The war that started 24.2.2022
An OSCE report presented today reveals what we have actually known all along. Russia imprisons thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territories, placing them in prison-like camps and using torture. The report from the OSCE makes for harrowing reading. The darkest Norwegian lawyer Cecilie Hellestveit, who co-authored the report, says that this is the…
After months of Republican opposition, a major aid package has finally been passed by the House of Representatives. The aid package is absolutely necessary if Ukraine is to be able to resist Russian aggression. The fact that it took so long to get the aid through the House of Representatives is due to opposition…
According to the Washington Post, Trump wants to pressure Ukraine to give up the Crimean peninsula and Donbas. He has previously said that he could end the war in one day if he were president. Trump’s plan is a terrible deal for Ukraine, says Emma Ashford of the Stimson Center think tank. Giving away…
On February 24, Russia launched its brutal assault on neighboring Ukraine. Actually, this is a war that started back in 2014. But February 24 is considered the start of the Russian attempt to take the whole country. 2 years of terror from Putin’s regime. Horrific war crimes, hundreds of thousands killed and even more…
Russia’s winter offensive in Ukraine is a failure. Little or no progress on the ground and huge losses of soldiers and military equipment means that Russia is taking action. The German newspaper Bild reports that the electricity has been switched off in several Russian prisons. This is done in an attempt to get more…
Anyone who thinks that sanctions against arms exports to Russia will prevent Western weapons from reaching the battlefield in Ukraine is wrong. Weapons and ammunition do not come to Russia directly from Western countries, but via intermediaries. The sale of so-called hunting weapons to countries such as Poland, the UAE, Hungary and Croatia has…