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Treasury imposes consequences on money launderer responsible for moving funds on behalf of Russian elites and ransomware actors WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her role in laundering and moving funds using virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites. This […]
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says the United States is fueling geopolitical tensions to uphold its “hegemony,” and he warns of the risk of confrontation between major countries By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press October 30, 2023, 12:28 AM ET • 3 min read BEIJING — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Monday the United States […]
An article that appeared in August on an international news outlet, Pressenza, recycled a false Russian claim that the West was looting religious relics and art from a monastery in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, one of the holiest sites in Russian Orthodoxy. The article stands out, U.S. officials said, not because of what it claimed — […]
Finance ministers from the Group of 7 nations pledged on Thursday to continue providing economic support for Ukraine and backed a plan that would help finance the nation’s reconstruction with proceeds from Russian assets that have been frozen by Western nations. In a joint statement, or communiqué, finance officials also condemned Hamas for its attack […]
Zelenskiy to visit Romania on Tuesday in first trip since Russian invasion Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will visit neighbouring Romania on Tuesday, his first trip to the Nato member country since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, the Romanian presidency has said. Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanța is Kyiv’s main alternative export route for grain
U.S. soldiers load equipment at the Georgian port of Poti in 2018. Russia is planning to build a naval base on the Black Sea coast of Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region, according to media reports. (Robert Jordan/U.S. Army) News that Russia will establish a permanent naval base in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia is likely further […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday expressed confidence about U.S. aid, largely brushing off rising concerns about possible waning support for his country as it faces another winter of Russian aggression. The Ukrainian leader visiting the southern Spanish city of Granada for a European summit aimed at strengthening cooperation across Europe the day after […]
The latest updates from the war in Ukraine. Russia shows video of “dead” Black Sea fleet commanderADVERTISEMENT Ukraine’s special forces said yesterday that they had killed Moscow’s top admiral in Crimea – along with 33 other officers – in last week’s missile attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in the port of […]
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As part of a NATO initiative to secure airspace that has faced repeated incursions by Russian drones and cruise missiles, the Pentagon has dispatched F-16 fighter jets to eastern Romania, reported Kyiv Post.On September 22, four F-16 fighter jets from the