Vladimir Putin
Russian forces shift target to Donetsk as Zelenskyy vows Ukraine will win back captured Luhansk
A grain silo destroyed by Russian airstrikes in the Donbas. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday congratulated troops for “liberating” Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk province after several weeks of brutal fighting. A huge proportion of the area’s infrastructure, including residential buildings, is destroyed, and numerous civilians have been killed, […]
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The G-7 is considering a price cap on Russian oil. But energy analysts think it’s impossible
The G7 has floated the idea of an oil price cap, but experts are doubtful about how effective this would be. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The world’s seven-largest industrialized economies have floated the idea of a price cap on Russian oil to further squeeze the Kremlin’s ability to fund its onslaught […]
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Russian defence minister tells Putin Ukraine’s Luhansk region has been ‘liberated’
A Ukrainian soldier on a destroyed Russian tank on the frontline in Luhansk oblast, Ukraine, on June 09, 2022. Diego Herrera Carcedo | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region had been “liberated” by Russian and separatist forces, the defence ministry said […]
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Op-ed: In Putin’s evil vs. good war against Ukraine, the forces of good prevailed at NATO this week
Frederick Kempe is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlantic Council. This is a story of evil versus good. It’s the story of a despot’s ruthless attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, versus the historic, but nonetheless insufficient, rallying of democratic states to save the country. At midday on Monday, in the central Ukrainian […]
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Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off
The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. While much of the attritional war in Ukraine’s east is hidden from sight, the […]
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‘Everything was going fine between us’ Putin says of NATO expansion; war grinds on in Ukraine with one city under ‘constant shelling’
City of Lysychansk under ‘constant shelling’ as battle rages to control wider region Ukrainian soldiers in the eastern Luhansk region on June 23, 2022. On Wednesday, Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region where the fighting is most severe, said that the city of Lysychansk is under “constant shelling.” Anatolii Stepanov | Afp | […]
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NATO deal between Turkey, Sweden and Finland brings home wins for Erdogan — and a possible F-16 breakthrough
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference during the NATO summit at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021. Yves Herman | Reuters NATO officials on Tuesday celebrated Turkey’s lifting of its veto against Sweden and Finland joining the transatlantic alliance, a move that brought the Nordic states one step closer to […]
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U.S. blocks gold imports from Russia in latest round of sanctions targeting Putin’s war
The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced that the U.S. and a handful of key economic allies will prohibit imports of Russian gold, Moscow’s largest export outside of the energy sector. The expanded sanctions represent the latest effort by the U.S. and some of its Group of Seven partners to target Russian President Vladimir Putin and […]
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Op-ed: The EU’s rewiring due to the war in Ukraine is game-changing, if it doesn’t short-circuit before the job is done
Europe has been rewiring itself in impressive ways in the five months since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. The coming weeks will show whether that work of building a more resolute European Union for a future of new security challenges will continue. Or, instead, will the rewiring short-circuit before the job […]
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To avert Putin’s growing influence, EU urged to pay more attention to the Balkans
Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu tells CNBC that EU enlargement is a question of geopolitical strategy and security. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images BRUSSELS — The European Union needs to pay more attention to the Balkans to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin increasing his influence there, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu told CNBC Wednesday. The 27 […]
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