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  • Massive Russian strike on Kyiv kills 9, injures 63

    04/24/2025 2:32:48 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/24/2025 | AP
    A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack hit Kyiv overnight, killing nine people and injuring another 63, including six children, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday. The Kyiv City Military Administration said on its Telegram channel that Russia struck Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles.
  • Explosions Rock Kyiv As Russia Launches New Wave Of Missile And Drone Strikes

    04/23/2025 6:34:08 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Times of India ^ | 4/24/2025 | News Desk
    Missiles struck Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, early on Thursday morning, setting off air raid sirens and forcing residents into bomb shelters. Explosions were heard across the city just after the alert was issued. “Kyiv is being attacked by enemy missiles,” the capital’s military command posted on Telegram, urging people to take shelter immediately. Local authorities confirmed that at least two districts in the city had sustained damage. -snip- Meanwhile, in the east of the country, the city of Kharkiv was also hit. Mayor Igor Terekhov said that seven missiles had struck the city overnight. Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukraine...
  • Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia

    04/23/2025 4:19:01 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 57 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 23, 2025 | Updated 3:32 p.m. ET | Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler
    Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called on Ukraine to accept an American peace proposal that closely aligns with longstanding Russian goals, including a “freeze” of territorial lines in the three-year war, acceptance of the annexation of Crimea by Russia and a prohibition on Ukraine becoming part of the NATO alliance.It was the first time a U.S. official had publicly laid out a plan to end the war that favors Russia in such stark terms.A peace plan that leaves Russian forces deep inside eastern Ukraine would be welcome news in Moscow. President Vladimir V. Putin has said for almost year...
  • Ukraine’s final holdout in Kursk falls as Russia captures monastery

    04/23/2025 10:03:00 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 62 replies
    Yahoo News - The Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2025 | Joe Barnes
    Russia has recaptured a monastery that was one of the last remaining Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region after a fierce 10-day battle. Vladimir Putin’s forces are in control of the St Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the border village of Gornal, around a mile from Ukraine, state media reported. It had been used as a base for as many as 300 Ukrainian soldiers trying to organise the defence of captured Russian territory. Moscow’s troops managed to break the Ukrainian foothold at the historic landmark after fierce fighting in the area The claimed Russian victory means Ukraine’s shock incursion into Russia’s...
  • Trump gives Zelensky dire warning on Russia-Ukraine war: Accept peace or risk ‘losing the whole country’

    04/23/2025 12:13:28 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 95 replies
    New York Post via MSN ^ | 4-23-25 | Diana Glebova, Caitlin Doornbos
    President Trump issued a stark warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, saying Kyiv’s leader was in a “dire” situation and “can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.” Trump, 78, was responding to Zelensky telling reporters Tuesday that “Ukraine will not legally recognize the [Russian] occupation of Crimea” — a key part of a US-proposed peace plan under discussion in London Wednesday, and a condition that has long been a red line for Kyiv. “This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost...
  • TRUMP TO LET PUTIN KEEP SEIZED LAND FROM UKRAINE

    04/23/2025 2:45:00 AM PDT · by RandFan · 65 replies
    Telegraph [PayWall] ^ | April 23 | David Blair Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator
    Donald Trump will let Vladimir Putin keep almost all the territory he has seized from Ukraine under the terms of a proposed peace deal. The condition is part of a seven-point plan to end the war that leaves Ukraine with no clear US security guarantee. It was due to be discussed in London on Wednesday, when US officials would hear Kyiv’s reaction, though the talks were downgraded when US secretary of state Marco Rubio pulled out. Foreign ministers from the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine withdrew in an apparent response. Discussions were instead scheduled to take place between senior officials...
  • Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

    04/22/2025 5:45:09 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 42 replies
    Axios ^ | 4/22/2025 | Barak Ravid
    The U.S. expects Ukraine's response Wednesday to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas occupied since the 2022 invasion, sources with direct knowledge of the proposal tell Axios. -snip- What Russia gets under Trump's proposal "De jure" U.S. recognition of Russian control in Crimea. "De-facto recognition" of the Russia's occupation of nearly all of Luhansk oblast and the occupied portions of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. A promise that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. The text notes that Ukraine could become part...
  • US proposes recognizing Crimea as Russian, Washington Post reports

