(MOSCOW) – Igor Girkin, a former intelligence officer and key figure in the 2014 annexation of Crimea, has issued a series of warnings from prison predicting a revolutionary collapse of the Russian Federation. Girkin, once a staunch ally of the Russian dictator, was imprisoned for public dissent after highlighting theContinue Reading
(SAMARA) – A regional legislator in the Samara region has openly challenged the Russian dictator, demanding that officials share responsibility for the manifest failure of the military invasion of Ukraine. Grigorii Eremeev, a deputy in the Samara regional duma, broke a 25 year precedent of absolute legislative compliance by deliveringContinue Reading
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Newly released documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein have revealed an extensive number of references to Moscow and the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. According to Ukrainian media reports, Putin is mentioned approximately 1,000 times within the files, while the city of Moscow appears over 9,600 times.Continue Reading
(LONDON) – Bill Browder, founder of the Hermitage Capital Fund, recounted his experiences confronting Russian state corruption and oligarchic theft, a struggle culminating in the murder of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and the passage of the Magnitsky Act. Browder, born in Princeton, New Jersey, comes from a politically active family.Continue Reading
(KYIV) – Russia does not have the manpower needed to launch a new large scale offensive in Ukraine in the fifth year of the war, according to former British Major General Chip Chapman. Chapman said Russia’s recruitment efforts are sufficient only to replace losses and maintain existing forces, not toContinue Reading
(MOSCOW) – Russia is seeking about 1.2 trillion rubles (roughly US$12.4 billion) to reduce a growing federal budget deficit and sustain its military campaign in Ukraine as oil and gas revenues fall sharply. Official budget plans for 2026 allocated 12.9 trillion rubles (about US$133.5 billion) to defence spending, but Moscow now anticipates a shortfallContinue Reading
(KYIV) – Russian forces continued to conduct thousands of assaults across Ukraine in January, but their territorial gains fell by roughly half compared with the previous month, according to open source battlefield monitoring data. Figures published by the Deep State monitoring project show Russian troops captured about 245 square kilometresContinue Reading
(MOSCOW) – Russian authorities have detained a regional politician after he publicly declared that Russia cannot win its war against Ukraine and should end the conflict immediately, according to independent media and rights monitors. Grigory Yuramov, a 69 year old local politician from Russia’s Samara region, was arrested after deliveringContinue Reading
(MOSCOW) – Pro Kremlin economists have publicly acknowledged that Russia has entered a banking crisis, citing surging bad loans, heavy withdrawals by depositors and widespread closures of bank branches. Analysts aligned with the Russian authorities said the share of non performing assets in the banking system has crossed levels widelyContinue Reading
(KYIV) – Ukrainian forces have destroyed two Russian infantry fighting vehicles and eliminated an assault unit after a failed fog covered attack, pointing to continued weaknesses in Russian battlefield coordination and communications. According to Ukrainian military sources, two Russian infantry fighting vehicles carrying a total of 14 troops attempted toContinue Reading
