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Category: 6. Opinion
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FT: Witkoff cancels Moscow trip as Kremlin snubs 22-point US-Ukraine-European-backed ceasefire plan
Russian officials told US special envoy Steve Witkoff on 8 May that President Vladimir Putin would not discuss a 22-point peace plan drawn up with Ukrainian and European input, according to Financial Times, citing three people briefed on the discussions. The message was delivered after a Russian…
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Ex-ambassador Brink says she quit over Trump’s Ukraine policy, calls it dangerous appeasement
Bridget Brink, who served as US Ambassador to Ukraine until April, said she resigned over US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, which she claimed pressured Ukraine instead of confronting Russia.
After current US President Donald Trump took office in January, the US reversed its Ukraine…Continue Reading
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Australia condemns 13-year Russian sentence for Oscar Jenkins in occupied Luhansk after fighting for Ukraine
Australian national Oscar Jenkins has been sentenced to 13 years in a Russian maximum-security penal colony after being convicted of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. The sentencing was handed down on 16 May 2025 by a court in Russian-occupied Luhansk. Jenkins, 33, was captured in December…
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Putin won’t accept peace unless Russian empire is restored, says US ex-defense secretary Gates
Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to accept any peace deal in Ukraine unless he achieves his long-standing goal of rebuilding the Russian empire.
This comes as US President Donald…Continue Reading
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Watch: Ukraine turns Russian Buk SAM system into fireworks in perfect strike
On 16 May, Ukraine’s Operative-Strategic Grouping of Forces Khortytsia reported the destruction of a Russian Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system in Ukraine’s eastern sector. According to the report, the strike was coordinated by artillery scouts from the Chornyi Lis (“Black Forest”)…
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Russian drone blows up civilian shuttle bus, leaving nine dead in Sumy border town
Nine civilians were killed and seven injured in the early hours of 17 May when a Russian Lancet drone struck a civilian shuttle bus near the town of Bilopillia in Sumy Oblast. The Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported the deliberate strike on the bus, which was carrying local residents…
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Russian troops are hiding from Ukraine’s deadly night-vision drones—but not well enough
More of Ukraine’s first-person-view drones see at night, thanks to tiny infrared sensors that see in the infrared part of the spectrum—and can detect the heat generated by a human body.
There’s a simple method to hide from these exploding night-vision drones, however. Thermal blankets,…
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The sinlge drone target that could cripple Russia’s oil empire
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1177: Russia, Ukraine agree to 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner swap in Istanbul talks—but no ceasefire
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Raw power is back—if you want peace, prepare for war. A national director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Greg Mills, believes no permanent peace possible while Putin remains in power. 
How Ukraine can win, p.1. Swarms of cheap drones decimate… Continue Reading