updated 24 Jun 2026, 06:28 MDT

After our 11/15/22 emergency meeting on the Ukraine War we committed to providing near-daily updates of what we think are some of the most valuable news and analyses for fellow activists. This is that selection. If you find this page helpful please forward it to your friends and contacts. Beginning Nov 16, 2023 we will be updating this page on a semiweekly basis. Stopping this war is of critical, emergency importance. Please do whatever you can.

Unless otherwise noted, the italicized comments below are Greg Mello's.

Highly recommended resource: Judge Andrew Napolitano's video podcast on YouTube.

Highly recommended: Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace, Consortium News, Dec 24, 2025
Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics, Glenn Diesen, 2022.
Provoked, How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton, 2024.

Russia Ukraine War Master Class: Prof. Glenn Diesen, Prof. John Mearsheimer, Ambassador Chas Freeman, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Aug 2024

June 24, 2026

Featured • Putin Warns the West: Russia is Ready, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Jun 24, 2026

Putin minced no words… He stated that Russia is ready to promptly and appropriately respond to any external and internal threats, and that in accordance with the State Armament Programme, Russia is focused on modernizing its nuclear triad and the Army, and strengthening the combat capability of the Aerospace Forces and the Navy. The explicit mention of the nuclear triad in direct proximity to the discussion of Western preparation for war against Russia was a pointed message to Donald Trump and the rest of NATO.

In discussing the Western threat, Putin indirectly chided the ineffectiveness of Western economic pressure. He stated that all technological and military achievements are being accomplished using Russia’s own domestic scientific and technological capabilities, and that all of it is being supported by steady funding made possible by Russia’s stable and resilient economy. He reminded the cadets that Western efforts to cripple Russia had failed and that Russia met that challenge head on by ramping up production, producing new weapons and modifying existing systems to confront new threats.

I believe that Putin’s speech was a warning to the West that Russia will not make the same mistakes that made Operation Barbarossa possible, and it is ready to confront and defeat NATO if it persists in facilitating attacks against the Russian people.

June 23, 2026

Featured • Russia Struck Weapons-Carrying Cargo Ships, Ukraine Hit Voronezh With Storm Shadow Missiles, South Front, Jun 23, 2026

British analyst Alexander Mercouris, who recently visited Russia, interprets these raids in a broader context. In an episode of the video blog “The Duran,” he stated that the massive drone attacks, including those carried out during working hours, are aimed not so much at military targets as at changing the perception of Russian society. “They are trying to destroy and undermine the feeling of peace in Russia,” Mercouris said. “That is precisely why these drone attacks are needed. They are designed to change people’s perceptions of peaceful life, to instill a sense of anxiety.” In his view, the ultimate goal of the West remains unchanged — to achieve regime change in Russia.

June 21, 2026

Featured • Article by Sergey Lavrov, Ukraine, Europe and Global Security, Jun 19, 2026

Featured • ‘Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated’: The bloody history of Zelensky’s heroes (DISTURBING CONTENT), Jun 3, 2026

June 20, 2026

Featured • Zelensky stripped of Poland’s top honor over Nazi tribute, RT, Jun 19, 2026
Building national identity on a foundation of mass murder. That's our boy Z.

 • Zelensky Gives Belarus 7-Day Ultimatum in Unexpected Threat, Simplicius, Jun 19, 2026

 • The Nord Stream narrative explosion: Why you’ve only read half the story, RT, Jun 19, 2026
Good but still only the tip of the informational iceberg. It was pretty darn clear the U.S. did this long before Hersh published, from open-source intel. See the archives on this page.

June 19, 2026

Featured • UK to send Ukraine 150,000 drones, RT, Jun 19, 2026

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the attacks and said Moscow would respond by changing its strategy and begin regularly carrying out large-scale strikes against targets that “directly affect the combat capability” of the Ukrainian military.

“I have long been convinced that words are not enough,” Lavrov told reporters.

Moscow has accused Ukraine of using Western-supplied weapons, funding, and intelligence to carry out terrorist attacks on Russian territory and civilian infrastructure.

Russian officials have argued that continued arms deliveries from the UK, EU, and NATO members make Western governments direct participants in the conflict and reduce the chances of a peace deal.

The key point is that meaningful dialogue requires the restoration of trust, shattered by the anti-Russian actions of the West, and Europe as part of it, in the post-Cold War era. Trust can be recovered only through concrete steps that demonstrate a sincere commitment to moving away from using diplomacy as a cover for expansionist ambitions. Trust cannot be restored, nor can dialogue be resumed, through ultimatums such as the one issued to Russia in London on June 7, 2026.

P.S. It is noteworthy that the London ultimatum was unequivocally reaffirmed by the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany at the meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 11, 2026 – a meeting they had so insistently requested. That was the sole purpose of their visit to the ministry.

Firefighters extinguishing a car, which caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow Region.

At least 17 people have been wounded after the Ukrainian military launched one of its largest drone raids against Moscow, Russian officials have said.

Air defenses shot down at least 194 UAVs on the approach to the Russian capital overnight, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote in a Telegram post on Thursday morning.

Some drones made it through and caused blazes, with witnesses reporting large plumes of thick black smoke in several areas in and outside the city.

Russian officials said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from Belarus in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, as civilian casualties continue to rise in both Ukraine and Russia.

For its part, the Ukrainian military denied responsibility, claiming that it wasn’t carrying out drone attacks in Bryansk at the time. Yegor Kovalchuk, the acting governor of Bryansk, called the attack a “completely deliberate strike on civilian transport on a busy highway.”

