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  • Ukrainian President Zelenskyy remains defiant 5 months into invasion: 'Even the occupiers admit we will win'

    07/24/2022 9:00:32 PM PDT · by McGruff · 136 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 24, 2022 | Paul Best
    As Russia's invasion of Ukraine hit the five-month mark on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged to continue inflicting "the greatest possible losses on the enemy." "Even the occupiers admit we will win," Zelenskyy said in a video address on Sunday. "We hear it in their conversations — all the time, in what they tell their loved ones when they contact them." Ukraine will celebrate the Day of Ukrainian Statehood on Thursday, a new national holiday that was decreed by Zelenskyy last August.
  • Needless Death and Misery -U.S. Willing to Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian -Give Us More Money, $750 billion rebuild Ukraine after the war.

    07/25/2022 6:05:52 AM PDT · by PK1991 · 74 replies
    Daily Reckoning ^ | July 25, 2022 | James Rickards
    "The war in Ukraine is in its sixth month, and there’s no end in sight. Here’s what we know… Almost everything you heard about the war in Ukraine from U.S. media over the course of March, April and May was a lie. **** It’s not that I’m pro-Russian — I’m not. I’m pro-truth. And I don’t defend the Russian invasion in any way (although I do understand it). Even Bloomberg and The New York Times are now starting to admit that the war is a lost cause for Ukraine and the U.S. economy is suffering from sanctions aimed at Russia....
  • Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine

    07/16/2022 6:05:55 PM PDT · by Mount Athos · 73 replies
    Forward (Jewish, independent, nonprofit) ^ | January 27, 2021 | Lev Golinkin
    Beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. L’viv and Ivano-Frankivsk — 1.5 million Jews, a quarter of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust, came from Ukraine. Over the past six years, the country has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization...
  • The West Leaves Ukraine Outgunned Against Russia

    07/12/2022 12:20:56 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 81 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 12, 2022 1:12 pm ET | Jillian Kay Melchio
    But Russia has adjusted during the second phase of the war by hiding its men behind its fearsome artillery. “Russian artillery has been the decisive factor, but only because it’s had to be the decisive factor,” says Mason Clark, a senior analyst and Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War. Russia has at least 10 times as many artillery and missile systems as Ukraine, and in some places on the front line the disparity is closer to 20 to 1, former Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk says. With a range of hundreds of miles Russian missiles can...
  • Russia’s Jews fear resurgent anti-Semitism amid Ukraine war: Jews have fled Russia in droves, but those who remain are scared of a return to the darkest days of discrimination.

    07/05/2022 2:45:40 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 68 replies
    POLITICO ^ | July 4, 2022 | Victor Jack
    Jews have been fleeing Russia in droves | Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images As Vladimir Putin’s war rages on for the fifth month in Ukraine and repression suffocates civil liberties back home, Russian Jews are worried they’ll soon become the Kremlin’s targets. Jews have been fleeing Russia in droves; those who’ve stayed behind are terrified of directly criticizing the war, which Putin has cynically claimed he launched to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. “In our congregation, we don’t talk about any political issues,” said a Moscow rabbi who asked not to be named. He added that after a 2011 crackdown on protests linked...
  • Ukraine lays out $750B ‘recovery plan’ for postwar future

    07/04/2022 9:12:34 AM PDT · by JonPreston · 49 replies
    AP ^ | 7/4/22 | JAMEY KEATEN
    LUGANO, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday the reconstruction of his war-battered country is the “common task of the entire democratic world,” as his prime minister laid out a $750 billion recovery plan once invading Russia’s guns fall silent.“The reconstruction of Ukraine is not a local project, is not a project of one nation, but a common task of the entire democratic world — all countries, all countries who can say they are civilized,” Zelenskyy told hundreds of attendees in Lugano. ”Restoring Ukraine means restoring the principles of life, restoring the space of life, restoring everything that...
  • Ukraine invasion turning into protracted war that Russia will win, experts warn

    07/05/2022 6:44:38 AM PDT · by JonPreston · 83 replies
    Yahoo News UK ^ | 7/4/22 | Kate Buck
    The war in Ukraine risks turning into a protracted conflict that Russia will eventually win, a leading think-tank has said.The report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) warned that current Russian advantages and Ukrainian weaknesses are leading to a style of conflict that favours Moscow.The capture of the city means that Russia has essentially gained control of the entire Luhansk region, marking Russia's biggest victory since it captured the southern port of Mariupol in late May.Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrlo Budnov said his defence forces had withdrawn "to advantageous positions in order to gain tactical superiority" after the Russians...
  • Wakey! Wakey! Putin health FEARS escalate as bleary-eyed tyrant appears to fall asleep at Kremlin meeting

