VALLETTA, MALTA — A third round of Ukrainian-backed peace talks opened in Malta on Saturday with representatives from more than 60 countries but without Moscow, which condemned it as a “blatantly anti-Russian event.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the first...
Russian forces continued to bombard the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka on Thursday night while shelling killed four in the southern region of Kherson, according to local officials. Since mid-October, Russia has been trying to encircle and capture the town of Avdiivka, home to a...
Brussels (25/11 – 33.3) Tajikistan Supreme Court has sentenced a widely respected 65-year-old female journalist, Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, to 21 years in prison on charges of incitement to overthrowing the government. Mamadshoeva was accused by the authorities of being a leading...
The festival of Halloween, which is celebrated widely and with much pomp and show in Western countries, is seen as a satanic practice by the priests in Russia, who believe that such celebrations are likely to attract evil spirits and ghouls.Every autumn, the country is warned by the...
After losing hundreds of armored vehicles in direct assaults on Ukrainian positions in and around Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the Russian armed forces are switching to dismounted infantry assaults. It’s not a terrible idea, tactically speaking. Ukrainian brigades...
