Author: Dal Stanton
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9/18/2024 — Putin is becoming entangled in his own discredited red lines
From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson Vladimir Putin attempted to draw yet another of his famous red lines on September 12, warning Western leaders that any decision to let Ukraine use long-range missiles on Russian territory would put NATO “at war” with Russia. “This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries, are at war with…
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9/18/2024 — Countering Russia’s campaign to erase Ukrainian cultural identity
From: Atlantic Council By Mercedes Sapuppo Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has included a wide range of attacks on Ukrainian heritage sites as the Kremlin seeks to erase Ukraine’s cultural identity. By September 2024, UNESCO had officially verified damage to 438 cultural sites in Ukraine including religious buildings, museums, libraries, and monuments. Writing earlier this year, Ukraine’s Prosecutor…
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9/18/2024 — Time to make Russia worry about the West’s red lines in Ukraine
From: Atlantic Council By Mykola Bielieskov Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine first began more than two and a half years ago, talk of Russian red lines has been a major feature of the international debate surrounding the war. Throughout this period, the Kremlin has relentlessly exploited this preoccupation with Russian red lines to fuel Western…
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9/18/2024 — Interview: Former British Air Commander Says Ukraine Must ‘Inflict Maximum Pain’ On Russia
From: Voice of America/Radio Liberty By Vazha Tavberidze Sean Bell served as a combat pilot and air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force and held several other positions in the British Defense Ministry. He is now a military analyst for Sky News. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service, Bell said Ukraine was “finding ways…
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9/18/2024 — Don’t forget about air defenses, Ukrainian activists warn
From: Politico By ERIC BAZAIL-EIMIL and ROBBIE GRAMER Top Ukrainian activists are begging the West not to let Ukraine’s urgent need for more air defense systems get lost in the conversation, as Washington, London and other key allies of Kyiv debate whether to lift restrictions on the use of Western missiles to strike targets inside Russia. In an…
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9/18/2024 — Russian Black Sea Fleet Flees Reserve Base Amid ATACMS Threat: Report
From: Newsweek By Isabel van Brugen Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is reported to have evacuated from a key naval base in the country’s port of Novorossiysk, days after Ukrainian drones targeted the city, and as Kyiv appears to be closing in on receiving permission from the U.S. and the U.K. to strike territory deep inside Russia…
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9/18/2924 — Russia Loots and Appropriates Ukrainian Heritage (video)
From: United 24 — Since February 24, 2022, Russian forces have damaged, destroyed, or looted over 1,140 cultural and historical sites according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office. They’ve repeatedly seized Ukraine’s heritage, aiming to undermine the nation’s identity. A special unit now handles war crime investigations, overseeing over 70 complex cases, with international organizations joining…
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9/18/2024 — Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness…
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 937) Fret not yourself because of evildoers;be not envious of wrongdoers!For they will soon fade like the grassand wither like the green herb.Psalm 37:1-2 Before going to bed, I check the air raid monitors to see if it’s even worth trying to fall asleep or if we should just…
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9/17/2024 — Kremlin ignores humanitarian needs in Kursk Oblast, fears global exposure — Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Heorhii Tykhyi, stated that the Kremlin disregards the needs of its people and fears that international observers from the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) could reveal the true situation in areas of Kursk Oblast controlled by Ukraine’s Armed Forces. He…
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