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It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal…

Did late James Kallstrom of the NY FBI and his protégé Charles McGonigal fix the Election 2016 for Trump for $1.3 ml by orchestrating the Weiner-Abedin laptop – Clinton emails affair? FBI: Do investigate this connection and the lead in fullest. 

Continue reading the main storyAs the counterintelligence chief in New York, Charles McGonigal had access to sensitive American secrets. His arrest has touched off a scramble to assess the damage.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Give this articleGive this articleGive…

In the course of writing two books on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the same question occurred to me again and again: How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Donald Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it?Specifically, I knew that:Starting in 1980, an alleged “spotter agent”…

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice, talks with Rachel Maddow about the shocking betrayal of U.S. national security alleged in the arrest of former F.B.I. official Charles McGonigal, and the potential impact on counterintelligence investigations and Americans’ confidence in federal…

The question of who becomes the president of the United States should be answered by voters, not federal agents.J. Scott Applewhite / APThe Watergate Scandal was a high point of American journalism. Two dedicated young reporters from The Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, brought down President Richard Nixon for his role in the coverup…

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But according to a Daily Beast article published Thursday, Kallstrom first denied speaking at all to any active FBI agents and said his assessment of the mood of the bureau’s rank and file was based exclusively on conversations with retired agents. But later in that same interview, he said that he did interact with active agents who had reached out…

Continue reading the main storyHint: It’s not Peter Strzok. Peter Strzok testified on Thursday before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees.Credit…T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesSend any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Give this articleGive this articleGive…

Igor Krasnov told Putin there were “more than 9,000 citizens who were illegally mobilized” when Russia sent conscripts into Ukraine late last year.

В.Путин: Игорь Викторович, мы с Вами в постоянном контакте находимся, очень часто обсуждаем текущие вопросы и перспективные, по конкретным делам, по работе прокуратуры в целом, тем не менее договаривались и о личной встрече. С чего начнём?И.Краснов: Владимир Владимирович, добрый день!Разрешите доложить о наиболее значимых направлениях…

I know of two journalists who had reported on parts of the charges against former FBI Special Agent in Charge Charles McGonigal before he was indicted: In December 2021, Scott Stedman (with an assist from Wendy Siegelman) reported on the relationship between McGonigal, Oleg Deripaska, Sergey Shestakov, and Yevgenyi Fokin that was disclosed in a November…

Published: 06:00 GMT, 28 January 2023 | Updated: 08:26 GMT, 28 January 2023 Charles McGonigal, the former Special Agent In Charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division, was allegedly turned in to the Bureau by his ex-lover, Allison Guerriero, after he ended their relationship and revealed he was not going to leave his wife for her.During…

In the past weeks there has been a whirlwind of stories exposing the Kremlin’s successful post-Cold War infiltration of the West. Arrests, jailings, and news stories have highlighted allegations of the involvement of high-profile individuals and institutions (sometimes unwittingly) to assist Russian intelligence and Kremlin-linked oligarchs. Taken…

Veteran Mother Jones journalist David Corn on how Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign was harmed by FBI investigations of her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State. — Subscribe for more videos from the fifth estate : http://bit.ly/25W8cpn Connect with the fifth estate online : Website : http://bit.ly/1d0FBxq…

The FBI’s website carries a stark warning.”The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China,” it says, “are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.”Perhaps far worse is the threat to the lives…

We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.On 23 January, we learned that a former FBI special agent, Charles McGonigal, was arrested on charges involving taking money to serve foreign interests.  One accusation is that in 2017 he took $225,000 from…

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Former Assistant FBI Director and Fox News commentator James Kallstrom on the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Kallstrom also shares his thoughts on current FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the investigation during the US election campaign. — Subscribe for more videos from the fifth estate : http://bit.ly/25W8cpn…

