Russia accuses West of trying to turn Ukraine into 'second Afghanistan'

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of attempting to turn this country into “a second Afghanistan” amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. Speaking at the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in China on Wednesday, Lavrov described the current situation in Ukraine as an attempt by…

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Ukraine counteroffensive expectations ‘overestimated’ – Kiev

The stalled effort is actually “some kind of preparatory operation,” the Ukrainian Defense Minister insists Expected results from Kiev’s ongoing counteroffensive against Russia have been “overestimated,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov has claimed. The offensive by Ukrainian forces should be treated as “some kind of preparatory operation” rather than a decisive battle, he added.

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US-centric world ending – Kremlin

The American-centric world is coming to an end, giving way to a new period of diversity in economics and other areas of international relations, Kremlin Press-Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov made the remarks on Friday, in response to an article in the Financial Times, in which US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources…

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