NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is proposing to establish a fund of allied contributions worth $100 billion over five years for Ukraine as part of a package for alliance leaders to sign off when they gather in Washington in July. Allies are still discussing Stoltenberg’s proposal and any mechanics of the accounting, including whether to … Read more
New report links secret Russian intel unit to ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases A new “60 Minutes” investigative report alleges a connection between “Havana Syndrome” and Russian intelligence. The US government has assessed it is unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible, according to US intelligence officials familiar with the assessment. The reporter who led the investigation, Christo … Read more
Antonina Favorskaya, a Russian journalist that covered the trial of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, has been jailed in Moscow on extremism charges. Favorskaya, identified also as Antonina Kravtsova, was ordered by a Moscow court Friday to remain in custody pending an investigation and trial until at least May 28, The Associated Press reported. … Read more
Favorskaya, a correspondent for independent broadcaster Sotavision, was detained for a second time on Wednesday after initially serving a 10-day administrative sentence in the Moscow region on charges of disobeying police orders, Sotavision said in a post on Telegram. She had also extensively covered Navalny’s funeral in Moscow before she was detained at a cafe on an … Read more
This debate should take place at the next plenary session, on April 10 in Brussels. “If sitting MEPs or candidates in the upcoming European elections have taken money from or been corrupted by the Russian Government or their proxies, they must be exposed,” Hayer wrote in the letter. Dutch Green EU lawmaker Bas Eickhout also … Read more
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Macron now hopes to step in as a mediator with a new U.N. draft resolution, which he said would be prepared with “several regional partners, in particular in the Arab world,” which will help lift the Chinese and Russian vetoes. “It’s with this procedure that we hope to advance this text,” he said. Meanwhile, Israeli … Read more
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. Michael Kurilla told Congress on Thursday that he’s “very concerned” about the burgeoning alliance between Iran, China and Russia and the “global implications” of the bloc. Kurilla made the comments during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, detailing the national security challenges in the Middle East and Africa. “Collectively, Iran, Russia, … Read more
Putin won a personal-best 87 percent support in Russia’s three-day presidential election, which ended Sunday. The results were dismissed as “obviously not free nor fair” by a White House National Security Council spokesperson. The last time he won the presidency, in 2018, Putin received congratulations from many EU countries, including Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, … Read more
The US proposed to its Group of Seven allies that they create a special purpose vehicle to issue at least $50 billion of bonds backed by the profits generated by frozen Russian sovereign assets and use the proceeds to support Ukraine, according to people familiar with the plan. The proposal would pool the $280 billion … Read more