10 November 2024
US "will discuss certain bilateral issues with Russia at the SSD, but will not discuss European security without our European Allies and partners," says @StateDept readout after today's meeting between @DeputySecState and her Russian counterpart
US official: "I would not at all be surprised if Russian media begins to report, perhaps even while the talks are still underway, that the U.S. has made all manner of concessions to Russia. This is a decapture attempt to create division among allies"
Gerjon: This video by the Russian Ministry of Defence shows Jupiter Jet Antonov An-12 reg. UP-AN205 in Almaty, Kyrgyzstan.  This airline was linked to the LNA airlift in the Second Libyan Civil War. She last flew on 04 Jan 20222 year ago
Gerjon: This video by the Russian Ministry of Defence shows "Jupiter Jet" Antonov An-12 reg. UP-AN205 in Almaty, Kyrgyzstan. This airline was linked to the LNA airlift in the Second Libyan Civil War. She last flew on 04 Jan 2022
Russian Deputy FM Ryabkov after dinner with Deputy Secretary Sherman: The discussion was "amazing", there is an optimism. Though talks are quite difficult
2 year ago
FM of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba: Let's call a spade a spade. Putin demands the U.S., NATO & the EU to accept Russia's sphere of influence over sovereign neighboring states. But the Cold War is over, and so are spheres of influence. Putin's demands are illegitimate and harmful to international peace and security
Fire at oil storage in Gudermes, Chechnya. No casualties
Delegations gathering for a working dinner between Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov. Ryabkov: "there is always a chance to make a deal"
NATO Secretary General: "It is possible to find together a path, a political way forward, and also to address Russia's concerns. But there continues to be a risk of conflict"
Stoltenberg: NATO is prepared for "a new armed conflict in Europe" should negotiations fail "I am aware of Russia's history. For centuries they have experienced conflict with neighbours," he told the Financial Times. "[But] Russia has an alternative: to co-operate, to work with Nato"
NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg to @FT: - "NATO has warned Moscow to abandon its belligerent foreign policy and co-operate with the west or face a military alliance steeled for conflict"
Secretary of the State Blinken: I condemn statement by President of Kazakhstan on "kill without warning" and condemn such policy if it is an actual policy
.@JakeTapper: "Former Secretary Panetta said what drives Putin is desire to restore the old Soviet Union, do you agree?"- @SecBlinken: I think that's right, That is one of President Putin's objectives and it is to re-exert sphere of influence"
Blinken: - We've made it clear that we will continue to provide and supply Ukraine with defensive military equipment to be able to defend itself
Blinken: - one country can't dictate to another it foreign policy and choices including with whom it will associate, one country can't exhort a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors
Blinken: - Russia has repeatedly committed acts of aggression against neighbors: Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine - Fundamental principal of international security is at the stake: one country can't change the borders of another by force
Secretary Blinken on talks with Russia: 1. Any progress on reciprocal basis 2. Nothing happening without Europe 3. Hard to see making actual progress in atmosphere of escalation with a gun to Ukraine's head
NATO will no longer be able to "push back" Russia to secondary roles in European and international politics, it is time for the NATO to return to the borders of 1997 - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Ryabkov
"If we're actually going to make progress, we're going to have to see deescalation, Russia pulling back from the threat that it currently poses to Ukraine," - Blinken
Blinken warns Russia of risk of 'confrontation' ahead of talks start
"If we're actually going to make progress, we're going to have to see deescalation, Russia pulling back from the threat that it currently poses to Ukraine," says Secretary of State Antony Blinken on pivotal US-Russia talks slated in Geneva this week
Blinken: Negotiating the status of US forces in Europe will not be on the table during talks with Russia
2 year ago
Joly won't rule out sending weapons to Ukraine over Russian military offensive, says Ottawa 'actively' engaged
2 year ago
Russian Black Sea fleet conducted exercises in occupid Crimea, focus to repel an attack from unmanned aerial vehicles
Among the guests at Republika Srpska day, Russian ambassador is present. There are also ministers from the Government of Serbia, prince Karadordevich
2 year ago
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has already registered 1,600 evacuation requests from Russian citizens in Kazakhstan
Deputy FM of Russia Ryabkov says if Russian demands will not be addressed the first meeting on security with U.S. will be the last
2 year ago
Russia said it was "disappointed" by signals from US and NATO a day before the talks in Geneva on Ukraine's crisis, and that the US is insisting on unilateral Russian concessions
2 year ago
More troops are being sent from Chkalovsky to Almaty and Zhetygen - Russian Defense Ministry
More troops are being sent from Chkalovsky to Almaty and Zhetygen - Russian Defense Ministry
2 year ago
Movement of units of the Ivanovo airborne forces unit and 45 brigade of the airborne special forces to Kazakhstan
Movement of units of the Ivanovo airborne forces unit and 45 brigade of the airborne special forces to Kazakhstan
Secretary Antony Blinken:A pleasure to speak with @JosepBorrellF to further close U.S.-EU coordination on responses to shared challenges, including Russian aggression against Ukraine and PRC attempts to coerce Lithuania