Tag: Ukraine

Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper that NATO may be partially to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying the alliance encroached on Russia’s borders.

Canadian General in Azovstal? Russian media warns UK. Ukraine warns Orban. Update 1.

Another 46 people escaped the day before from the territories adjacent to the plant.

“We knew about the corridors from the radio, but we couldn’t get to them, they wouldn’t let us out."

Good news! Our beloved government has just created a new Disinformation Governance Board declaring it — and it alone — to be the only source of authentic information relating to the defense of our country and the safety of its citizens.

Millions of words have been spilled by our government and our media framing this war as the madman in the Kremlin and his dreams of a reconstituted Soviet empire. But they could do better with just two words that Ukraine and US refused to honor and implement: Minsk II.

Wives & mothers protest Elensky. NATO military build up. Jolie in Lviv. Update 1

Israel's relentless assaults to annihilate Gaza’s civil society was unlawful and a war crime then, and is today. Who are we to deny them their right of self-defence and justice?

Washington wants to arm Kiev forces with hundreds of Switchblade 300 and 600 loitering munitions.

Jim W. Dean - The eight years of Donbass shelling with 14,000 dead have simply been airbrushed out of the current history of the war.

Ret. US Gen. Philip Breedlove wants to escalate the military conflict with Russia but media outlets don’t disclose he works for defense firms.

Forget Ukraine for a moment. Easter is a time to focus on the Holy Land, what happened there in AD33 or whatever date you believe to have been Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, and what’s happening there now. It’s not pretty.

If the strikes on electrical substations continue, 1,600 Ukrainian electric locomotives will not be able to move.

One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex.

Get ready: something lethally “asymmetrical” may be about to pop up.

Lavrov also said that the inadmissibility of nuclear war is Russia's principled position.

The PM went on that Russia just wants to create a migration, energy crisis and food crisis, somehow managing to leave out that the West has buried Russia under sanctions trying to collapse its economy.

Cumulative conditions, from the situation on the front lines in Ukraine to the global economic and social situation, suggest that a full-scale war in Europe is almost inevitable.

Austrian FM Alexander Schallenberg spoke out against accepting Ukraine into the European Union, Heute reports. Schallenberg believes that there are other opportunities for partnership between Kyiv and the EU.

By Dmitry Orlov for the Saker Blog Or maybe he, like Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, grandson of Fritz von Scholz, SS lieutenant-general who supervised the slaughter...

The Western mainstream media ignored the Ukrainian army assaults on the people of Eastern Ukraine, who were forced to survive in underground bunkers, and act as if the war started in February, when it actually started in 2014 as a war by the Ukrainian government against its own people.

“We attacked the Nazis, believing that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would treat us more loyally, we would find a common language and they would come over to our side,” Knutov said in an interview.

Key events, news, statements April 22.

NATO and the West's hope was that Putin would succumb to temptation and send military to Kazakhstan, and tie up Russian troops, while Ukrainian troops would strike at Donbas. Putin did not bite.

Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.

A general battle is now beginning in Donbas, on which depends not the fate of the “special operation” with all its stages, but the fate of Russia’s war with the West for its existence.

The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine is based on Syrian tactics, the United States has resigned itself to the fact that Russia will take control of the southeast of Ukraine.

Russian President Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the European Council Charles Michel. Oligarch Igor Surkis was detained on the border with Poland. American and Chilean journalist Gonzalo Lira, who was thought to have been killed by the far right, was found alive.

During the second phase of the special operation, Russian armed forces plan to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine, to provide a corridor to Crimea. And Ukrainian saboteurs detained.

There are conflicting stories about what happened, so I have gone to this theatre to investigate for myself. Watch this report and see what you think.

There are credible reasons to believe the so-called Bucha Massacre was not the doing of the Russian Forces, but rather of the Ukrainians—either local militia or SBU or some combination thereof—as part of brutal reprisals against ‘saboteurs’ and ‘Russian collaborators.’

The man who exposed the lie of WMDs in Iraq, Scott Ritter, joined me to discuss the war in Ukraine, NATO expansion, the personality and politics of Vladimir Putin, and what he sees as the last battle to destroy Nazism.

His book, The Russia Trap, warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation much like the situation we face over Ukraine today.

Is the war in Ukraine just a confrontation of good and evil? Or does it obey international calculations that are less open and praiseworthy?

Judging by the Ukrainian crisis, the US strategy is to provoke, at a convenient time for Washington, two crises in the zones of vital interests of Russia and China. The ultimate goal is to remove Russia and China as obstacles to the restoration of US global hegemony.

Great Britain wants to revive the Galician-Bandera ideology, and its special services skillfully exploit the parallels between the post-WWII (1944-1953) resistance in the Baltic countries and the OUN-UPA, which is banned in Russia. London, as you know, supported both, and harbors plans to revive the “Nazi belt” in exchange for their guarantees of military security for Poland and the Baltic states.

We have some truly ghastly examples of the fruits of democracy in the form of the Weimar Republic in Germany or the Interim Government between February and October of 1917 in Russia.

Azov has reportedly shot men “fleeing” the combat zones as “traitors” and pledged no surrender to or collaboration with the Russians.

George Soros has never hidden that “his main enemy is sitting in Moscow”: “I believe that European society does not react to Russia sharply enough. That’s why I’m trying to explain what kind of danger it really poses.”

iEarlGrey commentary on missing person, Gonzalo Lira.