Author: Dal Stanton
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Live Zoom Update Sunday
Aug 31, 2:00 pm CSTJoin Doug Shepherd, Team Leader of MTW L’viv for a live zoom update from Lviv Click the link below to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88936272438 Upcoming Update Webinars: (Same link for all)Sept 28 Oct 26Recordings of the update call will be available on Sunday Evening.Check Cratesforukraine.com for the link ON THIS CALL:
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8/29/2025 — Russia prepares for a long war 
From: Kyiv Independent by Lisa Yurchenko — Lisa Yurchenko exposes how Russia has quietly expanded its Votkinsk missile plant with the help of Chinese and Taiwanese machinery imported through intermediaries to evade Western sanctions. The plant produces intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, as well as Iskander systems used against Ukraine. Its…
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8/29/2025 — Russia attacks Zelenskyy’s legitimacy to derail US-led Ukraine peace talks
From: Atlantic Council By Serhii Savelii As US-led efforts to end the war in Ukraine continue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has indicated that the Kremlin does not recognize the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and would not accept his signature on any peace deal. “When we come to a stage when you have to…
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8/29/2025 — The Day Peace Died in Kyiv: Russia’s Missiles Mock Trump’s Diplomacy
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / August 29, 2025 As Putin Promises Negotiations, His Ballistic Missiles Kill 23 in Ukraine’s Capital While European Diplomatic Buildings Burn and Oil Refineries Blaze Across Russia Summary of the Day – August 28, 2025 In one of the deadliest attacks on Kyiv since the war began, Russia launched 629 drones and…
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8/29/2025 — “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute….”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv—Day 1282 (posted on the morning of 1283) Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.Rescue the weak and the needy;deliver them from the hand of the wicked.Psalm 82:3-4 The night was awful. I woke up from the loud explosion of ballistic missiles.…
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8/28/2025 — EU summons Russian envoy over delegation building damaged in Kyiv strike
From: Kyiv Independent by Martin Fornusek The European Union is summoning Moscow’s envoy in Brussels after an EU mission building was damaged in a Russian strike on Kyiv on Aug. 28, top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said. “No diplomatic mission should ever be a target,” Kallas said on X. The meeting with Karen Malayan, the Russian…
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8/28/2025 — Air raids on Kyiv echo the Blitz: a lesson in resistance
From: Ukrainer.net by Kyrylo Cyril Kutcher Russia’s war on Ukraine has been marked by an aerial terror campaign unprecedented in Europe since the Second World War. Over three and a half years of the full-scale invasion, it has laid waste to cities like Mariupol and continues to relentlessly terrorise the capital, Kyiv, along with nearly…
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8/28/2025 — Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Druzhba Oil Pipeline
From: Peter Zeihan — The Russians have been funding their war effort in Ukraine with oil exports, but some new Ukrainian tactics are disrupting that flow.
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8/28/2025 — Crimea: Ukraine Tightens the Net 
From: Jason Jay Smart — A fortress without a supply line becomes a target. Once sold to the world as Russia’s unsinkable aircraft carrier, the illegally occupied Crimea is now a profound vulnerability for the Kremlin as Ukraine systematically dismantles its defenses. The foundations of Russia’s occupation are shaking in a slow-motion collapse, a direct…
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8/28/2025 — Infiltration and Escalation: Russia’s New Tactics Emerge as Winter Campaign Begins
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / August 28, 2025 As Russian forces probe Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with small-scale infiltration tactics, Moscow launches massive energy strikes ahead of Winter 2025 while diplomatic pressure mounts over security guarantees Summary of the Day – August 27, 2025 Russian forces employed new infiltration tactics to penetrate Ukrainian defenses in two border settlements…
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