News about Eastern Europe such as Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the Baltic Nations, including archived articles on Tsarizm.
An 11th day of protests across France against the Macron Regime and its globalist policies saw hundreds of thousands turn out in Paris and over 2 million across the country. The mainstream media has finally started reporting on the protests, but they are distorting their scope and purpose, claiming that they are only about raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
On Wednesday, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov accused the U.S. of “playing with fire” and engaging in a hot “hybrid war” with Russia and blamed Washington for increasing nuclear tensions.
The Ukrainian battle for Bakhmut has not been going well for Kyiv, with reportedly high losses and dwindling munitions and other resources in the east, and despite numerous reports of a much anticipated Spring counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces, the talk has shifted from a planned counteroffensive to a need for compromise.
The NATO Summit in Brussels this week was turned into another opportunity to push the aggressive pro-War policies of the rulers of the United States and the European Union. Ignoring the basic principles of the Alliance, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was invited to the summit to discuss the war in Ukraine during a session of the NATO-Ukraine Commission.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced its latest round of military aid for Ukraine, totaling $2.6 billion.
On Saturday, a Kyiv court ordered that Metropolitan Pavel, a Ukrainian Orthodox bishop and head monk at the historic Pechersk Lavra Monastery, be put on house arrest. The bishop is suspected of justifying the Russian invasion, which has been made a criminal offense in Ukraine. Pavel has denied the accusations stating that he has “never been on the side of aggression.”
In the early hours of Monday morning, Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group claimed at least partial victory over Bakhmut by raising both the Russian and Wagner group flags over government administration buildings in the city.
Austria has joined several Western countries that appear to be becoming weary of sacrificing their money, tax dollars, military equipment, and weapons stockpiles for Ukraine as its war against Russia enters its second year. Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged this week that “Ukraine fatigue” is setting in and noted that support for the war is waning.
A week after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Xi to visit Ukraine soon in remarks he made in a recently published Associated Press interview.