Published: 15:42 GMT, 8 January 2018 | Updated: 00:29 GMT, 9 January 2018 Huma Abedin backed up copies of her emails with Hillary Clinton to her pervert husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop, DailyMail.com can disclose – conflicting with her account to the FBI and in court that she did not preserve the conversations.An examination by DailyMail.com…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top aide to Hillary Clinton did not forward ‘‘hundreds and thousands’’ of emails to her husband’s laptop as FBI Director James Comey recently testified to Congress, according to a person familiar with the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.Comey, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top aide to Hillary Clinton did not forward ‘‘hundreds and thousands’’ of emails to her husband’s laptop as FBI Director James Comey recently testified to Congress, according to a person familiar with the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.Comey, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week,…

Anthony Weiner, Congressional portrait, c. 2007 Anthony Weiner is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York City who has been involved in multiple sex scandals related to sexting. The first scandal began when Weiner was a Democratic U.S. Congressman. He used the social media website Twitter to send a link that…

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FBI agents were stunned to find thousands of Hillary Clinton’s private emails while examining Anthony Weiner’s electronic devices for explicit text messages with a teen girl, a new book alleges. The agents called the discovery an “oh sh-t” moment as they combed through Weiner’s iPhone, iPad and laptop after it was revealed…

Several emails with classified information from former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin were among a tranche of documents released Friday that were found on Anthony Weiner’s personal computer during an FBI probe. The State Department released about 2,800 emails, only a few of which included classified information, as part of a successful lawsuit by conservative…

Was the FBI biased against Donald Trump in 2016? Trump and his supporters think so, and now they have fresh evidence: a 500-page report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The report includes text messages in which two then–FBI officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, spoke of “stopping”…

Q: Did the FBI wait until after the 2016 election to review the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? A: No. A viral story misinterprets an FBI document and ignores widely reported facts. FULL ANSWER Citing a recently released FBI document, a viral story misleads readers by claiming that the emails of former Secretary of…

The FBI is planning to clarify testimony its director gave to Congress last week about how classified information got from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server to the laptop of the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, several news agencies are now reporting.FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee…

Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, recently said that the alliance is “ready” for a direct confrontation with Russia as the country continues to fight in Ukraine.Bauer, an admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, told a Portuguese television channel, RTP, that NATO is focused on rearmament as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic…

It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal…

Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, recently said that the alliance is “ready” for a direct confrontation with Russia as the country continues to fight in Ukraine.Bauer, an admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, told a Portuguese television channel, RTP, that NATO is focused on rearmament as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic…

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During a recent visit to St Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his confidence in his country’s victory over Ukraine. Visiting a defense contractor, he also took the opportunity to reassure workers that his so-called “special military operation” was in defense of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine against a “neo-Nazi…

He clutched a battered backpack. Congregation deacons who edged closer heard him murmuring to himself. Suddenly, the man screamed, “Get back, demons!”The deacons grabbed the man and hustled him outside. He opened the backpack for them. It contained t-shirts and a screwdriver. They called 911 — and gave the man cinnamon rolls and coffee to go. They later…

The heart of the case involving President Donald J. Trump and Ukraine was the claim that the president pressured a U.S. ally, weakening the security of that country, to extract a personal benefit for himself. Several commentators have said that the president’s action toward Ukraine fit a pattern of his calling on foreign governments to interfere in…

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By Stewart Bishop (January 25, 2023, 10:13 PM EST) — Days after denying sanctions violations, a former senior FBI counterintelligence agent on Wednesday pled not guilty to another indictment claiming he hid hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer…. In the legal profession, information is the key…

VLADIMIR Putin’s almost quarter century in power in Russia has been characterised by brutality, cunning, and ruthlessness. And Vlad’s viciousness began before he was even in charge when he allegedly had a role in the deaths of three MPs who were investigating him. In September 1999, a series of horror explosions targeted ordinary RussiansCredit: AP:Associated…

The teenage girl who had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) lied about her age and political motivations to harm Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a report by the investigative news site WhoWhatWhy. In a report published Monday, the website said the girl who exchanged the…

Disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner is no predator and should be spared from prison at his sentencing for sexting with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl who dreamed about affecting the U.S. presidential election, his lawyers told a judge on Wednesday.The submission in Manhattan federal court referenced “Anthony’s operatic self-destruction,”…

Former FBI agent Charlie McGonigal was charged on Monday with money laundering and violating Russian sanctions, leading to a lot of concern among other former FBI officials, said former assistant director for counter-intelligence Frank Figliuzzi. Speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Figliuzzi confessed he was “distraught” and “angry,” but he wasn’t…

ShareA onetime colleague of accused FBI turncoat Charles McGonigal says the former top counterintelligence official was an “egotistical narcissist” who frequently “screamed at subordinates,” resented the successes of underlings and may well have been part of an anti-Hillary Clinton clique in the New York office who helped pressure FBI Director James…

The arrest of Charles McGonigal, chief of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York from October 2016 until his retirement in 2018, reopens festering questions about the troubled election that put Donald Trump in the White House. Among the crimes charged against McGonigal in two lengthy federal indictments is a secret financial relationship…

The angry ex-lover of the FBI’s former New York counterintelligence chief claims she tipped the feds off to some of his misdeeds before his arrest last week. Charles McGonigal, who was part of the FBI probe of the Trump campaign’s Russia ties, has been charged with money laundering, lying to the FBI, and taking money to help a sanctioned Russian oligarch,…

Continue reading the main storyThe bureau tried to court Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate, as an informant. Instead, one of its own top agents may have ended up working for him.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Give this articleGive this articleGive this articleThe…

The United States and Germany are now both sending tanks to Ukraine.  David sits down with General Mark Hertling, former Commanding General of United States Army Europe and the Seventh Army, and Michael Weiss of Yahoo News about where we are and how we got here.  Will tanks have an immediate positive impact on the battlefield?  Why have the Germans…

Vladimir Putin’s new overall commander in his invasion of Ukraine will be “ruthless” and the appointment shows how the Russian president is looking to play a “long game,” a former NATO commander has told Newsweek.In the most dramatic change at the top since the start of the war, Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov has been tasked to…

Under the growing pressures of war, the Russian military-industrial complex is experiencing acute shortages in manpower. With so many workers mobilized and with casualties rising (now estimated to be “significantly, well over” 100,000), the authorities are beginning to look at another, time-honored source of cheap labor — the prison population.  Convicts…

The arrest of a high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence agent accused of spying for Russia has highlighted the urgent need for a cleanout of the country’s key security service, a former deputy head of the agency has said.The Ukrainian security service (SBU) reported on Thursday that they arrested a lieutenant colonel in their ranks on suspicion of “high…

One morning in October 2017, Allison Guerriero noticed something unusual on the floor of her boyfriend’s Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment: a bag full of cash. There it was, lying next to his shoes, near the futon, the kind of bag that liquor stores give out. Inside were bundles of bills, big denominations bound up with rubber bands. It didn’t seem like…

The FBI is in crisis. It pains me, as a former special agent and the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to warn that if we don’t fix it now, we risk irrevocably breaking not only the greatest law enforcement agency in the world, but America’s trust in this invaluable institution. If you needed any more graphic evidence…

Charles McGonigal — the former FBI official who has been arrested and indicted by US authorities over his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska – has quietly spent the past year working for another Russian-born billionaire, The Post has learned. Aman Resorts, a five-star hotel chain owned by Vladislav Doronin…

Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court Monday in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. Associated Press NEW YORK – A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence…

#FBI FBI #DOJ DOJ Was Weiner’s sexting affair ORCHESTRATED? By whom, and why, Mr. McGonigal? How did Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance? Whose idea was it? Tell us all. Charles McGonigal, NYPD, and Weiner sexting – Google Search https://t.co/eLp9tszzG8 pic.twitter.com/hg3wsPEeO5

#FBI FBI #DOJ DOJ Was Weiner’s sexting affair ORCHESTRATED? By whom, and why, Mr. McGonigal? How did Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance? Whose idea was it? Tell us all. Charles McGonigal, NYPD, and Weiner sexting – Google Search https://t.co/eLp9tszzG8 pic.twitter.com/hg3wsPEeO5

