On the evening before Russian forces crossed the border into Ukraine, Igor Volzhanin met up with a friend at a coffee shop at the centre of Kyiv. “We stayed there until about midnight just talking,” the Canadian recalled in an interview from Ukraine. “Just talking about how, you know, jokingly, what would we do if…
LIVE UPDATES: Russia Strikes Armoured Vehicle Plant, Military Repair Facility in Ukraine: Interfax
The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, April 16. Click here for updates from April 15. Russia Strikes Armoured Vehicle Plant, Military Repair Facility in Ukraine: Interfax Russia destroyed production buildings of an armoured vehicle plant in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and a military repair facility in the city of Mykolaiv, the Interfax news agency…
LIVE UPDATES: Russia Bars UK Prime Minister Over Sanctions
The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, April 16. Click here for updates from April 15. Russia Bars UK Prime Minister Over Sanctions Russia has barred the UK prime minister and a dozen other top British officials from entering the country in response to British sanctions imposed on Russia over its military operation in Ukraine. Russia’s…
LIVE UPDATES: Russia Hits Kyiv, Lviv; Presses Offensive in Mariupol
The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, April 16. Click here for updates from April 15. Russia Bars UK Prime Minister Over Sanctions Russia has barred the UK prime minister and a dozen other top British officials from entering the country in response to British sanctions imposed on Russia over its military operation in Ukraine. Russia’s…
LIVE UPDATES: US Says ‘Nothing Will Dissuade’ It From Arming Ukraine
The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, April 16. Click here for updates from April 15. US Says ‘Nothing Will Dissuade’ It From Arming Ukraine The United States will continue to pour weapons into Ukraine, despite Russia reportedly warning of “consequences,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told CNN on Friday. Price told CNN that “nothing will…
Wife of Putin Ally Held in Ukraine Accuses Kyiv Authorities of Beating Her Husband
April 15, 2022
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The wife of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top allies in Ukraine said on Friday that he has been beaten by the Ukrainian security service while being interrogated in detention. At a news conference in Moscow, Viktor Medvedchuk’s wife Oksana Marchenko said that one of two photos released by Ukraine this week showed he…
Loose Nuke Talk
Commentary Americans, like the planet’s other 7.5 billion people, are not prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Of course, some of us are old enough to remember how “mutually assured destruction,” or MAD, was supposed to ensure the general peace. Some recall the eerie Cold War-era nuclear bomb movies like “Dr. Strangelove”…
Boris Johnson Walking in Kyiv, Joe Biden Bicycling in Delaware
Commentary When Callista showed me the more than 2-minute video of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walking around Kyiv, I immediately thought of another recent video of President Joe Biden bicycling around New Castle, Delaware (which he does nearly every weekend). I was struck by the difference in seriousness, competence,…
Ukraine Needs Offensive Weapons—and Needs Them Now
Commentary My column last week ended with this paragraph: “A half-dozen NATO nations are sending Ukraine several hundred tanks, most Cold War Russian relics but serviceable. New air defense systems will arrive, perhaps MiG-29s? End result: Ukraine will have an offensive capacity.” Boiled down to the weakness it is, the Biden administration continues to deny…
Russia Pledges More Missile Strikes on Kyiv; ISIS ‘Beatle’ Convicted in Hostage Scheme | NTD News Today
Ukraine is accusing Russia of thousands of war crimes and crimes of aggression, and an international prosecutor calls Ukraine a crime scene. An ISIS terrorist has been convicted in connection with a brutal hostage scheme. It resulted in the death of Americans. The jury found that he was one of the so-called “Beatles”. That’s a…
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