The Ukrainian leader has reportedly agreed to a proposed 100-day pause in attacks in exchange for satellite coverage extending deeper into Russia Vladimir Zelensky is open to stopping attacks on Russian oil refineries for 100 days in exchange for a 300 km extension of Starlink satellite internet service coverage for the Ukrainian military, the Wall Street Journal has said. The report comes as US President Donald Trump has ramped pressure on Zelensky to end the strikes, which he blames for surging global energy prices. In his interview with Newsmax on Thursday, Trump called Ukraine’s actions “a disgrace.” In an article published the same day, the WSJ said that Republican Senators Roger Wicker and Kevin Cramer brought the deal to the Ukrainian leader during their visit to Kiev last Friday. The outlet claimed that it was told by unnamed sources that Zelensky had agreed to the proposal. The ...
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A courtroom gave the defeated Reich’s leaders a chance to defend themselves – and the world a record of crimes they could no longer conceal On the night of October 16, 1946, 10 individuals were hanged in the Nuremberg prison. These were the main Nazi criminals who had been captured and brought to trial. Despite the horrifying scale and brutality of the crimes, the Nuremberg Trials remain one of the most controversial proceedings in world history. Justice instead of revenge The idea of an international tribunal to address Nazi atrocities had been considered for some time. In 1942, the Soviet Union established a special Extraordinary Commission that gathered information about these crimes. Tragically, it had a lot of work to do. The USSR became the primary battleground for the bloodiest and most brutal war in Europe. Read more Killing a tsar wa...
The Ukrainian leader is turning to Brussels having alienated himself from the US president for the foreseeable future Vladimir Zelensky has put the pressure on his European backers by joining the second day of an EU summit in Brussels, in the week he chose to lash out at US President Donald Trump, and as European leaders grapple with soaring energy bills and the prospect of a difficult winter. The gathered EU leaders will unlikely welcome having been effectively cornered into backing Zelensky’s “forever war” policy while attempting to secure ongoing US support in a week that protests and national strikes over pay and public services intensified across the continent. The falling-out began last week when Trump announced a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to release additional Russian diesel onto global markets and ease sanctions in an attempt to bring down fuel prices. He also pr...
The International Criminal Court shields Western powers while ignoring crimes by Ukraine, Alexandre Guerreiro has told RT The International Criminal Court (ICC) has become a tool of Western influence that selectively targets countries of the Global South while shielding European interests and ignoring crimes in Ukraine, international legal analyst and academic Alexandre Guerreiro has said. He accused the tribunal of applying double standards rather than delivering universal justice. Criticism of the ICC has intensified in recent months amid growing accusations of political bias and selective justice. Venezuela, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have moved to withdraw, accusing the court of serving Western interests and engaging in “neocolonial repression.” In an interview with RT on Thursday, Guerreiro argued that the court had abandoned its original purpose as an independent institution cap...
Twenty-eight children and a teacher died in Peshawar, prompting the authorities to investigate the building’s structural safety At least 28 children and a teacher were killed when the roof of a private school collapsed during lessons in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday. More than 50 others were injured, some critically. The roof of an upper floor at the three-story Al-Khair School gave way, bringing down the ceilings of classrooms below. Students were attending lessons when the structure collapsed, trapping children and teachers beneath the rubble. Rescue workers, assisted by police and local residents, pulled children from the debris and rushed the injured to Lady Reading Hospital, where an emergency was declared. The rescue operation concluded several hours later, with officials confirming that everyone trapped had been recovered. A local resident, Samiullah Khan, helped rescue t...
The incident in Bulgaria follows a fire at a SpaceX station in Poland in September A blaze has occurred at a Starlink satellite internet service facility near Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, Bulgarian Prime Minister Roumen Radev has said. The incident follows a fire at a SpaceX station in Poland, which serviced the Ukrainian military, in late September. Ukraine has relied heavily on Starlink during the conflict with Russia for battlefield communications and controlling drones. Earlier this week, an MP for the opposition Democratic Bulgaria coalition, Ivaylo Mirchev, claimed that masked men had deliberately set a Starlink facility outside Sophia on fire, destroying 11 out of the 17 antennas at the site. He also published a video purporting to have captured the incident. 🚨 Two masked men reportedly set fire to 11 of 17 antennas linked to SpaceX's Starlink network near Sofia, Bulgaria. via War...