Congratulations on Ukraine’s Independence Day. The day is celebrated on the same day as the commemoration of the 2.5 year anniversary of Putin’s attempt to rob an independent country of their freedom. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, even more have been injured and probably 2 million have been displaced. As…
Ukraine carries out a major counter-offensive in the Kursk Oblast in Russia. At the same time, there are reports of a major attack on the military airport in Lipetsk. The attack on the air base is not surprising. It adds to the series of successful attacks on Russian air bases, ammunition depots and oil…
Anyone who remembers back to August 2000 remembers the drama in the sea off northern Russia and northern Norway. An Oscar II-class nuclear-powered submarine. The name of the submarine was Kursk. This is one of the largest submarines in Russia at the time. All 118 people on board died. Behind them were letters they…
Tass reports that Russia will hold an “exercise in the use of tactical nuclear weapons”. The exercise takes place in the areas close to the Ukrainian border. The question is whether Russia is preparing to use these in Ukraine, or whether this is intended to scare Western countries away from further military support. Usage…
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…
In the shadow of the war in Gaza and Ukraine, a drama is unfolding in Georgia. The country may be heading for a popular uprising similar to that seen in Ukraine in the winter of 2013-14. The reason for the conflict is that the ruling party has introduced a law banning so-called foreign agents….