Author: Dal Stanton
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6/24/2023 – From decade in prison to “Putin’s chef“: wooh is Wagner CEO Evgeny Prigozhin
From Euromaiden Press: “Putin’s chef” Evgeny Prigozhin has been making more and more headlines recently. The Wagner mercenaries that he funds have made him so politically influential that Russia’s authorities reportedly blessed a new private military company to knock off his sway. But who is Evgeny Prigozhin? We track his rise from mafia, robbery, and…
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6/24/2023 – We are ready to resist in any form we can because too much is at stake…
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 485): Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,for my cause, my God and my Lord!Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,according to your righteousness,and let them not rejoice over me!Psalm 35:23-24 Ukraine will resist! That’s something that we kept telling everyone on the eve of the full-scale war. And that’s…
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6/23/2023 – FSB launches criminal case against Wagner chief as Russia’s top brass implores mercenaries not to rebel
Russia’s Federal Security Service has launched a criminal case against Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin for “calling for an armed insurreection.” The FSB denied Prigozhin’s accusations that the Russian Army had launched a missile attack against his PMC, calling them an “information provocation”: “Prigozhin’s statements are actually calls to start an armed civil conflict on the…
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6/23/2023 – Wagner, chief announces “march for justice” after alleged Russian strike on mercenary troops
From Euromaiden Press: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner private military company which had committed war crimes in Bucha, accusedthe Russian Army of striking a Wagner camp in Ukraine. According to Prigozhin, the company “is making a decision” on how to respond to a missile attack that killed “a huge number of fighters.” In…
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6/23/2023 – God, please, protect our children!
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (484th day): Every time Briana and I got for a walk I can’t cease being amazed at how many kids are crowding playgrounds. A year ago, Kyiv emptied to a big extent of children. But now, obviously many people returned, and thousands of internally displaced families chose to try to…
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6/23/2023 – They want us dead; we want to live – there is no room for compromise or negotiations.
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (483rd day): “We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise.”(Golda Meir) On June 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with a delegation from African countries – Zambia, South Africa, Egypt, Congo, Senegal, Uganda and the…
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6/23/2023 – Reuters: UN adds Russia to global list of offenders for killing children in Ukraine
From The Kyiv Independent by by Dinara Khalilova: The United Nations added Russia to a global list of offenders for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, according to a report to the UN Security Council obtainedby Reuters. Reuters cited the UN chief saying Russian forces and associated groups are confirmed to have maimed 518…
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6/23/2023 – Counteroffensive edition: How Ukraine can pin down Russia in Crimea without an invasion
From Atlantic Council by Col. John B. Barranco (Ret.): 2021-22 US Marine Corps senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, now executive vice president of Potomac International Partners Crimea—it’s the location that most often captures international attention when it comes to Ukraine’s fight to regain all its lost territory. But…
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