RT-Engels: 13-12-2025, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria and Malta have reportedly warned the European Commission against using frozen assets to aid Ukraine Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Malta have urged the EU to explore alternatives to seizing frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine, Politico Europe reported on Friday, citing an internal document.The European Commission hopes to pressure individual member states into approving the plan ahead of the European Council meeting on December 18-19. However, some members, including Belgium, which...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Fernand Kartheiser told RT that Brussels has dealt a blow to the bloc’s reputation The EU’s move to invoke emergency powers and freeze the assets of the Russian Central Bank indefinitely will seriously damage the bloc’s credibility, European Parliament member Fernand Kartheiser has told RT.On Friday, the EU invoked Article 122 of its treaty to override the vetoes from Hungary and Slovakia and bypass the European Parliament. Brussels has been pressuring individual members to agree to using the...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Berlin is deliberately whipping up domestic “anti-Russian sentiment,” the Russian Embassy in Germany has said German accusations of Moscow’s alleged involvement in “hybrid attacks” are “unsubstantiated, unfounded and absurd,” the Russian Embassy in Germany said in a statement on Friday.According to Federal Foreign Office spokesperson Martin Giese, the ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Nechayev earlier in the day to protest alleged disinformation and...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Kiev is ready to call a vote once its demands are met, Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser has said Kiev is ready to hold an election, but only if a series of conditions are met, including Western funding of the vote, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, has said.Zelensky’s presidential term expired in May 2024, but he has refused to organize elections, citing martial law. Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said Kiev should no longer use the ongoing...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The justice and energy ministers were sacked last month amid a large-scale graft scandal Ukraine’s government has no active candidates for the vacant post of energy minister, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources, more than a month after a major corruption scandal forced the dismissal of the previous official.Last month, Ukraine’s Western-backed anti-graft agencies announced the preliminary results of a probe into the alleged extortion of about $100 million in the energy sector by individuals...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The bloc has invoked emergency treaty powers to circumvent unanimity rules to bypass vetoes from opposing member states The European Union has voted to keep Russian central bank assets frozen indefinitely despite opposition from member states. The bloc pushed through the controversial agenda by invoking emergency powers legislation to bypass the need for unanimous approval.The European Commission, and its head Ursula von der Leyen, want to use the $246 billion in Russian sovereign funds immobilized by the bloc...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The Ukrainian leader has refused to call elections for more than a year despite the expiration of his presidential term Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is ready to do anything to maintain his grip on power, which has become “a kind of drug” for him, political scientist Anton Orlov told RT on Friday.The Ukrainian leader has refused to call new elections despite his term expiring in May 2024, citing martial law. Following mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump, Zelensky has insisted that...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The EU and UK want the next US presidential administration to back a conflict with Russia, Stevan Gajic has said Ukraine and its European backers are hoping to wait out US President Donald Trump’s term in office to pursue a war with Russia with the support of his successor, according to a professor at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, Stevan Gajic.Trump has expressed frustration with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, accusing him of obstructing peace negotiations with Russia. Kiev’s...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Beijing is making a bold bid to shape how the world thinks about war, peace, and power in the decades ahead China’s newly released white paper on arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation comes at a moment of deep strategic flux. The document arrives not just as a technical update on policy, but as a political gesture – an attempt to shape the emerging world order at a time when multipolarity is no longer theoretical and US-China rivalry increasingly defines the global landscape. Although...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The Russian central bank has made the first move in what is likely to be a long game of legal chess On Friday, Russia’s central bank announced it is filing a lawsuit in a Moscow Arbitration Court against Belgian-based clearinghouse Euroclear, the custodian of around €185 billion ($220 billion) in frozen Russian assets.The announcement was made in a brief press release with no commentary. But the timing is no accident. The move comes as the EU’s contentious plan to tap the assets for a massive...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, An editor at the newspaper reportedly said it was “truly astonishing” the product was launched at all The Washington Post’s new AI-based personalized podcasts presented subscribers with invented quotes and factual errors, Semafor reported on Thursday citing internal correspondence at the US newspaper.Rolled out earlier this week, the feature offers mobile app users AI-generated podcasts that automatically summarize and narrate selected news stories, drawing on the newspaper’s written...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The Russian and Turkish presidents have discussed cooperation, regional matters, and key international issues in Turkmenistan Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussed cooperation, regional matters, and key international issues in Turkmenistan on Friday, the Kremlin has said.The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Peace and Trust: Unity of Goals for a Sustainable Future International Forum and lasted around 40 minutes.