Kiev’s fight against Russia allows the Hungarian prime minister to “grow his belly” instead of an army, the Ukrainian leader has claimed Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has launched yet another personal attack on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, telling him that thanks to Kiev, he could “think about how to grow his belly” instead of building a capable army. The two have long been at odds due to Budapest’s refusal to support Ukraine. Zelensky delivered the remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, arguing that Ukraine is defending the entire EU from Russia. “It’s Ukrainians who are holding the European front. Behind our people stands an independent Poland and the free Baltic states,” he claimed. ”And even one Viktor can think about how to grow his belly, not how to grow his army to stop Russian tanks from returning to the streets of Budapest,” he said, referring to the 1956 Soviet incursion into Hungary to suppress a popular revolt. Read more ‘We don’t want to di...
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If launched, a campaign against the Islamic Republic could escalate into “a far more serious conflict” than previously seen, according to the news agency The US military is preparing for a sustained, multi-week operation against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, Reuters has reported, citing two administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity. Washington has intensified military pressure on Tehran amid negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program. The Islamic Republic has recently said that it is ready for both diplomacy and military confrontation. A military campaign against Iran could escalate into “a far more serious conflict” than previously seen between the two nations, the officials told Reuters on Saturday. As part of a probable campaign, Washington could carry out strikes on Iranian state and security facilities, not just nuclear infrastructure, one of the officials said, providing no specific details on the plans. The sources specifi...
The bloc should move away from overreliance on US security guarantees, the UK prime minister has said European NATO members must move from “overdependence” on the US and toward more autonomy and “hard power,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said. This comes as Washington has pressed the rest of the bloc to increase defense spending, and amid a transatlantic rift on a number of policies. At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Starmer is expected to argue that while “the US remains an indispensable ally,” Britain’s future rests on closer ties with European powers. In a preview of the speech published by the prime minister’s office on Friday, he said: “Europe must shift from overdependence to interdependence – forging a new path towards sovereign deterrence and hard power.” He went on to describe Europe as a “sleeping giant” in terms of military potential, while lamenting that this capability “has [often] added up to less than the sum of its parts.” Read more The lib...
The imprisoned leader is innocent, Delcy RodrÃguez told NBC as the US energy secretary visits Caracas to overhaul the oil sector Nicolas Maduro remains Venezuela’s legitimate leader despite his capture by US forces a month ago, the country’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, told NBC News on Thursday. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were seized in a US military raid on Caracas on January 3 and flown to New York, where they are being held in federal custody facing drug trafficking charges. Both have pleaded not guilty. Rodriguez, who served as Maduro’s vice president, assumed power following the intervention. Rodriguez insisted that both Maduro and Flores are innocent and condemned US actions. At the same time, she has moved to normalize relations with Washington. She told NBC she has been invited to the US capital and is “contemplating coming there once we establish this cooperation.” US Energy Secretary Chris Wright arrived in Caracas on Wednesday to assess the country’s oi...
Kiev could receive 35 interceptors for US-made Patriot systems from its Western backers soon, Boris Pistorius has said Germany is willing to supply five interceptor missiles for US-made Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, but only if other European countries agree to provide 30 more, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said. It usually takes two Patriot missiles, priced from to $3.5 to $5 million each, to intercept a single target. Russia deploys dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones in its airstrikes on Ukraine. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov asked for more munitions for the air defense systems during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein group, in Brussels on Thursday. Vladimir Zelensky previously blamed the lack of supplies by Kiev’s Western backers for Ukraine’s inability to repel Russian attacks on military and dual-use infrastructure, which led to rolling blackouts in major cities. “There will be no light because t...
The 62-year-old sent “a peek” of a computer screen to a woman to show her what he does “for a living” A retired US Army colonel has been sentenced to two years in prison for sharing classified information about the country’s war plans with a woman he met online, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Kevin Charles Luke, 62, served in both active-duty and reserve roles for nearly four decades before retiring as a colonel in 2018. He later continued working as a civilian employee for US Central Command, which oversees the country’s military operations worldwide. Prosecutors said the retired colonel shared classified information in October 2024, alleging that he sent a woman a text message from his personal cellphone reading: “sent to my boss earlier, gives you a peek at what I do for a living.” The message was followed by a photo of a computer screen showing an email he had sent from his government account. A year later, Luke pleaded guilty, admitting as part of a p...