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  • Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv in large-scale attack, killing at least 14 as Zelensky calls for ‘new, tough sanctions’ against Putin

    08/28/2025 4:08:57 AM PDT · by tlozo · 192 replies
    New York Post ^ | Aug. 27, 2025, | Caitlin Doornbos and Zoe Hussain
    Russia unleashed a sweeping aerial assault across Ukraine late Wednesday, pounding Kyiv with ballistic missiles and swarms of drones — killing at least 14 people, including 3 children and injuring over 20. “Many people are under the rubble, [including] children,” Andriy Yermak, top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told The Post. The barrage began around 9:30 p.m., setting off air raid sirens and prompting urgent shelter notification warnings in nearly every region nationwide. Missiles, drones, and bombs were spotted throughout the country, particularly in Kyiv, but also in western regions of the country where attacks have been rarer. At...
  • Russia plans to withdraw from Europe's anti-torture treaty

    08/27/2025 9:12:05 AM PDT · by tlozo · 50 replies
    Euro News ^ | 8/27/2025 | Kieran Guilbert
    Moscow's decision will likely be seen as inconsequential given growing condemnation of widespread human rights abuses committed in Ukraine. Russia plans to formally withdraw from Europe's convention against torture and inhuman treatment, according to a decree published this week. The resolution by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin calls upon President Vladimir Putin to submit the withdrawal from the treaty to Russia's lower house of parliament. Moscow's move is likely to be seen as moot given widespread criticism of its worsening human rights record since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In 2024, UN-backed experts presented evidence that Russia...
  • Republicans, it’s time to give up the Epstein saga once and for all

    08/24/2025 7:27:31 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 97 replies
    New York Post ^ | August 23, 2025 | Michael Goodwin
    Hey Republicans, it’s time to get out the shovels and dig a very deep hole. Then bury forever the stench and false innuendo coming from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Especially now that the dead monster’s cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell, has told the Justice Department that she never once saw President Trump “acting inappropriately in any way” and that he “was never inappropriate with anybody” despite a long association with Epstein. Those should be the final words of the sordid saga and give the GOP the confidence to stop runnin’ scared on the subject and drop its foolish obsession with the case....
  • Hacked Ukrainian Database Reveals Kiev Has Suffered 1.7 MILLION CASUALTIES Since the Beginning of the War

    08/20/2025 9:31:00 AM PDT · by Kazan · 168 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Aug. 20, 2025 | Paul Serran
    The number of dead and seriously wounded Ukrainians is apparently much higher than imagined.Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine some three and a half years ago, the Western media has promoted a non-stop barrage of disinformation about the military developments, trying to present a rosier picture than reality can afford.Perhaps no other aspect of the hostilities has been so blatantly misrepresented as the number of casualties and fatalities.We got to the point where Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky had the nerve to say that Ukraine had had 35 thousand losses.That is particularly absurd since we know that Kiev’s...
  • Russia 'complicating' end to war, says Zelensky as Trump urges Ukraine to agree to Moscow peace deal

    08/16/2025 6:28:58 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 210 replies
    BBC News ^ | August 16, 2025 | Asya Robins & Tabby Wilson
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia's refusal to agree to a ceasefire is complicating efforts to end the war. "We see that Russia rebuffs numerous calls for a ceasefire and has not yet determined when it will stop the killing. This complicates the situation," he said in a statement on 'X'. On Monday, the Ukrainian leader travel to Washington DC, where US President Donald Trump has said he will urge Zelensky to agree to a peace deal. Trump has said he wants to bypass a ceasefire in Ukraine to move directly to a permanent peace agreement after his...
  • In maps: The territory Ukraine could be told to surrender in a 'land for peace' deal

    08/16/2025 9:40:26 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 89 replies
    Sky News ^ | Saturday 16 August 2025 | Michael Drummond
    Any agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin following their historic summit could leave Ukraine in an impossible position after three years of brutal, grinding war for survival. While no deal was struck when they met in Alaska on Friday, the two leaders are believed to have discussed the possibility of Ukraine giving up territory in exchange for an end to the fighting. That would effectively be an annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory by Russia by force. Russia currently occupies around 19% of Ukraine, including Crimea and the parts of the Donbas region it seized prior to the full-scale invasion...
  • Zelensky to meet with Trump in DC on Monday after ‘no deal’ reached in Putin summit

