Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced last week that his armed forces successfully fired several of the country’s domestically made Flamingo missiles that reached their target deep inside Russia on 21 February.
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RUTTE SAYS NATO TROOPS WILL BE ‘INSTANTLY’ DEPLOYED TO UKRAINE ONCE THERE’S A PEACE DEAL
Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, said last week that troops from NATO will be deployed “instantly” to Ukraine if a peace deal is ever hashed out between Kyiv and Moscow, just as the war approaches its fourth anniversary.
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RETIRED FRENCH GENERAL: UKRAINE MUST BE DEMILITARIZED IF THERE’S GOING TO BE PEACE
A retired French colonel said in an interview last week that for there to be peace in Eastern Europe, it is essential that Ukraine becomes a demilitarized zone, and ruled out western troop deployment inside the country if a peace deal is ever signed.
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TOP RUSSIAN COMMANDER: UKRAINE SACRIFICING TROOPS IN FAILED WAR EFFORT
Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian general staff, said in an interview last week that his military is making gains on nearly all fronts in Ukraine and has seized control of another 300 square kilometers since the start of the year, and the Ukrainian leadership is hardly paying attention to the losses.
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VON DER LEYEN DREAMS OF TURNING EUROPE INTO A MILITARY ‘POWERHOUSE’
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, is doing her best to see to it that Europe becomes a “military powerhouse” in the face of what she sees as the threat of a wider war with Russia.
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AS FORECAST, PEACE TALKS DIE, UKRAINE RAMPS UP ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN ASSETS
Ukraine has ramped up attacks on Russian oil tankers in the region in its latest effort to try and paralyze Moscow’s energy-dependent economy—even as the Trump administration tries to end the war with a peace deal.
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GERMANY WILL ONLY RECOVER SLOWLY FROM RECESSION, BANK FORECASTS
Germany’s economy will need much of 2026 to emerge from its multiyear recession, the country’s central bank has said, frustrating hopes for a quick growth spurt sparked by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s €1-trillion-plus spending splurge on infrastructure repair and military readiness.
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HE SHOULD KNOW! GERMANY CHANCELLOR WHOSE GRANDFATHER SERVED IN THE NAZI PARTY COMPARES PUTIN TO HITLER
Friedrich Merz, the warmongering German chancellor, addressed a conference on Sunday and compared President Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler—stating that if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, it will continue on, just like the "Sudetenland was not enough” for the Nazi leader in 1938.
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GERMANY CRACKS PIGGY BANK FOR WAR SPENDING AS NEW EQUIPMENT SPENDING APPROACHES $40 BILLION IN 2025
The German government last week approved its latest weapons project that will bring the country’s total military spending on weapons alone this year to just about $40 billion, as Berlin continues to lead the charge in Europe’s military buildup.
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PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA DOES NOT WANT WAR WITH EUROPE, BUT SAYS SUCH A CONFLICT WOULD BE RESOLVED QUICKLY
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a realistic tone after a meeting with a delegation from the U.S. that included Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and placed blame on Europe for interfering with the peace process by refusing to acknowledge Russia’s demands to end the war.