Category: Updates
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5/26/2025 — AIR ATTACK, POWS’ SWAP, GRADUATION — ONE DAY IN UKRAINE
Sometimes friends ask how we are doing and certain things are hard to explain. Like this contrast: almost normal life goes on amidst missiles, death, threat of death, ruin, etc.Today is a good example. My wife and I like thousands of others in Kyiv could not sleep from midnight till about 4 a.m. because of…
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5/25/2025 — Inside Ukraine‘s 1,000 for 1,000 POW swap with Russia 
From: Kyiv Independent — On May 23, Ukraine and Russia began the largest prisoner exchange since 2014. Over three days, 1,000 prisoners of war (POWs) from both sides will return home in a deal agreed upon during direct Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul earlier this month — the first such talks between Moscow and Kyiv since…
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5/25/2025 — Why Russian troops are massing near Ukraine’s ‘fortress city’
From: Sky News — As the war continues in Ukraine, Sky’s defence and security analyst, professor Michael Clarke, discusses why Russian forces are gathering across the border and how the second day of an extended prisoner exchange unfolded.
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5/25/2025 — Russian bank collapse: no cash, no loans
From: Anna From Ukraine 🇺🇦 Vlog 1053: war in Ukraine More than 2 million Russians have stopped repaying their credit card debts.
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5/25/2025 — In the US Senate, impatience for the introduction of sanctions against Russia is noticeably growing
From: Ostar Yarysh — In the US Senate, impatience for the introduction of sanctions against Russia is noticeably growing. Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s bipartisan bill has already garnered support for 81 out of 100 senators. These days in Washington, it is a difficult task to rally so many senators around an idea.…
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5/25/2025 — The Doctrine of Eternal War: Lavrov Demands Ukraine’s Perpetual Subjugation as 1,000 Prisoners Begin Journey Home
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 24, 2025 As Russia Executes More POWs and Rejects Vatican Peace Venue, Ukraine Strikes Weapons Factory While Massive Drone Swarms Target Kyiv in Nighttime Terror Summary of the Day – May 23, 2025 In a day that laid bare Russia’s vision for Ukraine’s future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded any…
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5/25/2025 — Tucker Carlson must’ve gotten another assignment straight from his boss in the kremlin…
From: Mariia Mykhaliyk (1186th day) Tucker Carlson must’ve gotten another assignment straight from his boss in the kremlin — he’s back to spreading lies, this time targeting Western Christians. That’s a tactic both he and putin seem to love: push emotional buttons, twist the truth, and pretend it’s about “religious freedom.” While Tucker Carlson yet…
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5/24/2025 — Chief Rabbi of Ukraine on KGB, War, Russian Myths and Ukraine
From: Kyiv Post — The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Reuven Azman, is a truly remarkable figure. Born in one of the capitals of the former USSR – the same city as Vladimir Putin, Leningrad – he emigrated from behind the Iron Curtain back in the 1980s and later returned, this time to Ukraine. Over…
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5/24/2025 — G7 leaders pledge to freeze Russian assets until war ends, support Ukraine’s recovery
From: The Kyiv Independent by Lucy Pakhnyuk The Group of Seven (G7) issued a joint statement on May 22, pledging to keep Russian assets frozen until the end of the war and to support Ukraine’s recovery. Canada, which holds the G7 presidency in 2025, released the statement on behalf of the group. “We reaffirm that… Russia’s sovereign assets… will remain immobilized…
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5/24/2025 — Editorial: Russia just said it doesn’t want peace in Ukraine. This is what you need to do
From: The Kyiv Independent — Russia is now saying the quiet part out loud. It has no intention of stopping the war in Ukraine. We in Ukraine knew this all along, of course, but to sate the demands of international diplomacy, Moscow and Washington have engaged in a now more than two-month-long peace process that…
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