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Former US Vice President Mike Pence has publicly attacked Donald Trump for the first time. He described his statements on the storming of the Capitol as "un-American". Former US Vice President Mike Pence has publicly contradicted ex-President Donald Trump for the first time. "I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong, I had no right to overturn the election," Pence said during an appearance in Florida. The idea that one person could elect the President of the United States is "un-American". The Bible-believing Republican was loyal to Trump for four years, but has distanced himself since the Capitol attack. He has long been said to have ambitions for a presidential candidacy. Pence presided over the January 6, 2021 session of Congress where he formally endorsed the results of the presidential election. "Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election,...

The US government has announced that Russia has transferred soldiers to Ukraine's neighboring country. Complicity by the regime there in an attack is "unacceptable". The US government has expressed concern that Russia transferred Russian soldiers to Belarus over the weekend. "The timing is remarkable and of course it raises concerns that Russia may intend to deploy troops in Belarus under the guise of joint maneuvers with a view to possibly attacking Ukraine from the north," said a senior US official. The number of Russian soldiers is above the number that would be expected in a "normal military exercise". She stressed that Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko's "complicity" in such an attack would be "completely unacceptable". Lukashenko is leaning more and more on Russia, the US ministry official said. "And we know he doesn't get that support for free."  'More Attacks' In UAE The Belarusian Defense Minis...

"The risk of a conflict is real": NATO signals readiness for dialogue with Russia. Thousands of Russian soldiers had been drawn together near the Ukraine. The NATO has its readiness for dialogue with Russia emphasized. At the same time, the alliance will be prepared for the failure of the talks, said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a crisis meeting with the foreign ministers of the member states.   NATO will exchange ideas with Russia in good faith and in substance But we also have to be prepared for the possibility that diplomacy will fail Stoltenberg warned of a "real" risk of a renewed Russian invasion of Ukraine. "The risk of a conflict is real," said the NATO Secretary General. "Russia's aggressive actions seriously undermine the security order in Europe," he added. Ukraine Conflict: The Cat's Table The ministers had emphasized in the video conference that any further aggression by Russia against Ukraine would have significa...

Putin and Biden are negotiating over the heads of the Europeans. That doesn't have to be any harm for the EU. If it were in his power, Vladimir Putin would turn the clock back in history to 1991. He saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union thirty years ago as a humiliation. For him it was the fall of an empire in which Russia found greatness and security. He never got over this shame. That is why he intervened in 2008 in Georgia, which had turned to the west. That is why he annexed Crimea in 2014 and has been supporting the separatists in eastern Ukraine since they broke away from the government in Kiev. Now Putin is again deploying troops. At no cost should Ukraine switch to the western camp. Ukrainians and Russians, for Putin they are " one people ". The Soviet Union is not bringing Putin back with all its threats. But it sparked the fear of war. Suddenly the West is ready to negotiate demands that it actually considers to be out of the question. Now that it comes down t...

Some 100,000 Russian troops are concentrated near the country's border, where Putin already seized the Crimea region in 2014, and is accused of fomenting a pro-Russian separatist war that broke out that same year in the east. US President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelenski on Sunday that Washington and its allies "will respond decisively" if Russia acts to invade its pro-Western neighbor, the White House reported. Reporting on the phone chat between the two, White House press secretary Jen Psaki also said the Biden expressed support for the diplomatic efforts, including high-level talks between Russian and US officials scheduled for January 9-10. in Geneva. President Biden made it clear that the United States and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia does invade Ukraine  Psaki said in a  statement. Biden also "reaffirmed the United States' commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine," he add...

The telephone conversation between the two is considered the prelude to the meetings between Russia and the United States in Geneva on January 10. Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart, Joe Biden, that Russia wants security "guarantees" and that if it continues to deploy missiles in Central Europe, Moscow will react the same way Washington would if it did offensive weapons. were placed near its borders. According to Russian government media published last night, Yuri Ushakov, Putin's international relations adviser, said after the meeting that "President Biden clearly stated that the United States has no intention of deploying strategic offensive weapons [missiles] in Ukraine." It was a 50-minute call in which Biden made it clear that the US and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia invades Ukraine again. "President Biden urged Russia to reduce tensions" in Kiev, said the spokesman for the White House, Jen Psaki, ...