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The US has sent over $113 billion in military and economic support to Ukraine over the past 18 months, with NATO allies sending tens of billions more. The assistance, which includes nearly $100 billion in military aid, did not endow Kiev with the firepower necessary to mount a successful counteroffensive against Russia.

Ukraine kicked off a massive summer counteroffensive along a 1,000 km frontline with Russia in the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye in early June, confident that its troops’ NATO training, arms and intelligence support would ensure victory. Two months on, more and more Western officials have privately conceded that the counteroffensive has failed.

President Putin has indicated that Russia wouldn’t rule out the reverse engineering of sophisticated Western military equipment captured by Russian forces in Ukraine.

This week, the UK announced the delivery of long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Kiev. What are these weapons? How do they differ from missiles already supplied to Ukraine? What can Russia do about them? Sputnik explains.

The UK will not succeed in shifting blame for the toxic depleted uranium (DU) munitions it has already placed in the hands of the Kiev regime, Moscow’s embassy in London stated.

Mainstream reporting related to the so-called ‘Pentagon leaks’ about the DoD’s sobering assessment of the real state of the NATO-Russia proxy conflict in Ukraine has brought the ‘do or die’ pressure facing Kiev into focus. Without a decisive victory, Kiev may be pushed into ceasefire talks, says international affairs expert Mark Sleboda.

Heavyweights in the region, saudi arabia and iran, two of the key players in what is a proxy conflict in yemen is what is fuelling this cautious optimism, the sense of a new opening in this years—old conflict. saudi arabia, of course, launched a military intervention in 2015 in neighbouring yemen — that was a year after the houthis, backed by iran, seized power in a coup and seized large swathes of yemen. so, with this rare rapprochement between saudi arabia and iran, it is taking out, at le...

Amid the ongoing NATO-Russia proxy conflict in Ukraine, more and more Western media outlets, historians and think tank figures have referred to the crisis as a “new Cold War.” On the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech, a leading Russian arms control expert explains why the ‘sequel’ to the Cold War is far more dangerous.

Direction would you give your own bosses or leaders? >> yeah, so i would say you have to be made it clear that russia is at war with the west, its a proxy conflict. he cant stand to be losing to ukraine, a country that he expected to defeat in a matter of days, and its true that we have kept ukraine in the fight but the ukrainians are the ones fighting and dying on the battlefield right now, so we have to take this very seriously. thats why its important for the biden administration to message r...

Iranian media said that Iran and Saudi Arabia resumed talks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, following instances of previously suspended talks, amid ongoing tense relations between the regional rivals.