    04/22/2025 10:51:14 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 46 replies
    Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 4/22/2025 | Doina Chiacu
    The United States is proposing to recognize Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and freeze the war's front lines as part of a peace agreement, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing several people familiar with deliberations. The U.S. proposals were presented to Ukraine in Paris last week, according to the Post.
  • Kremlin says US position ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine gives satisfaction

    04/21/2025 7:10:39 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 27 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/21/2025 | Reuters
    The Kremlin said on Monday that the position of US President Donald Trump's administration on ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine gave Moscow satisfaction, but declined to comment on Trump's hopes for deal this week. US envoy General Keith Kellogg said on Sunday that NATO membership was "off the table" for Ukraine. Trump has repeatedly said previous US support for Ukraine's bid to join NATO was a cause of the war. "We have heard from Washington at various levels that Ukraine's membership in NATO is excluded," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters." Of course, this is something that causes our...
  • REPORT: Trump Refuses $50 Billion Agreement With Ukraine, Will Not Sell Kiev Regime Patriot Air Defense Systems and Missiles

    04/16/2025 12:58:51 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 68 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 16, 2025 12:45 pm | Paul Serran
    The European Liberal-Globalist media is slowly and painfully awakening to the reality of US President Donald J. Trump’s new approach toward Ukraine policy.The last time Kiev’s embattled leader backtracked on a previously agreed Mineral Deal, we heard Trump warn that ‘he was going to have big, big problems’.And it seems that it’s already started, as reports arise that he has passed on a $50 billion deal with Kiev – funded with EU money.Among many other priorities, Ukraine urgently needs new air defense systems.BILD reported (translated from the German):“Since only [in the US] the Patriot missiles are manufactured and the president...
  • Trump Derides Zelensky’s Request To Buy $15B Worth Of Patriot Air Defense Systems

    04/15/2025 8:10:16 AM PDT · by Mariner · 113 replies
    The Warzone via Yahoo ^ | April 15th, 2025 | Howard Altman
    U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to purchase Patriot air defense systems. Zelensky made that statement during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News‘ 60 Minutes program.“He’s always looking to purchase missiles,” Trump said when asked about Zelensky’s offer. “Listen, when you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war, right? You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size, and then hope that people give you some missiles.”
  • Trump says Zelensky shares blame for war dead

    04/14/2025 9:48:10 PM PDT · by McGruff · 35 replies
    BBC ^ | April 15, 2025 | Yang Tian
    Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelensky shares the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for "millions of people dead" in the Ukraine war. "When you start a war you got to know you can win," he said, also blaming former US President Joe Biden for the conflict. "Millions of people dead because of three people," Trump said on Monday. "Let's say Putin number one, let's say Biden who had no idea what the hell he was doing, number two, and Zelensky." It is estimated that hundreds of thousands, but not "millions", of people have been killed or injured on all...
  • Zelensky Admits Inability to Regain Lost Territories

    04/14/2025 6:28:27 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 20 replies
    TASS ^ | 4/14/25
    At the same time, he noted his distrust of Russian authorities and continued to demand security guarantees from the WestMOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky has recognized the inability of Ukrainian armed forces to reclaim lost territories and has not ruled out new losses in the event the Kiev regime loses Washington’s support. "We lack the strength to [regain] everything. And this is the situation today. And that is why this war will end diplomatically," he said in an interview with CBS News. That said, Zelensky reasserted that Ukraine will not recognize the lost territories as Russian. "Undoubtedly, there will...
  • Putin Is Mocking Trump in Ukraine: Poland’s Sikorski

