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The Ukrainian president has reiterated calls for more weapons from the West in a UK state TV broadcast Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ©  Ukrainian Presidency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has vowed that his country will not make any territorial concessions or compromises with Russia as Moscow has allegedly already launched its predicted spring offensive. Speaking to the BBC on Thursday, he stated that “Russian attacks are already underway in several directions.”  Zelensky noted that Kiev’s forces will hold back Moscow’s attacks until they are able to launch their own counter-offensive. To that end, he reiterated his pleas for more Western arms, explaining to the British state broadcaster that “weap...

A video displaying the murder of a captured Russian soldier has turned out to be a hoax Dmitry Yakushchenko speaks to the media on February 15, 2023. ©  RT Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private military company Wagner Group, has confirmed that Dmitry Yakushchenko, a soldier who was previously assumed by some to have been executed, is alive. Yakushchenko came into the media spotlight this week, after a video purportedly showing his execution was published on social media. In it, he confessed to deserting Wagner and going to the Ukraine-controlled side. He claimed that he had been abducted in Ukraine for a “trial” before an unidentified person appeared to smash his head with a sledgehammer. The video was heavily blurred. Since the ‘execution’ vi...

Ukraine and its backers want to accuse Moscow of causing radiation contamination, the Defense Ministry has said FILE PHOTO. Journalists stand outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during an IAEA inspection in April, 2022. ©  John Moore / Getty Images Kiev and its Western supporters are planning to accuse Russia of contaminating parts of Ukraine with radiation from the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has warned. Norway was named as one of the alleged co-conspirators. A statement from the ministry on Tuesday asserted that Kiev will accuse the Russian military of breaching safety protocols when it controlled the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last year. It will be claimed that Russian troops spread radioactive materials across Ukraine a...

The State Department reacted to Russia’s request for a UN probe of the pipeline destruction FILE PHOTO: US State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks at the daily briefing ©  Nicholas Kamm / Pool via AP As the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions did not take place in US waters, Washington believes it's more appropriate for the countries whose territory was involved to investigate the matter, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Wednesday. “I would leave it to our partners on whose territory – on whose soil as it were – these blasts occurred to speak to the appropriate investigative mechanisms,” Price said during a daily briefing. Price declined to comment on the news that Russia has called a session of the UN Security Council fo...