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The deputy commander killed was said to be from the Storm Ossetia battalion, and was named Tekhov Aivengo. He was allegedly surrounded along with his battalion, and about 300 Russian soldiers were killed. The propagandists write that this unit had allegedly "decided to stand to the end." Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar confirmed that the Ukrainian military had liberated the village of Pyatykhatky in Zaporizhzhya Oblast. In total, during the two weeks of the offensive in the Berdyansk and Melitopol sectors of the front, the Tavria grouping units have de-occupied eight settlements ...

In last Wednesday’s National Review Online, Evans & Novak reporter David Freddoso hammers former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as a man with a mean streak. Freddoso’s piece recalls some of Giuliani’s more colorful moments in office including his once saying, “If you tell me off, I tell you off -- that’s my personality.” Freddoso repeats the often-stated myth that Giuliani was hated by the end of his term, until the September 11 terrorist attack rehabilitated his supposedly tattered reputation and rocketed him to global fame and acclaim. On the contrary, a key survey showed that New Yorkers...