“You suspected I would not speak Russian, right?” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday as after he chaired the UN Security Council. The top Russian diplomat then switched to his mother tongue, in accordance with protocol, as he held an hour-long press conference in which he addressed ...
US President Joe Biden’s administration is “quietly preparing for the possibility” that Ukraine’s much-heralded offensive doesn’t deliver the “total victory” Kiev wanted, Politico reported on Monday, citing several anonymous officials. While the US government’s public support for Ukraine is “unwavering,” officials have expressed fears in private that the White House ...