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An exclusive interview with Mykel Hawke, U. S. Army Special Forces Officer, Captain (retired 2011), combat veteran, for the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency and reprinted below. Mykel Hawke – Mr. Hawke, as a military officer, how do you assess the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war? Why was a country 27 times larger in area unable to […]

ODESA – Odesa has always been Ukraine’s prime summer destination. Packed streets, buskers on promenades, and a relentless mass of busy restaurants and bars filled with tourists ready to party until dawn were the regular scenery in the city from early May to late September. Odesa’s Katerynynska Street, usually packed with tourists and locals in summer, […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered on Saturday to mediate in the standoff over a Russian-occupied nuclear power station in Ukraine stoking fears of an atomic disaster. Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (Photo by Victor/Xinhua) The offer came hours before the global atomic energy watchdog said that Ukraine’s […]

The United States announced a new $1.1 billion weapons package to Taiwan on Friday, in a new bid to boost the island’s defenses as tensions run high with Beijing. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington D.C., U.S., July 27, 2022. (AFP File Photo) The […]

Despite obstruction from Moscow, the UN-led International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission finally reached the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Sept. 1. As the IAEA team of 14 experts headed through the battlefield to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Russian forces began shelling the occupied city of Enerhodar and the pre-agreed route of the mission […]

A video ridiculing Russian soldiers fleeing Russian-held Kherson that was shared on the Defense of Ukraine Twitter handle, has gone viral on social media. More than 900,000 people have so-far watched the 40-second video since it was posted on Wednesday, August 31. In the brief clip, Russian soldiers are offered the choice to leave Kherson […]

U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country’s democracy and urged voters on Thursday to reject extremism ahead of November’s midterm elections U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in front of Independence Hall at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia,U.S., September 1, 2022. © Jonathan Ernst, Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of […]

The Russians, resorting to manipulations, may prevent the IAEA mission from visiting key facilities to be inspected on the territory of the occupied ZNPP, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, German Galushchenko, has said. Below is a full statement from the Ukrainian government. Design: Kyiv Post The Minister noted that the Ukrainian side had discussed […]

Alexei Kovalev was found Sunday shot to death in his home in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Hola Prystan. Nearby lay his girlfriend, reportedly badly injured with stab wounds to her neck, and a Mossberg pump-action shotgun A Russian police officer in occupied Ukrainian Kherson stands by a poster reading “Kherson – the cradle of the Russian […]

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of waging attacks on Thursday near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, causing one of its reactors to shut down just as a team of UN inspectors were heading in for a visit. A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in Zaporizhzhia on 17 August, 2022, in case of […]