Author: Syndicated

The United States says it has “highly credible” intelligence reports that Russia is planning to annex two Ukrainian regions and declare a third “people’s republic” in the southeast. Moscow may annex the two existing proxy states – the self-described people’s republics in Luhansk and Donetsk “some time in mid-May,” the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Carpenter, said on May 2. There were also indications that Russia had designs on Kherson by turning the southeastern city into a third “people’s republic.” Russia currently controls Kherson. Last week, Moscow said it plans to...

The United States Congress has passed lend-lease legislation that will make it easier to export military equipment to Ukraine, reviving a World War II-era US weapons financing program. The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022” on April 28 by a vote of 417 to 10, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for his signature. The bill had sailed through the Senate with unanimous support. The measure revives a World War II-era arrangement that allowed Washington to lend or lease military equipment to Great Britain and other allies at little cost....

The United Nations Institute for the Preparation and Research of Satellite Images recently estimated the devastating level of destruction in Ukrainian cities, after they were assaulted and occupied by invading Russian forces. According to the data, in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, 71% of the city’s buildings and infrastructure were destroyed. Like neighboring settlements, Irpin became a shield that did not allow the enemy in the first days of the offensive to capture the capital. What the citizens had to sacrifice to protect their nation can be seen in the drone images by Mіshа Djоs. Until the mass return...