Ukrainian presidential advisor Alexey Arestovich resorted to obscene language to criticize those in the West urging Kiev to cede part of the country’s territory to Russia for the sake of peace. “Go f**k yourselves with such proposals, you dumb f**ks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you f**king …
Read More »Zelensky reveals size of Ukrainian force fighting Russia
The size of the Ukrainian military is now almost six times larger than it was at the beginning of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed. “We needed an army of more than 250,000 or 260,000, but there were only around 120,000” battle-ready troops in Ukraine …
Read More »Zelensky gives details on Azovstal surrender
The Ukrainian troops and members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, who had been holed up at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol for weeks, surrendered to Russian forces on orders from Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed. “The guys had received a signal from the military that they have every …
Read More »Zelensky signs law enabling bans on ‘anti-Ukrainian’ parties
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday signed into law a bill establishing a mechanism to outlaw political parties. The legislation is aimed at political parties deemed to be engaging into “anti-Ukrainian” activities. The list of wrongdoings which can be used as a pretext to ban a political party suggests that …
Read More »Russian diplomat says British TV silenced him over Zelensky’s Nazi pic
Dmitry Polyansky, the deputy head of Russia’s mission to the UN, said the UK’s Sky News abruptly ended an interview with him as soon as he showed a photo with a Nazi symbol that was posted by the Ukrainian president on WWII Victory Day. “The host’s response? He quickly wound …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky shares image of soldier with Nazi insignia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked World War II Victory Day by sharing an image of a Ukrainian soldier wearing the ‘death’s head’ patch of an elite Nazi Waffen SS unit. While the picture was soon deleted from his social media, the Ministry of Defense in Kiev also posted the photo. …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky praises US, scolds EU
The US is leading the charge on global sanctions against Russia, while EU nations have sometimes shown a lack of unity on the matter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “So far I think that the United States of America is the accelerator of the sanction policies and I think …
Read More »Popular Ukrainian Zelensky critic arrested in Spain
Prominent blogger and critic of the Ukrainian government, Anatoly Shariy, has been detained by Spanish police as part of an international operation, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced on Thursday. Shariy was arrested on Wednesday in a joint operation by Spanish and Ukrainian cops, as well as international “partners”, the …
Read More »Zelensky, Biden share blame with Putin for Ukraine conflict – Lula
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “as responsible as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin for the war,” Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Time magazine on Wednesday, insisting that there is never just one guilty party in war. Zelensky “could have said: ‘Come on, let’s stop talking about this …
Read More »Putin and Zelensky could attend same international event
The presidents of two countries engaged in an armed conflict, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, could both attend the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali this November, the leader of the host nation has said. During his online address on Friday, President Joko Widodo said Putin …
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