    08/16/2025 7:03:44 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 31 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 16, 2025 | Emily Hallas
    President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans to meet on Monday to hammer out “all of the details” about how to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting in Washington, D.C., marks the next stage of reaching a ceasefire or a more sweeping and final peace deal, which the White House now hopes could be implemented. It is set to come three days after Trump held an Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking to help negotiate an end to the war that ended with “no deal,” although the White House described the friendly encounter as “very...
  • TACO Trump Backs Out of China Tariffs Hours Before Deadline

    08/12/2025 1:08:33 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 33 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | 08/12/2025 | Cameron Adams
    Tariffs as high as 145 percent were due to be implemented on goods from China at midnight Tuesday. The last-minute extension came hours after Trump provided a vague response to reporters on extending the deadline on Monday. “We’ve been dealing very nicely with China… they have tremendous tariffs that they’re paying to the United States of America,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House. “We’ll see what happens. They’ve been dealing quite nicely. The relationship is very good with President Xi and myself.” Trump signed a new Executive Order later on Monday. China will now have its...
  • America is done with funding Ukraine war, says JD Vance

    08/10/2025 1:15:54 PM PDT · by Kazan · 69 replies
    The Times ^ | Sunday August 10 2025 | Izzy Lyons | Marc Bennetts | Louise Callaghan
    Washington is “done with the funding” of Ukraine’s war against Russia, JD Vance, the US vice-president, has said, as Europe scrambles to build a united defence before in-person negotiations between Presidents Trump and Putin.Speaking in an interview after an emergency summit with European and Ukrainian officials, co-hosted by David Lammy at Chevening, the foreign secretary’s mansion in Kent, Vance said Americans were fed up with paying towards the cost of the war.“What we said to the Europeans is simply, first of all, this is in your neck of the woods. This is in your back door,” he told Fox News....
  • Zelenskyy rejects formally ceding Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv must be part of any negotiations

    08/09/2025 6:09:37 AM PDT · by Mariner · 96 replies
    The Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | August 9th, 2025 | SAMYA KULLAB and ELISE MORTON
    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Saturday the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.”The Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, is seen as a potential breakthrough in the more than three-year war.Trump had previously agreed to meet with Putin even if the Russian leader would not meet with Zelenskyy, stoking fears Ukraine could be sidelined in efforts to stop the continent’s biggest conflict since World War II.In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s territorial integrity, enshrined...
  • Putin says Russia's hypersonic missile has entered service and will be deployed in Belarus

    08/02/2025 7:09:27 AM PDT · by delta7 · 72 replies
    MSM ^ | 2 Aug 25 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
    MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has started production of its newest hypersonic missiles and reaffirmed its plans to deploy them to ally Belarus later this year. Sitting alongside Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Valaam Island near St. Petersburg, Putin said the military already has selected deployment sites in Belarus for the Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile.… Putin has praised the Oreshnik’s capabilities, saying its multiple warheads that plunge to a target at speeds up to Mach 10 are immune to being intercepted and are so powerful that the use of several of them in one...
  • Russian Missile Hits Ukraine Base, Kills 3 Soldiers

    07/30/2025 10:10:37 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 71 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 30, 2025 | AP
    A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian army training ground, killing three soldiers and wounding 18 others, authorities said, in the latest attack to embarrass military officials as they struggle to make up a severe manpower shortage in the nearly 3½-year war. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the strike killed or wounded about 200 Ukrainian troops. The ministry said that Ukraine’s 169th training center near Honcharivske in the Chernihiv region was hit with two Iskander missiles, one armed with multiple submunitions and another with high explosives. A Russian Defense Ministry video showed multiple small explosions apparently caused by a missile...
  • Ukrainian Government Targets Orthodox Church in Controversial Crackdown

    07/03/2025 2:30:33 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 46 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 7-3-25 | Robert Semonsen
    In a move that has sparked outrage among religious communities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has escalated his administration’s campaign against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), a cornerstone of spiritual life for millions of Ukrainians. The latest blow came when Zelensky signed a decree stripping the revered 80-year-old leader of the UOC, of his Ukrainian citizenship, according to Ukraine’s SBU security service agency. The SBU claims Onufriy, also known as Orest Berezovsky, acquired Russian citizenship in 2002, a charge the metropolitan has denied. In April 2023, Onufriy admitted to briefly holding a Russian passport but insisted he relinquished it, affirming his...
  • Trump Says Zelensky Wants War with Russia to End After NATO Summit Meeting

