With a range of 480 kilometres the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System will be able to reach Russian territory. Prompting Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to warn that providing Ukraine with such a weapon would be “a serious step towards unacceptable escalation”
According to Rolo Slavskiy, “the army fighting in Ukraine is basically Putin’s private army. It is a professional, paid force, which is only a fraction of Russia’s actual full militarized might and it is mixed with ethnic auxiliaries called up by local tribal chieftains of the various periphery republics”
Russia has taken captive 8,000 Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk and Luhansk alone. Amid mounting reports that Ukrainian nationalists are executing soldiers who attempt to surrender. Warning graphic images
In return for the lifting of some sanctions, Russia has proposed setting up a corridor for ships carrying grain through the Black Sea.
Gonzalo Lira on why any plan Washington may have to stoke insurgency in Russian occupied eastern Ukraine is doomed to failure
As Russia is well on its way to securing large swathes of eastern Ukraine the Western MSM coverage is changing. It’s no longer talking up Ukrainian resilience while playing down Russian advances. Instead, it is now talking about a “negotiated peace”
Judge Napolitano talks Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former senior advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, who strongly supported the war against Iraq but who now seriously questions US policy on Russia/Ukraine
If true this confirms other reports that suggest that the Ukrainian Army is close to collapse in Donbass
The Ukrainian Army is close to collapse in Donbass and we know this from the Western MSM. However, this is not from what they are saying explicitly but from a change in the tone and emphasis of the media coverage. Alexander Mercouris explains
As former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter explains, the US and NATO are training, arming and supporting Ukrainians. Effectively using them as proxies in a war against Russia
The New Atlas answers claims that Russian drone footage of Ukrainian M777 Howitzers being attacked was faked
This is entirely unconfirmed. However, Russian intelligence reports have indicted Polish plans to deploy troops in Ukraine in the guise of “peacekeepers”