Free Republic

This is the moment a man, said to be a Ukrainian prisoner of war, takes one last drag from a cigarette next to a shallow grave before reportedly being executed by Russian troops. The chilling video has emerged as Kyiv described the death of the soldier as a 'heinous war crime'. In the grim footage, a man - who can be seen smoking a cigarette in a small hole in the ground - says 'Glory to Ukraine' - while a group of unseen soldiers are heard sneering in the background. He is then shot to death with automatic weapons in...

The attention of the international community has rarely been focused on this simple and horrifying truth: modern Russia has been waging wars since the very first years after the fall of the USSR. Most of its wars follow the same inhumane and repetitive patterns: political provocations, funding separatism & terrorism, heavy casualties among civilians due to widespread use of artillery and aviation, poverty and lawlessness in the invaded regions, and a backdrop of outlandish Kremlin propaganda. To show that Russia has always kept up its brutal imperialist ambitions, we only have to list the wars from 1991 to 2015 with...

The “Ghost of Kyiv” is a myth, Ukrainian officials admitted over the weekend. After several news outlets last week identified the legendary, mysterious, hero fighter pilot as a 29-year-old dad recently killed in battle with the Russians, military officials acknowledged Saturday that there was no such person. “The ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend, whose character was created by Ukrainians!” Ukraine’s Air Force Command wrote on Facebook. The reputed hero had been credited with taking out as many as 40 Russian aircraft until he was shot down March 13 while battling an “overwhelming” number of enemy forces, the Times of...

UPDATE: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have lost about 15,600 personnel, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The enemy also lost 517 tanks, 1,578 armored fighting vehicles, 267 artillery systems, 80 multiple rocket launchers and 47 air defense systems. In addition, 101 aircraft and 124 helicopters, 1,008 vehicles, 70 tanks with fuel and lubricants, 42 operational-tactical UAVs and 15 units of special equipment, as well as four ships were destroyed. "The data are being specified. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities," the General Staff stressed.

A report published on Friday is claimed to have come from a Russian FSB agent It claims that Russia's chances of achieving victory in Ukraine are non-existent Even if Putin's forces are able to capture of kill President Zelensky, the report says that occupying Ukraine would require too many resources for Russia An analyst from investigative journalism group Bellingcat said he showed the report to FSB sources who said they had 'no doubt it was written by a colleague'

With staggering amounts of propaganda emanating from the conflict in Ukraine, and with the Western Media’s agenda-driven, full-throated embrace of it all, Charlie is joined by Pedro Gonzalez, Associate Editor of Chronicles Magazine, to help make sense of it all. Throughout the conversation, Pedro gives some of the most comprehensive, detailed breakdowns of what is being done by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, how the West is responding, the shocking and largely untold history of the region, and finally—where all the capitulation and chaos will eventually lead civilization as we know it.