Posted on 05/27/2022 4:53:01 AM PDT by JonPreston
Officials in Ukraine have admitted that Russia has the “upper hand” in fighting in the country’s east, as Ukrainian forces fell back from some of their positions in the Donbas region.
The governor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said just 5% of the region remained in Ukrainian hands – down from about 10% little more than a week ago – and that Ukrainian forces were retreating in some areas.
Pro-Russian separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have said they have established full control over the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine. The claims have not been independently verified.
Russian ground forces are continuing their attempt to surround Sievierodonetsk and Lyschansk, having recently captured several villages north-west of Popasna, the UK ministry of defence has said in its latest report.
Artillery pounded the north eastern city of Kharkiv yesterday for the first time in two weeks, just as life in Ukraine’s second city was starting to return to normal. Kharkiv’s regional governor, Oleh Synehubov, said at least nine people had been killed and 17 injured in the attacks on the northern part of the city. He said “doctors are providing all necessary assistance” and there were no further casualties overnight.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine was not eager to talk to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, but that it has to face the reality that this will likely be necessary to end the war.
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The Kremlin has rejected claims that Russia has blocked grain exports from Ukraine, blaming the west for creating such a situation by imposing sanctions on Russia. The UK’s foreign minister, Liz Truss, accused Vladimir Putin of “weaponising” hunger through Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian grain exports. A senior Turkish official said Ankara was in “ongoing” talks with Russia and Ukraine to open a corridor via the Bosphorus.
May God help us all.
Amen
I don’t particularly care about the proxy war the US is conducting in Ukraine, but I believe the situation needs our prayers.
Was it legal or illegal for the Confederacy to secede from the United States?
Perfectly legal and constitutional.
The end game was that the south was granted TOTAL amnesty. We did a lot of healing...but the Dems seem to want to open the wounds at every step they take.
Time for a negotiated settlement where neither side gets it all. There’s plenty of room for a compromise that would advance neither the Soros one-world agenda nor Russian territorial annexation. Republicans who think we are still back in the Soviet cold war era will have to forget about using this war to take Putin down.
I have nothing against the guy, but clearly he’s in over his head. Nobody should expect competent leadership when the court jester is put on the throne.
This is a game which one can only lose, depending on the framing of the questions.
Was it legal or illegal for the first American states to secede from Britain?
Ukraine may have done Russia a favor by killing incompetent generals. The new guys are taking more territory every day.
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Could very well be. They sure seem to have a plan now.
Sevevenonitsk
Reality is, well, reality, and Zelenskyy needs to face reality or face total destruction. He has done a grave disservice to Ukrainians as their leader.
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