Category: Updates
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12/8/2025 — It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying.
A Ukrainian’s message to Europe from 400 km east of Warsaw From: Euromaiden Press BY OLEKSANDR YAKOVENKO We Ukrainians are the only buffer between the cozy European theory that “Russia is weak” and reality. If the Europeans don’t face reality now, they’ll have to confront it when these “weak” Russian divisions push past Ukraine, into…
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12/8/2025 — Putin’s St. Nicholas Day Massacre: Russia Unleashes 704 Missiles and Drones on Ukraine as Peace Talks Stall Over Impossible Territorial Demands
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / December 7, 2025 Russia launched its largest aerial assault in months—704 missiles and drones targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure, railway stations, and civilian facilities on St. Nicholas Day—even as negotiators in Miami spoke of Moscow’s need to demonstrate “good faith commitment to peace.” The Day’s Reckoning St. Nicholas Day began in darkness.…
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12/8/2025 — “Many are the sorrows of the wicked…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1382) Many are the sorrows of the wicked,but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.Psalm 32:10 We spent last night in our hallway. My sleep was light as I was trying to keep track of the ongoing attack. Even though there was no immediate damage in…
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12/5/2025 — Any peace deal that empowers Russia is a direct security threat to Turkey
From: Atlantic Council By Yevgeniya Gaber As US talks with Russia and Ukraine intensify, attention has turned to the potential terms for a settlement to end the war. Amid recent developments, Turkey has expressed cautious optimism about the path toward peace. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Die Welt this week that a Ukraine-Russia agreement could secure regional peace…
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12/5/2025 — Returning Ukraine’s abducted children should be central to any peace plan
From: Atlantic Council By Kristina Hook This week, the US Senate is holding a landmark Congressional hearing on Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Most will understandably frame the issue as a grave human rights crisis, but it is also much more. Rescuing Ukraine’s abducted children can help pave the way for peace, while allowing Russia’s crimes to…
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12/5/2025 — America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine — A Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal
From: Foreign Affairs by Sergey Radchenko SERGEY RADCHENKO is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Europe. In August, U.S. President Donald Trump was disappointed when a meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough in ending the war in Ukraine. “We…
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12/5/2025 — Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse
As the country spirals into a demographic disaster, Ukrainian authorities face a quandary: who will be left to pick up the pieces once the war ends? From: Reuters By Max Hunder HOSHCHA, Ukraine – While many Ukrainian hospitals are struggling to cope with the endless influx of wounded, a maternity ward in the western town of…
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12/5/2025 — Amid Peace Talks, Russian Drone Damages Christian School in Kyiv
From: Christianity Today by JILL NELSON Ukrainians are wary of any plan that gives Moscow its “Christmas wish list.” Eric Moore’s windows rattled as Ukraine’s air defense systems intercepted hundreds of incoming drones and missiles early Saturday. The South Dakota native and director of Kyiv Christian Academy spent three hours huddled in the stairwell of…
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12/5/2025 — Ukraine’s warning to the West: A bad peace will lead to a bigger war
From: Atlantic Council By Myroslava Gongadze Almost every night last week, I woke up in Kyiv to the piercing sound of air raid sirens. Like countless other Ukrainians, I scrambled out of bed, grabbed a few essentials, and headed down to the bomb shelter. Not everyone follows this routine. Some people, tired of the nightly bombardments,…
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12/5/2025 — “For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war”
From: Roman Sheremeta — “For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war,” British historian Antony Beevor told The Telegraph. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are not an anomaly. They are the continuation of several centuries of an especially brutal military culture that the West has long ignored. The mass rapes, torture, and killings in Bucha…
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