Category: Updates
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12/14/2023 – ISW: Russia likely presses attack to prompt aid debates in West
Russia lost 87% of its pre-war ground forces but continues partial mobilization efforts to sustain its eastern Ukraine offensive, which US intelligence believes is meant to erode Western backing for Ukraine. From: Euromaiden Press BY MARIA TRIL Russian military forces are likely undertaking costly offensive operations in multiple areas of eastern Ukraine in an attempt…
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12/14/2023 – Putin’s Trojan horse? Orban’s veto looms over Ukraine’s EU bid
As EU leaders prepare to converge in Brussels, unblocked funds may persuade Hungary to approve crucial financial aid for Ukraine, but its membership bid still hangs in the air From: Euromaiden Press BY BOHDAN BEN The EU summit on 14-15 December 2023 will decide on three critical Ukrainian issues: financial and military aid and the…
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12/14/2023 – How do Ukrainians live with the war?
How do Ukrainians live with the war? What does normality mean, what purpose do plans for the future have when a missile could strike in the next moment? A personal essay by filmmaker and writer Iryna Tsilyk. From: Euromaiden Press BY IRYNA TSILYK Iryna Tsilyk, a Ukrainian writer and filmmaker, was the first Ukrainian to…
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12/14/2023 – Putin says Russian goals in Ukraine are unchanged and there will only be peace when it achieves them – as it happened
From: The Guardian by Geneva Abdul (now) and Tom Bryant (earlier), last hr Summary That is the end of today’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine . Here’s a summary of the main events. Head over to our Europe blog , helmed by my colleague Lili Bayer in Brussels. Vladimir Putin has held his annual end-of-the-year press conference, saying…
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12/14/2023 – We are losing our best people
From: Meanwhile in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Holiadynets went to the frontlines in the first days of the full-scale invasion. He defended Avdiivka this whole time. On October 19th, 2023, Volodymyr went to evacuate his wounded brothers-in-arms. While he was supporting a badly wounded person to the car, a tank shelling started and Volodymyr was killed.…
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12/14/2023 – Let them vanish like water that runs away;when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.Psalm 58:7
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 658): Let them vanish like water that runs away;when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.Psalm 58:7 It was another sleepless night. Ballistic missiles came around 3 am, so we woke up to explosions. There’s no time to turn on air raid sirens when ballistic missiles are coming,…
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12/13/2023 – Historian Anne Applebaum on how Russia’s war in Ukraine will end
ADMIN: Interview was 9 months ago but still relevant
Voice of Ukraine 