...Russia has recently dramatically ramped up its missile and drone bombardments of Ukraine, which it says is a response to drone attacks on civilians in Russia and Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine, including a May 22 Ukrainian drone attack that hit a college in Starobelsk in the Luhansk Oblast and killed 21 students.

On Tuesday night, Ukrainian officials said that Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine killed at least four people and set homes and a shopping center on fire. Earlier this week, a heavy Russian bombardment in Kyiv and other cities killed at least 11 civilians.

Ukraine is known to use intelligence from the US and NATO for its long-range drone attacks inside Russia, and the US has helped build up Ukraine’s drone industry, meaning that such attacks always risk a potential escalation between Russia and NATO.

A Hague-based arbitration tribunal has rejected Ukrainian maritime claims against Russia, including attempts to challenge Moscow’s sovereignty over Crimea and surrounding waters. Ukraine launched the case in 2016 before the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Kiev argued that Crimea remained Ukrainian territory and claimed that the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait should be treated as international waters subject to UNCLOS rules. Crimea joined Russia following a 2014 referendum held after the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.

In a statement on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry described the tribunal’s final ruling, adopted unanimously by a panel of five arbitrators, as a “convincing victory” for Moscow. It said the tribunal rejected Ukraine’s demands for compensation and reparations related to natural resources around Crimea. According to the ministry, the tribunal also dismissed Kiev’s attempt to classify the Kerch Strait as an international waterway open to vessels of all states, including warships. Moscow said the ruling formally recognized the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov as Russia’s historic domestic waters.

The tribunal likewise rejected claims that Russia violated international law by asserting sovereignty over the Sea of Azov following the accession of the Donbass republics and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye. The largely Russian-speaking Donetsk and Lugansk republics, along with Kherson and Zaporozhye, joined Russia after referendums held in autumn 2022 amid the escalating Ukraine conflict. The ruling also dismissed Ukraine’s demand that the Crimean Bridge be dismantled. Kiev had argued that the crossing, built between 2016 and 2018 to link Crimea with mainland Russia, was illegal and hindered navigation through the Kerch Strait.

Moscow called the claim “absurd,” while the tribunal found Ukraine’s arguments unsubstantiated, according to the ministry.=The bridge has repeatedly been targeted by Kiev using naval drones, explosives and Western-supplied long-range missiles, causing damage and civilian casualties. The ruling represents a significant “defeat” for Ukraine and its Western backers in the decade-long “legal war” against Russia, according to the ministry.

June 15, 2026

Featured • Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change, Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, Jun 15, 2026

In his speech — which Laura Ru has summarised — Bezrukov argued that Russia has entered a new, prolonged global confrontation with the West. According to him, this conflict represents a fundamental shift in the nature of warfare that will define Russian policy and society for the foreseeable future.

‘Bezrukov emphasized that the current (military) struggle is not primarily about capturing territory, which he described as having lost much of its traditional value. Instead, it is a war of attrition focused on undermining critical systems, including infrastructure, command networks, technology, space assets, biological security, and the information domain … “The West’s strategy in this war is very simple: avoid nuclear collision with us, from which they will emerge as losers. Therefore, they boil the frog on a slow fire”’.

‘He warned that Russia should expect to remain in a state of war for many years, possibly 20 to 30 years. During this period, Russia must learn to coexist with the reality of war, whilst continuing its economic development’.

‘A central theme of his speech was sharp criticism of Russia’s current approach. Bezrukov argued that the country has been too lenient toward its adversaries — “We are slow. We allow [our enemies] too much. They don’t fear us … because many, many red lines that we talked about remained only on paper”’.

‘To adapt to this new reality, Bezrukov called for a fundamental restructuring of the state and economy. He urged the creation of a dual-purpose system capable of pursuing both development and long-term defence. Critical infrastructure — such as data centres, oil storage facilities, and communication hubs — must be buried underground, or protected to the same standards as nuclear power plants. He also stressed the need to close the gap between the military and civilian society, and to adopt more assertive policies. Russia cannot expect a quick return to peacetime conditions and must therefore reorganise society, economy, and strategy accordingly’.

Bezrukov’s speech has drawn much attention for its tone, and for its call for Russia to psychologically and structurally adapt to a generational-long era of confrontation — a theme already addressed at length by Professor Sergei Karaganov.

...It is this moral, civilisational way-of-being versus the radical Trumpian-U.S. materialist void that likely will come to define our era’s civil and global wars.

DNI Press Release: WASHINGTON D.C. — After months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings and files, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is revealing new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries. These biolabs include labs in Ukraine, which may be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. For example, the Intelligence Community previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.

The newly declassified evidence can be found HERE.

Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America.

Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.

June 12, 2026

Featured • Senate Adds $750 Million in Ukraine Military Aid into NDAA, Kyle Anzalone, The Libertarian Institute, Jun 11, 2026

The addition of aid for Ukraine to the NDAA may irk Trump. After taking office, Trump terminated US military aid to Kiev. However, Trump has continued to support Ukraine with intelligence sharing and selling weapons to NATO members that are then transferred to Kiev.

June 11, 2026

 • John Mearsheimer says Ukraine Is Doomed To Lose the War, John Mearsheimer, Antiwar.com, Jun 10, 2026
For those whom the analysis already posted is not enough. Ukraine needs too much of what it can't get: soldiers, for one. Political stability and willingness to fight and die, for another. Drones, sure. They are not enough.

