The stated aim of the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive was to inflict a major strategic defeat on Russia by cutting off the land corridor to Crimea. But hardly anyone in the Western military and political establishment with any real knowledge believed that Kiev would be able to achieve such a result. It would have been strange…

Kiev’s forces pounded the city on Tuesday with US-made HIMARS missiles, killing and injuring multiple civilians Moscow has requested an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council to address Ukraine’s strikes on the city of Donetsk, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, announced late on Tuesday.

People from Russia had been among the top real estate investors in the emirate since the start of the conflict in Ukraine Purchases of Dubai real estate by Russian investors have been slowing in the third quarter of the year, after a sharp spike in the previous months, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing top Dubai…