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Before writing anything further here, please excuse any saltiness in my take. Full disclosure: I pleaded guilty to failing to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act of 1938 in charges brought by then special counsel Robert Mueller. So yes, I have an opinion, but I’ll try to stick to the facts: In bringing charges against former FBI senior…

Alex Wagner shares details from an astonishing new report from the New York Times that looks at how Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the Trump Russia investigation was manipulated by former Attorney General Bill Barr for its political utility to Donald Trump.  » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Follow MSNBC…

Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel and senior member of of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, talks with Alex Wagner about revelations in new reporting by the New York Times into how Bill Barr used his position as attorney general to provide political cover for Donald Trump through the John Durham special counsel investigation of the Russia…

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Continue reading the main storyThe review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Give this articleGive…

When Dmitry Medvedev was elected president of Russia in 2008, he was seen by many as a more liberal and Western-leaning than Vladimir Putin, the man who served as president both before and after him.It didn’t matter that he was viewed largely as a placeholder for Putin, who was unable to serve three consecutive terms. Many still hoped he could take…

Robert Williams is the executive director of USC Shoah Foundation. (Photo/Tilman Renz) USC Shoah Foundation is dedicated to developing empathy, understanding and respect through testimony, but it cannot alone counter the misinformation that distorts the truths of the Holocaust. The foundation’s new executive director, Robert Williams, spoke with…

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 27th January, 2023) The United States government has no credible evidence that weapons provided to Kiev by Washington were diverted outside of Ukraine, US Assistant Defense Secretary for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said on Friday.”The US government has not seen credible evidence of any diversion…

January 27, 2023   10:40 am A former top FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday. Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire…

If you haven’t heard the name “Charles McGonigal” before, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Top FBI officials in Counterintelligence aren’t supposed to make the news and become household names.But yesterday, McGonigal was indicted by grand juries in New York and Washington D.C. and arrested for secretly working for Russian oligarch and close Putin ally…

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press James Comey may have been right about Russia collusion after all. But instead of the Trump campaign, the alleged culprit was a member of Mr. Comey’s own team at the FBI. In 2016 Mr. Comey appointed veteran agent Charles McGonigal to head the bureau’s counterintelligence efforts…

A former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division and a former Soviet and Russian diplomat were arrested Saturday on criminal charges related to their alleged violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering. According…

One evening in May 2017, Charles “Charlie” McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.At the time, McGonigal was one of the most senior officials in the FBI – special agent in charge [SAC] of the…

Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM that according to one of his “well-placed sources” in the New York Police Department, “The NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making” in the Anthony Weiner investigation, but received “huge pushback”…

#FBI FBI #DOJ DOJ Was Weiner’s sexting affair ORCHESTRATED? By whom, and why, Mr. McGonigal? How did Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance? Whose idea was it? Tell us all. Charles McGonigal, NYPD, and Weiner sexting – Google Search https://t.co/eLp9tszzG8 pic.twitter.com/hg3wsPEeO5

Post LinkAnthony Weiner sexting scandal and its investigation was one of the major factors in 2016 Election. Many people have the opinion, that it was a setup, possibly by the FBI, or its “rogue” elements, and/or ex members. His accuser was involved in other similar incidents. This affair was not adequately, objectively, and independently investigated….

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One evening in May 2017, Charles “Charlie” McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. At the time, McGonigal was one of the most senior officials in the FBI – special agent in charge [SAC] of the…

Washington — The former top counterintelligence official at the FBI’s New York field office has been arrested and charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Russia and money laundering, the Justice Department said Monday.Charles McGonigal, 54, was accused in a five-count indictment of working for Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who has been…

The arrest and indictment of a former senior FBI counterintelligence agent has reopened an embarrassing subject for the FBI and the Department of Justice.The former special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, Charles McGonigal, leaves court January 23, 2023, at New York. AP/John Minchillo ELI LAKE Mr. Lake is a contributing…

Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/Associated Press Leave it to Olaf Scholz to do the right thing on Ukraine—after he’s exhausted all other possibilities. The German Chancellor on Wednesday finally announced Germany will send 14 Leopard-2 battle tanks to Ukraine, after weeks of desperate pleas from Kyiv and mounting pressure from…

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press James Comey may have been right about Russia collusion after all. But instead of the Trump campaign, the alleged culprit was a member of Mr. Comey’s own team at the FBI. In 2016 Mr. Comey appointed veteran agent Charles McGonigal to head the bureau’s counterintelligence efforts…

Charles McGonigal, the former special agent-in-charge (SAC) of foreign counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York field office, has been arrested and charged with sanctions violations and money laundering for his alleged involvement with a Russian oligarch. An indictment is only the government’s version of what’s often a complex story, McGonigal retained…

Photo: santi otero/Shutterstock BARCELONA—Spanish police said they arrested a 74-year-old man suspected of sending letter bombs to government leaders, the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies and other targets late last year.  The man, described as a retiree and Spanish citizen, was arrested in the town of Miranda de Ebro in…

From Washington to Berlin to Kyiv, a Western decision to send battle tanks to Ukraine was hailed enthusiastically. Moscow sought to downplay it. The Kremlin has previously warned that such tank deliveries would be a dangerous escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, and it has strongly denounced the watershed move by Germany and the United States to…

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The former FBI official busted Monday for allegedly taking illegal foreign payments played a key role in the bureau’s controversial  “Russiagate” probe of former President Donald Trump — and a “defensive briefing” of ex-rival Hillary Clinton’s lawyers. Charles “Charlie” McGonigal, 54, was among the first FBI…

A former FBI official with ties to the investigation into Russia’s alleged links to Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign has been charged with providing services to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.Charles McGonigal, 54, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office, is accused of secretly working with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska,…

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McGonigal was arrested Saturday over his ties to billionaire Oleg Deripaska.The alleged criminal behavior of former FBI agent Charles McGonigal does not represent the actions of the rest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Director Christopher Wray told employees in an internal message summarized to ABC News.McGonigal, who was the special agent…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode. The decision could be announced as soon as Wednesday, though it could take months or years for…

A historic changing of the guard in Wellington today, the longest temp accommodation stays for Kiwi kids revealed and why Unis are booking up plane seats in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ HeraldSeveral senior Ukrainian officials, including five front-line governors, lost their jobs on Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President…

Polish army Leopard 2s.Wikimedia Commons Germany on Tuesday not only signed off on Poland’s request to export German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine—Berlin also will donate its own small batch of the world-class tanks. And now the Leopard 2s could pile up fast. Norway on Tuesday followed Germany’s and Poland’s leads and pledged surplus Leopard 2s….

U.S. and Western officials are urging Ukraine to shift its focus from the brutal months-long fighting in the eastern city of Bakhmut (Artemivsk) to prioritizing a potential offensive in the south, using a different style of fighting, CNN reported.In recent weeks, they have begun suggesting that Ukrainian forces reduce their losses in Bakhmut, which…

FILE PHOTO:US soldiers stand with Polish and US flags near M1/A2 Abrams tank outside a hall of 30th International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper PempelWASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The United States, in a reversal, appears to be dropping its opposition to sending M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine and…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers his annual speech to lawmakers during a session of the Ukrainian Parliament, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 28, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERSKYIV, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s ruling party drew up a bill on Tuesday aiming to boost transparency…

World Russia Ukraine Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin’s military top brass is facing further ructions following the dismissal of one of his main commanders in Ukraine, British defense officials have said.Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky had been commander of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) since June 2022. He had won plaudits in Russia as…

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said personnel changes were being carried out at senior and lower levels, following the most high-profile graft allegations since Russia’s invasion that threaten to dampen Western enthusiasm for the Kyiv government. Reports of a fresh scandal in Ukraine, which has a long history of shaky governance, come…