Russia has warned that Germany is increasingly getting involved in the Ukraine war due to arms supplies Berlin has offered to Kiev.
The Kremlin on Tuesday also warned that the German government had no way of ensuring that German-supplied weapons would not be used against Russian territory.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that such supplied weapons by Berlin were already being used in the Donbas region.
The Donbas industrial region (composed of Donetsk and Luhansk) along with Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia were added by Moscow to the Russian Federation following referendums in the said regions in September 2022.
Ukraine and its Western allies, including Germany, have dismissed the move as illegal, denouncing it as Russia's imperial land grab. However, much of the territory in the Russian-annexed regions still remains in Ukrainian hands.
A day earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Berlin had insisted, like other NATO member states, that the weapons it is supplying to Ukraine must not be used against Russian territory.
Nevertheless, Peskov rejected Berlin's claim, saying, "First, Germany doesn't have a way to check. Second, the weapons supplied by Germany to the Kiev regime are already firing at Russian territory, because the Donbas is a Russian region.".....more below
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US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday the upcoming start of ground strikes against drug cartel targets in Latin America.
He made the remarks during Christmas greetings to the military.
Trump said the United States was "now going after the land" in its fight against drug cartel targets, noting that drug trafficking by sea was down 96 percent.
The U.S. president also extended special congratulations to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, currently deployed in the Caribbean.
BEIJING (Sputnik) - China has begun operating the world's first intelligent ultra-large oil tanker powered by methanol, the China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.
The tanker, designed to transport crude oil, was successfully put into operation in the city of Dalian in China's northeastern coastal province of Liaoning, the report said. State-owned company Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd independently designed and built the vessel, it added.
The tanker is approximately 333 meters (1,092 feet) long and can carry around 2.1 million barrels of crude oil, the CCTV reported. Designed to produce low emissions and having intelligent control capabilities, the tanker will serve the route to the Middle East, among others, according to the report.
The vessel is powered by a dual-fuel methanol engine, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 92% compared to conventional fuel, the CCTV reported. It is equipped with an intelligent ship platform, an intelligent liquid cargo ...
A car bomb has killed a senior General Staff member, officials have confirmed
Source: The Investigative Committee
A Russian general has been killed in a car bomb blast in Moscow, the Investigative Committee has reported.
Officials identified the victim as Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of operational training at the General Staff. According to the statement, an explosive device had been planted beneath the vehicle he was traveling in, and detonated on Monday morning in the southern part of the Russian capital.
The blast also damaged several other vehicles and seriously injured Sarvarov’s driver, media reports stated.
Russian officials said one line of investigation is an assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services, noting that Kiev has previously used explosive devices in targeted killings of officials and public figures.
Last December, a bomb hidden in an e-scooter killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense ...
