The 31-year-old has asked for asylum in neighboring Romania, citing his desire to avoid the draft A Ukrainian man is facing charges in Romania after fleeing to the country in small aircraft to escape the draft in his homeland. According to the Romanian Border Police, the man crossed the border in the mountainous region of northern Romania, landing in a field near the village of Fratautii Vechi in Suceava County on Sunday. Photos shared by Romanian media show that he used a German-made Ikarus Comco C22, a two-seat, high-wing, tricycle-gear ultralight aircraft. Residents who spotted it alerted the emergency services, prompting a response from local police and border guards. Officers identified the man as a 31-year-old Ukrainian, with database checks confirming he had not entered Romania legally. He was taken to the local border police headquarters, where he requested asylum, saying he was fleeing the draft in Ukraine. Ucraineanul de 31 de ani a solicitat o formă de protecție tempor...
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The civilian facility in Lebanon operated by a local partner was attacked without provocation, a Russian agency has said Moscow has accused Israel of an “unprovoked act of aggression” after Israeli forces struck a Russian cultural center in Lebanon. The attack on the facility in the southern city of Nabatieh was reported on Sunday by its director, Asaad Diya, who said the building was empty at the time. Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international humanitarian cooperation agency, which has an official office in Beirut, said its staff remain in contact with Lebanese partners and are actively providing relief to civilians affected by the hostilities. Israel renewed airstrikes and ground operations in Lebanon earlier this month, targeting the militant movement Hezbollah, after joining the US in a regime-change war against Iran. Rossotrudnichestvo stressed that the Nabatieh cultural center “was not involved in any military activity” and that the attack was unjustifiable. The agency ...
The US president said America could strike the country “twenty times harder” if it stops the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz A new wave of US-Israeli strikes has killed at least 40 people in Tehran, with the overall civilian death toll in the conflict on the Iranian side exceeding 1,300, according to local media and officials. US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iran “twenty times harder” if it continues to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the strikes. He also said Iran “made a big mistake” in selecting Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who takes the post. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held a phone call with Trump on Monday, said the escalating conflict risks entirely choking off the region’s oil exports through the now “de-facto closed ” Strait of Hormuz. But will the Iran war make Russia ri...
More than 160 children were killed in a single attack on the first day of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran Washington has denied responsibility for a strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that killed more than 160 children in the opening hours of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. RT’s Isabella Blumberg examines how the US has handled deadly strikes on civilians in previous wars. Videos of the February 28 bombing – verified by several news agencies – appear to show the school struck by what looks like a Tomahawk missile, a weapon used by US forces in the conflict. Investigations by Reuters, the Washington Post, the New York Times, AP, CNN and other outlets concluded that US forces likely destroyed the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab while striking nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites. In previous wars – including the 2015 bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz and the 1991 strike on Baghdad’s Amaria shelter – s...
Gold ix being sold to absorb the oil price shock – but no amount of tinkering with margin requirements can address physical shortages. The moment we all wondered about has come. Oil has surged past $100 per barrel and markets are coming under serious strain. When I wrote an initial reaction to the Iran war last week, markets were still clearly pricing a “nothing to see here” scenario. With the system of global governance in shambles and institutional checks conspicuously lacking, I wrote that markets may now be the only force left capable of imposing constraint. Think of markets as a congress that has to approve a continuation of war – except this congress can’t be bought off so easily. US officials, of course, are still downplaying the carnage (in markets, that is – the carnage in Iran is a source of pride). President Donald Trump called the oil spike a small price to pay for security, while the US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the recent surge in oil prices reflects a tempo...
The Commission chief has used the Middle East escalation to question the global order and push for a more militarized security doctrine European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has failed to condemn the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying “there should be no tears shed for” Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the initial strikes. Speaking at an annual conference of EU ambassadors on Monday, von der Leyen brushed aside debate over whether the attack on Iran “is a war of choice or necessity,” portraying it instead as opening “a path towards a free Iran.” “I believe this debate misses the point,” she said. “I want to be clear: there should be no tears shed for the Iranian regime. This regime has inflicted death and imposes repression on its own people.” AB Komisyonu Başkanı Ursula von der Leyen: ''İran rejimi için gözyaşı dökülmemeli. Bu rejim kendi halkına ölüm getirdi ve baskı uyguladı. 17 bin genci katlettiler. Bu rejim, vekil g...