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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals have an artful knack for keeping the Russian military bear off-balance. On Sunday, they renewed their offensive in the Russian Kursk Oblast, once again catching the Russian high command, Kremlin, and many pundits by surprise. Reports of a demoralized Ukrainian army fighting to retain terrain captured during the August Kursk offensive — of which at least 40 percent has been lost — have circulated among western media and Russian milbloggers since November. So too reports that Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized Brigade — trained and equipped by France — was under-resourced in “first person view...

A top Iranian general has accused Russia of lying to Tehran by saying its jets were attacking Syrian rebels while they were instead bombing the open desert. In a rare break from Iran's diplomatic line on Syria, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati partially blamed Moscow for the fall of Bashar Assad's government during a speech at a mosque in Tehran. An audio recording of the speech was published on Tuesday by Abdullah Abdi, a journalist in Geneva who reports on Iran. "We were defeated, and defeated very badly. We took a very big blow, and it's been very difficult," Esbati said...

Donald Trump can’t see the “bigger picture” on Ukraine and Europe could step up to take over funding the fight against Europe, a top Eurocrat says, as Zelensky calls for Western troops to “force Russia into peace”. Ukraine’s Western backers are meeting in Germany at the major U.S.-NATO Ramstein airbase on Thursday through the Ukraine Defence Contract Group, President Volodymyr Zelensky having arrived at the base this morning. Per Ukrainian state media, he is due to have group meetings through the forum as well as individual talks with other leaders during the summit. Meetings had barely begun, however, when President...

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all. Battles are so intense that some Ukrainian commanders can’t evacuate the dead. Communication lags and poorly timed tactics have cost lives, and troops have little way to counterattack, seven front-line soldiers and commanders told The Associated Press... Some front-line commanders said conditions are tough, morale is low and troops are questioning command decisions, even the very purpose of...

Kyiv is ready to make a deal with Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin should make efforts toward negotiating a truce, United States President-elect Donald Trump said early Sunday. "There should be an immediate cease-fire and negotiations should begin" in order to "stop the madness," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse," he said. "I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can...

Is this what "protecting democracy" looks like? Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that would permit the Ukrainian government to censor news sites, control the flow of information to the Ukrainian people, and shut down news sites that aren't "registered as media," according to multiple reports. The law more resembles the totalitarian actions of the Soviet Union rather than a small country "protecting democracy," as many on the Left have claimed. Additionally, the new law permits Ukraine's government to control all media. This includes online and print journalism, limiting the information on the nation's television networks, censoring...

Rumours have persisted that Putin is "critically ill" after he became bloated and was trembling and shaking alarmingly. Bombshell spy emails leaked to The Sun confirm he has early-stage Parkinson's disease and pancreatic cancer. Sources also claimed he had emergency surgery last year and was shadowed by a team of top doctors. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine's chief of defence intelligence, said last night he is certain Putin does have terminal cancer. He told ABC News: "He has been sick for a long time. "I am sure he has cancer. I think he will die very quickly. I hope very soon." He...

A new column at the Geller Report by jihad expert Robert Spencer explains that in 2019, a letter from 40 Democrats described Ukraine's "Nazi Azov Battalion" as a terror group.Now some of those same Democrats are sending it billions of dollars.Explained Spencer, "One thing is certain: the full extent of the ties between Ukraine and the posturing, self-righteous, desperately corrupt, hypocritical and self-serving U.S. Democrat establishment is not publicly known, and may never be known."But what we do know should have brought that entire establishment crashing down years ago."Spencer explained that Kanekoa News, an independent journalism site, revealed that in...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia is preparing to step up its attacks on Ukraine using Iranian-made exploding drones, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Moscow looks for ways to keep up the pressure on Kyiv after months of battlefield setbacks for the Kremlin´s war strategy. “We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by Shaheds (exploding drones),” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address late Monday. He said the goal is to break Ukraine´s resistance by “exhausting our people, (our) air defense, our energy,” more than 10 months after Russia invaded its neighbor.

A Ukrainian Himars attack on a town in Russia-held eastern Ukraine flattened completely destroyed a vast building holding several hundred Russian mobilised men inside. Early estimates from Kyiv and from pro-Russian sources suggest the New Year’s Eve attack on the barracks in Makiivka could be Russia’s single biggest loss of life since the start of the invasion last February. The Ukrainian military on Monday mocked Russia over the attack on a former school building in Makiivka, a suburb of Donetsk, attributing it to “smoking in inappropriate places” and claiming that it killed “about 400” people. A former Ukrainian separatist commander...

Dear Ukrainians! This year began on February 24. Without prefaces and preludes. Sharply. Early. At 4 o'clock. It was dark. It was loud. It was hard for many and scary for some. 311 days have passed. It can still be dark, loud, and complicated for us. But we will definitely never be afraid again. And we'll never be ashamed. It was our year. Year of Ukraine. Year of Ukrainians. We woke up on February 24. Into another life. Being another people. Another Ukrainians. The first missiles finally destroyed the labyrinth of illusions. We saw who was who. What friends and...