Russia launched missiles at a children’s hospital in Kyiv, in a barrage that killed at least 20 people in a number of cities.
Explosions rang out and black smoke could be seen rising from the centre of Kyiv, according to reports.
“Ukraine – Russia”
Trudeau to tell allies to stay resolute as Ukraine to at centre of NATO summit
WASHINGTON – Canada will be reassuring allies of its commitment to the western alliance as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Washington, D.C., this week to take part in the NATO leaders’ summit at a critical time for war-ravaged Ukraine.
Ukraine’s new F-16 fighter jets will be destroyed as soon as they arrive
In a brutal and terrifying three days, Russia has wreaked havoc on the tiny, battered Ukrainian air force – lofting drones to surveil the air force’s front-line airfields and then firing ballistic missiles to destroy hard-to-replace warplanes.
As the missile campaign continues and the toll mounts – four or five aircraft were destroyed in 72 hours – it’s increasingly clear just one thing can save what’s left of Ukrainian air power. More Western-made air defenses.
But they’d better come fast.
Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join Nato
Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky.
The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv before membership talks progress, a senior official in the US State Department said.
The position will be set out in writing in the Nato communique to be signed at the alliance’s annual summit on July 9.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy charting ‘comprehensive plan’ to end war with Russia
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s drawing up a “comprehensive plan” for how Kyiv believes the war with Russia should end.
“It is very important for us to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world,” the Ukrainian president said at a news conference in Kyiv alongside Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar on Friday.
“This is the diplomatic route we are working on.”
I wonder what debate result brought this on?
h/t Mauser
Donated Canadian-built armoured vehicles break down often, Ukrainian commander says
Ukrainian troops are learning that some of their Canadian-donated vehicles have limited usefulness close to the frontlines, a military official in the eastern part of that embattled country told CBC News.
In a recent interview near the embattled city of Kharkiv, Yuriy Fedorenko, commander of the Achilles drone unit in the Ukrainian 92nd Brigade, said the Roshel-manufactured Senator armoured cars in his unit have broken down frequently.
“It is not designed to drive off-road,” Fedorenko said, adding the vehicles seem better suited to law enforcement than combat.
Farage is telling uncomfortable truths on Ukraine
Nigel Farage has faced almost unanimous criticism for his assertion that, while Vladimir Putin carries prime responsibility for the war in Ukraine, the West’s provocative decision to enlarge Nato had made Russia ready for confrontation. But these criticisms are mostly outbursts of the “How can you parrot Putin?” variety rather than serious examinations of the evidence.
Obviously Farage is right to say that Putin is responsible for the indefensible invasion of Ukraine. But as to his more controversial point about Nato expansion, history – much of it recently researched – also backs his claim.
BillyHW come back, no one wants Ukraine to fall, but a dose of common sense is needed once in awhile.
Zelensky Removes a Top General Amid Criticism of Excessive Casualties
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine removed one of his top generals from his post on Monday amid public criticism that the commander’s decisions had led to excessive casualties.
The dismissal of the general, Yurii Sodol, as commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces, was a clear indication that the discord that had rankled the army since Mr. Zelensky replaced his commanding general, Valery Zaluzhny, with Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky in February, continued to threaten military cohesion.
Mr. Zelensky announced that he was replacing General Sodol with Brig. Gen. Andrii Hnatov.
Zelenskiy orders purge of state guard after assassination plots
June 24 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials.
The state security service (SBU) said last month that it had caught two guard service colonels accused of cooperating with Russia to plot the assassination of Zelenskiy and other officials, including military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov.
I do support Ukraine. However I suspect much is not being revealed.
Ukraine’s tech hub creates drones that kill as a ‘swarm’
In an office block with no door numbers or names, Serhii Krupiienko slams his green, “military-grade” laptop on to the floor to prove its resilience. He hands it to me: “Have a go!” he urges with a grin. “It’s really fun. Throw it!”
This 39-year-old father of three has reason to be cheerful. He believes his start-up military technology (mil-tech) company is on the verge of a breakthrough that could give Ukraine an edge in its David and Goliath-like war with Russia.
