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10 Jun

Ukraine achieves no targets in counteroffensive: Putin

Moscow, June 10 (IANS) Ukraine has launched a "counteroffensive" but has "failed" to accomplish its goals, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. "First, it can be stated with absolute certainty that this offensive has begun. The use of strategic reserves of the Ukrainian forces proves it. Second, in no areas of combat the Ukrainian troops have achieved their tasks. This is an absolutely obvious thing," Putin told reporters in Russia's Sochi on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported. There were "significant losses" of Ukrainian troops in the past five days of "very intense fighting", but Kiev still preserves the offensive potential, Putin…

28 Apr

Putin, Erdogan discuss ties, regional issues over phone

Ankara, April 28 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone talk with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ahead of the inauguration ceremony of Turkey's first nuclear power reactor built by Russia. Turkey-Russia relations and regional issues were discussed during the phone talk, Erdogan's office said in a statement on Thursday. The Turkish President thanked Putin for his contribution to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, where a ceremony for its first nuclear fuel delivery will be held on Thursday, the statement said as quoted by Xinhua news agency report. The two leaders discussed the developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and…

30 Jan

Boris Johnson says Putin ‘threatened him with missile strike’ before war

London, Jan 30 (IANS) Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "threatened him with a missile strike during an extraordinary phone call" ahead of Moscow launching its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. He made the remarks in a BBC documentary titled 'Putin Vs the West' which will be broadcast on Monday. "He threatened me at one point, and he said, 'Boris, I don't want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute' or something like that. "But I think from the very relaxed tone that he was taking,…

09 Jan

Russian claim of killing 600 Ukrainian soldiers rejected by Kiev as ‘propaganda’

Kiev, Jan 9 (IANS) Russia's claim of killing more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers in an attack in the eastern city of Kramatorsk has been rejected by authorities in Kiev and labelled it as "propaganda". Russia claimed the toll without providing any evidence and said the "mass missile strike" in Kramatorsk was in retaliation for a Ukrainian attack at a college for conscripts in Makiivka (Donetsk region) that killed at least 89 Russian soldiers on New Year's Day. But rejecting the claim, Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, told the BBC on Sunday night that "this is another piece of…

16 Apr

The Russians and Trump – a spectacular coup or self-goal?

Title: Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House; Author: Luke Harding; Publisher: Guardian Books/Faber & Faber; Pages: 346; Price: Rs 599 Soon after being made Russian Prime Minister in 1999, Vladimir Putin reportedly told his former secret service colleagues that undercover spies, dispatched to infiltrate the US government, had "fulfilled their first objective". Did he, in November 2016, make a similar quip about a pliable "agent" now heading an (increasingly) adversarial superpower? He could well have, though the impact didn't persist too long, as we learn here. The issue of US President Donald Trump's Russian connections and the…