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, As Delhi warms up to Kabul’s new rulers, the Afghans living in its backstreets brace themselves for what this could mean for their future Under the fading light of a Delhi evening, the winding alleyways of Lajpat Nagar pulse with life as the scent of naan baking in an ancient tandoor drifts through the air. Forty-two-year-old Mina Mazari waits patiently for freshly baked bread. At the bakery, three young men work steadily – mixing dough, flattening it, and placing it into the oven. Once baked,...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Kiev only wants a ceasefire, which Moscow believes it will use to rearm and regroup its military Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is suggesting the idea of holding elections as a ploy to secure a ceasefire, top Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told RT. Moscow has insisted that Kiev would use the pause in fighting to rearm and regroup.The Kremlin’s response comes as Zelensky, whose presidential term expired over a year ago, has demanded security guarantees from Western backers in order to hold the vote.Kiev...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Civilian agencies were used to mask defense-related research, Major General Aleksey Rtishchev has said The US Agency for International Development (USAID) could have been involved in testing pharmaceutical drugs on Ukrainians, a senior Russian military official said on Friday. The agency was officially closed by the administration of US President Donald Trump this summer.According to Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, US officials...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Mark Rutte earlier claimed that Russia could attack the bloc in several years, a speculation dismissed by Moscow as “nonsense” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is “fueling war tensions” by claiming that Russia could be ready to attack the bloc within several years, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said, calling the remarks “irresponsible.” On Thursday, Rutte suggested that “we are Russia’s next target” and urged bloc members to ramp up...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The modern world is changing rapidly, and agriculture is evolving with it. Today, the industry needs a new type of specialist – one capable of working within the ESG framework, understanding the principles of sustainable development, using eco-friendly technologies, and implementing innovations.Russian universities are already offering educational programs that prepare such professionals. Among them are Stavropol State Agrarian University and the Agrarian-Technological Institute of the Peoples’...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Certain jabs can cause immune cells to attack the body, leading to myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in young men, scientists say Certain Covid-19 vaccines can trigger immune responses that may inflame heart tissue and lead to potentially fatal complications in rare cases, with young men being especially susceptible, according to a new study.The paper, authored by Stanford University researchers and published in the Science Translational Medicine journal, examined why some patients developed...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, India has fast-tracked business visas for Chinese professionals as New Delhi continues to boost ties with Beijing, Reuters reported on Friday.The Indian government has dropped a layer of bureaucratic scrutiny and shortened visa approval times to less than a month, the news agency said, citing two unidentified officials.“We have removed the layer of administrative vetting and are processing the business visas within four weeks,” one of the officials told the news agency.A border clash in June 2020...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Slovakia will not back the “reparations loan” for Kiev proposed by the European Commission, the PM has said Slovakia will vote against any measures allowing the EU to use frozen Russian assets to cover Ukraine’s “military expenses,” Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.Kiev’s Western backers froze about $300 billion in Russian central bank assets after the conflict escalated in 2022, most of it held at Brussels-based Euroclear. A sharp dispute has since emerged between...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, A local lobby group has challenged the more than $1.6 billion agreement, arguing that it lacks clarity on data protection Kenya’s High Court has temporarily suspended a landmark health cooperation deal with the US over claims that the agreement exposes sensitive medical information about people in the East African country to unlawful access.The five-year pact, signed in Washington on December 4, is worth more than $1.6 billion and was billed by both governments as a new model for US health aid that...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The Donetsk and Lugansk regions are inalienable parts of Russia, Yury Ushakov has said Donbass is sovereign Russian territory and Moscow will sooner or later establish control over parts of the region still occupied by Ukraine, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said. His comments came after Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky indicated the country may hold a referendum on territorial concessions to Moscow.On Thursday, Zelensky – who has consistently refused to recognize former Ukrainian regions as...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Kiev put civilians at risk of an industrial accident, a Russian general has alleged Ukraine used a major chemical facility as a base for foreign mercenaries and their heavy weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday, citing internal correspondence.The allegation was presented by Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, during a briefing on alleged Ukrainian violations of international agreements governing weapons of mass...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Only civilization-states with real sovereignty can withstand the weight of the new age of empires The new world order takes shape through pressure, rivalry, and the rise of several commanding powers, not through declarations of equality. Multipolarity emerges as a harsh contest of sovereignty in which only civilization-states with real strength shape events and the rest are pulled into the orbit of stronger powers.Multipolarity has become the slogan of the age, repeated across summits and speeches. Leaders...