Category: Updates
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5/29/2025 — NO GOD BUT THEIRS
From: Kyiv Independent — When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Melitopol fell under occupation early on. In the face of chaos, churches became more than places of worship — they became centers of stability and support. Locals gathered for daily prayers for Ukraine in the city’s central square. Russia responded with repression. Clergy were searched,…
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5/29/2025 — Trump Called Putin “Crazy.” The Kremlin’s Choreographed Response Reveals the Strategy
From: Jason Jay Smart Donald Trump just called Vladimir Putin “absolutely crazy” and warned he was “playing with fire.” But what looked like another dramatic media moment wasn’t chaos — it was strategy. In this video, political analyst Jason Jay Smart explains how the Kremlin responded with tactical silence, while Dmitry Medvedev issued yet another…
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5/29/2025 — Russia builds power lines to restart and connect seized Ukrainian nuclear plant to its grid
The occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, captured by Russian forces in March 2022, would become the first nuclear facility seized by one nation during war and operated for another country’s energy needs if Moscow’s plans succeed. From: Euromaiden Press BY VIRA KRAVCHUK Russia is constructing new power lines in occupied southeastern Ukraine to connect the…
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5/29/2025 — Do Trump’s criticisms of Putin mark a turning point in his Russia policy?
From: Atlantic Council By John E. Herbst This is part of a series of regular assessments of the efforts, spearheaded by the Trump administration, to achieve a negotiated end to Russia’s war on Ukraine. Read previous entries here and here. What’s new? On May 25, US President Donald Trump issued a blistering criticism of Russia’s massive and dayslong bombardment of…
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5/28/2025 — A talking point pulled straight from putin’s disinformation playbook…
From: Mariia Mykhaliyk (1189th day) From time to time, politicians or so-called military “experts” claim that Ukraine can’t win this war — even if our Western allies support us. But that’s a talking point pulled straight from putin’s disinformation playbook. For over three years, Ukraine has held the line against what was once considered the…
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5/28/2025 — The Doctrine of Attrition: Russia’s Record 355-Drone Swarm Reveals Putin’s True Peace Intentions
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 27, 2025 As Trump Calls Putin “Absolutely Crazy” and Kremlin Scrambles Buffer Zones, Ukraine’s Intelligence Warns of Moscow’s 2-4 Year Plan to Attack Europe Summary of the Day – May 26, 2025 Russia launched its most massive drone assault of the war—355 Shaheds and decoys alongside nine cruise missiles—in a…
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5/28/2025 — Search me, O God, and know my heart!
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1189) Search me, O God, and know my heart!Try me and know my thoughts!And see if there be any grievous way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting!Psalm 139:23-24 God is good. It’s the week of final exams for my students. I feel like I was more worried…
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5/27/2025 — Russia’s Road to Terror: From Collapse to Kleptocracy
The fall of the Soviet Union was supposed to usher in freedom. Instead, it unleashed a criminal state. In this revealing conversation, renowned Russia expert David Satter joins Dr. Jason Jay Smart to expose how the 1990s reforms turned Russia into a violent kleptocracy—dominated by organized crime, corrupted by oligarchs, and ultimately controlled by a…
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5/27/2025 — Russia advancing and ex-official assassination — Ukraine This Week 
From: Kyiv Post — In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur shares key takeaways from Monday’s phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Wednesday’s assassination of a controversial Ukrainian ex-official. Also, Russia is advancing in Sumy Oblast.
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