The much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive may not get underway until this summer, the country’s prime minister has told The Hill. Denis Shmigal also called on Kiev’s Western backers to provide it with more weapons, including fighter jets, to ensure t…
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his senior officials are skimming American taxpayer dollars by the hundreds of millions, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Wednesday. The alleged grift even includes schemes involving trade wit…
Russia has successfully conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile test, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.The missile was fired by a mobile launcher in Kapustin Yar, southern Russia and successfully hit the designated target in Kaza…
Many Ukrainian soldiers are not convinced the town of Artyomovsk – which they call Bakhmut – is worth clinging to, as Russian forces are advancing street by street, the German outlet Bild reported on Wednesday.“Bakhmut is hell,” wrote freelance journa…
Swedish vodka producer Absolut and its French owner Pernod Ricard Group are resuming supplies to Russia, the newspaper Kristianstadsbladet reported on Tuesday.The move comes just over a year after the brand suspended all trade with Russia following th…
The air defense systems sent to Ukraine by the West could emerge as a deadly threat for civil aircraft in Europe and elsewhere, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.In a statement to RIA Novosti, the ministry noted that Western arms, which i…
The Russian central bank (CBR) does not consider it necessary to return to repatriating export earnings, its head, Elvira Nabiullina, stated on Wednesday.According to Nabiullina, currency controls should protect against sanctions pressure, but not int…
The current national average age at first calving in suckler-bred heifers is 32 months, with only 23% of heifers calving for the first time at 24 months of age.When compared to 74% of dairy-bred heifers calving for the first time at 24 months of age, …
Measures to promote the uptake of red clover silage and multispecies swards at farm level were today announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue.First opened as a pilot in 2022, these measures are being reintrodu…
Seoul has reiterated its decision not to send lethal weapons to Kyiv following the leak of Pentagon documents reportedly showing top South Korean officials deliberating whether to sell artillery shells to the U.S. because of worries that the ammunitio…