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War in Ukraine
Trump calls on House to kill border/Kyiv aid bill; More Dutch F-16s on the way; French Foreign Ministry takes Russian ambassador to task; Suspected spies held by Moscow in assassination attempt
Feb. 6
War in Ukraine
The self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic announced the death of its Minister of Emergency Situations following a strike on a local bakery reportedly frequented by collaborators.
Feb. 5
War in Ukraine
These recently released numbers refer only to those unoccupied and liberated areas fully under Ukrainian control and to which its police had full access.
Feb. 1
Ukraine
A recently declassified US intelligence report shows a direct correlation between the current impasse in the US Congress on aid to Ukraine and Russian intelligence operations.
Feb. 1
Drones
Running out of later model tanks and artillery guns, the Kremlin is turning to museum piece replacements while Russian soldiers jury-rig new hybrid weapons. Their big fear: Ukrainian drone swarms.
Jan. 31
Kremlin
Following a December landmine death in Russia’s Belgorod Region, Kremlin troops were wounded while planting border protection mines, causing a “mine-explosive injury” and toe amputations.
Jan. 31
Putin
The author envisions what a November win by Donald Trump might look like, viewing him as a Kremlin tool like the brainwashed character in the 1959 novel and 1962/2004 political thriller films.
Jan. 31
Kremlin
Kremlin notes that X (formerly Twitter) is banned in Russia and that better platforms exist to draft double agents.
Jan. 23
War in Ukraine
Thousands of Russians have been lining up country wide and abroad to secure enough nominations to allow Boris Nadezhdin to challenge President Vladimir Putin at the ballot box in March.
Jan. 23
Putin
Russia is a criminal organization where elections are window-dressing and speech is about as free as it is inside China’s Politburo, Diane Francis writes.
Jan. 22
Propaganda
Russia has brought a foreign “expert” Scott Ritter, a convicted pedophile, to the occupied Kherson region to discredit Ukraine for propaganda purposes.
Jan. 19
Ukraine
Mykola Azarov along Viktor Yanukovych with fled to Russia in 2014 after their security forces killed dozens of protesters who had camped out in central Kyiv demanding pro-EU reforms.
Jan. 18
War in Ukraine
Public polls recently conducted in Russia have come up with some seemingly contradictory results – Russians say they want peace, but they also support the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Jan. 12
War in Ukraine
Elsewhere, it has been reported that a mobilized soldier who called for peace last month had been confined to a punishment pit in a penal colony in Luhansk.
Jan. 10
Russia
Russia faces numerous challenges in the Belgorod region, not least the destruction of valuable military equipment after several Ukrainian special forces’ missions.
Jan. 9
Russian state-run TV show “congratulates” Trump on election by highlighting once and future First Lady modeling career photos, possibly spelling out the power dynamic of the US-Russia relationship.
Nov. 11