Recently, the situation with the events of June 24, which law enforcement agencies of Russia qualified as a mutiny of PMC Wagner, has finally become clear. We refrained from hasty judgments on this issue, waiting for clarification of the situation. And after the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the commanders and leadership of the PMC Wagner, which was ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement “Ukraine undoubtedly deserves NATO membership” after hosting his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelenski in Istanbul is being discussed in the world public. In the context of Türkiye’s relations with Russia and the Western camp, everyone attributes a different meaning to Erdoğan’s statements: “Rapprochement with the West”, “break with Russia”, “balance policy”, etc.. Based on concrete facts, ...
By Özgür Altınbaş To stop the defeat in Ukraine, the US is trying to carry PKK/PYD terrorists from Syria to Ukraine to fight against Russia, Ria Novosti reported. A military-diplomatic source in Damascus stated to RIA Novosti that the US administration had engaged in talks with leaders of tribes affiliated with the YPG (PKK/PYD) in Syria to make them join ...
On Tuesday, July 11, a NATO summit will be place in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital. It is argued that holding the summit in Lithuania, a former Soviet republic, especially on Ukraine’s NATO membership, is a message to Russia. The leaders of 31 NATO member countries, as well as the head of Sweden, which has been invited to join the alliance, will ...
By Hüseyin Vodinalı Putin wants an agreement on the current status quo in Ukraine. Biden (and the oligarchy that rules him behind the scenes) wants an electoral victory or, if not, the continuation of the war. Ukraine is devastated. It has no military left. Its weapons are not enough. It manages with pipeline, bridge, and dam sabotages. The final trump ...
On the last day of April of this year, a report in the London newspaper The Times citing British officials stated that, although the Ukrainian Armed Forces were not prepared for the counter-offensive, they had no choice but to carry it out. The sources added that Ukraine was unlikely to achieve more than “modest territorial gains” by taking on the ...
By Özgür Altınbaş, reporting from Lugansk We are concluding our series with a visit to the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). In this part of our series, I visited the theater in the center of Lugansk. The theater boasts many actors. However, we didn’t encounter many of them, because they are on the front lines. Independence and joining the Russian Federation ...
The Russian Orthodox Church occupies a prominent position among Russia’s important institutions. It has influence not only within Russia but also across a vast region. We had the opportunity to address Türkiye-Russia relations, multipolarity, the conflict in Ukraine, the activities of the Fener Greek Patriarch, and the current global trends with Hieromonk Stefan Igumnov who is responsible for the Church’s ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat The documents from the Ukrainian Security Service reveal the extent of intelligence operations against the Crimean Tatar National Assembly. The Kiev regime not only infiltrated the movement with spies to divide it, but also conducted a campaign of defamation on social media. Ukraine’s intelligence agency has labeled the Crimean Tatars as a “threat to national security” and ...
By Özgür Altınbaş, reporting from Donetsk We met with Denis Pushilin, the President of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), at a university in Donetsk. Despite the war situation, our request conveyed to the press secretary was responded to positively within a day. We asked him about the current situation in the region, the prospects of the war and his views ...