Six incapacitated Ukrainian soldiers in the city were promised evacuation that never came, according to one of them The Ukrainian military abandoned a number of severely injured soldiers on the battlefield in the former Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, local media have reported, citing a video of one of the service members. Kiev has acknowledged that…

The Russian economy expanded beyond expectations last year, and is on course for further growth in 2024 Western sanctions on Moscow have failed to destabilize the Russian economy, according to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Nauseda pointed to macroeconomic indicators which plainly signal that the country’s economy remains…

Once extremely prosperous states face a new reality, which could see old dark forces re-emerge A side effect of the tragic Ukrainian problem for Russian foreign policy is that it helps us to understand the degree of economic and moral decay that our other Western neighbors would have to reach in order to pose a…