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How Washington transforms red lines for Ukraine into green light for kremlin – Michael Gonchar
12.04.2024
So, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following Biden’s national security spokesman John Kirby, and State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller some time ago, spoke out against Ukrainian attacks on russian oil refining. According to them, “these attacks could have a domino effect on the global energy situation.” They say, “it is more useful for Ukraine to pursue tactical and operational goals that can simultaneously affect the current struggle.” Much has already been said about the absurdity of such statements, as well ...“Terrorist #1 asks for humanity.” russia declared mourning for those killed in Crocus City Hall, but continues to kill Ukrainians every day – Klitschko
25.03.2024
Today was another terrorist attack by russia. Ballistic missiles fired at Kyiv in broad daylight. Destruction. Victims, minors in particular. russia declared a day of mourning for those killed in the Crocus City Hall, but continued to kill itself. Canceled festive events to mourn the deaths, but continued to launch rockets to bring death to Ukraine, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko wrote for pravda.com.ua.The number of people who died at the hands of terrorists in Crocus is about 140 people. The number ...20 months in russian captivity. A stunning story of a military band musician
12.03.2024
20 months in captivity, loss of 40 kilograms of weight, Pushkin’s poems and Zhukov’s biography. Mariupol native Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov, a serviceman of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a professional musician talked about russian captivity in an interview with 5.ua.While Volodymyr is rehabilitating, gaining weight, and getting used to a relatively peaceful life, he talked to Anna Miroshnychenko from his hospital bed.CONSEQUENCES OF CAPTIVITY– How much do you weigh now?I added 20 kilograms, ...No one will ever force our people to surrender – Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations
10.03.2024
We, members of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and religious organizations, whose faithful defend freedom and life itself on the front lines today, fight for human dignity and the future of the free world at the front and in the rear, categorically declare that no one will ever force our people to surrender.Ukraine is bleeding, but it stands for the Truth, for the right to be itself. Stands bravely and irresistibly. And if it capitulated, then Europe, maybe the whole ...I just read the German Civil Defense Risk Analysis Report 2023 and it is most ridiculously outdated
02.03.2024
Against the background of the attack by an aggressor , the German Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, in close coordination with the Territorial Command of the Bundeswehr, has designed a possible and plausible course of the conflict as an overall scenario based on the findings from the war in Ukraine. Is it a viable plan? Let’s find out, writes Bohdan Ukowski for uatribune.com.It should be taken into account, that the scenario only ...Today, russia’s name is synonymous with aggression, war crimes, and barbarism – MFA
24.02.2024
As we discuss the war, peace talks and negotiations here, another air raid on Ukraine is taking place right now. Residential building in Odesa was hit less than an hour ago. Two civilians are heavily wounded and delivered in hospital. And I’m afraid that someone is going to die in Ukraine before this meeting is adjourned. Because talking about negotiations is one thing, but throwing more drones and missiles on Ukraine as russia does everyday is completely another thing, Dmytro Kuleba, ...Economic war against russia with no ifs or buts. Only alternative is WW3 – Klymenko
23.02.2024
In recent months, the number of investigations by leading Western media into various schemes to circumvent sanctions against russia grew significantly, the co-founder and chief editor of the web portal blackseanews.net Andrii Klymenko wrote.At the same time, the new US and EU sanction packages, which are expected in the coming days, will announce new measures. For the first time, the EU has included Chinese and Indian companies accused of supporting russia’s military-industrial complex in the new sanctions list. Sanctions are ...Real security guarantees should contain more than general assurances of friendship. Kyiv has more than enough arguments to insist on obligations to jointly defend European borders – Taran
18.02.2024
Real security guarantees should contain not only general assurances of friendship and the “right” to promptly consult with the guarantor in case of danger, but also very specific mechanisms of joint defense in the event of a new war, writes political scientist Serhiy Taran.In the case of Ukraine and the West, this should definitely be insisted on, because it is about protecting the common European border from the russian invasion. Since the Armed Forces of Ukraine protect not only Ukraine, ...It is necessary to maximize our combat potential, which will allow us to inflict maximum damage on the enemy with fewer resources – Zaluzhnyi
01.02.2024
Almost eighty years separate us from the last battles of the Second World War, which became the basis of the strategic vision of the wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Despite the rapid development of weapons and military equipment: aviation, missiles and space vehicles, the development of communication and EW, the strategy of victory was to destroy the enemy and capture or liberate the territory. At the same time, the forms and methods by which this was ...Remember when you were told that Ukraine didn’t have “operational control” of third nuclear arsenal in 90s, guess what, russia didn’t have complete control either
21.01.2024
Once many in the West believed that this war would end in three days, three weeks, three months in Ukraine’s total disintegration – quick, and however cynical it may sound, “clean”. Now, it seems, many start to believe that it will end in Ukraine’s surrender on different terms. No Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kherson, Kharkiv, yet, but a surrender nonetheless, even if delayed. I have bad news for those people who expect to wrap this “small European conflict” for good. ...