    07/05/2022 6:08:51 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 29 replies
    https://www.thesun.co.uk ^ | 4 Jul 2022 Updated: 13:32, 5 Jul 2022 | Louis Allwood
    VLADIMIR Putin health fears have escalated after the tyrant appeared to fall asleep during a meeting at the Kremlin with his defence minister. The Russian leader appeared bloated and is rumoured to be undergoing debilitating cancer treatment. He was seen slumped over and bleary-eyed in the incredible footage - which mysteriously cut away as he appeared to drift off. Putin, 69, is seen in the Kremlin hunched over his desk as he unenthusiastically congratulates his troops on "liberating" the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk. Sitting in a staged televised meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, a worn-out Putin tells his...
  • Ukraine's LGBTQ+ community fights for freedom on the frontline

    07/04/2022 7:44:42 PM PDT · by Salman · 76 replies
    CBS via MSN ^ | 7-4-2022 | staff writers
    Kyiv Pride was never supposed to be held outside of Ukraine's capital, but among the rainbow flags at Warsaw Pride in neighboring Poland, Ukraine's ubiquitous blue and yellow stood out. "I'm here because I can't go to Pride in Ukraine," one participant said. "We're all people regardless of who you love." Central Europe's biggest Pride march kept a focus on Ukraine's fight against Russia, as well as its LGBTQ+ community's fight for equal rights. ...
  • World War 3 is already underway as EUROPE does the unthinkable | Redacted with Clayton Morris (Video)

    07/04/2022 3:51:37 PM PDT · by Boomer · 132 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 4, 2022 | Clayton Morris
    NATO just announced a new commander and a massive troop increase as the U.K. puts troops on high alert. World War 3 is unfolding before our eyes, they're just not calling it that yet.
  • As Ukraine war bogs down, U.S. assessments face scrutiny

    07/03/2022 9:39:52 PM PDT · by Mount Athos · 96 replies
    Washington Post ^ | July 2, 2022 | Dan Lamothe and Karoun Demirjian
    President Biden said the United States is “rallying the world to stand with Ukraine” and pledged to support the cause “as long as it takes.” U.S. officials have downplayed the (Russian} gains, calling them halting and incremental. The scrutiny is fueled by U.S. government assessments of other wars, notably in Afghanistan, where officials habitually glossed over widespread dysfunction and corruption and sidestepped questions of whether battlefield successes were not only achievable but sustainable. A Ukrainian lawmaker shared similar concerns. “We are losing the most valuable thing, our soldiers and officers.” Benjamin Friedman, a policy director at Defense Priorities, said that...
  • Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA Front Laid Foundations for Ukraine War

    07/03/2022 6:47:43 PM PDT · by Mount Athos · 69 replies
    Kit's newsletter ^ | July 1st, 2022 | Kit Klarenberg
    Obvious examples of Central Intelligence Agency covert action abroad are difficult to identify today, save for occasional acknowledged calamities, such as the long-running $1 billion effort to overthrow the government of Syria, via funding, training and arming barbarous jihadist groups. In part, this stems from many of the CIA’s traditional responsibilities and activities being farmed out to “overt” organizations, most significantly the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Founded in November 1983, then-CIA director William Casey was at the heart of NED’s creation. He sought to construct a public mechanism to support opposition groups, activist movements and media outlets overseas that...
  • Head of Russian Church Warns: It is Ominous that Godless Western Society is Disposing of Churches

    07/03/2022 6:16:08 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 21 replies
    When the Russian Church celebrated the memory of All Saints of the Russian land, on June 26, Patriarch Kirill consecrated the newly-built Cathedral of St. Andrew in the city of Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Addressing the faithful, the Patriarch made a remark concerning Christian churches being built and, conversely, demolished or disposed of: - Where does the Body of Christ appear in the Sacrament of the Eucharist? - In the church of God... Beautiful, magnificent churches are being built, a visible sign of the Christian faith, the faith that has survived to this day in spite of all the...
  • Russia’s capture of the last major holdout in Luhansk means it can shift its focus.

