Ukraine

Russian General Igor Kirillov Killed In Moscow; What We Know So Far

December 18, 2024 Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera. Educate! Assassination, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Igor Kirillov, a senior general in charge of Russia’s nuclear defence forces, was killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast in Moscow. A source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), talking to Al Jazeera, has claimed responsibility for the bombing. During the early hours of Tuesday, Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement. The attack site was 7km (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin. The explosive device “had a capacity of some 300 grams in TNT equivalent”, Russia’s TASS news agency reported, quoting a law enforcement official. Russian media reported that the bomb was remotely operated.

Scott Ritter Lobbies At The Capitol To Avert Nuclear War

December 8, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Resist! NATO, Nuclear War, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, WWIII

Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine counterintelligence officer and chief U.N. weapons inspector joined forces with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to lobby members of the U.S. Hose of Representatives to urgently act to head off what could be impending nuclear war with Russia. Ritter laid out the immediate peril the world faces, which is being dangerously ignored by most of the U.S. government and establishment media. That’s because U.S. intelligence services have foolishly concluded that Russia is bluffing, Ritter argued.

There’s No Upside To Trump

December 4, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! climate crisis, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nuclear War, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

“Trump could surprise on the upside,” writes Edward Luce, who claims to know “what Trump most cares about.” Lacking intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the president-elect’s personal thoughts, us non-pundits are relegated to looking at other indicators. We can try to decipher Trump’s abysmal cabinet picks. “If Trump has nominated second-tier establishment types for powerful positions that is partly because so many of the more accomplished practitioners have migrated to the Democrats,” according to a London Review of Books commentator.

Ukraine’s ‘White Wolves’ Fighting Alongside Extremists In Syria

December 3, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Report, Syria, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Ukraine’s White Wolves special operations unit is deployed in northern Syria alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) militants who are waging an assault against the Syrian government in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, according to multiple sources cited by Al Mayadeen on 3 December. There is “direct Ukrainian involvement … in ongoing battles against the Syrian army across the fronts of Aleppo, Hama, and Idlib,” Al Mayadeen’s sources said. “The Ukrainian units operating in Syria are part of the White Wolf group, which is affiliated with Ukraine's Security Service.” The White Wolves unit is known for its expertise in the development and use of drones.

Zelensky Is Willing To Cede Territory In Exchange For NATO Protection

December 2, 2024 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wars and Militarism

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was willing to temporarily cede territory to Russia to bring an end to the war in exchange for NATO protection over Ukraine. “If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky told Sky News. “That’s what we need to do fast, and then Ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically.” Zelensky’s suggestion is almost certainly a non-starter for Russia since the invasion was launched to keep Ukraine out of NATO, but it does reflect a shift in his position.

To The Last Ukrainian

November 29, 2024 Moon Of Alabama. Educate! Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The U.S. is willing to (proxy-)fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. White House presses Ukraine to lower draft age to meet manpower needs against Russia WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18. A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18 from the current age of 25 to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia. The official said “the pure math” of Ukraine's situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight.

A History Of Humiliation

November 28, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Cold War, History, NATO, Nuclear War, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The humiliation of Russia began with the end of the Cold War that Kennedy had sought, but not on the terms he envisioned. Despite George H.W. Bush’s vow not to engage in triumphalism, that was in full swing once Clinton took power. Wall Street and U.S. corporate carpetbaggers swept into the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, eyed its enormous natural resources, asset-stripped the formerly state-owned industries, enriched themselves, gave rise to oligarchs and impoverished the Russian, Ukrainian and other former Soviet peoples. The humiliation intensified with the decision in the nineties to expand NATO eastward despite a promise made to the last Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in exchange for reunifying Germany.

Ukraine’s Leaders Discuss Continued War Against Russia

November 27, 2024 Dmitri Kovalevich, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! British imperialism, Donald Trump, Neocolonialism, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Volodymyr Zelensky

After Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5, the Ukrainian authorities and media are visibly concerned about a possible change of policy in Washington. During the recent presidential and Congress elections, US media close to the Democratic Party were full of scare stories that Trump and the Republican Party, if elected, would force Ukraine into negotiations and concessions with the Russian Federation. The unelected, governing regime in Kiev is entirely dependent on Western powers for arms to pursue the war against Russia and for loans and investments to keep its economy afloat.

Escalation Of Wars In Ukraine And The Mideast

November 25, 2024 Consortium News. Resistance Report Gaza, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism

Two wars, dragging humanity into despair and existential peril, have in the past week sunk to levels difficult to comprehend. The danger of a nuclear confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine has been theoretically with us for nearly three years, but last week it took on terrifyingly concrete form. And in the metastasizing wars in the Middle East, which carry their own more distant atomic threat, the genocidal rage of an unbalanced Israel spread deeper into Lebanon, while all-out war with Iran simmers; the ethnic cleansing of at least the North of Gaza is no longer denied in the Israeli press, and much of the world’s patience with the Zionist state ran out as its prime minister was indicted by an international criminal court never intended to pursue Western and allied leaders.

Why These New Russian Missiles Are Real Game Changers

November 23, 2024 Moon Of Alabama. Educate! Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism, weapons

In response to a U.S. decision to arrange for ballistic missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia, the great magician and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin pull a rabbit from his hat. Yesterday the six independent war heads of a new intermediate range ballistic missile hit the Yuzhmash missile plant in Dnipro Ukraine. Until now the new missile and its mission profile had been unknown. It is the clear counter to decade long efforts of the U.S. to gain supremacy, especially in Europe, over Russia. Missiles can be classified by the range they are able to achieve

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas

November 22, 2024 Pepe Escobar, The Cradle. Educate! Brazil, China, G20, G7, Global South, India, Indonesia, Poverty, South Africa, Ukraine

The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. There was plenty of fluff to amuse attentive audiences. French President Emmanuel Macron surrounded by a beefy security detail strolling on Copacabana beach near midnight; European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen barefoot in the sand, stunned by the lapping waves; the White House lodger, US President Joe Biden – with his expiry date in less than two months – missing the G20 family pic because he was talking to a palm tree.

Ukraine Fires British Storm Shadow Missiles Into Russia

November 21, 2024 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! Anti-personnel Mines, Long Range Missiles, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom (UK), Weapons treaties

Ukraine fired at least 10 British-provided Storm Shadow missiles into Russia’s Kursk Oblast, The Wall Street Journal and several other media outlets reported on Wednesday. Ukraine has used the Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of up to 155 miles, in strikes on Crimea, but Wednesday’s attack, which targeted the Kursk Oblast, marks the first time Ukrainian forces fired them into the Russian mainland, another major escalation of the proxy war. So far, Russia hasn’t confirmed the use of Storm Shadows. The US and the UK reportedly authorized Ukraine’s use of the Storm Shadows in strikes on Russian territory after President Biden gave the green light for Ukraine to use the ATACMS.

The New York Times Attacks Tulsi Gabbard For The Wrong Reasons

November 21, 2024 Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. Educate! Donald Trump, New York Times (NYT), Russia, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

According to a recent Harris poll, 70% of people in the U.S. want talks to end the war in Ukraine. The New York Times is not listening, however, nor is the Biden administration. President Biden’s unilateral decision this week to green-light attacking Russia with U.S. long range missiles has been condemned by U.S. peace groups. “In approving these strikes, the Biden White House chose to make the US a direct party to the Ukraine-Russia war, crossing a previous red line and causing Russia to lower the threshold on the use of nuclear weapons…. A lame duck president, Biden opts for last minute escalation to make it even more difficult for the incoming administration to broker a peaceful settlement,” wrote Code Pink, World Beyond War, Veterans For Peace, the Peace In Ukraine Coalition and the End Wars Working Group of Progressive Democrats of America.

Kremlin Reiterates Putin’s View On US-Supported Long-Range Strikes

November 19, 2024 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com Educate! Joe Biden, Long Range Missiles, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Vladimir Putin, Wars and Militarism

In response to reports of President Biden authorizing long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russia with US missiles, the Kremlin pointed to a warning previously made by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In September, Putin was asked about the possibility of NATO supporting long-range strikes on Russian territory and said it would mean the US and European NATO countries were “at war with Russia.” He added that if that’s “the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.”

Leaks Expose Secret British Military Cell Plotting To ‘Keep Ukraine Fighting’

November 19, 2024 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. Educate! Britain, information warfare, Leaks, MI6, Operation Gladio, Press Freedom, Proxy War, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.” Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans “to keep Ukraine fighting” by imposing “strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia.”

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