not regain the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Schönbach also said it was important to have Russia on the same side against China, and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved “respect.”
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Speaking at an event in India on Friday, Vice Adm. Kay-Achim Schönbach had said Ukraine would not regain the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Schönbach also said it was important to have Russia on the same side against China, and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved “respect.”
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German Navy chief resigns following Ukraine comments
Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht accepted the resignation and appointed Vice Adm. Kay-Achim Schönbach's deputy as interim naval chief.
⚠️ US, Russia face off at UN Security Council over Ukraine crisis
Ambassadors to the United Nations from the US and Russia traded verbal blows Monday during the first public meeting of the UN Security Council since the crisis in Ukraine came to a head.
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US, Russia face off at UN Security Council over Ukraine crisis
Ambassadors to the United Nations from the US and Russia traded verbal blows Monday during the first public meeting of the UN Security Council since the crisis in Ukraine came to a head.
China is the highest threat to the US economy, which has already reached a new level, FBI Director Christopher Ray
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 A fifth plane from the United States arrived in Kiev, which delivered 84 tons of ammunition to Ukraine
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US battling to swing Thailand away from China
Chinese submarines and American stealth fighter jets are both on the menu for Thailand’s military-aligned government.
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Chinese submarines and American stealth fighter jets are both on the menu for Thailand’s military-aligned government.
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US battling to swing Thailand away from China
NONG KHAI, Thailand – You can see China’s inexorable southern thrust along the Mekong River where tall, fanciful, Chinese buildings sprout on the Laos side of this sleepy northern border, spa…
🇺🇸⚡The White House said on Monday that it had developed "specific sanctions packages" to strike at Russian "elites" who are "in or near the inner circle of the Kremlin" should President Vladimir Putin order an invasion of Ukraine.
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🇺🇦 UKRAINE – Almost 30 trucks with humanitarian aid from Poland arrive in Kyiv
Note: UK, Poland and Ukraine formed a new military alliance against a possible Russian invasion.
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Almost 30 trucks with humanitarian aid from Poland arrive in Kyiv
More than 120 tonnes of humanitarian aid from the Government of Poland have arrived in Kyiv. — Ukrinform.
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🇺🇸⚡US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Europe later this month to meet with NATO allies amid tensions with Russia over its military buildup near Ukraine, a Voice of America reporter wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Austin will attend a NATO defense ministerial on Feb. 16-17.
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Austin will attend a NATO defense ministerial on Feb. 16-17.
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Vladimir Putin's Ukraine obsession
Russian President Vladimir Putin has an obsession that is so close and yet so far: to return Ukraine to Moscow's fold, in the name of Russia's greatness.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has an obsession that is so close and yet so far: to return Ukraine to Moscow's fold, in the name of Russia's greatness.
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Vladimir Putin's Ukraine obsession
Russian President Vladimir Putin has an obsession that is so close and yet so far: to return Ukraine to Moscow's fold, in the name of Russia's greatness. For many Russians of his generation, who were
BOOM – State Department spokesman- Yes, it is time to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US Embassy in Kiev will provide financial assistance to US citizens who wish to leave Ukraine on commercial flights.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia's security concerns over Ukraine.
In his first direct public comments on the crisis for nearly six weeks, a defiant Putin showed no sign of backing down from security demands that the West has called non-starters and a possible excuse to launch an invasion, which Moscow denies.
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In his first direct public comments on the crisis for nearly six weeks, a defiant Putin showed no sign of backing down from security demands that the West has called non-starters and a possible excuse to launch an invasion, which Moscow denies.
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🇲🇨🇺🇦 Poland Will Send Shoulder-Fired Anti-Aircraft Missiles To Ukraine
The Polish military aid package for Ukraine is set to include portable anti-aircraft missiles, drones, and ammunition.
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The Polish military aid package for Ukraine is set to include portable anti-aircraft missiles, drones, and ammunition.
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Poland Will Send Shoulder-Fired Anti-Aircraft Missiles To Ukraine
The Polish military aid package for Ukraine is set to include portable anti-aircraft missiles, drones, and ammunition.
EU wants India to join in financing initiative for Indo-Pacific to counter China
France which assumed the presidency of the European Union last month wants to work with India to ensure transparent financing in the Indo-Pacific region, said a top French diplomat.
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France which assumed the presidency of the European Union last month wants to work with India to ensure transparent financing in the Indo-Pacific region, said a top French diplomat.
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EU wants India to join in financing initiative for Indo-Pacific to counter China
France which assumed the presidency of the European Union last month wants to work with India to ensure transparent financing in the Indo-Pacific region, said a top French diplomat. The European
While the world watches Ukraine, Putin is quietly occupying Belarus
In a three-and-a-half hour address to the nation last week, the autocratic Belarusian leader declared, “If our country faces an aggression, there will be hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers here, who will defend this sacred land together with hundreds of thousands of Belarusians.”
Lukashenka spoke as Russian troops continued to pour into Belarus, with many taking up positions along the country’s 1000km southern border with Ukraine.
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In a three-and-a-half hour address to the nation last week, the autocratic Belarusian leader declared, “If our country faces an aggression, there will be hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers here, who will defend this sacred land together with hundreds of thousands of Belarusians.”
Lukashenka spoke as Russian troops continued to pour into Belarus, with many taking up positions along the country’s 1000km southern border with Ukraine.
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While the world watches Ukraine, Putin is quietly occupying Belarus
As the world watches for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is quietly occupying neighboring Belarus and dramatically altering the Eastern European security balance in Moscow's favor.
🇺🇸USAF, 🇦🇺RAAF & 🇯🇵JASDF aircraft at US Andersen Air Force Base, Guam for Cope North 22 exercise amid tensions with China in the Pacific region.
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Putin classic: always accuse the other side of things you do yourself: 'Kremlin Urges U.S. to Stop Escalating Tensions'
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Kremlin Urges U.S. to ‘Stop Escalating Tensions'
The Kremlin on Thursday urged the United States to stop inflaming tensions after Washington sent several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe amid the Ukraine crisis.
Update: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg: Russia’s annual nuclear forces exercise, expected to take place this month.
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