All posts tagged "Russian President Vladimir Putin"

A devastating terrorist attack on a concert venue in Moscow that has reportedly left burning devastation, dozens of people dead, and dozens more injured still has a number of questions swirling around it, chiefly who carried out the attack and why.

Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed credit for the attack in a post on Telegram in the hours following the news. However, experts caution there is no actual proof ISIS was involved, and that the extremist group has a track record of falsely taking credit for disasters they had nothing to do with, to try to inflate their perceived worldwide capabilities.

But that hasn't stopped some commentators from weighing in on X — and using the opportunity to pummel former President Donald Trump for his past wild claims about ISIS....

Donald Trump had a rally in South Carolina on Saturday at which he purportedly lied, misspoke, and promised dangerous policies favoring Russia.

The former president in one instance at the rally said, "One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said... No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want."

That didn't sit well with Trump's own former aide, Alyssa Farah Griffin....

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the paramilitary group that has been at the root of enormous chaos in Russia over the last two days, has reportedly announced that his troops marching toward Moscow would turn around.

The news comes from the New York Times, which announced that the decision came "minutes after the leader of Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, said he had successfully negotiated with the Wagner boss."

"The statements offered the possibility that the rapidly evolving security crisis embroiling President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia’s government could be resolved without armed fighting between Russian authorities and Mr. Prigozhin’s forces," according to the report. "But Mr. Prigozhin did not say whether his forces were leaving the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, a Russian military hub he has seized."...

International efforts to save Ukraine's fragile ceasefire are set to intensify Wednesday as Kiev threatens to scrap the truce after pro-Russian rebels downed an army helicopter.

Ukraine's pro-Russian insurgents have agreed to a temporary ceasefire and talks with the new Western-backed president, as US President Barack Obama warned Russia it risks fresh sanctions over its support for the separatists.

NATO on Thursday reported another build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine as its new president put in place key pieces of his pro-Western government and embraced an EU trade pact that has been bitterly fought by the Kremlin.