Untrue. Russia actually overall lost territory last month in Ukraine due to Musk cutting Starlink access for Russian forces. It has given Ukraine an edge in drone warfare.
Posted on 06/07/2026 7:52:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The hall at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Calgary is packed. Three gigantic, artistically painted wooden Easter eggs dominate the stage. Heavily accented voices rise and fall amid the chatter as attendees nibble on poppyseed cake and other Ukrainian delicacies. No one wears the bright blue-and-yellow of the war's early days, but embroidered vyshyvanky peek from under sweaters and jackets.
These are the faithful still committed to Ukraine's cause. They came to hear Michael Bociurkiw — a Canadian journalist of Ukrainian heritage now based in Odesa — deliver a sobering assessment of a war grinding into its fifth year. A familiar face on CNN and the BBC, Bociurkiw has become one of the most credible English-language voices on the ground.
On this night, he mixes high-level strategy with raw human cost, offering unvarnished predictions about Putin, Xi and Trump — and a blunt warning to his Canadian compatriots.
China, he reports, has gone beyond secretly shipping drone components labelled "refrigerator parts" to Russia. Beijing is now training Russian forces in drone warfare, electronic warfare and explosives. Beijing denies it, of course.
Yet Bociurkiw's most urgent message isn't geopolitical intrigue. It is a warning about the quiet hollowing out of Ukraine itself.
"Millions have left — many of them young and able-bodied," he tells the room. Heads nod. "You see them here in Calgary." His stark assessment: many will never return permanently. That poses a devastating problem for postwar reconstruction: You can pledge billions to rebuild Ukraine, but without human capital, the effort collapses.
Nearly 300,000 Ukrainians arrived in Canada under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program between 2022 and 2024. As emergency visas expire and extensions run until 2027, only about 2,500 have secured permanent residency.
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Take in any and all muzzie crazies but do not grant residency to Ukrainian refugees?
Exactly.
The Ukrainians aren’t stupid and radical enough.
https://youtu.be/I_i659-nXmQ
Military Summary Channel - Facts on the ground.
More Russian gains on the ground. As usual.
This is the opportunity for the EU to remake modern Ukraine in its post-modern globalist image. Ukrainians will be re-populated with Africans and Arabs. They will be divided, atomized and secular. But they will carry debt and be beholden to Brussels.
Untrue. Russia actually overall lost territory last month in Ukraine due to Musk cutting Starlink access for Russian forces. It has given Ukraine an edge in drone warfare.
Every guy under 30 left or wasn’t even allowed to fight.
That is a country that did not want to win.
Unfortunately, they'll be better off under Russia at this point.
Their latest birth rate is .99. They need 2.1 to be stable.
The Christians keep killing each other and the Muslims will move in. I guess that is considered victory by the neocons.
The Christian population cratered in Iraq after W.
More White Christian young men into the meat grinder.
All according to the globalist plan.
Crazy. NO ONE is better off under Russian totalitarian control.
Independent international investigations confirm that Russian military and state authorities have carried out widespread and systematic torture and extrajudicial killings of Ukrainian civilians as part of a coordinated state policy amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Reports from the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR), Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have documented thousands of cases of arbitrary detention, severe physical abuse, and executions across occupied regions since the 2022 invasion.
Executed civilians with wrists bound in plastic restraints, in a basement in Bucha, 3 April 2022
They’d love to drag Poland into it.
Wrong, Ukrainian law currently prohibits men between the ages of 23 and 60 from leaving the country due to ongoing martial law.
Wrong, Ukrainian law currently prohibits men between the ages of 23 and 60 from leaving the country due to ongoing martial law.
A lot of ‘em are still in Poland.
Sure, but many were in Poland before the invasion for work.
In 2021, the Ukrainian population in Poland consisted of approximately 1.3 million to 1.5 million people. This demographic primarily comprised pre-war economic migrants, seasonal workers, and students who were overwhelmingly of working age and heavily active in the Polish labor market
And now Ukrainians are starting to get positions in Poland and allowing African ‘students’ to take over their cities, like Lublin.
YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAY! With Ukraine no longer corrupting public discussion about war, etc, perhaps then we can move on to that other corrupt state, Iran.
Ukriane, hamas, the IRGC — all the same. Paid for by the same people for the same purposes. To destroy.
LOL, so Ukrainians are running Poland? Okay
Feel free to point out the Ukrainians "running" Lublin. Ridiculous
Krzysztof Żuk (born 21 June 1957 in Krasnystaw) is a Polish economist, and since 2010, the mayor of the city of Lublin.
The major universities in Lublin, are headed by officials titled Rectors. The Rectors for the primary universities in the city include:
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL): Rev. Prof. Dr. hab. Mirosław Kalinowski.
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS): Prof. Dr. hab. Radosław Dobrowolski.
Medical University of Lublin: Prof. Dr. hab. n. med. Wojciech Załuska.
Lublin University of Technology: Prof. Dr. hab. inż. Zbigniew Pater.
University of Life Sciences in Lublin: Prof. Dr. hab. Krzysztof Kowalczyk.
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