by Oui
Wed May 14th, 2025 at 11:15:18 PM EST
US doesn't want Zelensky at NATO's June summit -- ANSA
According to the agency, only Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia and New Zealand have received invitations among non-alliance members
My earlier diary ...
A Summer of Peace, Not War
Ukraine Military Strategy By Warmongers 2022
From one of many diaries w key word | “Crimea” |
Ukraine Stop the War
Liubov Tsybulska, a Ukrainian specialist in Russian disinformation, described to Le Monde the ’enormous shock' felt by Ukrainians when they heard Donald Trump use the same rhetoric as the Russians.
Conscripts raid picked off the streets Kyiv
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Ukrainian Men Dragged From Nightclubs By Army Recruiters To Fight In War | Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty |
A War Politicians Don’t Want to End | Seymour Hersh |
One constant in the war between Russia and Ukraine that Vladimir Putin started more than three years ago has been the willingness of the generals on both sides to say: “No more.”
I was told more than a year ago that the stunning interview Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhnyi gave to the Economist in the autumn of 2023—the Ukraine commander famously said then that the war had become “a stalemate”—was planned with the knowledge of General Valery Gerasimov, chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
An involved American official told me recently that it is not the generals but the politicians—he was referring to Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, his counterpart in Kiev—who are keeping the war going in still contested areas of Ukraine. One major battleground is in Donetsk oblast in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces are continuing to take physical and political control of Ukrainian territory amid talk of peace. Bitter fighting is going on now—ignored by the US press—thirty-five miles outside of Donetsk City, in and around the towns of Pokrovsk and Toretsk. Last week Russian forces captured three settlements in Donetsk that allow them to block critical supply routes for Ukrainian forces and to threaten two nearby Ukrainian provinces. Putin is clearly intent on controlling as much Ukrainian territory as possible before he submits, if he ever does, to serious peace talks.
So apparently not a stalemate as Kyiv stares further defeat in the eyes. Critical junction supply routes in Donetsk near the towns of Pokrovsk and Toretsk.
