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27.07.25 - 22:42
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EU Slashes $1.7BN In Aid To Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns: ′Exasperation From Biggest Donors′ (ZeroHedge)
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EU Slashes $1.7BN In Aid To Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns: 'Exasperation From Biggest Donors'
Have we reached the beginning of the end for Zelensky? Does this spell game-over and victory for Putin and Russia? The following is a very rare admission from the hard news pages of The New York Times:
James Wasserstrom, an American anticorruption expert, said in an interview that “the luster is definitely coming off” Mr. Zelensky's wartime leadership among governments providing financial assistance. He added, “There is exasperation at Zelensky in the donor community.”
Early last week, there were unexpected images coming from Kiev of the largest demonstrations against the Ukrainian government since Russia invaded more than three years ago, as more than 2,000 people gathered near the president's office, shouting "shame" and "veto the law," after President Zelensky signed a law gutting the country's anti-corruption agency.
AFP/Getty Images
This was enough to get t...
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14.06.25 - 14:06
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Russia Takes Three More Ukraine Villages, With World Focused On Iran War (ZeroHedge)
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Russia Takes Three More Ukraine Villages, With World Focused On Iran War
As all eyes are on the emerging Israel-Iran aerial war, and as ballistic missiles fly over Middle East skies, Russian forces have made more gains in Eastern Ukraine.
"Russian forces took control of three new Ukrainian villages — Yablonovka in the northeastern Sumy region, and Koptevo and Komar in the eastern Donetsk region," the Russian Defense Ministry indicated Friday.
Via Forbes
"The state TASS news agency cited the ministry as saying that Russian troops had captured six Ukrainian villages over the past week," Reuters also notes.
This also comes after earlier this month Russian forces expanded ground operations into a more central oblast, in an escalation and expanded offensive:
Russian forces have secured a small foothold in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time since the early weeks of the full-scale war in 2022, The New York Times reported Friday.
Small groups of Russian soldier...
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31.05.25 - 20:30
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US Is ′Major′ Cause Of Ukraine War: Beijing Goes On Attack As Hegseth Tells Asia Allies China Threat Is ′Imminent′ (ZeroHedge)
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US Is 'Major' Cause Of Ukraine War: Beijing Goes On Attack As Hegseth Tells Asia Allies China Threat Is 'Imminent'
China is pushing back hard against new Western criticisms of its foreign policy, as French President Emmanuel Macron and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on the attack, hurling sharp criticisms at Beijing during the ongoing Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, which noticeably China's Defense Minister Dong Jun chose to skip.
A fresh, strident Chinese denunciation was formulated at the United Nations in New York. Beijing typically is very careful with its Ukraine war statements, seeking to present itself as an outside, neutral and objective mediator, urging peace. But now Chinese officials are blistering angry over the ramped-up anti-China messaging coming from Washington and Europe. The rhetoric is clearly getting less restrained on all sides, as increasingly hot spots in Eastern Europe get closely linked to Asian flashpoints.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegset...
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30.05.25 - 21:00
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Ukraine′s New Ceasefire Plan Calls For International Monitoring Of ′Land, Air & Sea′ Truce (ZeroHedge)
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Ukraine's New Ceasefire Plan Calls For International Monitoring Of 'Land, Air & Sea' Truce
The Kremlin on Friday revealed that Russia's negotiating team for the next round of direct peace talks with Ukraine, scheduled for Monday in Istanbul, will remain unchanged, with Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky again leading the delegation. During the first talks, Russia's team was met with widespread skepticism - given how 'low level' it was, and it didn't so much as include Foreign Minister and veteran diplomat Sergei Lavrov.
Currently, the Zelensky government is threatening to boycott the Monday meeting, given that Moscow has reportedly yet to hand over a draft outline of its peace terms.
Round one talks earlier this month, via Sputnik
On the other side, The New York Times says of a memorandum that Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umierov handed over to Russia contains provisions for an expansive ceasefire.
It's said to include a pause in fighting for land, air and sea...
Mr. Kellogg said Uk...
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29.05.25 - 16:54
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WDH/Selenskyj: Habe mit Merz über Taurus gesprochen (DPA-AFX)
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(Quelle im 1. Absatz korrigiert: Die Zitate stammen aus einem am Mittwochabend ausgestrahlten Selenskyj-Interview von "RTL Direkt". Außerdem wurde der Wortlaut des direkten Zitats nach Überprüfung des Originalzitats angepasst.)KIEW (dpa-AFX) ......
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15.05.25 - 08:54
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Yemen Taught Trump Some Lessons That He′d Do Well To Apply Towards Ukraine (ZeroHedge)
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Yemen Taught Trump Some Lessons That He'd Do Well To Apply Towards Ukraine
Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,
The lessons from Trump's Yemeni debacle could inform his future decisions on Ukraine...
Five New York Times (NYT) journalists collaborated to produce a detailed report earlier this week about “Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia”. It's worth reading in full if time permits, but the present piece will summarize and analyze its findings. To begin with, CENTCOM chief General Michael Kurilla proposed an eight- to -10-month campaign for degrading the Houthis' air defenses before carrying out Israeli-like targeted assassinations, but Trump decided on 30 days instead. That's important.
The US' top regional military official already knew how numerous the Houthis' air defenses were and how long it would take to seriously damage them, which shows that the Pentagon already considered Houthi-controlled North Yemen to be a regional power, while Trump wanted...
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30.03.25 - 23:45
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Key Takeaways From NYT′s Secret History Detailing US ′Shocking′ Involvement In Ukraine War (ZeroHedge)
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Key Takeaways From NYT's Secret History Detailing US 'Shocking' Involvement In Ukraine War
It is years too late and alternative and independent media had already done so much work on exposing the reality, including 600+ page books which have been published, but the New York Times on Sunday is out with a lengthy report on The Partnership: The Secret History of America's Role in the Ukraine War.
Up until very recently, mainstream media gatekeepers wouldn't so much as admit that a proxy war has been unfolding from the very start of the conflict in Ukraine. This even after the so-called paper of record had earlier in Feb. 2024 acknowledged that the CIA had built 12 "secret spy bases" in Ukraine to wage a shadow war against Russia going back to 2014.
Again, it comes much too belatedly, but now with Ukrainian forces clearly losing the fight, the Times admits that the prior Biden administration was far more involved in being embedded on a military and intelligence level with...
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17.02.25 - 11:06
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Trump Admin Pursuing ′Grand Bargain′ With Belarus In Tandem With Ukraine Peace Efforts (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Admin Pursuing 'Grand Bargain' With Belarus In Tandem With Ukraine Peace Efforts
In an unexpected behind-the-scenes move, a US senior diplomat has held a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the New York Times reported on Saturday, describing it as very "below the radar" and as part of longshot efforts at wooing Belarus away from Moscow.
The meeting happened Wednesday, involving Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Christopher W. Smith meeting with President Lukashenko in the capital of Minsk, to jump-start potential improved bilateral relations, also in context of the Trump administration trying to rapidly pursue a Ukraine peace deal with President Putin.
Sputnik via Reuters
It was the first such meeting with a top State Department official traveling to Minsk in a half-decade, the newspaper noted.
Smith has described efforts to strike a "grand bargain" in hopes of gaining the return of an imprisoned American citizen, and it has apparently begun ...
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