June 10, 2026

Featured • No Need To Waste Europe – by English Outsider, Moon of Alabama, Jun 9, 2026
Good debate. Put Simplicius on the side of Mearsheimer. The fundamental issue is manpower, which Ukraine lacks. The pro-war forces in the West, including Team Zelensky -- are killing and crippling Ukraine's men, just as much as the Russian are, who actually drop the bombs. But will Russia stand by and continue to absorb long-range strikes? I doubt it.

Featured • ‘Burn for us’: The real message of US-EU ‘nuclear sharing’, Tarik Cyril Amar, RT, Jun 8, 2026

Featured • Ukraine is running out of heroes, so it’s digging up dead Nazis, Dmitry Plotnikov, RT, Jun 8, 2026

June 8, 2026

 • Ukraine Conducts Large-Scale Attack on St. Petersburg, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com, Jun 7, 2026

Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia on Saturday, including at Moscow and St. Petersburg. The mass drone salvo was launched as a major international event was wrapping up in St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg government ordered residents to shelter in place on Saturday amid a Ukraine drone attack. The city’s mayor reported that three people sustained minor injuries. Aleksandr Drozdenko, the governor of the Leningrad region, reported that a total of 86 Ukrainian drones were downed.

The attack occurred at the conclusion of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Ukraine also attacked the city on Wednesday, just before the opening of the event.

During the forum, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov argued that Washington’s policy under President Donald Trump is largely unchanged from that under President Joe Biden. “Biden’s policy continues. But with certain nuances, I would say,” he explained. (emphasis added)

June 7, 2026

 • Putin’s Message to Ukraine: “Keep on working, Brothers”, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Jun 6, 2026

 • Putin Rejects Open Letter By Zelensky Urging Meet: 'Pointless', ZeroHedge, Jun 5, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded dismissively to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s open letter issued the day prior, which urged that the two leaders meet in order to finally forge a peace deal and bring an end to the war, now it its fifth year. Putin made clear Friday that he sees no point in holding a personal meeting with Zelensky. He was asked directly about the letter while attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). In response the Russian leader addressed not the “authors of the epistolary genre,” but to Russian soldiers on the frontline: “The whole country is proud of you and is counting on you. Keep up the good work, brothers!” And then, per TASS:

“Asked to clarify if this response means that he doesn’t plan to meet with the letter’s author, Putin said, “So far, I see no point in this.” He went on to reject the idea of “meeting just for the sake of meeting” – but did reveal for the first time that only last month he sent an informal envoy to Ukraine at Kiev’s request. Apparently that was the opening of a serious diplomatic overture. But then, he noted, Ukrainian forces bombed a college dormitory in Lugansk merely soon after the Russian envoy arrived. The brutal attack killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls – and injured many dozens more. The Kremlin was outraged at the ‘terrorist act’ and the following week heavily bombed various Ukrainian cities, especially the capital.

June 5, 2026

Featured • Can Russia Refrain From Hitting Back? – by English Outsider, Moon of Alabama, Jun 4,2026

If someone were sending missiles and mounting sabotage and assassination attacks into England we in the general public wouldn’t be doing cost benefit analyses. We’d be jumping up and down and insisting our politicians did something about it. Turn that obvious truth around. We in the West are sending missiles and mounting sabotage and assassination attacks into Russia and we can be dead sure the Russian general public is jumping up and down about that right now.

So that’s the question they’ll be pondering in the Russian Security Council. How much more rope can we give the West, they’ll be saying, before the Russian public gets fed up with just passively taking the knocks. You and I, “bored”, have no way of guessing what they’ll decide on that. And it’s not as if you and I were players ourselves. We’ll just have to wait and see what their decision is.

June 4, 2026

 • House Defies Trump By Advancing $8BN New Ukraine Aid Package, ZeroHedge, Jun 4, 2026

June 3, 2026

 • US reviewing nuclear deployments to additional European countries, report says, John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes, Jun 2, 2026

June 2, 2026

 • Blackouts hit Kiev as Russia targets Ukrainian war infrastructure (VIDEOS), RT, Jun 2, 2026

Multiple videos have been published on social media showing explosions rocking Kiev and other Ukrainian cities amid Russian airstrikes. The Defense Ministry in Moscow confirmed carrying out a major raid on military-related targets across Ukraine in response to terror attacks by Vladimir Zelensky’s government.

The first wave of blasts in the Ukrainian capital was heard at around 1:30 AM local time, followed by more explosions in early morning hours, according to Ukrainian officials and media.

In one clip, a powerful blast is followed by the lights going out, plunging much of Kiev into darkness.

Other footage captured the sounds of repeated secondary explosions. The exact locations and types of facilities hit are difficult to verify as Ukrainian authorities tightly restrict information about strike sites and penalize those who share footage of impacts, except when civilian infrastructure is affected.

Multiple blasts were also reported in parts of Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye still under Ukrainian control, as well as in Sumy and Kharkov regions.

Moscow previously pledged to conduct “systematic and consistent strikes” on Kiev’s military installations, drone manufacturing sites, command posts, and “decision-making centers” in retaliation for the deadly “terrorist attack” in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) on May 22.

The attack on the Starobelsk college dormitory, conducted in several waves late at night while students were sleeping inside, left 21 people dead, mainly teenage girls.

With the Starobelsk massacre, “the Kiev leadership has decided to open a new chapter in its crime spree, to add a new dimension to the conflict as a whole,” President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, adding that the perpetrators will suffer a “well-deserved and inevitable punishment.”

