Tag: Sergei Shoigu
What Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin want from each other
Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin The two heads of state want to deepen their relations. (Photo: dpa) Tokyo The meeting place of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian…
Kremlin confirms planned meeting between Putin and Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Un Pyongyang specializes in modernizing Soviet weapons systems. (Photo: AP) Moscow Moscow has confirmed a planned meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong…
Putin: Clean-up actions in the Kremlin: Russia’s elites have to worry
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation The question now arises as to how Putin will react to the deployment of the Wagner forces. (Photo: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS) Riga The insurgent mercenary…
“If Putin has had enough of him, Prigozhin will be gone with a snap of his fingers”
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin with mercenaries The deployment in Bakhmut was an opportunity for Prigozhin to demonstrate his loyalty to the Kremlin, says Galeotti. (Photo: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS) Drones over Moscow and…
Russian Wagner mercenaries are probably still fighting in Bachmut
Bachmut In recent weeks, Ukrainian troops have been pushed back in the battle for Bakhmut. (Photo: dpa) Bachmut The head of the Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is unlikely to withdraw…
Prigozhin scolds Russia’s military leadership in front of corpses
Moscow After complaints about a lack of ammunition, the head of the Russian mercenary force Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has threatened the Kremlin with the withdrawal of its fighters from the…
Power struggle in the Russian leadership probably more violent than expected
Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu President Vladimir Putin personally tried to settle the dispute between Prigozhin and Shoigu (Photo: dpa) new York According to a US newspaper report, the power…
Russian nuclear weapons are said to be on the border with Poland
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin had announced that tactical nuclear weapons would be stationed in Belarus. (Photo: dpa) Kyiv Russia is sticking to the announced stationing…
Russia takes over the presidency of the UN Security Council – Zelensky calls for reform of the body
Volodymyr Zelensky “It is hard to imagine anything better demonstrating the complete bankruptcy of such institutions.” (Photo: dpa) Kyiv Russia’s rotational assumption of the presidency of the UN Security Council…
Zelensky thanks the US and Europe for new military aid
Ukrainian soldiers reload ammunition The EU and the US have announced new military aid to Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters) Kyiv, Moscow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised the new military aid…
Zelensky promises liberation of Mariupol
Kyiv/ Moscow On the anniversary of the bombing of the Mariupol theater, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the recapture of the city and a war crimes tribunal against Russians. “The…
Zelensky promises liberation of Mariupol
Kyiv/ Moscow On the anniversary of the bombing of the Mariupol theater, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the recapture of the city and a war crimes tribunal against Russians. “The…
Zelensky promises liberation of Mariupol
Memorial event in Kyiv In Kiev, people commemorate the losses after the Russian air raid a year ago on the theater in the then heavily contested port city of Mariupol,…
Ukraine: Zelensky fires three regional governors
Volodymyr Zelensky The President fires three territorial governors. (Photo: dpa) Kyiv/ Moscow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy assumes that Russia has little left to do in its war against Ukraine. Arms…
Conflict between Prigozhin and the military escalates
Yevgeny Prigozhin The Wagner founder is unscrupulous in warfare, even towards his own mercenaries. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary group Wagner is running…
Conflict between Prigozhin and the military escalates
Yevgeny Prigozhin The Wagner founder is unscrupulous in warfare, even towards his own mercenaries. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary group Wagner is running…
This is how Russia’s elite lives in the Ukraine war
Sergei Shoigu (centre) with Russian military personnel Several family members apparently benefit directly from orders from his ministry. (Photo: via REUTERS) Berlin Ksenia Shoigu lounges in a pool in Dubai…
Who is Russia’s new commander Valery Gerasimov?
Riga Valeri Gerasimov has been the new supreme commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine since Wednesday. The 67-year-old chief of staff of the Russian armed forces was appointed by…
Putin is increasingly slipping away from the war in Ukraine
Address to the generals Russian President Vladimir Putin (middle) with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov (right) speaks to the assembled officers. (Photo: via REUTERS)…
Russia orders withdrawal of troops from Cherson
Riga, Berlin Under pressure from Ukrainian counter-offensives, Russian troops are withdrawing from a strategically important part of the annexed southern Kherson region. This was announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu…