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Orthodox Christmas ‘truce’ won’t save putin’s face

Orthodox Christmas ‘truce’ won’t save putin’s face

After a conversation with the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who advised putin to confirm good will through actions and to unilaterally cease fire, putin… initiated a “truce”, but only on Christmas according to the Julian calendar. As became know, vladimir putin instructed russia’s minister of defence Shoigu to introduce a “ceasefire regime” along the entire line of combat […]

Never go to war with Ukraine

Never go to war with Ukraine

Never fight with Ukraine! We are a country with an impeccable military strategy, flexible tactics and an invincible army. We are just very modest, we do not need to be proud of future victories, we know everything about ourselves and look at our neighbors rattling weapons and always defeating someone there as underdeveloped. We remember about 4! Ukrainian fronts. We […]

Russia – Ukraine war: How the Normandy format turned into the Budapest one

Russia – Ukraine war: How the Normandy format turned into the Budapest one

The visits to Моscow by British Foreign and Defense Ministers Liz Truss and Ben Wallace on February 10 and 11, as well as telephone conversations between Anthony Blinken and Joseph Biden with the Kremlin on February 12, convincingly show that the Normandy format is already being replaced by the Budapest one. Great Britain and the United States, as countries guarantors of the sovereignty […]

Ukrainian aviation. Glorious past, indeterminate present, and questionable future

Ukrainian aviation. Glorious past, indeterminate present, and questionable future

Will the once record-beating Ukrainian aviation ever revive? For years, the Ukrainian state museum of aviation hasn’t left the list of the best aviation museums in the world. Just recently, in the year of 2018, CNN has included it in the TOP 20 aviation museums list. Since the year of 2003, with the support of the National Aviation University (NAU), […]

Zelensky did not dare to start a war with Kolomoysky and Avakov for so long that they started it first

Zelensky did not dare to start a war with Kolomoysky and Avakov for so long that they started it first

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not dare to start a war with Kolomoysky and Avakov for so long that they started it first.

Highest court backs Czech hotelier’s response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea

Highest court backs Czech hotelier’s response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea

The hotel owner who introduced the rule shortly after the annexation of Crimea five years ago went through a series of court trials to finally get the decision by the highest court issued in his support. “Crimea is Ukraine” is a mandatory statement for Russian guests wishing to stay at the Brioni Boutique Hotel in the Czech Ostrava. The hotel […]

How Russia continues its military buildup in occupied Crimea

How Russia continues its military buildup in occupied Crimea

Konstantin Mashovets on the coastal defense in the occupied Crimea and gives a detailed analysis of land component of the Russian forces The key defense element of the Russian forces in Crimea is the 22nd Army Corps – a unit of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy. The corps and its headquarters are located and managed in the city […]

The defence of Europe: Appeasement and the gathering storm

The defence of Europe: Appeasement and the gathering storm

There are times when some men are cast in the role of Cassandra, the ancient Prophetess of Apollo in Troy who’s curse was that none would believe her. In 1930s Britain one such notable ‘Cassandra’ (among many) was Winston Churchill who’s continual warnings regarding the brutality and aggressive nature and the build up of military power of the Hitlerite regime – […]

BREAKING: Minsk agreement is FAKE, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine says

BREAKING: Minsk agreement is FAKE, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine says

Victor Shishkin, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, states that from the legal perspective Minsk agreements fake and wonder why foreigners talk about Minsk Agreements as an international agreement.

Russia’s maneuvering in the absence of strategy: Causes and consequences

Russia’s maneuvering in the absence of strategy: Causes and consequences

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Analysis on causes and consequences of Russian current maneuvering, drafted by Valeriy Pekar, founder of Ukrainian civic organization Nova Kraina.

National Myths: Stealing Truth and Distorting History in War

National Myths: Stealing Truth and Distorting History in War

It is an interesting and much under researched fact that all nations have 'national myths'. In times of war these become particularly important: they become almost 'rocks of unity' around which all set aside previous disputes and make them a single people determined to resist.

The Germans are only now learning about Ukraine’s role in the victory over Nazism

The Germans are only now learning about Ukraine’s role in the victory over Nazism

After the collapse of the USSR Russia held a monopoly over the right to be called the victor over Nazism. Now is the time to tell the world the truth. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.

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