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Russian MP and deputy head of the Defense Committee of the Duma, Alexey Zhuravlev says what Russia is really after in any "peace deal": "We need Ukraine to be either pro-Russian or nonexistent."

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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 13 hours ago • 254 comments

Europe can fairly easily replace American military support for Ukraine, but it will require massive investments to replace U.S. in NATO. Interesting assessments from @kiel.institute. www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

submitted 17 hours ago • 47 comments

'🇷🇺 is not winning’: 🇺🇦 frontline soldiers say ‘weak’ 🇷🇺 should be negotiating with its back to the wall On the three year anniversary of 🇷🇺 full scale invasion of 🇺🇦 frontline soldiers tell World affairs editor Sam Kiley that it’s 🇷🇺 that should be suing for peace www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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❗️Trump's team asked Ukraine to withdraw a resolution condemning Putin for waging war. Kyiv was shocked: Zelensky refused, — Washington Post cites European diplomats.

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🚫🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky is not ready to accept a minerals deal with the US as Ukraine sees a "number of problematic issues" with the draft agreement, - Sky News "Today, the drafts do not reflect a partnership in the agreement and contain only unilateral commitments by Ukraine."

submitted 17 hours ago • 87 comments

Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian forces over 83 years to capture the remaining 80 percent of Ukraine, assuming that they can sustain massive personnel losses indefinitely. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

⚡️🇩🇪🇺🇸 German Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens the U.S. with a severing of ties over Trump’s remarks on Zelensky and Ukraine. "We will increase pressure on the Americans to make them realize they have a lot to lose if they stop supporting Europe's liberal democracies," Baerbock stated.

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🇩🇪🇺🇸 Baerbock: "We are increasing pressure on the Americans so that they lose as much as possible if they stop acting on the side of the liberal democracies of Europe." And she added that now a new "turning point" is needed for the sake of peace.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Russia's invasion is genocide. Its propagandists call to erase Ukraine, and its army follows through. By @ukraine_ua 🧵1/7👇

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

A reminder that the US spent USD 0.35 out of USD 100 on Ukraine, the most major war in Europe since WW2. It’s just above Bulgaria which couldn’t fit in the screenshot. Anyone pretending Ukraine had a toll on the US is lying at worst and uninformed at best. www.statista.com/statistics/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Per Trevor Reed: “Ukraine needs to: 1. Ignore the US completely and refuse all US/Russia negotiations 2. Push for Europe to release frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine 3. Make a deal with Europe for continued support 4. Get European troops on the Belarusian border to free up their forces”

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

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Hello Americans! Here is a tour-de-force example of how to speak about the current US. Learn and enjoy the oratory fireworks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

🤔 Witkoff: "It was a wonderful trip to Russia. I spent a lot of time talking with President Putin, developing a friendship and relationship with him. All of this led to American getting on the plane,”

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

New evidence has emerged from The Insider that Russia did indeed offer bounties to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan. A reminder that Trump downplayed and protected Russia in 2020 when the NYT broke the story

submitted 45 days ago • 141 comments

Despicable. Elon Musk has just suggested Zelenskyy is sending soldiers to die so he can make money. “What are they dying for? I’ll tell you what for. For the biggest graft machine I’ve seen in my life. Poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money.”

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like what the fuck are we doing here

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"Arms deliveries from the US to Ukraine have stalled. Even weapons meant for sale are now on hold. Companies ready to supply them tomorrow are waiting—no decision yet. Everyone expects a resolution so that arms can keep flowing, even for money," Head of Ukraine’s Defense Committee Roman Kostenko.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

❗️🇺🇸🙏 The US has stopped selling (!) weapons to Ukraine: even those companies that were supposed to transfer them to us tomorrow are waiting because there is no decision, — People's Deputy Roman Kostenko.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments