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Today could be a milestone day as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost three major strongholds in the Donbass region and all indications are that the area is beginning to be completely handed over to the Russian Army. See below in the maps how the situation in the region is developing, which is now very critical and irreversible for the Ukrainian Army. The Ukrainians lost 3 cities Russian forces occupy the city of Chuhuiv near Kharkov, the Americans have confirmed that the Ukrainians have lost the city of Izuym, something that has been revealed by WarNews247 for days. Finally, the Ukrainian...

They are a distinct minority in their own party and, for that matter, their country: Republican holdouts amid an ever-widening consensus that Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine poses a mortal threat to American interests.A far right wing of the Republican Party tightly bound to former President Donald Trump is fighting to push the GOP toward the “America First” isolationism that underpinned his 2016 presidential bid.For the first time since Trump’s rise, his party is pushing back.That much was clear from the House vote Thursday on a bill ending normal trade relations with Russia as punishment for attacking Ukraine. A total...

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Romanchenko's death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute in a series of tweets. Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, the memorial said, adding that it was "stunned" by news of his death.

A few hours after sharply criticizing the government's policy in a speech to MKs Zelensky, he said that there could be talks between Russia and Ukraine in Israel. "We are grateful for the mediation efforts. Jerusalem? The right place to make peace," he said in a speech posted on the Telegram. At the same time, in Kiev rejected the Russian ultimatum to surrender to Mariupol: "We will not lay down our arms." Killed in a shelling of a shopping center and houses in the Ukrainian capital. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said tonight (Sunday to Monday), hours after his critical speech...

Following the ‘democracy must be destroyed in order to preserve it model‘, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dissolved all political opposition parties and consolidated all media. There’s a word to describe when a single national leader takes control over all media platforms and dissolves the political parties of his opposition. However, apparently, we are not allowed to notice that because Russia “invaded a sovereign democracy” or something. LVIV, Ukraine, March 20 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a decree that combines all national TV channels into one platform, citing the importance of a “unified information policy” under martial...

'Depressed' Vladimir Putin is 'set to hold a nuclear evacuation drill' with the Kremlin's doomsday plane after moving his family to a 'secret underground city' in Siberia, 'insider' account claims Questions have been raised over health and mental state of Russia's president Fears of nuclear conflict increased when he threatened NATO with 'consequences' if it intervened in the war, and put his nuclear forces on standby Now, a source has claimed he has told his close allies to prepare for nuclear drills An element of Russian plans for a nuclear war are a fleet of 'flying Kremlins' The doomsday planes...

There are new reports about U.S. special forces operators who are doing “operational prep of the battlefield” in Ukraine.Seth Harp, an investigative reporter and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, revealed the JSOC operations on Sunday. “US special operators are currently on the ground in Ukraine doing ‘operational prep of the battlefield,’ according to a well informed source,” Harp reported citing a ‘well informed’ source. “The military unit is JSOC’s Advance Force Operations, including members of Delta Force and SEAL Team 6.” The developments are concerning to Americans who want to avoid entanglement in a foreign war, but Harp cautioned readers...

Ukraine rejects Russia’s demand to surrender the besieged city of Mariupol. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, tells Russia that Ukraine will not surrender the city. “There can be no talk about surrender and laying down weapons,” she says. “We have already informed the Russian side about this,” she says.

The corpses of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine are being moved from Belarus back to Russia by train and planes in the dead of night to avoid attracting attention, it has emerged. Video posted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows military ambulances driving through the Belarusian city of Homel in early March, with employees at the region’s clinical hospital claiming more than 2,500 bodies have already been shipped back to Russia as of March 13. -snip- Now Belarusian medical staff in Homel, in southeastern Belarus, have described ‘overflowing’ morgues, with one resident of the city Mazyr claiming: ‘Passengers at the...

One of Russia's top paratroop commanders has been killed in Ukraine in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin's debilitating war effort. The death of Col Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, was confirmed by state TV in Moscow. Earlier his 'liquidation' had been claimed by Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security. 'Commander of the Kostroma Airborne Regiment, Colonel Sergei Sukharev… got lost in the "[military] exercises", but returned home the right way,' said the Ukrainian statement. His deputy Major Sergei Krylov was killed alongside him, said the report. They were among a number...

While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become famous for his khaki green T-shirt, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin chose a £10,000 Loro Piana jacket for his appearance at a stadium rally last week. With Russia feeling the impact of sanctions, it is unclear which of Putin's aides thought it wise for him to don a coat costing 25 times the nation's average monthly wage. Putin, who teamed the puffer jacket with a £2,400 roll-neck sweater by Italian brand Kiton, told 200,000 people inside Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium that his invasion of Ukraine was to defend the 'universal values' of all Russians....

-Putin wore the luxury jacket worth 1.5million Russian roubles for Moscow rally -Western companies have closed their shops in Russia amid global sanctions -The jacket costs more than double the average Russian's annual salary Vladimir Putin raged against the West and boasted he was fighting for the 'universal values' of all Russians today while wearing a £10,000 designer jacket as his citizens face a return to Soviet-era poverty…. The leader gave a rousing speech to tens of thousands of supports in Moscow's Luzhniki World Cup stadium where he lauded the success of his 'special military operation' that has seen hospitals,...