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The US House passed $61B in Ukraine aid today, and the US Senate is expected to quickly vote on the bill next Tuesday, where it is widely expected to pass. This critically necessary move will reopen the spigots of US ammunition in the form of artillery...
by RO37
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 02:19 PM PDT
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis were reviewing damage done to the coastal city of Odesa when a Russian ballistic missile struck nearby. Sources ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 02:27 PM PST
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Vladimir Putin was right to be afraid of Alexei Navalny. Even after the Russian dictator almost certainly had the anti-corruption activist murdered in an Arctic prison camp, thousands turned up at a ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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A pair of reports were released this week providing analyses of Russia’s current fighting capabilities in Ukraine and prospects for the outcome of this illegal invasion.
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 04:15 PM PST
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Former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson released his interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening, and it turned out to be the one thing no one expected: hilarious. During the two-hour program, Putin spent more than 50 minutes...
by Mark Sumner
317 comments
on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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Rumors have been swirling for weeks , but on Thursday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made it official : the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military forces, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, is ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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After months of extremely heavy combat that have resulted in some of the greatest losses of Russian forces since the illegal invasion began, the situation ...
by Mark Sumner
196 comments
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 04:15 PM PST
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The Russian guided-missile corvette “Ivanovets” sank on Wednesday evening following a nighttime attack by Ukrainian aquatic drones . The 56-meter-long ship was one of three Project 1241.1 “...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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When morality, SCOTUS, and the Federal Government are ALL against you and say you can’t just kill immigrants, then everything is okay in Texas if you declare that it is an invasion! "The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty...
by polecat
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 07:28 AM PST
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Wednesday marks the 700th day since Russian tanks rolled across the border into Ukraine in Vladimir Putin’s latest invasion. It now seems ludicrous that officers in that initial “ 40-kilometer ...
by Mark Sumner
71 comments
on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, Evgeniya Emerald (Her first name has several spellings) was a civilian running a jewelry store. Her father had given her some training as a child, and she’d been in the Ukrainian version of ROTC. When Russia invaded, she...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:36 AM PST
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It’s been two years since Russian dictator Vladimir Putin sent tanks rolling across the borders from Russia and Belarus, and began this long, nightmarish war. It’s safe to say that very few ...
by Mark Sumner
129 comments
on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here . Almost from the moment it was ...
by Mark Sumner
122 comments
on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 03:45 PM PST
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Russian forces remain on the offensive throughout much of Eastern Ukraine, although their greatest focus appears to be predominantly around Avdiivka and Bakhmut . Meanwhile, Ukraine’s only active ...
by RO37
190 comments
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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Over the last two weeks, Ukrainian sources on Telegram have been increasingly gloomy. That’s not because Russia has made major advances. Ukraine has maintained its position across the Dnipro River at Krynky, northeast of Kherson. It has pushed back...
by Mark Sumner
193 comments
on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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A war of attrition is a war where the goal of both sides is to destroy the enemy army through the accumulation of losses.�This is in contrast to a battle of maneuver, where both sides attempt to ...
by RO37
275 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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� Sometimes it pays to skip a day. Yesterday, all the news from the front in Ukraine seemed like bad news. While Russia was continuing to sacrifice its forces at an ungodly rate, meat waves seemed ...
by Mark Sumner
194 comments
on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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On Monday, the National Intelligence Council made public a recently declassified report on foreign interference in the 2022 midterm elections. That report remains heavily redacted, obscuring the ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 02:30 PM PST
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For weeks, there has been a tendency to treat the Ukrainian force on the eastern (left) bank of the Dnipro River as if it represents Ukraine catching Russia by surprise and poking into a weak point ...
by Mark Sumner
228 comments
on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 03:10 PM PST
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The Battle of Avdiivka is demonstrating the decisive advantage that Ukraine now wields in critical battles with Russia…�but also the limits of that advantage.� In short, Ukraine has been able to ...
by RO37
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 01:48 PM PST
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