The main battle of this summer will rage in Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka and Pokrovsk, as Putin refuses to give up his goal of capturing the Donetsk region completely
40 already seems an exaggerated figure; satellite imagery confirms so far 13 aircraft destroyed, a cost therefore of perhaps $1.9billion – still considerable but magnified by the inability quickly to replace the losses.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the document would be handed over to Ukraine when it’s finished.
It is the world’s most unjustly vilified man doing everything in his power to stop a war. And doing it by talking directly, one on one, with perhaps the world’s most unjustly lionised hero. There has not been an effort towards peace such as this in living memory.
Podcast with Robert Skidelsky – a member of the British House of Lords, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, and the author of a prize-winning three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes.
Podcast discussing the recent NY Times article outlining that the US have been leading the Russia/Ukraine proxy war out of Germany,
Right now, peace talks are still technically alive. But only just. The United States must prepare itself for the day diplomacy no longer has a pulse.
A new report from the New York Times, of all places, reveals just how calamitous former President Joe Biden’s Ukraine debacle has been.
As long as Russia exists, so will the possibility of Russian aggression against Ukraine; and as long as the US exists, there will be the possibility of a future US administration launching a new anti-Russian crusade.
The Joint Chiefs’ principles, laid down at the start of hostilities, remain in place: that the war would be confined to the territory of Ukraine, that Ukraine would be given all material support required to defend itself, that the cohesion of Nato would be maintained and that there would be no direct US or Nato intervention.
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