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  • Russia seizes more Ukrainian territory amid fears of fresh ground offensive

    05/31/2025 4:31:35 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 47 replies
    The Guardian ^ | May 31, 2025 | William Christou
    More than 200 settlements in Sumy region under evacuation orders after Russia takes control of two villages. Ukrainian officials issued evacuation orders on Saturday for 11 more villages in the northern Sumy region after continued Russian gains led to fears that Moscow could be gearing up for a fresh ground offensive. Russia advanced deeper into Ukrainian territory on Saturday, taking control of two more villages in Sumy and killing two people in a missile and drone barrage. More than 200 settlements in the region were already under evacuation orders. The attacks came as Ukrainian diplomats continue to discuss participating in...
  • Senator Lindsey Graham Issues a Threat to China and Russian Leader Vladimir Putin After Meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine

    05/31/2025 1:38:33 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 36 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 5/31/25 | Cullen Linebarger
    While President Trump is striving to bring about peace to one of the bloodiest wars on the planet, one of the Senate’s most notorious war hawks is rattling his sabers, angling for more turmoil. Senators Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) arrived in Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. Per a press release from Zelenskyy’s office, the three discussed U.S. legislation that would strengthen sanctions against Russia, coordinating diplomatic efforts to achieve “a just and lasting peace,” and developing bilateral relations between Ukraine and the United States. Look at how warmly Zelenskyy and Graham greet each...
  • ‘They cannot be jammed’: fibre optic drones pose new threat in Ukraine

    05/29/2025 2:14:48 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Wed 23 Apr 2025 | Dan Sabbagh
    On the battlefields of Ukraine, new sights emerge. Thread-like filaments of wire, extended across open fields. Netting rigged up between trees along key supply roads. Both are responses to a hard-to-detect weapon able to sneak into spaces previously thought safe, hi tech and low tech all at once. At a secret workshop in Ukraine’s north-east, where about 20 people assemble hundreds of FPV (first person view) drones, there is a new design. Under the frame of the familiar quadcopter is a cylinder, the size of a forearm. Coiled up inside is fibre optic cable, 10km (6 miles) or even 20km...
  • Zelenskiy says Russia has gathered 50,000 troops for offensive on northern Ukraine

    05/29/2025 2:21:06 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 36 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 28, 2025 | Max Hunder
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Russia has gathered 50,000 troops near Ukraine's northern Sumy region, but added that Kyiv had taken steps to prevent Moscow from conducting a large-scale offensive there. The build-up comes as Russia appears to be gearing up for a summer offensive in Ukraine while Kyiv waits for Moscow to present a memorandum laying out its conditions to proceed with ceasefire talks. Sumy lies across the border from Russia's Kursk region where Ukraine previously seized and held a pocket of land for months, before being almost fully pushed out last month, although it says it...
  • Putin masses 50,000 troops on Ukraine's north front as Trump again agrees to meet Russian, Ukrainian leaders

    05/29/2025 9:59:32 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/29/2025 | Caitlin McFall
    Russia pushes second meeting in Istanbul, Ukraine tells Moscow to pony up ceasefire terms first. Russian President Vladimir Putin has amassed some 50,000 troops on Ukraine’s northern border despite a united push by the U.S. and Ukraine to get Moscow to enter into "meaningful" ceasefire negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday warned that Putin is preparing a massive summer offensive in a move to push Ukraine’s troops out of Russia’s Kursk region, and to launch a new invasion into Ukraine’s Sumy region – a mere 200 miles from the capital city of Kyiv. Zelenskyy reiterated this week that he...
  • US-sanctioned tankers ship Russian crude to India, defying bans

    05/29/2025 4:26:28 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 20 replies
    Tankers under U.S. sanctions, including Aframax, Captain Kostichev, and Victor Konetsky, delivered about 1 million barrels of Russian crude oil to Indian refineries last week, despite India’s stated ban on such vessels, Bloomberg reported on May 28, citing Kpler and Vortexa Ltd. Oil traders are closely monitoring purchases by India, which has become the largest importer of Russian oil since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as U.S. efforts to impede these flows. The restrictions imposed by the West, which were tightened in January, are generally aimed at both ensuring the flow of oil to avoid a sharp rise in...
  • Ukraine could collapse. What will that look like?