June 1, 2026

 • European Wargames Bolster West's Delusions While Conveniently Stoking Fears, Simplicius, May 31, 2026
I am not as sanguine about Russia's situation as Simplicius. Among the three groupings of Russian opinion described by one Russian commentator he quotes -- hawks, those who want to freeze the conflict along present lines (a very small group, apparently), and those hoping for a rapprochement along Anchorage lines (whatever those really were) -- it is the hawks who are most solid grounding in reality, alas. In other words, the situation is more dangerous than the sub-statesmen in the West realize. Hurt the bear too much and it will fight back, and your country will be hurt, maybe badly. The whole world will be hurt, and is being hurt right now. But do the current crop of embattled German, French, and UK leaders even care that much about their countries? That is not evident, and their citizens don't think so.

May 31, 2026

Featured • Zelensky’s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it, Tarik Cyril Amar, RT, May 30, 2026

Featured • WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Luring Russia into War’, Joe Lauria, Consortium News, May 30, 2026

Is NATO provoking a direct war with Russia?

In 2022, the U.S. provoked Moscow to invade Ukraine so Washington could attempt to destroy Russia’s economy with sanctions, orchestrate worldwide condemnation in an information war and lead a proxy ground operation to bleed Russia — all part of an attempt to bring down its government.

In case there’s any doubt that this is the goal, recall what President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said right after Russia’s intervention.

On the day Russia invaded, Biden admitted that the sanctions weren’t meant to prevent an invasion. “No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening. … This is going to take time. And we have to show resolve so he [Putin] knows what’s coming and so the people of Russia know what he’s brought on them. That’s what this is all about.”

On March 1, [2022] Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said the sanctions on Russia “we are introducing, that large parts of the world are introducing, are to bring down the Putin regime.”

Biden said on March 26, 2022 at the Royal Castle in Warsaw: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

A month later Biden confirmed that the purpose of the draconian U.S. sanctions on Russia was never to prevent the invasion of Ukraine, which the U.S. needed to activate its plans, but to punish Russia, get its people to rise up against Putin and ultimately to restore a Yeltsin-like puppet to Moscow.

“Let’s get something straight,” Biden said. “I did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. … The maintenance of sanctions, the increasing the pain … we will sustain what we’re doing not just next month, the following month, but for the remainder of this entire year. That’s what will stop him.” Of course it’s taken NATO more than a year but they haven’t given up.

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Having lost on the ground in Donbass over the subsequent four years, NATO has turned to an air war, hitting targets deep inside Russia with NATO-operated, long-range missiles and swarms of drones fired from Ukrainian territory. These attacks have damaged Russia’s oil exports and killed civilians. The most prominent provocation was last week in Donbass in which NATO and Ukraine slaughtered 21 Russian students in their sleep.

As our guest Scott Ritter pointed out, these attacks are designed to put internal political pressure on Putin. Either he acts more decisively, or risks his hold on power. Thus Russia has warned embassies in Kiev to evacuate their personnel as Moscow threatens to hit “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital. There are also hardline demands on Putin to hit facilities in Germany and Britain that provided the munitions that murdered the students.

The Ukrainian military attacked Russia’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), puncturing a hole in the machine hall of one of the facility’s units, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.

The ZNPP – which has repeatedly been attacked by Kiev forces over the past years – came under a new attack on Saturday, with a fiber-optics-guided drone making it to the machine hall of the sixth power unit of the plant. Given that such munitions are guided by their operators until the impact, the strike was carried out deliberately, and any “theories of an accidental hit” can be ruled out, Likhachev stated.

“One could, if I may put it this way, ‘congratulate’ the entire international community – this is the first-ever deliberate attack on the nuclear power plant’s main equipment, with a penetrative explosion and damage to the machine hall,” he said.

May 29, 2026

Featured • The Ukraine Conflict End State? – by English Outsider, Moon of Alabama, May 28, 2026

lifted from a comment

Russia will just overwhelm Ukraine and then install a puppet government to ensure it remains as a neutral buffer between Russia and Europe/NATO. This could go on for some more years, or maybe Russia will speed things up, surprise everyone, and make it happen sooner. Posted by: aelfwed | May 28 2026 0:24 utc | 52

Yes, the end state of remnant Ukraine will be along those lines, though precisely how it’ll be done is unclear and is still maybe unclear to the Russians themselves. Friendly state (unlikely), neutral state, puppet state or occupied territory. The last decidedly the worst case for the Russians and they’ll avoid it if they can. Also, of course, the worst case for remnant Ukraine.

The position has changed, however, since the early Istanbul negotiations. Paramount now is the Russian need to prevent remnant Ukraine being used by the West for attacks into Russia. These have increased greatly in scale and intensity over the last few years and there is no indication that these attacks will cease unless remnant Ukraine is neutralised in one of the ways set out above.

This is not some rarefied “geostrategic theory” for the analysts to mull over. It is an urgent practical necessity for the Putin administration. How long would any American administration last if the American President had to say to his voters “We’re getting sabotage and assassination missions run in against us from Mexico. Drones and missiles are still coming over. There’s not a lot we can do to close these attacks down entirely so we’re going to have to put up with them for the indefinite future.” Impossibly to imagine an American President saying that and similarly impossible for any Russian President. So the Russians do have to aim for an end state to this conflict that precludes, permanently and entirely, any such threat on their Western border emanating from remnant Ukraine.

