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  • “Shut Up You Pathetic Little Hypocrite”: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Torches AOC for Backing Ukraine War Under Biden, Then Pretending to Be Anti-War

    06/23/2025 10:47:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 23, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a blistering assault on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez, castigating her as a “pathetic little hypocrite” for supporting U.S. military involvement in Ukraine under President Biden, only to suddenly posture as anti‑war today. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez (D‑NY) condemned President Trump’s decisive strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities as “clearly grounds for impeachment,” accusing him of a “grave violation” of constitutional war powers. AOC immediately took to the public stage, calling Trump’s actions “disastrous” and “impulsive,” warning they risked “ensnaring us for generations in a war.” She and other Democrats have begun floating articles of impeachment, claiming the president...
  • Russian Troops Captured Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Village

    06/21/2025 8:42:44 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 61 replies
    Newsmax ^ | June 21, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service
    Russian troops have captured the small settlement of Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, citing Russia's Defense Ministry. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report. The small village of Zaporizhzhia, which had a prewar population of about 200 people, is located near the strategic city of Pokrovsk, where some of the fiercest battles of the war have been fought over the past several months. Pokrovsk is a crucial transport hub in the east of Ukraine. The village is distinct from the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional center and large industrial...
  • All of Ukraine is ours' — Putin on Russia's territorial ambitions in Ukraine

    06/20/2025 11:56:57 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 38 replies
    The Kyiv Independent ^ | 20 Jun 2025 | Kateryna Hodunova and Francis Farrell
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said "all of Ukraine" belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly aggressive official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine. Putin's claim was based on the false narrative often pushed both by himself as leader and by Russian propaganda that Russians and Ukrainians are "one people." The narrative has long figured prominently in Putin's rhetoric, brought up as justification for its aggression in Ukraine. In July 2021, just half a year before the full-scale invasion, the Russian leader stoked fears of a larger attack...
  • Kyiv Attack Death Toll Climbs to 28 as Emergency Workers Pull More Bodies From Collapsed Building

    06/18/2025 8:26:30 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 8 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/18/2025 | Breitbart London
    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Emergency workers pulled more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile, raising the death toll from the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital to 28. The building in Kyiv´s Solomianskyi district took a direct hit and collapsed during the deadliest Russian attack on Kyiv this year. Authorities said that 23 of those killed were inside the building. The remaining five died elsewhere in the city. Workers used cranes, excavators and their hands to clear more debris from the site, while sniffer dogs searched for buried victims. The...
  • Kyiv, a large-scale missile and drone attack by Russia ongoing

    06/16/2025 7:04:15 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 33 replies
    Several fires burn and smoke rises tonight across the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, following a large-scale missile and drone attack by Russia.
  • US to cut military aid to Ukraine, Hegseth says

    06/10/2025 3:03:17 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 42 replies
    The Kyiv Independent ^ | June 10, 2025 | Abbey Fenbert
    The United States will reduce funding allocated for military assistance to Ukraine in its upcoming defense budget, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a congressional hearing on June 10. "It is a reduction in this budget," Hegseth told lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives. "This administration takes a very different view of that conflict. We believe that a negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation's interests, especially with all the competing interests around the globe." The Pentagon has not yet released the full documentation regarding its 2026 budget. According to Hegseth,...
  • Russia Is Winning the Ukraine War and NATO Can’t Stop It

    06/10/2025 6:40:38 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 70 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/10/2025 | Harry Kazianis
    What needs to happen is simple, but, at least for now, looks pretty suspect if you ask me. Russia would need to get so exhausted from the war that its lines collapse. After losing 1 million casualties, thousands of tanks and artillery pieces, and billions of dollars in bombers and drones, Moscow would one day see its war effort collapse in a mix of exhaustion, anger about the overall direction of the conflict, and a society that had had enough. This would allow Ukraine to reclaim the initiative and retake large swaths of territory. But from here, things get even...
  • NATO’s Ukraine War Strategy Is a Total Sham

    06/09/2025 5:27:17 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 15 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/9/2025 | Andrew Latham
    Let’s dispense with the fantasy right off the bat: Russia isn’t trembling at the prospect of new sanctions. Not now. Not after more than three years of war, hundreds of billions in Western aid to Ukraine, multiple tranches of punitive economic measures, and an endless cycle of condemnations and diplomatic theater. If Congress moves forward with another sanctions package this summer – as seems increasingly likely – Moscow won’t respond with panic. It will respond with calculation. Cold, strategic, and utterly unimpressed.
  • 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...
  • Exclusive: US believes Russia response to Ukraine drone attack not over yet, expects multi-pronged strike

    06/08/2025 1:08:40 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 7, 20256:57 PM CDT | Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
    SummaryPutin's retaliation for Ukraine drone strike has yet to fully unfold, US officials say Strikes expected to including missiles, drones, US officials say Moscow's retaliation expected to be 'asymmetrical,' official says WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.The timing of the full Russian response was unclear, with one source saying it was expected within days. A second U.S. official said the retaliation was likely...
  • Trump administration redirects 20,000 anti-drone missiles meant for Ukraine, Zelensky confirms

    06/08/2025 12:19:04 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 22 replies
    Kyiv Independent Via MSN ^ | 6-8-25 | Tim Zadorozhnyy
    President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally intended for Ukraine to American forces in the Middle East, in an interview with ABC News published on June 8. Zelensky said Ukraine had counted on the missiles to help counter relentless Russian drone attacks, which include swarms of Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones. On June 1, Russia launched a record 472 drones in a single night. "We have big problems with Shaheds… we will find all the tools to destroy them," Zelensky said. "We counted on this project — 20,000 missiles. Anti-Shahed missiles. It was not...
  • Exclusive-US believes Russia response to Ukraine drone attack not over yet, expects multi-pronged strike