    06/25/2025 3:44:25 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 192 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/25/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to see the war between Ukraine and Russia come to a close following their meeting at the NATO Summit. Trump was asked about the meeting during his press conference at the summit in the Hague, Netherlands. “He couldn’t have been nicer. I think he’d like to see an end to this, I do. What I took from the meeting — couldn’t have been nicer, actually — but I took from the meeting he’d like to see it end,” Trump said. “I think it’s a great time to end it....
  • Ukraine’s Cutting-Edge Ballistic Missile Reportedly Enters Combat Use

    06/10/2025 11:00:38 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 62 replies
    United24 Media ^ | Jun 10, 2025 | Vlad Litnarovych
    Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in its domestic missile program. A new Ukrainian ballistic missile has completed a combat test, striking a Russian command post nearly 300 kilometers from the launch site, military analyst and director of the Center for Army, Conversion, and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak revealed. The missile’s development began in May 2022, with a successful test already conducted in the summer of 2024. According to Badrak, the system is now entering serial production, Badrak stated in a recent interview with Ukrainian news outlet Ukrinform on June 10. “I don’t know how many missiles we can expect per...
  • Russian Forces Reach Donetsk’s Western Border and Enter Dnipropetrovsk, Taking the War Into Another Ukrainian Region

    06/09/2025 8:52:47 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 106 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 6-9-25 | Paul Serran
    During the Istanbul talks between Russia and Ukraine, when presented with Moscow’s demand that Kiev’s troops must withdraw from territory of the four regions that they have partially conquered (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhie and Kherson), the Ukrainian delegation reacted with a strong rejection of this point. It’s been widely reported that, at this point, Russian negotiators warned their foes: ‘Next time, it won’t be four regions, but six or eight’. That could, of course, be nothing but bragging, except that today the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that units of the 90th Tank Division have reached & crossed the western border...
  • Zelensky: 'World must respond' if Russia does not agree to ceasefire

    05/16/2025 9:41:18 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 127 replies
    dpa international ^ | 5-16-25 | Unknown to me
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged allies to impose more sanctions on Moscow should Russia not agree to an unconditional ceasefire at ongoing talks in Istanbul, Turkey. "Our number one priority is a full, unconditional, and honest ceasefire. This must happen immediately to stop the killing and create a solid basis for diplomacy," said Zelensky, addressing fellow leaders at the European Political Community summit in Tirana. If the Russian representatives in Istanbul are not to agree to a ceasefire then "the world must respond," he said. "There needs to be a strong reaction, including sanctions Russia's energy sector and...
  • Ukraine denies Trump claims that ‘thousands’ of its troops are surrounded

    03/14/2025 1:24:16 PM PDT · by Mariner · 81 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | March 14th, 2025 | Iona Cleave
    Ukraine’s military was forced to dismiss Donald Trump’s claim that thousands of its troops are encircled in Russia’s Kursk region as “false”.Its general staff instead accused Russia of fabricating reports for “political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners”, while Volodymyr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin was lying about the battlefield situation.Putin claimed on Thursday night that his forces had encircled thousands of Ukrainians in the western Kursk region, which Ukraine invaded in August, warning they would have to “surrender or die”.
  • Zelenskiy: Ukraine won't accept deals reached behind our backs

    02/15/2025 9:16:24 AM PST · by Mariner · 131 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | February 15th, 2025 | Unattributed
    MUNICH (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday Ukraine would never accept any peace deals reached behind its back or without Kyiv's involvement - an implicit message to U.S. President Donald Trump as he strives to end the war with Russia.In a speech to the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskiy also called on Europe to create its own armed forces, urging the continent's leaders to decide their own future and saying Ukraine's armed forces alone were not enough for their security."Ukraine will never accept deals made behind our backs without our involvement. And the same rule should apply to all...
  • Now Putin is poised to invade Europe as Trump casts Ukraine aside: Spy chiefs warn Russia is preparing for large-scale war by 2030

    02/13/2025 5:31:44 AM PST · by dennisw · 247 replies
    UK DAILY MAIL ^ | 13 February 2025 | ELENA SALVONI
    With president's 'peace talks' compared to Chamberlain appeasing Hitler Donald Trump's concessions on Ukraine have played into the hands of Vladimir Putin, experts have warned, at a time when intelligence chiefs say Moscow is preparing its military for a major war in Europe. US defence chief Pete Hegseth told European counterparts on Wednesday that Ukraine's dream of returning to its pre-2014 borders was an 'illusionary goal' and that Kyiv's wish for NATO membership was 'not realistic'. His statements are widely seen as a major victory for Putin and a devastating blow to Kyiv, which as a result could be forced...