    07/03/2022 5:44:12 PM PDT · by McGruff · 94 replies
    NY Times ^ | July 3, 2022 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff
    Russia’s capture of the strategic city of Lysychansk means the front line in Ukraine’s east will shift as Russian forces regroup before pushing further south and west, military analysts and Ukrainian officers said Sunday, ensuring that the next phase of the battle will be just as bloody as the last. To take Lysychansk and its neighboring city of Sievierodonetsk, Russian forces moved in from the north, east and west and created a pocket of territory that became indefensible toward the end of June. Now those Russian forces are in a position to attempt a similar maneuver on other Ukrainian-held cities...
  • The G-7 Squawks But They’ve Already Lost the War Against Russia

    07/03/2022 2:00:44 PM PDT · by delta7 · 66 replies
    Tulongo ^ | June 29 22 | Tom Luono
    So, the G-7 leaders are in agreement, more war with Russia. Without actually saying exactly that, that was the main takeaway from he meeting of the most feckless leaders in the world. They also pledged $600 billion they don’t have to fund global infrastructure projects to ‘combat China’s Belt and Road Initiative.’ One wonders where all this money and, in the case of Europe, energy is going to come from to fund all of this. But the question I’ve had from the beginning of this obvious war of attrition the West wants to impose on Russia is the following: Do...
  • Russia says it holds all of Ukraine’s Luhansk with capture of last city

    07/03/2022 4:51:47 AM PDT · by AmericaFirst101 · 43 replies
    CNBC ^ | July 3, 2022 | Reuters
    Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Moscow and its allies now controlled all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region after capturing the last major city, Lysychansk. (cut) The ministry had said earlier on Sunday that its troops had captured the villages surrounding Lysychansk, encircling the area, and were fighting inside the city. Calls to the Ukrainian General Staff and Defence Ministry went unanswered. The ministry did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
  • Russian forces may establish control over Luhansk region in the coming days

    07/03/2022 12:00:03 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 11 replies
    https://censor.net ^ | 03.07.22 | Institute for the study of war
    The withdrawal of Ukrainian troops to Seversk, Donetsk region, will allow Ukrainian forces to reduce the risk of immediate encirclement by Russian occupation forces. This is reported by the Censor.No, with reference to data from the Institute for the study of war (ISW). So, it is noted that yesterday Russian troops managed to enter Lisichansk and advance within the city, but the Ukrainian military did not officially announce the withdrawal of troops from Lisichansk, but also did not report on defensive battles around the city. Also, according to American analysts, Russian forces may establish control over the remaining territory of...
  • Ill Prepared for Combat, Volunteers Die in Battles Far From Home

    07/03/2022 5:18:03 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 28 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 2, 2022 | Megan Specia
    Volunteers to the country’s territorial defense forces, reserve units of Ukraine’s armed forces, were initially assigned unglamorous but safe tasks in relatively tranquil regions like western Ukraine, where the Russians did not invade. But severe losses of manpower in the Donbas region, where Russia is grinding forward with ferocious bombing and shelling, has forced Ukraine’s military to draw reinforcements from the West. Many of the fighters like Mr. Brukhal, who had no previous military experience, are simply unprepared for that escalated level of fighting. And the training they receive is limited — sometimes two weeks or less. Colonel Kurko said...
  • Lukashenko Says Belarus Intercepted Attempted Missile Strikes by Ukraine

    07/03/2022 8:34:05 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies
    US News ^ | 7/3/2022 | Reuters
    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday Ukraine had tried to strike military facilities on Belarusian territory three days ago, but all its missiles had been intercepted, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Lukashenko, who did not provide evidence for the claim, said Belarus did not want war with Ukraine, but would fight if its own territory was invaded. The Ukrainian military did not immediately comment. "They are provoking us. I have to tell you, three days ago, maybe a bit more, an attempt to strike military facilities on Belarusian territory was made from the territory of Ukraine," Belta quoted...
  • NATO: Turkey agrees to back Finland and Sweden's bid to join alliance

    06/28/2022 11:50:07 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 35 replies
    Sky News ^ | 6/28/2022 | Sky News
    The foreign ministers of Turkey, Sweden and Finland have signed a memorandum for the two Nordic states to join NATO, removing a Turkish block to the accession process. It comes after the leaders of the three nations spoke at a NATO summit in Madrid. A statement from the president of Finland, Sauli Niinisto, said: "We had a thorough meeting with president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and prime minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson, facilitated by secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg. "As a result of that meeting, our foreign ministers signed a trilateral memorandum which confirms that Turkey will at...