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Moscow needs masses of soldiers for its Ukraine offensive. Russia does not say how many troops it has lost during the 20-month offensive, but independent estimates put the numbers well into the tens of thousands. Moscow has launched an aggressive recruitment campaign, offering huge salaries and welfare programmes in a bid to recruit soldiers for its assault. «The rate of recruitment for contracted military service has increased significantly. More than 1,600 people are signing a contract with the armed forces every day,» Russia's former leader Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the nation's Security Council, said in a video published on social media.

Donald Trump is making all of Vladimir Putin’s dreams come true in Ukraine, but even at the Kremlin officials find the head-spinning turn of events hard to believe. Friday’s extraordinary Oval Office humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by the US leader and his vice president, JD Vance, exceeded anything Russia could have expected. The response out of Moscow was swift. Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, said Trump told Zelenskiy “the truth to his face” before adding: “But it’s not enough — military aid should be stopped.” On the X social media platform, Medvedev called Zelenskiy an “insolent pig.”

Dmitry Medvedev said that the US believed it had won the cold war but in reality, had failed to do so. Further, he said that the US is now one step away from losing it completely. In the past, he has threatened Russia’s opponents that the county will use its nuclear arsenal. He was largely seen as liberal in the western circles in comparison to President Vladimir Putin, but his stance changed after the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war. He is presently the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council. This has been reported by the Business Insider.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of using «terrorist activities» to try to disrupt its presidential election and former President Dmitry Medvedev decried as «traitors» the scattered protesters who have tried to set fire to voting booths and pour dye into ballot boxes.

Russian president Medvedev said. “The French President had already s**to himself and pulled out of the planned visit. Poor France!", Medvedev added.

Kremlin said on Thursday that Joe Biden had debased the United States by calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "crazy SOB", casting the U.S. president's remark as part of a failed "Hollywood cowboy" act. The U.S. president made the «crazy SOB» remark as part of a sentence about threats to the world — including «that guy Putin and others», the risk of nuclear conflict and the existential threat to humanity from climate change.

President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that Moscow would regard any move by Britain to deploy a military contingent to Ukraine as a declaration of war against Russia. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, made the comments in response to a visit by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Kyiv to announce an increase in military funding to help Ukraine purchase new military drones. «I hope that our eternal enemies — the arrogant British — understand that deploying an official military contingent to Ukraine would be a declaration of war against our country,» Medvedev wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Medvedev, whose frequent and harsh public statements diplomats say give an indication of hawkish thinking at the top of the Kremlin, also asked how the Western public would feel if Sunak's delegation came under fire from cluster munitions in the centre of Kyiv, something he said had recently happened to Russian civilians in the city of Belgorod. Belgorod, in southern Russia, is located close to the Ukrainian border and has been targeted by Ukrainian rockets and drones in recent months. In the incident referred to by Medvedev on Dec.

military instructors to Ukraine, rowing back from reported comments by his defence minister that he wanted to begin training Ukrainian troops in the country. To date, Britain and its allies have avoided a formal military presence in Ukraine to reduce the risk of a direct conflict with Russia. British defence minister Grant Shapps, who was appointed to the role last month, said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph newspaper that he wanted to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, in addition to training Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or other Western countries. Hours after that interview was published, Sunak said there were no immediate plans to send British troops to Ukraine. «What the defence secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine,» Sunak told reporters at the start of the governing Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester. «But that's something for the long term, not the here and now. There are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict.» Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday said any British soldiers training Ukrainian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Russian forces Britain has provided five-week military training courses to around 20,000 Ukrainians over the past year, and intends to train a similar number going forward. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Shapps said there was scope to offer military training within Ukraine after a discussion on Friday with British military chiefs. «I was talking today about eventually getting the training brought closer and actually into Ukraine as well,» he was quoted as saying.

Poland has begun enforcing an entry ban on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country

Poland has begun enforcing an entry ban on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have banned vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory as part of the European Union’s recent new interpretation of sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine

Russia's military, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev, said on Sunday. Visiting Russia's Far East, Medvedev said he was meeting local officials to work on efforts to beef up the armed forces. «According to the Ministry of Defence, since Jan. 1, about 280,000 people have been accepted into the ranks of the Armed Forces on a contract basis,» including reservists, state news agency TASS quoted Medvedev as saying. Last year Russia announced a plan to expand its combat personnel more than 30% to 1.5 million, an ambitious task made harder by its heavy but undisclosed casualties in Moscow's war against Ukraine. Some Russian lawmakers suggested Russia needs a professional army 7-million strong to ensure the country's security — a move that would require a huge budget allowance.President Vladimir Putin ordered a «partial mobilisation» of 300,000 reservists in September 2022, prompting hundreds of thousands of others to flee Russia to avoid being sent to fight.

BRICS last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the real drama was being played out elsewhere. On one hand, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin was virtually addressing his counterparts, there came news that a private aircraft carrying Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed in Russia, killing all 10 people on board.

NEW DELHI: Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the Russia-Ukraine conflict may end up dragging on for decades as the fight is an “existential” conflict for Moscow and a «fight for its very existence». According to a report by RT, Medvedev posted on social media stating that «Russia must destroy and fully dismantle the Ukrainian state that is a terrorist in its essence, making sure this filth never re-emerges again». Medvedev, who is currently deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, wrote: “Should it take years or even decades, then so be it. We have no choice: either we will destroy their hostile political regime, or the collective West will eventually tear Russia to pieces. And in this case, it will perish with us. Nobody needs this." «Therefore, the only way is a complete dismantling of the state machine of the hostile country and absolute guarantees of loyalty for the future. They can only be provided by Russia’s control over everything that is happening and will happen in the territories of the former Banderite state. And we will achieve that,» he said. 'Western support will dry up' MORE STORIES FOR YOU✕« Back to recommendation stor

Both sides said on Saturday that a Ukrainian sea drone full of explosives had struck a Russian fuel tanker overnight near a bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea, the second such attack in 24 hours.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow would retaliate. «The Kyiv regime, meeting no condemnation from Western countries and international organisations, is actively applying new terrorist methods, this time in the waters of the Black Sea,» Zakharova said in a statement. «There can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished.»

Senior Russian leaders will meet on Monday for a hastily-arranged Security Council session, to discuss the country's response to a weekend bridge explosion in Crimea.  

Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start voting this week to become integral parts of Russia. 

The leaders of Estonia and Finland want other EU countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to travel to Europe on holiday while the Kremlin carries out a devastating war in Ukraine. 

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—For years, President Vladimir Putin used an annual economic conference here to champion Russia’s economic appeal to the world.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit Finland and Sweden on Wednesday as they prepare to announce their stance on possible NATO membership applications in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Downing Street said.

One of the most fascinating implications of the collision between traditional political institutions and the crypto space is how it can reveal the glaring lack of cohesion within power systems that otherwise look monolithic. Digital assets reside in a parallel policy dimension where neither a centralized consensus nor a clear rulebook exists, leading to a surprising variety of voices and opinions emerging in the absence of a politically coordinated course. Last week, a rare lively policy debate broke out in Russia in the aftermath of its central bank’s attempt to promote a hardline stance on crypto. One does not often see such a public interagency disagreement on substantive issues.