In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here are the biggest lies: 1. “Ukraine is a democracy”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky banned all opposition parties and banned the use of Russian as a second state language. Why did he violate his 2019 campaign promise to stop the genocidal killing of...
Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime The Azov Steel factory was an important propaganda tool of the Western media since the Azov Battalion occupied the factory in March this year. In the official narrative, there were “good fellows” inside the factory, defending Mariupol and...
“Putin only understands the language of strength” has become the unanimous position among elite decision-makers within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Germany, as a last holdout, has now embraced the arming of Ukraine in furtherance of what the U.S. State Department is calling an effort “in support of...
February 24 marked the second anniversary of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. With tens of thousands dead and more wounded on both sides and no end in sight to the conflict, it’s important to remember that the history of this conflict did not begin on February 24, 2022, nor on February 22, 2014, when the Russian military took control of the Crimean Peninsula...
Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook with the headline “Russian and North Korean Troops Shrink Ukraine’s Gains in Kursk.” The title made it seem like North Korea was fighting on the front-lines...
According to Plumlee, the operation to recruit mercenaries to fight the Russians in Ukraine is similar to an old 1983-86 Iran-Contra project run by Ollie North. Willy Joseph Cancel, a native of Orange County, New York, became the first U.S. casualty of the Ukraine War last week. The U.S. Marine veteran was...
Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes. In return,...
Says Ukrainian Army Has Committed War Crimes and That “We’re the Bad Guys in Mariupol” Aiden Aislin, a captured British mercenary currently being held in Russian captivity, is filled with regrets for his participation in a deadly war. Aislin, a 28-year-old from Nottingham who first came to Ukraine in 2018 and...
As the war in Ukraine rages on, I visited the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as an embedded reporter with the Russian army. Both of the republics are the trigger of the current conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared their independence on February 24, 2022, something a lot of people were...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Ukrainian government to compensate the victims of a May 2014 arson attack on the Trade Unions Building in Odessa. The attack was carried out by fascist thugs who were empowered in the U.S.-NATO-backed Maidan coup in Ukraine. Some 42 people were...