This imperative takes precedence over any other Russian goals. Maybe they’ll get their “new European Security Architecture”, maybe they won’t. Maybe they’ll come to some accommodation with the US, maybe they won’t. But if they don’t solve the problem posed to them by the Western use of remnant Ukraine as a convenient base for mounting attacks into Russia, their entire Special Military Operation will have gone for nothing. They’ll be ending up precisely where they started from in February 2022. They will have been defeated.

Since the Russians can’t be forced to accept what would be to them an entirely unsatisfactory outcome, they won’t. They can’t be forced by economic or diplomatic means, certainly not by military means, to accept defeat. So the end state for remnant Ukraine will inevitably be as set out. Friendly state, neutral state, puppet state or Russian-occupied. Any one of those results will preclude the hostile use of remnant Ukraine by the West and one of those results will be what we see at the end of this war.

...It should never be forgotten that in 2019 the Ukrainians themselves voted by a landslide majority for just that course. In the intervening years the savagery of war, the increasing grip of the extremists on power, the unremitting efforts by the Wester powers to “keep Ukraine in the fight”, and the heroic obstinacy of the Ukrainians themselves, has seemed to rule that 2019 decision out. The chance is still there.

A Moscow arbitration court has granted the Bank of Russia’s request for the immediate enforcement of a ruling ordering Euroclear to pay around €200 billion ($233 billion), RBK reported on Tuesday, citing lawyers for the Belgian clearing house. Ukraine’s Western backers froze about $300 billion in Russian sovereign assets after the escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in 2022, most of it held at the Brussels-based depository. While the EU has so far stopped short of seizing the assets outright, Brussels has transferred some €6.6 billion in profits generated from frozen Russian central bank assets to a fund for Ukraine since 2024.

Moscow has said any use of its frozen assets would amount to theft, also warning it could retaliate by seizing about €200 billion in Western assets held in Russia, though it has so far stopped short of doing so. Commenting on the latest ruling, lawyers for Euroclear, Sergey Savelyev and Maksim Kulkov, claimed to RBK that its right to a fair trial had been violated but declined further comment due to the closed nature of the proceedings. The Bank of Russia described the ruling as fair, noting that it takes into account not only the ongoing nature of the violation, but also the risk that any delay in enforcement would prolong the restoration of the violated rights.

May 28, 2026

Featured • Jeffrey Sachs: An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Berliner Zeitung, May 27, 2026

Economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs is calling on German Chancellor Merz to begin immediate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about peace in Europe.

May 27, 2026

Featured • PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Cokehead of Kiev, Exposed, Consortium News, May 26, 2026

By dint of the efforts of many, in the Zionist case the Great Unsayable has at last been forced into the Sayable, to put this point another way. This is a major advance. Clear sight, clear thinking and clear language must always come before achievements in the cause of justice.

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What are we looking at? Whose war is it at this point?

Olivier Kempf had an interesting assessment in the April edition of Harper’s under the headline, “Has Russia won the war?” Kempf, retired from the French army as a brigadier general, answered his question in the last line of his essay:

“It may be too early to say Russia has won the war. But it is possible, at this point, to assert that Ukraine will not win.”

Let it at last be spoken, then: However long Ukraine fought the Russians in defense of its sovereign territory, this is no longer what the war is about — if ever it truly was, I will add.

Kiev’s corrupt leaders, abjectly careless of their own peoples’ lives, have turned the nation into a grotesque machine, something out of The War of the Worlds, solely to serve the West’s never-ending campaign to subvert the Russian Federation.

The suppression of radical honesty of this kind, which is the propagandists’ primary cause, is the No. 1 reason the war in Ukraine now grows more threatening to global stability.

According to Czech President Petr Pavel, a full half of the Kiev-supporting Western coalition has quietly abandoned Prague's flagship initiative to jointly procure artillery ammunition for Ukraine's military.

Pavel said that while 18 countries participated last year, only nine are still making financial contributions now. "This initiative has been delivering up to 50 per cent of all large caliber ammunition to the Ukrainians, so in this sense it cannot be replaced easily by anything else," the FT on Tuesday quoted the Czech president as saying.

May 26, 2026

Featured • NATO-made mines found on gas tanker arriving in Russia from Belgium – investigators (VIDEO), RT, May 25, 2026
Terrorism. Sowing the wind, to be sure.

Featured • Lavrov Tells Rubio, Russia Will End the War with Ukraine and the West, SONAR21, Larry C. Johnson, May 25, 2026

Today’s Lavrov-Rubio call was a highly significant and alarming diplomatic communication, covering three major topics. The call took place at Lavrov’s request, with Rubio currently on a four-day trip to India attending the QUAD meeting in New Delhi. State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott confirmed: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Minister’s request. The parties exchanged views on the Russia-Ukraine war, bilateral relations, and the situation in Iran.” Here is a full account:

Message 1: Imminent Systematic Strikes on Kyiv — By Direct Order of Putin

The most alarming element of the call was its primary purpose. By direct order of President Vladimir Putin, Lavrov informed Rubio that Russian armed forces are launching systematic strikes on facilities in Kyiv used for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The strikes are described by Moscow as a response to the Kiev regime’s continued attacks against civilian population and infrastructure in Russia — specifically citing a recent deadly attack on a college dormitory in the Russian town of Starobelsk which killed at least 21 people, mainly teenage girls, which Moscow described as “the last straw.”

Russian troops subsequently launched a massive strike on Kyiv using Iskanders, Zircons, X-101 cruise missiles, and Oreshnik hypersonic missiles — approximately 50 missiles and 700 drones.