    05/28/2025 3:30:47 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 35 replies
    Brussels Signal ^ | 5/28/25 | Rafael Pinto Borges
    A scenario European leaders would do well to consider, as Kyiv enters the Washington-sponsored peace process with profound frustration: with the White House determined to put an end to the war in Ukraine, the Europeans are telling Zelensky that no peace is necessary. The war can continue indefinitely, they say; and, if the Americans want out, Europe can still step in to fill the void. But Zelensky is foolish to believe that the Europeans will save him from the forces of reality. Europe, the last bulwark of the once-insurmountable pro-war consensus, is a continent of hawks without beaks. Ukraine cannot...
  • Vladimir Putin issues his conditions for ending the war in Ukraine

    05/28/2025 12:10:10 PM PDT · by dennisw · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 28, 2025
    Putin hits Ukraine with 300 drones and missiles in 'massive attack' that leaves Trump outraged President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and has shown increasing frustration with Putin in recent days, warning on Tuesday the Russian leader was “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in...
  • Exclusive: Putin's demands for peace include an end to NATO enlargement, sources say

    05/28/2025 12:17:32 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 28, 2025 2:00 PM UTC | Guy Faulconbridge
    SummaryPutin wants written pledge to halt NATO expansion eastwards, sources say Russia also seeks lifting of sanctions and protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine Ukraine has insisted on NATO membership aspirations despite Russian demands MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two...
  • Putin's nuclear files

    05/28/2025 12:23:04 PM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 2 replies
    Der Spiegel ^ | 5/28/25 | Mathias Glistrup and Thomas Gosta Svensson
    Danwatch and Der Spiegel has gained access to hundreds of highly detailed blueprints ...
  • Dem Rep. Meeks: Trump Trying to Destroy ‘Fabric of America’ to Be ‘King’

    05/28/2025 1:28:15 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/28/2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump was trying to destroy the “fabric of America” so he could be a king. Meeks said, “This is about retribution. This is about individuals as we’ve seen again and again, universities, law firms, any individual that Trump perceives to be his enemy, it’s about retribution. It’s about him wanting to be a king. This is a danger and a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America, which does give individuals the freedom of speech and the freedom of standing up and educating individuals...
  • Trump Will Walk Away from Ukraine; And That's a Good Thing

    05/28/2025 1:48:24 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 52 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | 5/27/25 | Brandon J. Weichert
    This is not my war,” stated President Donald Trump emphatically to a dubious—nay, hostile—White House Press Corps when asked about the potential outcome of negotiations with Russia over ending the Ukraine War. Whether those in the corporate press fully grasped what the 47th president was saying is another matter. Without stating it plainly, the president was essentially acknowledging that he had no real leverage over Russia to get them to end the war. So, rather than needlessly drag out this hopeless conflict (for the NATO side of the proxy war with Russia), where 5,000 young men die every week, Trump...
  • Russian advance in Ukraine's north east may be attempt to create 'buffer zone'

    05/27/2025 1:01:51 PM PDT · by McGruff · 11 replies
    BBC ^ | May 27, 2025 | Abdujalil Abdurasulov
    Russian forces are making gains in the Ukrainian north-eastern region of Sumy - a development that may be linked to Moscow's attempts to create "buffer zones" along the border, Ukrainian regional authorities have said. Russia maintains it has captured six villages in Sumy so far. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to create "security buffer zones" along the border. "Enemy firing points are being actively suppressed, the work is under way," he said. The buffer zones would be created to provide "additional support" to areas in Russia which border Ukraine's Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions, Putin said.
  • Putin Acknowledges Russia’s Potato Shortage Amid Record Price Increases