A year after mutiny, Kremlin controls Wagner remnants
Russia has effectively dismantled and replaced the Wagner Group in the year since the mercenaries shocked the world by launching a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC.
Yevgeny Prigozhin – the late leader of the paramilitary force – crossed from Ukraine on 23 June 2023 and seized the southern city of Rostov after months of increasing tensions with military leaders in Moscow.
‘War how it truly is’: Ukrainian director turns accidental footage into a film
In the new film by the Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, soldiers pinned down in a trench try to organise the evacuation of a group of fellow fighters who are stuck and wounded in a frontline position.
Sentsov, who spent several years as a political prisoner in Russia and is now fighting in the Ukrainian army, found the 90 minutes of shaky footage six months after the battle. He was going through old files on his GoPro camera and realised it had been switched on that day.
“I was about to delete everything when I found this and I realised I had a very interesting imprint of that battle and of war how it truly is – ugly, incomprehensible, twisted and stupid,” he said in an interview with the Guardian, conducted by video while he was on home leave.
The West provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, claims Farage
Reform leader says the ‘ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the EU’ gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war
The West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, Nigel Farage has said.
The Reform UK leader said that the “ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union” gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war.
The comments in a BBC Panorama interview with Nick Robinson echo arguments made by Donald Trump, the former US president and friend of Mr Farage.
Zelensky’s peace summit flop
Ukraine’s allies are running out of patience
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Global Peace Summit in Switzerland was meant to demonstrate the world’s support for Kyiv and underscore Russia’s isolation. It did the opposite. Russia wasn’t invited. China didn’t send a delegation. Other major countries that might influence the Kremlin – including Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the UAE – refused to sign the watered-down final communiqué.
According to a former senior member of Zelensky’s administration, Ukraine’s leader had ‘hoped the conference would mark a new benchmark of international support… [but] it just showed how badly we have lost the support in the Global South’. Take Brazil’s President, Lula da Silva. He was one of the first world leaders to condemn Russia’s invasion, yet in Switzerland he accused Vladimir Putin and Zelensky of ‘enjoying the war… otherwise they would have already sat and talked and tried to find a peaceful solution’. Only the US and the EU unequivocally supported Zelensky.
Jesse Kline: Thanks to Trudeau, Hamas is winning the propaganda war
The two major international conflicts currently roiling the world, in Ukraine and Israel, should be fairly morally unambiguous, but a new poll shows a stark contrast in how Canadians view them.
Although there are clear differences between Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, both were unprovoked acts of aggression against western-aligned states orchestrated by dictatorships intent on upending the liberal postwar international order. Both Kyiv and Jerusalem have been forced to fight existential wars they did not ask for, against enemies with military ambitions that go far beyond the current conflicts.
Support for Israel is very different from what I have observed in the past, far less grassroots.
Social media has seen a concerted elite lead effort where besides the official organizations a mix of academics, journalists, MP’s and other prominent individuals work to win hearts and minds.
Some of these grandees are base hypocrites who made themselves busy in the past calling myself and my late wife “right wing Islamophobes”. Be assured their Oct 7th conversions will be quickly reversed once the wind changes direction.
Their messaging has been off as well. I have seen some tweets that are real clangers suggesting that Hamas supporters are an affront to multiculturalism when it was multiculty that enabled the Islamists to begin with.
There has been a push by some to denounce DEI not realizing that Jewish organizations such as the ADL continue to seek the blessing of official victim hood status from the DEI cabal.
Others seem to believe DEI was created solely to target Jews forgetting that Whites have been the primary target for years.
What is off-putting is their efforts to secure victim status if successful would leave Whites as the sole official DEI villain.
That’s a bad look for people seeking our assistance.
Make no mistake that Trudeau’s desperate whoring for the Muslim vote has poisoned the land and we will all pay for that for many years to come until Islamist immigration is halted.
Our elites must hate us. Why else would they have imported incompatible 3rd world cultures that have no regard for Western civilization in general let alone Israel.