Message 2: Evacuate US Diplomats from Kyiv

Lavrov drew Rubio’s attention to a Russian Foreign Ministry statement issued on May 25 recommending that the United States, along with other states with missions in Kyiv, ensure the evacuation of their diplomatic personnel and other citizens from the Ukrainian capital in anticipation of the impending campaign of systematic strikes.

Message 3: The Anchorage Agreements Are Being Undermined

...In light of the terrorist attack on the children at the school in Lughansk, and faced with the reality that this attack was facilitated by Western intelligence and technology, Russia has reached the limit of its patience and is going to put an end to Ukraine’s ability to carry out further terrorist attacks, even if it means killing US and European personnel. They have been warned. Russia is giving them time to withdraw. Any who remain in place are likely to die. That was the essence of Lavrov’s message to Rubio.

The UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Canda have rejected a proposal for NATO member states to spend 0.25% of their GDP on military assistance to Ukraine, The Telegraph has reported. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was hoping that mandatory funding for Kiev would be approved at the bloc’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye on July 7-8, The Telegraph said in an article on Sunday. A NATO insider told the paper that Britain, France, Spain, Italy, and Canada “aren’t very enthusiastic about the idea.” Out of the 32 member-states, the proposal was only supported by seven nations, all of which already spend 0.25% or more of their GDP on assisting Ukraine, The Telegraph said.

According to data from the Kiel Institute, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Nordic and Baltic countries currently spend 0.25% of their GDP or more on arming Kiev. Last week, Rutte conceded that the plan did not have the unanimous backing within NATO required for it to be accepted. “I don’t think this one will be proposed” in the Turkish capital, he told journalists. Mandatory funding had been intended to serve as a show of continued commitment to Ukraine by the bloc’s European members after American assistance to the government of Vladimir Zelensky ebbed significantly under US President Donald Trump, it added. A British foreign office spokesperson told the paper that “the UK continues to engage with NATO allies on all proposals to ensure the alliance can best support Ukraine.”

May 25, 2026

Featured • Paradoxically fear is the foundation of stability: deterrence works, Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, May 25, 2026
Like a true Russian hawk of his generation, Karagonov reaches too quickly for the nuclear option, but the rest of his and Trenin's analysis has to be appreciated at some level if we are to know our so-called "adversary" -- and in that mirror, ourselves. Only then can we see the road to peace.

A senior official in the GAO once said to us (in implied contrast to Congress), "You guys certainly learned how to add a long time ago." Applying that same radical discipline of addition, it turns out that prior to 2022, NATO countries were spending 16 times what Russia was spending on "defense," in dollar terms annually. Russia was merely a gas station with nuclear weapons, we heard many say (some of whom are still in high positions of government). With that real and symbolic economic disparity in the background, the idea of the Ukraine gambit was to break Russia economically and then politically (by the Maidan coup, and then building up a powerful Ukrainian army and using it to attack the Donbass, which started in 2014). This was to be a sort of reprise of the 1980s, we were told by influential hawks. Easy pickings. First Russia, then China.

The situation has certainly changed, but the fact of a huge potential disparity in conventional arms, especially including short- and-long-range drones, has not. Russia is very capable relative to NATO in the field, conventionally speaking, but cannot economically defend every military, industrial, and civilian target in the western half of the country against increasingly brazen drone attacks, assassinations, and terrorism from infiltrating groups. The manufacturing potential for drones in Europe and the U.S. is very great, and the will to use them not just in the former Ukraine but across all of Russia remains. Russian strategic forces and systems have already been successfully targeted, as has the President's home. Russia must find a way to stop all this, regardless of how effective overall its forces have been in Ukraine.

How can Russia reestablish strategic deterrence? Strategic patience has been misinterpreted as weakness, which is more or less the same ignorant and arrogant mindset that rejected mutual security and brought us this bloody confrontation. Nuclear arms control is meaningless absent a real desire for mutual security, stability, and peace. If the underlying motive remains the destruction of Russia -- which for many if not most Western political elites it still is -- arms control becomes a very one-sided affair, i.e. "we control the arms.",

I have heard that at the recent NPT review conference, Russia brought up the non-nuclear clause in Article VI. It is quite understandable that they did so. I wonder if the nuclear disarmament NGOs were really listening.

Karagonov and Trenin are telling us things we need to hear. If we can't listen we will remain squarely on the road to nuclear war. Given present leadership, a NATO miscalculation on top of the quite intentional confrontations being orchestrated all the time, e.g. in the Baltic sea, one that brings nuclear weapons into the equation, could occur at any time. Obviously, if the West can't understand the need for mutual security, there is not going to be nuclear arms control or disarmament.

Featured • Oreshnik Post-Strike Analysis, Simplicius, May 24, 2026
The U.S.- and U.K.-led Ukrainian gambit to overextend, destabilize, and colonize Russia failed. Now, it is one of the two rocks which have pierced the hull of the U.S.S. Hegemon, which struggles to stay afloat. Defeating Russia was to be the first step, constraining China the second. That plan is toast. Meanwhile European elites have adopted the largely off-loaded Ukraine project as their very own political-economic project, in true Orwellian "two-minute-hate" fashion. All this is obvious. The path to peace is not. It is much alas easier to imagine a wider war than a negotiated peace, given Ukraine as it is, Europe as it is, and the U.S. as it is. Trump-the-salesman could probably sell a Ukrainian defeat to ordinary Americans as he is trying to do vis-a-vis Iran, with the corruption and anti-democratic nature of the Kiev regime as a central talking point among others, but not to congressional hawks. And the longer military Keynsianism goes on in Europe, the more entrenched it will become, affecting the structure of society ever more deeply.