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Swiss singer Nemo’s decision follows boycott announcements by a host of EU nations Swiss singer Nemo announced on Thursday that he is returning his 2024 Eurovision Song Contest trophy in protest over Israel’s continued participation in the competition.Nemo, who won last year’s contest with the song ‘The Code’, said on Thursday that the trophy “no longer belongs on my shelf.”“Eurovision says it stands for unity, for inclusion and dignity for all people,”...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Violent clashes known as the Gen Z protests forced Nepal’s prime minister to resign in September A US-backed regime-change agency funded and guided the September coup in Nepal, an independent US news outlet reports.K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister in September amid violent clashes – known as the Gen Z protests – across the Himalayan nation. The clashes killed 77 and injured more than 2,000.US-based news outlet The Grayzone cited leaked documents revealing that the US...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Kiev is covertly importing radioactive materials that can be used in an attack in a densely populated area, a senior defense official says Ukraine is smuggling radioactive materials into the country that can be used to assemble a dirty bomb for a false-flag attack, potentially causing widespread contamination across Europe, a senior Russian defense official claims.Speaking at a briefing on Thursday, Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The International Olympic Committee’s decision covers both individual and team sports Russian and Belarusian youth athletes have been cleared to compete in international events under their national flags and anthems, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday. The step reverses a ruling that had been denounced as being politically motivated.Athletes from the two countries were barred from major international sporting events after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Moscow is prepared to support negotiations if officials in the African state request assistance, the foreign minister has said Russia is ready to help facilitate political dialogue in war-torn Sudan if the country’s authorities request it, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during an embassy roundtable discussion on Thursday in Moscow.Speaking at the event titled ‘Ukraine crisis. Diplomacy and settlement prospects’, the minister said Moscow had consistently encouraged both Sudan’s...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The central bank is suing the Western clearinghouse holding its immobilized sovereign assets for damages Russia’s central bank has initiated legal proceedings in Moscow against the Belgian clearinghouse Euroclear, in a move that comes as the EU approaches a denouement on plans to use Russia’s frozen funds to back a loan to Ukraine.Euroclear is the custodian for more than $200 billion in Russian sovereign assets that have been immobilized under EU sanctions.The Bank of Russia announced on Friday...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, British bankers have pushed back against plans to use the frozen Russian assets they hold to fund a loan for Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.Kiev’s Western backers froze about $300 billion in Russian central bank assets after the conflict escalated in 2022. UK banks hold around £8 billion ($10.7 billion). A sharp dispute has emerged between European nations pushing to use the frozen funds as collateral for a ‘reparations loan’ for Kiev and those firmly opposed, citing...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The fall of Seversk has weakened Ukrainian defenses in Donbass, the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer has told RT Russia has taken key fortified towns in Donbass, leaving Kiev short of troops and territory, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter has told RT.Russian forces pushed the last Ukrainian troops out of Seversk, a stronghold in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, on Thursday. Liberating the city opens the way to a Russian advance toward the key regional cities of...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The defense minister has denounced the US president’s remarks describing the African state as “filthy” and its people as “garbage” US President Donald Trump should focus on delivering on his promises to the American people rather than “busying” himself with insults directed at Somalia, the East African country’s defense minister has said, according to Reuters.Ahmed Moallim Fiqi’s remarks came after Trump called Somalia “filthy, dirty, disgusting,...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The European Commission is set to vote on an emergency measure to indefinitely freeze Russian assets and strip member states of veto powers over them EU officials are “systematically raping the law” by planning to strip member states of veto powers over frozen Russian assets, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.The European Commission is due to vote later on Friday on a plan to invoke Article 122 of the EU treaties, an emergency clause that allows decisions to pass by qualified majority...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, As the nation of 1.4 billion strives for Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliance), young talent is emerging as the key pillar of its growth story By H.E. Vinay Kumar, Ambassador of India to The Russian FederationIndia and Russia share a timeless relationship, one that is based on mutual trust and respect. Our ‘Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership’ has been growing steadily under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin.President Putin visited India on...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The humiliation Washington is inflicting on Western Europe today will shape an entire generation of politicians who will eventually have to rediscover how to deal with Russia. The lessons they are absorbing now may prove as important as those learned by previous Western European leaders who built a dialogue with the USSR after 1945.Over the past year, we have grown accustomed to watching the US treat its European allies with increasing roughness. But it would be a mistake to simply enjoy the spectacle....

