Author: Dal Stanton
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5/20/2025 — Vance and Zelensky shake hands at Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass — in first encounter since Oval Office blow-up
From: NYPost — By Ryan King Vice President JD Vance shook hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in their first public encounter since their infamous Oval Office blow-up and later had a “good meeting” at the residence of the US ambassador to Italy. Vance and Zelensky briefly crossed paths Sunday while attending the first formal mass by Pope Leo XIV in…
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5/20/2025 — The Storm Before the Call: Russia’s Record Strike and Putin’s Calculated Display
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 19, 2025 Moscow launches largest drone assault of the war as Putin prepares to speak with Trump, while Europe rallies around Ukraine and Romania rejects the far-right Summary of the Day – May 18, 2025 As dawn broke over Ukraine on May 18, the debris of Moscow’s largest single drone…
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5/20/2025 — “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1180) I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lordmore than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.Psalm 130:5-6 During today’s church service, I noticed the flag on the flagpole at the Independence Square was lowered — a…
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5/19/2025 — Choosing life on Ukraine’s front lines
VOU: Mark Agarkov, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, one of the pastors at Kharkiv Presbyterian Church, and president of the church’s wartime humanitarian foundation is part of this article. For young people in eastern Kharkiv, staying is an act of resistance From: World by William Fleeson When Liza Andreeva fled her eastern hometown of Kharkiv in…
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5/19/2025 — How Russia targeted Crimean Tartars over centuries 
From: Ukrainer. — On May 18, 1944, Soviet authorities deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to remote parts of Central Asia — a crime that ultimately wiped out nearly half of the peninsula’s indigenous nation. What many don’t know is that by the time of the deportation, Crimean Tatars were already a minority in their…
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5/19/2025 — Tonight, russia is expected to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile…
From: Roman Sheremeta — Tonight, russia is expected to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, calling it a “training-combat” exercise. The goal is intimidation. The Kremlin wants to scare Ukraine, the EU, NATO countries — and most of all, impress Trump. Putin is flexing his nuclear muscles ahead of a scheduled phone call with Trump tomorrow…
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5/19/2025 — The Bitter Fruit of Diplomacy: Blood in Bilopillia as Moscow’s Demands Harden
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 18, 2025 As Russian demands escalate beyond Trump’s peace plan, a civilian bus in Sumy becomes the latest casualty of false hope, while preparations begin for history’s largest prisoner exchange Summary of the Day – May 17, 2025 Hours after Russian negotiators departed Istanbul with their maximalist territorial demands firmly…
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5/18/2025 — Putin’s Economy Is Crashing: Is This the Beginning of the End?
From: Jason Jay Smart Russia’s economy is cracking—and fast. Oil prices are down, reserves are evaporating, and even China and India are pulling away. In this video, political analyst Jason Jay Smart breaks down the real numbers behind the Kremlin’s crumbling foundation. From the shrinking National Wealth Fund to the historic parallels with the USSR’s…
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5/18/2025 — Putin won’t accept peace unless Russian empire is restored, says US ex-defense secretary Gates
The former Pentagon chief says Putin is “tapping along” Trump and remains fixated on maximalist war objectives. From: Euromaiden Press BY YURI ZORIA 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…
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5/18/2025 — “Maybe more of your loved ones will die”: Russia’s threat at Ukraine peace talks revealed
Russia says it’s ready to fight “forever”—despite nearly a million casualties. From: Euromaiden Press BY BYYEVHENIIA MARTYNIUK “We fought Sweden for 21 years. How long are you ready to fight?” That was the message delivered by Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky to the Ukrainian delegation during recent peace talks in Istanbul, according to The Economist’s Oliver Carroll,…
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