May 24, 2026

Featured • We see nothing: How has the West reacted to the Ukrainian strike on a Russian school dorm?, RT, May 23, 2026

Kiev’s backers refuse to acknowledge Kiev’s drone raid on Starobelsk that left at least 18 students dead and dozens more injured.

At least 18 [as of 3:22 MT 5/23/26, 21] people have been killed and dozens more wounded – most of them students – in a Ukrainian drone raid on a school dormitory in Starobelsk in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, search-and-rescue operations are still underway, with local officials reporting additional Ukrainian drone attacks aimed at derailing the efforts.

President Vladimir Putin called the raid a “terrorist attack by the neo-Nazi regime,” adding that he ordered the military to prepare retaliation.

Following the attack, Russia requested an emergency UN Security Council session.

However, despite ample evidence and videos from the scene, Western countries have cast doubt on Russia’s account, demanding “an independent investigation” and claiming that the tragedy took place on “occupied territory.” Lugansk, along with three other former Ukrainian regions, overwhelmingly voted in favor of joining Russia in 2022 in a referendum that Ukraine and its Western backers have refused to recognize.

...What did Russia say about the Starobelsk attack?

Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, led the charge at the Security Council, calling the Ukrainian strike an unambiguous war crime. He called the raid “a deliberate strike” conducted “with the aim of incurring the highest possible number of casualties.”

Nebenzia said the “European [countries’] cynicism has gone off the charts,” as none of them bothered to mention the dead students in Starobelsk. The West’s reaction “cannot be even called hypocrisy or double standards” – it is “blatant mockery of child victims,” he said.

...Has Russia invited Western journalists?

Yes. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced on Saturday that Moscow is extending an official invitation to foreign journalists to visit the site. She later said the BBC declined to send a reporter, while CNN is apparently “on vacation.” She added that Japan barred its journalists from covering the tragedy. According to Zakharova, however, many foreign reporters have signaled that they are willing to go to Starobelsk.

The Bottom line

Compelling evidence has not convinced Western countries – which have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Kiev in the conflict with Russia – to hold Ukraine accountable.

The last year of the Ukraine war has been marked by both warring sides remaining far from the negotiating table, instead opting for a battlefield solution, also as a deadly tit-for-tat drone and aerial war continues to unfold. This week things just got even worse concerning the distant prospect of restarting direct peace talks, something underscored by a fresh statement of Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations.

Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Friday after a massive Ukrainian drone attack on a college in Starobelsk (Starobilsk) in the Lugansk People's Republic that it's now impossible to negotiate with Kiev.

"This clearly confirms the treachery and non-negotiability of Kiev, which, with the encouragement of its Western sponsors, is not only not committed to a peaceful settlement, but also openly sabotages it," Nebenzia told a meeting of the UN Security Council.

"This deliberate attack on a civilian facility where children study and live, carried out at night when the dormitory was full, was clearly carried out with the aim of maximizing the number of victims," the Russian envoy continued.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed granting Ukraine a limited “interim” status within the EU as a way to deal with its accession ambitions, according to media reports on Thursday that cited a letter by Merz to bloc leaders. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly demanded full membership by the end of 2027.

Kiev was granted EU candidate status in June 2022, following the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Since then, it has pushed for fast-tracked membership while some bloc leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Merz, have described such demands as unrealistic. According to the German chancellor’s new proposal, Kiev would be allowed to tap into certain EU-funded programs, as well as request aid from EU members under the “mutual assistance clause” in the event of an attack.

Ukrainian representatives would also be allowed to participate in meetings of the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, but would not receive voting rights, according to the letter, cited by multiple media outlets, including Reuters and Euronews.The status, which Merz reportedly described as “associate membership,” would not replace the standard accession process and could be revoked if Ukraine backslides on the reforms demanded by Brussels.

“It is obvious that we will not be able to complete the accession process shortly, given the countless hurdles, as well as the political complexities of ratification processes in various member states,” the chancellor wrote, as cited by Euronews. Last month, Merz also said Ukraine’s “immediate” accession was “not possible.” Zelensky has repeatedly rejected anything short of full membership. Speaking to journalists at an EU summit in Cyprus in late April, he insisted that Ukraine had already “earned” its place in the bloc and did not need any kind of “symbolic” status.

Moscow has argued that Brussels uses the prospect of EU membership as political leverage rather than a genuine promise. Back in 2023, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the EU promise as “a carrot [on a stick] put in front of a carriage.”

On May 20, 2019, Ukrainians were cheering the inauguration of Vladimir Zelensky, a political outsider who won the presidential election in a landslide on a promise to chart a path different from previous national leaders, who had been elitist, corrupt and divisive. Zelensky promised sweeping changes, which he vowed to bring at the possible cost of his political career. In practice, he is now clinging to power under martial law, as his closest associates are mired in embezzlement and fraud scandals. In his first speech as president, Zlensky promised to end corruption, secure peace, and unify the nation of clashing identities. He delivered none of it.

