The 41-year-old Washington Capitals captain urged his teammates to “do some special things” in his final year in the league Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin will retire after the current NHL season, he told his teammates in a video shared on social media. In the short clip, which was filmed in the team’s locker room on Monday, the 41-year-old Russian said he was sad to tell his teammates he would soon be leaving, while urging them to “have fun and enjoy the moment” and “do some special things this year.” Ovechkin, who was born in Moscow, has faced controversy over his unapologetic support for his home country. He was placed on Ukraine’s semi-official ‘kill list’ of purported enemies of the state after setting the NHL’s all-time goal record last year and has recently faced sanctions. Alex Ovechkin announced to his teammates...
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The operations are reportedly part of a massive fraud industry said to be worth billions to corrupt officials in Kiev Swiss police are investigating a sprawling fraud operation with suspected links to Ukrainian scam call centers, an industry said to be worth billions to corrupt officials in Kiev, Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) has reported, citing law enforcement officials. According to a report on Sunday, NEDIK, the police network coordinating Switzerland’s fight against digital crime, recently recorded an increase in fraud offenses suspected of having links to Ukraine. The network declined to provide nationwide figures “for tactical reasons,” but noted that at least four fraudulent call centers in Ukraine have been identified in international investigations involving Swiss authorities, with Swiss and German citizens among their main victims. One investigation by Bern authorities, reportedl...
Poland and Romania say they can’t help transit agricultural exports following Zelensky’s escalatory warfare against Russia Poland and Romania have refused to help Kiev move millions of tons of grain – which got stuck in Ukraine following Vladimir Zelensky’s war on exports – into the EU, Politico reports, citing officials in Warsaw and Bucharest. Zelensky’s 40-day campaign resulted in Russia implementing a de facto blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, with the wider consequences of the strikes estimated at 1.5% of the country’s collapsing GDP. Last week, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky appealed to the EU for a €1.1 billion ($1.23 billion) allocation to improve transit capacity, which would help free large quantities of grain – Ukraine’s key source of income – trapped in the country. The request came after Zelensky’s 40-day PR ...
All 12 aircraft were ordered to return home after reported warnings of an alleged plot against RAF Fairford The US has rushed to withdraw bombers from an air base in the UK after receiving new threat information about an alleged terrorist plot against the facility, the New York Times reports, citing sources. The announcement cited by the NYT comes a week after five men were arrested near RAF Fairford in what was trumped as a high-level security operation which hosts US bombers used in the war against Iran. However after an hysterical media reaction in the UK, the five, all British citizens in their early 20s, were released on bail the following day. Days later, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham claimed that London had "strong indications" that Iran could have been behind the incident, which only came to life after a local farmer called the police, having seen a group of men run from their whit...
Former French MEP Florian Philippot has argued that Western assistance should be spent to lower petrol taxes Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to rally against continued aid to Ukraine as part of a nationwide protest organized by former MEP Florian Philippot, who is running in France’s 2027 presidential election. The protesters called on French President Emmanuel Macron to halt aid to Ukraine and pushed for France’s withdrawal from the EU and all supranational institutions, including NATO. Apart from Paris, the right-wing Les Patriotes party, led by Philippot, organized rallies in Aubiere, Annecy, Grenoble, Perigueux and Chaumont, highlighting issues such as fuel costs, freedom of expression and peace. The demonstration comes after a series of mass protests has gripped France in recent weeks, with students taking to the streets alongside broader lab...
The Israeli prime minister has traveled unchallenged through states that are party to the court despite being “a wanted fugitive,” Stanley Cohen has told RT The International Criminal Court (ICC) is being weakened by the “impotence” of its member states and the UN, renowned American criminal-defense and human-rights attorney Stanley L. Cohen has told RT. “Unless the international signatories to the Rome Statute and the UN begin to take action against those countries that are seeking to silence, if not end, the call to justice from the ICC, then its power is obviously going to be weakened,” Cohen said in an interview on Friday. Cohen pointed to the freedom of movement Western nations have afforded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite an outstanding ICC warrant for his arrest. In 2024, the Hague-based court issued warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister,...