    05/27/2025 10:32:14 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 27 replies
    Moscow Times MSN News ^ | 5/27/2025 | Staff
    President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday acknowledged Russia’s mounting potato shortage, driven by underwhelming crop yields that have led to record-breaking price increases. “Yesterday [Monday], I met with representatives from various business sectors, including agriculture. It turns out that we don’t have enough potatoes,” Putin said during a televised meeting. “I spoke with [Belarusian President] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. He said, ‘We’ve already sold everything to Russia’.” The previous day, Lukashenko’s press office joked that Belarus had already planted additional potatoes. Belarusians have reportedly been complaining for months about the poor quality and limited supply of potatoes in stores. In April, authorities...
  • Trump post to Putin

    05/27/2025 8:54:32 AM PDT · by McGruff · 54 replies
    Truth Social ^ | May 27, 2025 | President Trump
    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire! May 27, 2025, 11:44 AM
  • Russia Seizes Ukrainian Border Villages as Its Massive Bombing Campaign Slows

    05/27/2025 7:21:28 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 26 replies
    Newsmax ^ | May 27, 2025 | Associated Presstitutes
    Russian forces have taken four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, a local official said Tuesday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had issued an order to establish a buffer zone along the border. Meanwhile, a Russian bombing campaign that had escalated in recent days slowed overnight as far fewer Russian drones targeted Ukrainian towns and cities. Moscow's invasion has shown no signs of stopping despite months of intense U.S.-led efforts to secure a ceasefire and get traction for peace talks. Since Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Turkey earlier this month for their first direct talks...
  • Kim Jong-un Just Faced TOTAL HUMILIATION! Warship SINKS Before His Eyes. *YT Video at link*

    05/26/2025 2:12:17 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 39 replies
    The Military Show ^ | 05/24/2025 | The Military Show
    While it’s somewhat impressive that North Korea was able to so quickly pull off the construction of these ships in such a short amount of time, a year is nowhere near long enough to conduct rigorous testing. Even if the corners being cut weren’t responsible for the second of these warships capsizing, the odds are that they would have started causing issues later on. That speed of construction also raises an interesting question: Is North Korea’s naval modernization more about building up national prestige than it is about developing a credible threat against its enemies? It’s possible, perhaps even likely,...
  • Russia Hits Ukraine with the Largest Drone-and-missile Attack of the war So Far, Killing at Least 12

    05/25/2025 10:40:06 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 42 replies
    Newsmax ^ | May 25, 2025 | Associated Presstitutes
    A massive Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other regions in the country for a second consecutive night, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said early Sunday. The scale of the onslaught was stunning — Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, making this the largest single aerial attack of the more than three-years-long war, according to Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Air Force. In all, Russia used 69 missiles of various types and 298 drones, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones, he told The Associated Press. It was “the most massive strike in...
  • Another massive Russian drone and ballistic missile attack is being carried out against Ukraine tonight

    05/24/2025 6:15:08 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 133 replies
    Another massive Russian drone and ballistic missile attack is being carried out against Ukraine tonight This video shows people trying to escape on foot from a Russian suicide drone in Kyiv
  • Ukraine Orders Evacuations Amid Russian Troops Build-Up Near Border

    05/24/2025 8:00:12 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 43 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 5/22/2025 | Brendan Cole
    Vladimir Putin's forces are massing next to Russia's border with Ukraine's Sumy oblast, it has been reported, following evacuations from the region and a threat that Moscow has identified further territorial targets in its full-scale invasion. Sumy governor Oleh Hryhorov said thousands had been evacuated from the region on Ukraine's northeast border and next to the Kharkiv oblast, according to the Kyiv Independent. On the other side of the frontier Russian troops numbers are said to be increasing. It comes Putin is trying to justify the renewal of Russian plans to seize Sumy City—16 miles from the border—and illegally annex...