A new yet familiar face

Zelensky won 73% of the vote against incumbent Pyotr Poroshenko, who ran on a slogan of “Army, Language, Faith” – a platform of narrow militaristic nationalism that demanded constant loyalty affirmations from culturally Russian citizens. Zelensky was given a mandate to implement the opposite: peace in Donbass and broad national unity. Underpinning his successful campaign was Zelensky’s image as an everyman good guy, cultivated for years by playing the role of president in the popular TV series ‘Servant of the People’, after which his political faction is named. The real Zelensky was an occasionally bawdy comedian, whose show – propped up by oligarch Igor Kolomoysky – was not above delivering scathing attacks to further its patron’s interests.

May 22, 2026

Featured • Ukraine reburies Nazi collaborator as Zelensky pushes for ‘hero pantheon’ (VIDEO), RT, May 22, 2026
Includes links to other background about the travesty of building Ukraine on the foundation of Nazi-collaborator "heroes" and mass murderers. The overall outstanding St. Pete for Peace is one of the few U.S. peace organizations that has not succumbed to the coverup.

Featured • At least six killed in Ukrainian drone strike on Russian school dorm (PHOTOS, VIDEO), RT, May 22, 2026
Don't be surprised when Russia strikes back -- hard.

 • NATO should ‘direct’ Ukrainian drones against Russia – Swedish PM, RT, May 22, 2026

Kiev’s UAVs are violating the bloc’s airspace by accident, Ulf Kristersson has said, blaming Moscow.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said NATO states should help Kiev “direct” its drone attacks “in the right directions,” blaming a string of Ukrainian UAV incursions into the airspace of the US-led bloc on Moscow.

May 21, 2026

 • "Drills Are Intended To Send A Signal": Russia Holds Massive Nuclear Drills On Land, Sea And Air Alongside Belarus, ZeroHedge, May 21, 2026

 • Dmitry Polyanskiy: Nuclear Option No Longer Taboo in Russia, Glenn Diesen, YouTube, May 20, 2026

May 20, 2026

 • Russian SVR Hints Strikes on NATO 'Decision-Making Centers' After Latest Drone Provocations, Simplicius, May 19, 2026
Wider war, and potentially nuclear war, in Europe? Who cares!

 • EU nation urges NATO to attack Russian exclave, RT, May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026

Featured • Ukraine preparing strikes on Russia from NATO country – Moscow, RT, May 19, 2026

Latvia’s membership in the bloc will not protect it from Russian retaliation, the Foreign Intelligence Service has warned.

NATO member Latvia has given Ukraine permission to use its territory for potential drone attacks against Russia, Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said.

Ukrainian UAVs have targeted northwestern Russia on numerous occasions in recent weeks, particularly energy facilities in Leningrad Region, although some of the drones eventually crashed in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland.

The SVR said in a statement on Tuesday that Ukraine “does not intend to limit itself to using the air corridors provided to the Ukrainians armed by the Baltic states.”

“The plan is to also launch the UAVs from the territory of these countries” against Russia in order “to significantly reduce the time it takes to reach the targets and increase the effectiveness of the terrorist attacks,” the statement read.

Ukrainian drone operators have already been deployed to Latvia at the Adazi, Selija, Lielvarde, Daugavpils, and Jekabpils military bases, the agency said.

Kiev persuaded Riga to agree to the operation by falsely claiming that it would be impossible to identify the exact launch site of the drones, the SVR said.

The agency expressed bewilderment about the “naivety” of the Latvian authorities, pointing out that modern reconnaissance methods and study of debris means the location from which a UAV was launched can be pinpointed with high accuracy.

The SVR warned that “the coordinates of decision-making centers on Latvian territory are well known, and the country’s NATO membership will not protect the accomplices of terrorists from just retribution.”

“Ultimately, the ‘caveman-like Russophobia’ of current Latvian leaders proved to be stronger than their capability for critical thinking and their sense of self-preservation,” it added.

The SVR said Ukraine is planning more drone attacks against Russia to demonstrate to its “ideological and financial supporters in Europe” that it is still capable of fighting and inflicting damage on the Russian economy.

May 18, 2026

Featured • The Spoiled Prince of Kiev: Zelensky has deceived and ruined his country with Western help, Tarik Cyril Amar, RT, May 16, 2026

And now Zelensky, the man who, it seems, would be Ukraine’s president forever, has just been bitten in public by a woman. Judging by the fierce, clearly orchestrated reaction of his media propagandists in Ukraine and the fact that the Western mainstream media are largely pretending not to have noticed, he must be bleeding, too.

The woman is his former press secretary Yulia Mendel. And she has been able to draw (metaphorical) blood because Tucker Carlson, American alternative-media heavyweight and conservative dissident from Trumpism, has interviewed her for his show.

That has made it a very public bloodletting indeed. What Mendel has had to say is one thing, her ability to reach breathtaking numbers of Americans and other inhabitants of the West is at least as important and, from Kiev’s point of view, frustrating: Across various platforms, shows of the Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) are watched by, on average, over 55 million viewers, dwarfing, for instance, Fox News (Carlson’s former employer) with its prime time rating of 3.2 million.

Recently, the Israeli-US war against Iran has further undermined public confidence in the mainstream media and boosted TCN. “Explosive growth” in the two first months of the war has produced over 1.5 billion “views across social media and podcast platforms.” Indeed, TCN is on such a roll that Carlson is now rumored to be a contender for the presidency, and he has not ruled out a run.

This is the amplifier for Mendel’s harsh memo to the US and the West. It is hard to think of a bigger one. And what a message she had to deliver.

Consider a few highlights: Speaking, she underlined, as “an insider,” from her own close experience with Zelensky and the inner circle of his regime, