WAR & PEACEUkraine has reportedly deployed British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets within Russia's Kursk Region, according to a BBC report released on Wednesday.

WAR & PEACEArmstrong's analysis posits that this move might be a calculated risk to force Putin into a corner where any retaliation could be used to justify a broader NATO involvement, thus igniting World War III.

WAR & PEACEMuch of the Western media has reported on the involvement of North Korea in Ukraine, an allegation initially attributed to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev.

WAR & PEACEAfter 100 thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and 2600 Lebanese civilians were killed by Israel, the country is now attacking Iran's military installations.

WAR & PEACEKeir Simmons, chief international correspondent for NBC News, asked Putin at a press conference during the BRICS meeting in Russia why Russia is escalating the

WAR & PEACEDavid N. Gibbs notes that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was deliberately provoked. He now sees a parallel with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.