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The United States seeks to gain control over the Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP), including in order to save them from destruction. This point of view was expressed in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Alexander Shelest * former adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Arestovich **. He recalled that the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov ** had previously threatened to blow up all Ukrainian nuclear power plants in case of defeat in the conflict.

Donald Trump is a peace maker by nature. He is not a war monger. He seeks an end to the Ukraine/Russia conflict while democrats want it to go on forever. The arrogant and pompous Volodymyr Zelenskyy keeps making things difficult. One day he says the war can go on for years and the next day claims he's ready to negotiate an end. It's hard to keep up. Putin is Putin. Both are largely intractable. After Zelenskyy's showboating at the White House I remarked in a few venues that I would not be surprised to see Putin ramp up the war,...

THIS is the dramatic moment a Russian stealth drone is shot out of the sky by Vladimir Putin’s Su-57 warplane. The £11.5 million S-70 Okhotnik stealth drone can be seen exploding in the air in the extraordinary footage. Video of the incident shows two Kremlin military aircrafts speeding across the sky over eastern Ukraine when the trailing plane fires a missile which hits the one in front. Russian pro-war Z channels initially claimed that a Ukrainian war plane had been hit by a Russian aircraft. However, the burnt wreckage on the ground near Ukrainian-controlled Kostiantynivka had distinct Russian insignia on...