    06/07/2025 6:23:20 PM PDT · by Mariner · 34 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | June 7th, 2025 | Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.The timing of the full Russian response was unclear, with one source saying it was expected within days. A second U.S. official said the retaliation was likely to include different kinds of air capabilities, including missiles and drones.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity. They did not detail Russia's expected targets nor elaborate on intelligence matters. The first official said Moscow's...
  • Russian MASSIVE ‘Retaliation’ Air Raid Campaign Continues Unabated for a Second Night – Trump Says Ukraine ‘Gave Putin a Reason To Go In and Bomb the Hell Out of Them’

    06/07/2025 10:22:13 AM PDT · by Kazan · 201 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jun. 7, 2025 | by Paul Serran
    For a second night in a row, Russian Federation forces pounded military targets in Kiev, Kharkov and many other Ukrainian cities, in what many see as retaliation for the Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilian trains in Bryansk and Kursk, and – of course – for the drone raid on Russian strategic airfields.Russian military Telegram channel Military Chronicle has put forward a thought-provoking theory that the ‘retaliation’ will take the form of a prolonged series of missile and drone raids over the next days.“Russia’s missile strike on the night of June 5-6, 2025, according to the latest information, was not a...
  • Slammed by Russian missiles, Ukraine seeks more U.S. air defense systems

    06/06/2025 5:40:33 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 55 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 26, 2025 | Isobel Koshiw, Siobhán O'Grady and Ellen Francis
    Ukraine is increasingly worried about securing more U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, as stockpiles sent during the Biden administration are drying up and the new administration is resistant to sending more, according to six Ukrainian and Western officials. While Russia bombards Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles, it is the ballistic missiles that are the most feared, and they can be reliably countered only by Patriot missiles. Ballistic missiles travel several miles per second, and they obliterated half of Ukraine’s power capacity in strikes on power plants. Their speed and size, plus the fact that they are difficult to intercept,...
  • Trump Admin Redirects Weapon Components From Ukraine to Middle East

    06/06/2025 2:58:52 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 35 replies
    The New American ^ | June 6, 2025 | Paul Dragu
    Is America giving up on peace in Eastern Europe and preparing for military action in the Middle East? The Trump administration is diverting anti-drone weaponry that was initially allocated for Ukraine to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive. “The Pentagon quietly notified Congress last week that special fuzes for rockets that Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian drones are now being allocated to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East,” the Journal reported Wednesday.What the Journal didn’t mention is that Russia has received thousands of drones from Iran, which is...
  • Ukraine’s GDP-linked securities rating downgraded to ’D’ by S&P Global Ratings

    06/06/2025 5:00:39 PM PDT · by delta7 · 16 replies
    Investment.com ^ | 6 June 25 | Luke Juricic
    S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) Ratings has downgraded Ukraine’s issue rating on its GDP-linked securities to ’D’ from ’CC’, following the country’s failure to make a $0.67 billion payment due on June 2, 2025. The agency does not anticipate the payment to be fulfilled within the securities’ ten business day grace period, due to the government’s moratorium on payments for this bond unless it is restructured….
  • BREAKING: Russia Retaliates Against Ukraine With MASSIVE Missile & Drone Strike Targeting Kiev

    06/06/2025 9:02:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 55 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | June 06, 2025 | Staff
    After Ukraine launched a huge drone strike on Russian airbases last weekend, Putin vowed retaliation. In a phone call with President Trump, Vladmir Putin was reportedly insistent that Russia must respond to Ukraine’s attack, which damaged over 40 aircraft. Now, we have reports that that retaliation may be underway. Russia has launched a massive overnight drone and ballistic missile strike on Ukraine, targeting Kiev and several other major cities. Alleged footage of the strike is going viral online: VIDEOS AT LINK..................... The Kyiv Independent said: Russia barraged Ukraine with missiles and drones throughout the night, threatening every region in the...
  • KIEV ON FIRE: Massive Russian Missile and Drone Strike Is Targeting the Capital and Several Other Ukrainian Cities (VIDEOS)

    06/05/2025 6:58:02 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 106 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 5, 2025 | Paul Serran
    CNN reports: “Russian ballistic missiles and drones have been launched toward Ukraine from multiple directions, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram Friday. Fires caused by falling debris and drone strikes were reported in buildings across Kyiv, as Ukraine attempted to repel the Russian attack, the Head of Kyiv City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko said. A CNN producer in the Kyiv region reported hearing at least two explosions.”
  • Pentagon diverting key anti-drone technology from Ukraine to US forces in the Middle East

    06/05/2025 12:47:39 PM PDT · by Mariner · 11 replies
    CNN via Yahoo ^ | June 5th, 2025 | Natasha Bertrand, CNN
    The Pentagon notified Congress last week that it will be diverting critical anti-drone technology that had been allocated for Ukraine to US Air Force units in the Middle East, according to correspondence obtained by CNN and people familiar with the matter.The move reflects the US’ shifting defense priorities under President Donald Trump – toward the Middle East and the Pacific – and the fact that US stockpiles of some defense components are becoming increasingly stretched.The technology, proximity fuzes for the rockets Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian drones, was redirected from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) to Air Force...
  • Ukraine’s Missile Defenses Against Russia Have Reached ‘Breaking Point’

    06/05/2025 4:54:37 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 46 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/4/2025 | Jack Buckby
    Despite successes like “Operation Spiderweb,” Ukraine’s missile defense capabilities are described as being at a “breaking point.” With only a handful of Patriot batteries operational (estimated 4-6 out of 8 total) due to repair needs and limited spare parts, and each interceptor missile costing around $4 million (often requiring two per incoming Russian missile), Ukraine faces an unsustainable defense posture.