The Military Reporter

  Washington is preparing major protests in the former Soviet republic, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service believes The US is looking to achieve regime change in Georgia by fomenting large protests around the time of the parliamentary election in the former Soviet republic later this year, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. Relations between Washington and Tbilisi deteriorated after Georgia passed in May the so-called foreign agents law, which required NGOs, media outlets, and individuals that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as entities  “promoting the interests of a foreign power”  and disclose their donors. The country’s pro-Western president, Salome Zourabichvili, vetoed the legislation but was overridden by the ruling Georgian Dream party. The SVR’s press service said in a statement on Tuesday that information obtained by the agency  “indicates Washington’s strong determination to seek regime change in Georg...

  The US-led bloc is hostile to Russia and is fueling the Ukraine conflict, so its decisions matter, Dmitry Peskov has said The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC before the NATO leaders summit.  ©   Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images The Russian government will pay  “maximum attention”  to whatever decisions are announced at a NATO summit hosted by the US this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Leaders of the military bloc are convening on Tuesday in Washington for three days of meetings. The organization’s 32 member states are reportedly expected to endorse a Germany-based long-term mission for supplying weapons to Ukraine. Peskov reminded journalists on Tuesday that NATO  “considers Russia an enemy, a rival”  and  “has repeatedly openly declared an intention to inflict strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield.”  It  “is directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of Ukraine,...

  Critics have urged Washington to ditch the “expensive, dangerous, and unnecessary” project ©   Getty Images / EvgeniyShkolenko The US Department of Defense will continue developing its new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) despite an 81% increase in costs as Washington seeks to update its ‘nuclear triad’. The Sentinel ICBM program, which is intended to replace aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles, is now expected to cost $140.9 billion – almost double the original estimate of $77.7 billion, the Pentagon said in a statement on Monday. The ballooning cost of the nuclear warhead program has triggered what is known as a Nunn-McCurdy breach, which occurs if the cost of developing a new program increases by 25%, and requires a Department of Defense review to justify its continuation. Following this review, the Pentagon has found that there are no viable alternatives to the Sentinel. William LaPlante, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, said his of...

  Public remarks do not fully correspond to discussions taking place in private, a US official has insisted The White House has urged the public not to read too much into statements by Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas regarding negotiations on a ceasefire in Gaza. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby  ©  AFP /  Anna Moneymaker The discussions happening behind closed doors with mediation by the US, Qatar, and Egypt, are more significant than public declarations by the two warring sides, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby insisted on Monday. “On both sides, you see public comments that are not necessarily fully reflective of the conversations that we are having privately with them or their interlocutors,”  Kirby told journalists during a briefing. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a list of what he said were non-negotiable demands as part of the talks. One of them was that any ceasefire...

  The Indian prime minister was reelected for a third consecutive term earlier this year Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi take a walk during an informal meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on July 8, 2024.  ©   Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP Today the Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership skills as  the pair met  for dinner in Moscow. Welcoming Modi at his official residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, Putin congratulated the Indian prime minister on his reelection for a third consecutive term last month.  “I think it was not by chance, but was the result of your work as the head of the government over many years,”  the Russian president said. Although Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its outright majority in the 543-member Lower House (Lok Sabha), it crossed the majority mark with the help of allies. The trip to Russia is ...

  A facility has been found near the Donbass town of Avdeevka that was used to produce the highly toxic hydrogen cyanide, Moscow has said FILE PHOTO: The commander Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov  ©   Sputnik / Vladimir Fedorenko Russia has found evidence that Ukraine has violated the Chemical Weapons Convention, a top military commander stated on Monday.  Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who leads Russia’s chemical and biological defense forces, said engineering troops had discovered a laboratory that was apparently used to produce hydrogen cyanide – an extremely dangerous and highly toxic agent used as a chemical weapon during World War I. The facility is located near Avdeevka, a fortified Donbass town liberated by Russia in February, the general claimed. The improvised laboratory itself was found inside a partially destroyed building in an industrial area, which also had a chemical processing plan...

Only the US, EU or China can help to end the conflict with Russia, the Ukrainian leader has said Vladimir Zelensky in Warsaw, Poland, July 8, 2024.  ©   Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban doesn’t have the clout required to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to Vladimir Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader said he would rather see the US, EU or China in that role. Orban visited Kiev last week and proposed a ceasefire that Zelensky rejected. He has since gone to Moscow and Beijing, ahead of a NATO summit in Washington. “As for whether he can be a mediator, there is no mediating between Russia and Ukraine,”  Zelensky said on Monday, during a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw.  “Only serious, strong alliances can act as go-betweens,”  Zelensky added. According to him, the conflict won’t end through mediation, but when a power with a strong e...