By DPA Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish President and chairman of the Justice and Development (AK) Party, speaks during an AK Party parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidency /dpa Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Europe of conducting a “witch hunt” against Russian artists in connection with the Ukraine war. […]
By Agence France-Presse The death in battle of at least one top Russian general in the invasion of Ukraine has shown that the military elite feel pressure to be personally present on the frontline, observers say. With Ukraine claiming Tuesday a second Russian general had been killed — an assertion not confirmed by Moscow — […]
By Matthew Chapman On Monday, following reports of the combat death of Russian General-major Vitaly Gerasimov near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Christo Grozev, the executive director of investigative journalism and intelligence group Bellingcat, reported that Russian forces relaying the news back to their superiors were forced to use an insecure phone line with a local sim card […]