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, US President Donald Trump earlier expressed frustration over the slow progress toward a peace deal with Russia Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has indicated the country may hold a referendum on territorial concessions ahead of any peace deal with Moscow. Kiev has previously ruled out any recognition of former Ukrainian regions as part of Russia.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Zelensky suggested that the territorial dispute with Russia over Donbass – widely considered to be the most serious stumbling...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The US risks losing to China if it ends up with a “patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes” at state level, the White House has said US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to curb individual state-level regulation of artificial intelligence, until a nationwide policy is adopted. A fragmented legal landscape threatens America’s AI competitiveness compared to China, the US federal government has said.The administration wants to avoid a scenario in which a...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, New Delhi and Washington have emphasized the need to sustain momentum in economic cooperation Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he and US President Donald Trump discussed trade, defense, and energy ties in a telephone conversation on Thursday.The development comes as New Delhi and Washington are engaged in talks for a trade deal.“Had a very warm and engaging conversation with President Trump,” Modi said in a post on X. “We reviewed the progress in our bilateral relations and...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, The Treasury has targeted the shipping sector and blacklisted President Nicolas Maduro’s nephews The US has blacklisted six Venezuelan shipping companies and six vessels as part of a pressure campaign against President Nicolas Maduro.US President Donald Trump has accused the Maduro government of helping cartels smuggle drugs into the US – a claim Maduro denied and said was being used as a cover for an attempt at regime change.The blacklisted ships and companies operate in Venezuela’s oil...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Ukrainian people supported the peace proposal rejected by Vladimir Zelensky.Trump previously said that Zelensky was “losing” ground to Russia and urged him to hold elections, since his five-year presidential term expired in May 2024.Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said he had thought the US was “very close” to brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine.“In fact, other than President Zelensky, his people...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, A Ukrainian drone has struck an apartment block in Tver, a city northwest of Moscow, injuring at least seven people, officials said.Video from the scene shows fire and smoke coming from a nine-story building.Acting Tver Region Governor Vitaly Korolyev said that evacuation was underway and that seven people, including a child, have been hospitalized.Local media reported that the fire has been extinguished and that rescue crews remain at the scene.DETAILS TO FOLLOW Dear readers! Thank you for your vibrant...

RT-Engels: 12-12-2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro amid the US military buildup in the Caribbean.The leaders highlighted close ties between Moscow and Caracas during a phone call on Thursday. According to the Kremlin, Putin “expressed solidarity with the people of Venezuela and reaffirmed his support for the Maduro government’s resolve to defend national interests and sovereignty against foreign pressure.”The presidents reaffirmed their commitment to the strategic...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The Ukrainian forces seemingly have no strategy and are attempting to hold onto land “at any price,” Thomas Roeper has told RT After the liberation of Seversk there is no other fortress city to stop the Russian advance in the Donetsk People’s Republic, author and war correspondent Thomas Roeper told RT on Thursday.The capture of the stronghold, announced by the Russian Defense Ministry earlier in the day, has opened up the way for advances on military hub cities Kramatorsk and Slavyansk to...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, But the US’ new strategy raises a deeper question: can a pan-European house ever be rebuilt? The new edition of the US National Security Strategy breaks sharply with past documents. It looks, at first glance, like a standard presidential framework, but it reads more like an ideological manifesto. One might be tempted to treat it as a political pamphlet from Trump’s circle, destined to fade once he leaves office.But that would be a mistake. There are two reasons to take it seriously. First, the...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The group, which would also include China, India and Japan, was reportedly outlined in Washington’s longer security strategy draft The US is secretly planning to create a five-nation power bloc with Russia, China, India and Japan to sideline the Western-dominated G7, several media outlets have reported.The idea was reportedly outlined in a longer unpublished draft of the US National Security Strategy released by the administration of President Donald Trump last week. According to the Defense One news...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Moscow and Washington have reaffirmed the need to examine and address the root causes of the Ukraine conflict, the foreign minister said The recent Kremlin meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff cleared up all misunderstandings that had emerged after the Russia-US summit in Alaska earlier this year, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Speaking at a diplomatic roundtable on Thursday, Lavrov said that talks with the US are again focused on addressing the...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Vladimir Zelensky has for the first time mentioned elections and territorial concessions, according to Sonja van den Ende Ukraine’s loss of the stronghold of Seversk in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic is a big blow to Kiev’s “bargaining position” in future peace talks, Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende told RT on Thursday.Russian forces pushed the last of Ukraine’s forces out of Seversk, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported earlier in the day....

