Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has announced that he will visit India later this week, drawing parallels between the ongoing conflict and India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule led by Mahatma Gandhi. The comparison didn’t go down well with many Indians on social media, who reminded Kiev of …
Read More »Ukraine may require dictatorship to survive – Zelensky party MP
Ukraine may need to become a dictatorship in order to prevail in the conflict with Russia, an MP from President Vladimir Zelensky’s party has suggested. Zelensky has already concentrated a great deal of power in his hands and “makes most of the decisions” on behalf of the government, Sergey Demchenko …
Read More »We now know why the only credible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine collapsed
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published new details of the failed Ukraine peace talk held in Istanbul in the spring of 2022. The story resembles some kind of off-the-wall pro-Kiev propaganda along the lines of ‘look how Moscow tried to subjugate them, it’s no wonder the Ukrainians refused.’ Today, …
Read More »Ukraine should be ‘independent’ – Stoltenberg
NATO must continue to support Kiev so it can negotiate with Moscow about becoming an independent state, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony to admit Sweden into NATO, Stoltenberg repeated the bloc’s talking points about supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, but …
Read More »Abrams and HIMARS kills, Russia’s push west from Adveeka: this week’s Ukraine conflict updates (VIDEOS)
The conflict between Moscow and Kiev has entered its third year with Russian troops reporting new gains against Ukrainian forces. Last Friday, the country’s Defense Ministry announced the full liberation of Lastochkino, Severnoye and Petrovskoye, small villages located to the west and northwest of the town Avdeevka. The northern suburb …
Read More »Ukraine sends fired top general to London
Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed the country’s new ambassador to the UK, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. The ministry said it has already informed London about the development, formally requesting approval from it. “The President of Ukraine approved the candidacy of Valery Zaluzhny for the post …
Read More »Ukraine plans new counteroffensive – ground forces commander
Ukraine plans to reorganize its troops and launch a new counteroffensive this year, the commander of the ground forces has said. Speaking to ICTV on Wednesday, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said the most pressing goal is to stop Russian advances and to regroup Ukrainian units, so that exhausted forces can …
Read More »Western ‘expertise’ on the Ukraine conflict could lead the world to a nuclear disaster
In order to assess the professionalism of any expert, their initial statements and forecasts must be compared with the actual course of events. In this sense, it’s interesting that none of the predictions made by mainstream Western experts regarding the Ukraine conflict have come true – either in military, political, …
Read More »‘Ukraine is Russia’ – Medvedev
Ukraine lies within the sphere of Russian strategic interests and has no future in any other capacity, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, has stated. Russian people consider Ukraine to be part of the larger Russian civilization, the senior official said in a speech at a …
Read More »UK ‘directly involved’ in Ukraine conflict – Kremlin
Britain’s direct military involvement in Ukraine was never a secret, but one of the country’s establishment media outlets has now admitted it outright, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on Thursday. The outlet RTVI asked Peskov to comment a report from The Times which claimed that Admiral …
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