    04/14/2025 8:00:15 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 206 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 4/14/2025, 6:11 AM EDT | By Shane Croucher, Breaking News Editor and Ellie Cook
    “I think it was terrible and I was told they made a mistake, but I think it’s a horrible thing,” Trump told reporters on-board Air Force One on Sunday evening. “I think the whole war’s a horrible thing.”Moscow’s recent missile strikes in Ukraine that killed dozens of civilians show Russian President Vladimir Putin is “mocking” President Donald Trump, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has said. WHY IT MATTERS Ukrainian authorities said that Russia launched two ballistic missiles at the Ukrainian city of Sumy as residents attended church services marking Palm Sunday. Ukraine’s state emergency service said late Sunday that 34...
  • Trump envoy: Ukraine could be divided like postwar Berlin

    04/13/2025 5:32:37 PM PDT · by McGruff · 96 replies
    The Times ^ | April 11, 2025 | Samuel Lovett
    President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal. General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone. Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through...
  • Russia Retakes Guevo, Squeezes Last Remaining Ukrainian Forces Out of Kursk Region After 9 Months (VIDEOS)

    04/08/2025 2:14:35 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 8 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 8, 2025 4:00 pm TruthTweetShareGettr | Paul Serran
    Roughly a month after taking Sudja, Russian Forces drive Ukrainian defenders out of Guevo. Now only Olezhnia and Gornal stand in the way of a complete expulsion of Kiev forces from Kursk region. There’s no denying that the Ukrainian operation in Russia’s Kursk region was a successful adventure from the standpoint of a PR stunt.There’s also unanimous agreement that the Kiev regime burned a disproportionate amount of resources to hold the sliver of terrain for 9 months – be it tanks and armored cars, be it artillery and air defense units, be it tens of thousands of troops, maybe as...
  • Ukrainian-born US lawmaker says Ukraine should cede land to Russia, demand Zelensky's resignation

    04/07/2025 11:29:23 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 27 replies
    Kyiv Independent Via MSN ^ | 4-7-25 | Unknown to me
    Ukrainian-born U.S. lawmaker Victoria Spartz has said Ukraine should cede land to Russia, and its people should demand the resignation of President Volodymyr Zelensky. In an interview with the Telegraph published on April 7, Spartz said Ukraine is not in a position to demand the return of all occupied territories. "If they were winning the war, that would be very different," she added. Spartz was born in Chernihiv Oblast and moved to the U.S. in 2000. Elected to Congress in 2021 and 2024, she initially supported U.S. aid for Ukraine and has often spoken about the war in personal terms....
  • Kremlin calls situation on global oil market extremely unstable

    04/07/2025 7:23:26 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    APA ^ | 4/7/2025 | Farid Akbarov
    The situation in the global oil market is extremely unstable, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov during a briefing today, APA's Moscow correspondent reports. According to him, this instability is related to the decision of the United States to impose tariffs on most countries in the world. Peskov mentioned that the Russian government is closely monitoring the situation. "This is an indicator that is very important for filling our budget. We are currently closely monitoring the situation, which is characterized by extreme instability, tension, and emotional strain. This is due to the decision of the United States to impose tariffs on...
  • Russia has fallen into an oil "trap"...

    04/07/2025 12:33:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Zamin Uzbekistan ^ | 4/7/2025 | Editors
    Saudi Arabia has made the biggest drop in oil prices in two years — it has reduced the price of its main oil grade, Arab Light, to $2.30 per barrel for Asian customers. According to Bloomberg, this decision came just a few days after OPEC+ decided to increase oil production by 400,000 barrels per day more sharply than expected. In addition, “Trump’s tariffs” have also dealt a serious blow to world oil prices — oil prices have fallen by $10 in one day: from $75 to $65 per barrel. This is the lowest level in three years. For Russia, whose...
  • Zelensky really has no cards — by autumn there will be no one and nothing to fight with — MP

    04/06/2025 8:18:02 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 20 replies
    EurAsia Daily ^ | 4-6-25 | Unknown to me
    Either the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, will conclude a truce on acceptable terms, or Ukraine will face a collapse of the front before autumn, the war is over. This was stated by Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky. According to him, the official number of desertion cases registered by the State Bureau of Investigations is 175,435 as of April 1. In reality, the MP notes, 60-70% of desertion cases are recorded, that is, in fact, "about 250 thousand people are on the run today, or a third (!) of the Ukrainian army." "Add here about the same number...