Last week’s drone attacks on Russian military bases represent a serious escalation. If the objective was to provoke Moscow into launching retaliatory strikes on targets outside of Ukraine then it failed. However, it also means that the West is now playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette with Moscow
Russian spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the US in September that, should it provide Kiev with long-range weapons, it would cross a “red line” and make America “a direct party to the conflict.” Washington now seems ready to ignore her warning
Foreign mercenaries are reportedly increasingly reluctant to engage Russia forces. In some sections of the frontline Ukrainian forces and allied foreign fighters have sustained 70 percent casualties
Gonzalo Lira offers more insights from Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine. Among other things he reveals rising casualties among Western military contractors who are operating Ukraine’s HIMARS rocket systems. Plus what he thinks Russia is planning to do with the nearly 600,000 troops it has mobilised but not yet even used
Former Senior Adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, Col. Douglas Macgregor with more insights on the war in Ukraine. Including how the British SAS was behind the Crimea Bridge blast and more
Glenn Greenwald just provided Tucker Carlson with the best ‘easy-to-understand’ summary of the Ukraine War you’ll hear anywhere
This bisexual comedian who has banned opposition parties, churches and media is TIME’s Man of the Year. Pretty much tells us where we’re headed.
Angela Merkel has admitted that the 2014 Minsk agreements were signed to put potential conflict with Russia on hold and give Ukraine time to prepare for it. Russia says her admission may amount to grounds for a tribunal
Featuring Scott Ritter, who argues that Ukraine may have lost close to “a quarter of a million” soldiers, and John Mearsheimer, who made some remarkably accurate forecasts about Ukraine’s current predicament in 2015
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced Monday it had recruited actual witches to cast hexes and curses on Russian soldiers
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has acknowledged the true scale of Ukrainian losses. By her admission, at least 100,000 Ukrainian “officers” have been killed. Even if she meant fallen casualty rather than killed those are still unsustainable losses
The United States is deliberately misleading Ukraine so it can use its territory to prosecute its war on Russia. It is a cynical manipulation tantamount to genocide. Mike Whitney explains