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Ukrainian forces were pushed out of the key Donbass city on Thursday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported Russian soldiers have begun providing aid to civilians in the newly liberated city of Seversk in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), video footage provided by the Defense Ministry shows. The former Ukrainian stronghold was cleared of enemy troops earlier on Thursday, according to the ministry.Troops have been going door-to-door to provide assistance to the civilians remaining the city, the...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Bart De Wever earlier denounced the European Commission’s plan to ‘steal’ the frozen funds The EU states pushing hardest to tap Russia’s frozen assets are acting as if they are “psychologically at war” with Moscow, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has said.Speaking after condemning the latest EU proposal to use the frozen Russian sovereign funds to help finance Ukraine, De Wever labeled the plan “very unwise and ill-considered.” He also warned that the plan...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, London admitted its troops’ direct involvement after a British paratrooper died in Ukraine Russia will draw the necessary conclusions after London acknowledged that it has personnel involved in the Ukraine conflict, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Earlier this week, London conceded that British paratroopers have been operating in Ukraine after confirming a British serviceman had died there. Lavrov said on Thursday that London had been “forced to admit” its role, adding that reports...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The new US National Security Strategy echoes Hungary’s concerns over the EU’s direction, Viktor Orban has said US President Donald Trump understands that Europe is in decline, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.The new US National Security Strategy (NSS) released last week criticizes the EU’s political and cultural direction, warning of “civilizational erasure” and accusing European institutions of overregulation, destabilizing migration policies, and suppressing...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Kiev’s Western backers have nearly depleted their resources for waging the proxy war against Russia, the foreign minister says Ukrainian military casualties in the conflict with Russia have exceeded 1 million and continue to rise, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.Lavrov did not specify the types of losses; however, ‘military casualties’ refers to the total number of soldiers killed, wounded, missing in action, and taken prisoner.Kiev does not release regular official tallies of...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Warsaw has been left out of two major Western discussions on Ukraine’s future since November Polish politicians have voiced anger after Warsaw was sidelined from recent talks in London on a potential peace agreement for Ukraine, Politico reported on Thursday.Leaders from Britain, France, Germany, and Ukraine met last week to coordinate positions as the US pushes a peace process, and Warsaw was again not invited. According to the outlet, the London snub was the second in two months for Poland, which was...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Handing Russian assets over to Ukraine would be nothing more than theft disguised as a moral choice and a public service Memo to the unelected Eurobozos of the European Union’s executive branch 'responsible' for setting policy: just because you keep calling a pile of cash you’re hell-bent on handing over to Ukraine a “loan” doesn’t mean it actually is.No one in their right mind would lend you money right now. Which is why you’re stealing it from taxpayers, or from...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Republican lawmaker John Kennedy has suggested that Pretoria should be removed from a flagship trade initiative Republican Senator John Kennedy has labeled South Africa an enemy of the US, as lawmakers increasingly push for Pretoria’s removal from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Washington’s flagship trade initiative.US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer was questioned by Republican Senator John Kennedy at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing regarding South...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Ukrainian forces have been completely pushed out of Seversk, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported Russian forces have liberated the Donbass city of Seversk, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Thursday. The former Ukrainian stronghold, located inside Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, is now fully clear of enemy troops, the ministry said.DETAILS TO FOLLOW Dear readers! Thank you for your vibrant engagement with our content and for sharing your points of view. Please note that we have...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Washington reportedly wants to invest the money in business, while Brussels insists on using it to further arm Kiev The US and Kiev’s European backers are divided on what to do with the billions in Russian assets frozen in the West, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.Kiev’s backers froze about $300 billion in Russian central bank assets after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, with the bulk held at Belgium-based Euroclear and the rest in other G7 jurisdictions.A divisive...