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Last March, a Palestinian delegation arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian officials. The delegation was from Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that's been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. The meeting, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, touched on Russia's "unchanged position in support of a just solution to the Palestinian problem.""When considering the issue of restoring Palestinian national unity, the Russian side expressed its readiness to continue to assist in overcoming differences and bringing together the positions of leading Palestinian political forces and movements on the platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization,"...

BUDAPEST, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The European Union's strategy with regards to the war in Ukraine "has failed" and the bloc should create a plan B as the Ukrainians will not win on the frontline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungarian state radio on Friday.Orban, speaking in Brussels on the sidelines of an EU summit, said there was a "big battle" especially over support for Ukraine. Orban said he saw no reason for Hungary to send its taxpayers' money to support Ukraine.The EU is due to decide in December on a revision of its 2021-27 budget worth 1.1 trillion euros...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia put the Flag but not for a long time | Ukraine Strikes Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJ8BYHKo5g Order of Battle Deep Dive – 3rd Assault Brigade October 23, 2023 Estimated organization of Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade: Analysis https://militaryland.net/news/order-of-battle-deep-dive-3rd-assault-brigade/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 42 zhutatko October 22, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-42/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

The recent election of Mike Johnson as speaker of the House has struck terror in the heart of the uniparty, with neoconservatives and Democrats fearing that their reckless Ukraine spending may finally be put to an end.President Biden is currently exploiting the conflict in Israel and Palestine to secure more funding for Ukraine in a joint package for Israel and Ukraine aid. However, only a small portion of the $100 billion the president is requesting would go to Israel, with the majority — $61.4 billion — going to Ukraine.With Johnson now speaker and leading the House, Biden’s Ukraine funding request...

Update from Ukraine | The Worst day for the Ruzzian Army | Avdiivka will finish them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ElW-1jAM0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 18th October 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-602-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

A former Ukrainian presidential adviser has described Kyiv’s stalled counter-offensive as a “disaster” and accused Volodymyr Zelensky of making strategic mistakes.Oleksiy Arestovych said that Mr Zelensky and his military commanders have failed to break through Russian lines and that Ukraine now needed a new leader. “They are not telling the truth. There will be no return to the borders of 1991, and there will be no Crimea in the near future,” he said.Mr Arestovych resigned in January as a presidential adviser after a row over the effectiveness of Ukraine’s air defence systems.This week, Ukrainian prosecutors opened an investigation into Mr...

Russians socking it to the forces of darkness...

The US seems to have backed off of the claim that they are going to invade Crimea. Apparently, there are new victory terms, but they are a secret. After the fake 2024 election, the government will claim it has a mandate to start World War III against Russia. This is probably something people should be preparing for. Fun fact: Trump says it’s not our problem and a border dispute in the former USSR doesn’t matter. In fact, we know it doesn’t matter, because another border dispute in the former USSR was solved last week in the most brutal and inhume...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Advances on the South | Does USA stop the Military Support? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4U0nr-vzi0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 30th September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-584-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

A senior Ukrainian official suggested that the Kremlin faked a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been rumored to be gravely ill. Russian state news agencies and a pro-Putin reporter released videos from the meeting — and the Kremlin published still photos and a transcript of the conversation between the two leaders on its official website, claiming that it took place Thursday. But Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, raised doubts about the encounter between Putin and Kadyrov, writing in a post on X, formerly Twitter: “It is unclear...

American taxpayers will provide an additional $300 million for Ukraine’s war effort if a bill passed late Thursday night by the House becomes law. The bill passed 311-117 after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stripped the funding from a Pentagon spending bill in favor of a standalone vote. The $826 billion Pentagon spending bill also passed Thursday night after the Ukraine aid was removed. Determining how much more, if any, Congress should send to Ukraine — on top of the $113 billion it has already approved — has been among the most significant challenges for Congress as it works to fund...

Is the propaganda working yet? Do you believe the West is really the good guy here? Ukraine and Russia continually point the finger and accuse the other of supporting Nazis. Well, jet-setting Zelensky recently visited Canada’s Parliament where they invited a literal former Nazi from World War II to speak. Yaroslav Hunka, former 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, received a standing ovation. The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS was a voluntary division composed of Ukrainians. Hunka retired to Canada after the war and was never punished for his crimes. Trudeau thought it would be a good...

President Joe Biden reportedly told Volodymyr Zelensky during a White House meeting this week that the U.S. will send Ukraine long-range ATACMS missiles, amid growing questions about the continued funding of the war. In addition to the $325 million military aid package, Biden reportedly pledged during a meeting with Zelensky on Thursday to supply the war-torn country with ATACMS missiles. The long-range missiles, which can hit targets up to 190 miles away, would represent a significant upgrade for the Ukrainian forces, which currently only have missiles capable of striking at a range of around 150 miles.

Ukraine claims to have taken the village of Verbove on the Zaporizhia front and wants to keep fighting through winter, CNN reports, as Russia captured the village of Kleshcheyevka south of Bakhmut. The Washington Post reports that Ukraine has lost a large amount of equipment in its incremental advances, including German-made Marder armored vehicles and US-made Stryker armored personnel carriers.Sputnik News claimed Russian troops destroyed a Leopard 2 tank manned by German Bundeswehr soldiers, killing them all, in what would be a major escalation if true. However, there has been no independent confirmation of this report, which pro-Russian journalist Edvard...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army Failed Attack | Gerasimov responsible | Z-Generals Kaputt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-CNumrO8Yk The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 20th September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-574-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

President Joe Biden has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that the United States will provide a small number of long-range missiles to aid the war with Russia, three U.S. officials and a congressional official familiar with the discussions told NBC News on Friday. The officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, did not say when the missiles would be delivered or when a public announcement would be made. For months, Ukraine has asked for the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, which would give Kyiv the ability to strike targets from as far away as about 180...

Russian TV news channel Rossiya 24 aired a trailer for a weekend show featuring former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson. There is no official word on when the show will air. Rossiya 24 is a state-run channel. It has not issued any statement mentioning the possibility of Carlson being involved via a show. The former Fox anchor is currently running his show on X (formerly Twitter) after quitting the company in April. The Russian channel's advert was first shared earlier this month. It aired again on September 22 with a note - 'on the weekend'. However, no other details were...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a basically upbeat assessment of Ukraine’s long-awaited “counteroffensive” against invading Russian forces but conceded “nobody knows” if there will be a major breakthrough this year in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. Zelensky added that he thinks “we will have more success” in the coming year, following a slower-than-expected start for the big counteroffensive. As in several other recent interviews, he disputed criticism that Ukraine’s push has deteriorated into a stalemate, pointing to gains made by his forces in the east of the country.

When the head of a nation at war comes to town, it’s serious business. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having just been in New York at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, is taking a detour to Washington, D.C., before returning home to Kyiv to make one more plea for continued U.S. assistance in his continued battle to control his country from the grasp of Russian President Vladimir Putin. We need to hear him out. In New York, Zelensky warned us. He told the world that “mass destruction is gaining momentum,” and that “the aggressor is weaponizing many other things and...

Ukraine has carried out a large-scale drone attack across the Black Sea and Crimea that comes after Kyiv claimed success in hitting a Russian military headquarters on the occupied peninsula. Ukraine intends to recapture Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, and the peninsula hosts many military installations that have come under increasing attack as Kyiv seeks to degrade Russian logistics and equipment. The Russian defense ministry said on Thursday that it had shot down 19 drones and that explosions were heard in the Crimean settlements of Novofedorivka, Saky, Yevpatoriya, Dzhankoi and Balaklava... Russian social media channels painted a different...