Russia has suffered a legal setback after its appeal against a compensation order in favor of Naftogaz was dismissed by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. The court has ruled that Russia must pay $5 billion for seizing assets belonging to Naftogaz in Crimea, Naftogaz's press service announced on Friday, December 13.

This decision marks the second time that Dutch courts have upheld the Partial Award issued by the arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. …

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has expressed concern that the West might ultimately decide to abandon Ukraine, drawing parallels to the 1938 Munich Agreement. In an interview with Brazil's Folha de S.Paulo, Fico stated that the West could tire of the ongoing war in Ukraine and agree to its division. "I fear the moment when the West says, 'It didn't work out, so let's sacrifice Ukraine. Remember the 1938 Munich Agreement, where Czechoslovakia was sacrificed. I am very afraid of that," he …

On December 10, self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko made a striking claim that nuclear weapons have been deployed in Belarus, as reported by the state news agency "BELTA". "I brought nuclear warheads here. Not just a dozen," he assured.

Lukashenko reprimanded skeptics dismissing Belarus' nuclear potential, citing that they completely "missed" the operation. "They didn't even notice how we brought them here," stated Lukashenko, acknowledging that using nuclear weapons is " …