Posted by Ukraine celebrates Mother’s Day today. Spare a thought for the millions of mothers who have had children fighting at some point since the Russian invasion started in 2014 or who have children fighting at the frontlines right now. Firefighters, rescue-workers, medics etc…
These are the long-distance Storm Shadow cruise missiles the U.K. has just sent to Ukraine. Russian commanders in Easter Ukraine won’t want to gather large groups of skilled soldiers at the same place anymore.
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14th May 2023
President Zelensky reacts to #Trump saying he’d settle #Ukraine war in 24hrs. “When Trump was US President there was no full-scale invasion, but there was a war. There was already Russian aggression. #Crimea was occupied, part of Donbas was occupied… he didn’t solve this issue”
2023 International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen
has been awarded to President Zelensky & #Ukraine‘s people. They’re “fighting to defend not only the sovereignty of their country & the lives of its citizens, but also Europe & European values.”
https://karlspreis.de/en/news/charlemagne-prize-2023
14th May 2023
Russia’s Bakhmut meatgrinder grinds on. Russian Ministry of Defense has reported the death of two of its colonels on May 13-14 in Bakhmut area. Col. Vyacheslav Makarov, commander of 4th motorized rifle brigade & Col. Yevgeny Brovko.
13th May 2023
Western officials often say that they will stay with Ukraine “as long as it takes.” They could signal that commitment more credibly by announcing their plans to provide F16s and ATACMs now, not for use in short term but longer term,
foreignaffairs.com How to Get a Breakthrough in Ukraine The case against incrementalism.
14th May 2023
My grandfather weighed 85lbs when he got back home after spending 4 years in a Japanese prison camp. Today, Japan is one of our greatest allies, but war crime denial isn’t the way to go.
Westerners probably have no idea, but Japan’s war guilt imprint is coming from China’s propaganda against Japan which says Japan was a military power that tortured other Asians and that’s why the country should never have military forces, nukes etc. Time says we’re going BACK.
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14th May 2023
BREAKING: Ukraine’s Air Force says that Russia’s own air defences shot down the 3 helicopters and 2 jets
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14th May 2023
The beaches in Russian-occupied Crimea look increasingly like this. Pure desperation… #Crimea #Ukraine
The young Zelensky before he was bought by the cabal: “In the East [Donbas] & Crimea, people want to speak Russian.. leave them alone.. Russia and Ukraine are brotherly people. We are one colour, one blood… I know many millions of people who live in Russia who are wonderful..”
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The Times and The Sunday Times
13th May 2023
It has been nine years since Putin deployed his notorious “little green men” — troops without insignia — to seize Crimea from Ukraine and oversee a sham referendum on joining Russia. Now Ukraine is preparing to win it back
Putin, the ‘Goblin’ and the resistance: life and death in occupied Crimea
In the classroom Crimean children race each other to assemble their assault rifles. A young girl, her brown hair hanging over her eyes,
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14th May 2023
Ternopil last night. This is the hometown of
Ukraine’s Eurovision contestant. The city was bombed by russia while the duo was performing at
russia has once again shown the world that it is nothing but a terrorist state.
14th May 2023
The G7 and the EU will ban at the legislative level the resumption of gas supplies to the Russian Federation on routes to Europe, The Financial Times writes
ft.com G7 and EU to ban restart of Russian gas pipelines The curbs would be the first to target Moscow’s pipeline exports since invasion of Ukraine
Czechs Put Russian Patriarch Kirill as The First Person on Their Magnitsky Sanction List Over His Support Of Russia’s War In Ukraine. Pleased to see the law honoring Sergei Magnitsky put to such good use.
Czechs Put Russian Patriarch Kirill On Sanctions List Over Comments On War In Ukraine
Ukraine needs to win its war with Russia fast. If Donald Trumps wins in the US next year he’ll do one of his trademark deals with the Russians which will give them everything: like the deal he did with the Taliban over Afghanistan, which Biden inexplicably went through with.
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13th May 2023
#Swedish singer Loreen wins #Eurovision The video shows a participant from #Moldova, who said directly from the stage “#Ukraine, thank you for peace in Moldova!”. The jury from Ukraine gave 12 points to Sweden, Lithuania – 10 points, Australia – 8, the Czech Republic – 7.
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13th May 2023
What’s happening? Rumors are circulating all around on the health status of Lukashenko. And if it’s really serious we can expect a serious contest and crisis over the future of Belarus – with undoubtedly aiming for a complete and quick takeover.
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13th May 2023
#Belarus Lukashenka’s motorcade reportedly went to a hospital but left after two hours. The secrecy around his health is not new yet they don’t even try to calm down the elites or the Kremlin. If they don’t reveal any information about his health, it might be really serious.
14th May 2023
Ukraine can win and should, and Russia can lose and should. My latest in
14th May 2023
Each weekend, I am posting lectures from my course on Ukrainian history. Lecture 13: “War, Republic, Revolutions” Commentary, list of terms, podcast link:
Watch here:
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Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 13. Republics and…
Class 13 details the converging forces and end of empires.Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale Unive
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To recall the end of the Second World War in Europe means remembering that more Ukrainian civilians were killed than were Russians, and that more Ukrainian soldiers died fighting the Wehrmacht than Americans, British, and Frenchmen — taken together. See numbers in #Bloodlands
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14th May 2023
The #G7 countries and the #EU, within the framework of the 11th package of sanctions against #Russia, intend to ban the import of Russian pipeline gas on routes through which #Moscow has previously reduced supplies. This was reported by the Financial Times.
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13th May 2023
“Despite the willingness of foreign pundits to treat Crimea as a bargaining chip… there is an increasing sense of confidence that the Tatars may get their homeland, and some political autonomy, back.”
on Jamala, the Crimean Tatars, and Ukraine
‘I was born to do this’: Ukraine’s 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala on why Putin fears her people, the…
Jamala tells how her 2016 song shone a light on Stalin’s deportations and helped to dispel the myths that Crimea is historically Russian
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