Ukraine Forces Sustain Horrific Casualties
War is a horrific business as this linked video illustrates. It shows what Western arms and ordnance are helping to sustain. Warning: graphic video link
War is a horrific business as this linked video illustrates. It shows what Western arms and ordnance are helping to sustain. Warning: graphic video link
NYT admits that newsrooms have been forced to delete photos of Ukrainian soldiers who were proudly displaying their unit’s symbols because of a “complicated relationship with Nazi imagery”
The long-awaited Ukrainian Spring counteroffensive has begun but it appears to be have run into difficulty and suffered heavy casualties
On Saturday, President Zelensky told reporters that Ukraine was ready to launch its counteroffensive. However, he warned that it might come at a heavy cost. Does this action in the southern region of Donetsk mark the start of Ukraine’s long awaited Spring counteroffensive?
We didn’t write it but the headline here is completely misleading. According to Douglas Macgregor, around fifty thousand Ukrainian troops were killed fighting in Bakhmut and as many, if not more, were wounded. While thousands more Ukrainians are training in NATO countries to replace them in a renewed offensive, Ukraine cannot continue to sustain losses like this for much longer
Two former US Special Forces soldiers who have been training Ukrainian troops paint a grim picture of the state of the army there
We don’t know if the Ukraine-based Chilean-American commentator is still alive but nothing has been heard from him in weeks. This is especially troubling after he warned readers to assume the worst if they heard nothing more from him
Although it may not result in mutually assured nuclear destruction, we have to agree with Joachim Hagopian, who explains that all the signs point ominously to a major global conflict looming with Russia. And China, and Iran too
Moscow’s dilemma is how to show its Western aggressor that playing with fire means getting burned – without inciting a catastrophic Third World War.
Larry Johnson on why the wide variety of military aid and instruction from a variety of different quarters may mean that Ukraine’s counter-offensive is doomed before it even gets underway
The massive U.S. financial support together with the closure of Germany’s Russian consulates and former president Medvedev’s description of Britain as Moscow’s “eternal enemy”, all point to the escalation of the war in Ukraine into a much wider conflict with more combatants
Mercenary boss rails against Russia’s elite following drone attack on Moscow.