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Moscow has denied giving Kiev two months to withdraw from Donbass, insisting Ukrainian forces should have left “yesterday” · FILE PHOTO. Kremlin. © Getty Images / David Clapp · The Kremlin has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s claim that Moscow issued a two‑month ultimatum for Kiev to withdraw from Russia’s Donbass region, insisting that the troops should have left the region long ago. · Speaking to…

Draft enforcers now wear civilian clothing and include women in their ranks, the Berliner Zeitung has reported · FILE PHOTO: New recruits training at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. © Getty Images / Maciek Musialek · Ukrainian draft enforcers have begun employing new, more elaborate tactics to catch potential conscripts unawares, the Berliner Zeitung (BZ) has reported. The steps are said to include deploying women as…

Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi armed groups and the Houthis in Yemen are helping the Islamic Republic widen the conflict and raise its costs By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow). https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/murad-sadygzade/Telegram · ©  Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images · The war’s second ‘ring of fire*’ is no longer forming around Iran. It…

In this episode of RT’s Sanchez Effect Rick exposes the Israeli government’s anti-Christian sentiments and how US officials are bowing to Israeli lobbyists despite that fact. There’s no better guest to help us do it than former Miss California and current conservative activist Carrie Prejean Boller. She has faced religious and lobbyist pressure herself, with the Trump administration asking her to resign from the religious freedom…

British and Australian citizens are paying the price for a war that their leaders refuse to condemn · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ ·…

Russian forces declare the Lugansk Republic fully liberated after securing two more towns in the Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions. Warehouses ablaze. Three drones target a major British oil company’s stock in Iraq - it comes as Tehran declares American tech firms in the region to be legitimate targets of war. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches a new wave of massive strikes at Israeli military sites, while Netanyahu is convinced the…

Trump handed Putin a soft power victory that earned him thunderous applause from the World Majority. · Andrew Korybko · Trump declined to enforce the US’ de facto blockade on Cuba for a Russian oil tanker that was carrying enough fuel to meet the island’s needs for approximately one week. In his words, “We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload, because they have to survive. If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now,…

In this episode of RT’s Sanchez Effect Rick discusses the Iran war with Trita Parsi, co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Amid news and speculation about a possible US ground invasion of Iran, Parsi says it would be a disastrous mistake for Trump because right now, he still has the backing of many Americans, with Fox News and legacy media ‘misinformation’ helping him. · However, …

No help from the US. As Washington's war on Iran sends shockwaves across the global energy market.. Donald Trump tells oil-poor nations to buy pricey American Petrol, or attack the Strait of Hormuz themselves. Israeli hardliners celebrate the passing of a hugely controversial bill that green-lights the hanging of those convicted of carrying out deadly terror attacks in West Bank. Critics say the law discriminates against…

American forces reportedly fired a missile that disperses small tungsten pellets at the city of Lamerd · FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises after US-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, on March 13, 2026. ©  Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu / Getty Images · The US struck a school and sports hall in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd with a ballistic missile previously untested in combat, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing its own…