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The country’s size and resources would make it the most advantageous partner for Washington, the journalist believes Russia would be the “best” ally for the US due to the country’s vast landmass, rich natural resources, and formidable military, conservative American host Tucker Carlson has said.Speaking during a podcast on his YouTube channel on Thursday, Carlson suggested that “looking purely through the lens of what’s good for the United States, an America First...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Aleksandr Butyagin is being wrongly held on a Ukrainian warrant over “absurd” claims he was “destroying cultural heritage,” Moscow has said Russia has condemned the detention by Poland of a prominent Russian archaeologist at Ukraine’s request, whom Kiev has accused of “destroying cultural heritage” during excavations in Crimea. Kiev still disputes Moscow’s sovereignty over the peninsula, which boasts a rich and precious archeological heritage dating back...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Michael Gloss volunteered to fight in the Ukraine conflict and was killed liberating Donbass A memorial bust honoring Michael Gloss, the son of CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina who died while fighting for Russia, was unveiled this week in Donetsk.Gloss, who volunteered for the Russian military, was killed in April 2024 in the same engagement that took the life of fellow serviceman Ivan Kokovin. On Tuesday, the two soldiers were jointly commemorated at a local school, which was renamed after them earlier...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The US has approved the sale of technology and support for Pakistan’s F-16 fighter jets, the Pakistani website Dawn reported on Wednesday.The proposed sale aims to modernize Pakistan’s F-16 fleet and address operational safety concerns, the report said, citing a December 8 letter from the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) to Congress.“[The sale] will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by allowing Pakistan to retain interoperability...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov has said he will be step down ahead of no confidence vote Bulgaria’s government has announced its resignation following mass anti-corruption protests across the country. In a statement on Thursday, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said he and his cabinet would step down after facing their sixth no confidence vote.The announcement comes just weeks before Bulgaria is set to join the euro zone on January 1. The government had previously proposed a controversial 2026...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Thousands took to the streets across Bulgaria demanding the resignation of the prime minister and several other influential politicians Tens of thousands of people joined large-scale protests across Bulgaria on Wednesday, accusing the government of long-standing corruption and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov and several other influential political figures. The demonstrations, among the largest in the country in recent years, took place in Sofia and multiple regional cities....

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, Kenya aims to boost the animal’s population growth to 8% per year, President William Ruto has said Kenyan President William Ruto officially opened the largest rhino sanctuary in the world in Tsavo West on Tuesday.The expansion combines the previously overcrowded Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary and the Tsavo West Intensive Protection Zone to create one larger habitat. The president stated that “from modest beginnings of three rhinos on a three-square-kilometer parcel 40 years ago, the Tsavo West Rhino...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The African country has accused West Jerusalem of “inhumane” treatment of its nationals who were denied entry in Tel Aviv Ghana has deported three Israeli nationals in protest of what it described as the “ill treatment and unjustified deportation” of travelers from the West African country by authorities in Tel Aviv earlier this week.Earlier Wednesday, Ghana’s Foreign Ministry reported that seven Ghanaian nationals, including four members of a parliamentary delegation attending a...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The 5.86% growth registered in April to September came as US tariffs began to set in Indian exports hit a record high in the first half of the current financial year, according to official data.Exports rose 5.86% year-over-year in April to September to a record $418.91 billion, the Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday.“India’s export performance was strongly supported by export destinations including USA (13.34%), United Arab Emirates (9.34%), China (21.85%), Spain (40.30%), and Hong Kong (23.53%),...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, The US president earlier called Europe a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” leaders Pope Leo XIV has criticized US President Donald Trump’s description of Europe as a “decaying” group of nations ruled by “weak” leaders. Trump also accused governments in the region of failing to help end the Ukraine conflict.In an interview with Politico published on Wednesday, the Pope argued that brokering peace talks on the Ukraine conflict “without including...

RT-Engels: 11-12-2025, A declaration of neutrality by Kiev “certainly would have prevented the destruction,” a former US official told Russian pranksters Ukraine could have avoided the 2022 escalation with Russia by dropping its NATO aspirations, a former advisor to President Joe Biden has told Russian pranksters.Vovan and Lexus on Thursday released records of calls with two former members of Biden’s National Security Council in which they posed as Ukrainian presidential aide Igor Zhovkva. During the calls, Amanda...