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  • NATO Must Say No to Ukraine No-Fly Zone

    10/04/2025 4:06:30 PM PDT · by Mariner · 25 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | October 4th, 2025 | Ted Galen Carpenter
    n the past few weeks, Russian drones and jet fighters have repeatedly penetrated the airspace of Poland, Estonia, and other NATO members. Western officials have reacted harshly to those episodes, shooting down intruding drones and, in the case of President Donald Trump, issuing threats to attack even manned Russian aircraft if such incidents continue. NATO leaders and their supporters in the news media are responding to the rising tensions by reviving an idea from the earliest days of the Kremlin’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine: imposing a no-fly zone over that country. It is an especially provocative and dangerous...
  • Ukrainians think corruption is worsening – survey

    10/04/2025 10:24:17 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 74 replies
    Planet Today ^ | October 4, 2025
    Most citizens say graft has increased since 2022, according to a new national poll Most Ukrainians have said corruption in the country has worsened since escalation of the conflict with Russia in February 2022, a new survey by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) has shown. In findings released on Friday, the poll revealed that 71% of respondents believe the level of corruption has increased over the past three years. Another 20% said they had not noticed any change, while only 5% felt the situation had improved. The survey was conducted over September 19-28 and included 1,029 participants across...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • How one of Elon Musk's DOGE workers solved a 2,000-year mystery and won $700,000: This tech prodigy did what nobody had managed for over two millennia

    02/08/2025 6:04:17 PM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 131 replies
    https://www.uniladtech.com/news/tech ^ | 13:36 4 Feb 2025 GMT | Harry Boulton
    Luke Farritor, one of the few employees at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, rose to fame in the tech world after solving a 2,000-year-old riddle that has stumped every historian and archaeologist so far - and he did it with the power of artificial intelligence. 'Wonderkids' in the technology world are certainly not a rare occurrence, as often the best and brightest begin honing their skills from an early age, but young 'genius' Luke Farritor separated himself from the rest by achieving something that many had wrestled with for over 2,000 years. For centuries historians and archaeologists had wrestled...
  • Trump Blames Zelensky for Russia’s War on Ukraine: ‘He Shouldn’t Have Allowed This To Happen’

    01/23/2025 7:45:33 PM PST · by bimboeruption · 167 replies
    Mediate ^ | 1-23-25 | Michael Luciano
    President Donald Trump partially blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, launching a war that continues to this day. Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. sent billions in aid and weapons to Ukraine to help fend off the invaders. On the campaign trail, Trump was critical of the aid, which many congressional Republicans have vehemently opposed. As a senator, Vice President JD Vance said last year that blocking assistance to the country was his second-biggest priority. Speaking with Sean Hannity for...
  • Russians record a video accusing Putin of treason, demanding his resignation

    08/30/2024 4:01:03 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 128 replies
    Youtube.com ^ | 8-30-2024 2:30 a.m. | Kanal13
    "Russians record a video accusing Putin of treason, demanding his resignation" Kanal13 1.66M subscribers 8-30-2024 2:30 a.m. Minutes 6:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgnjPv8BWww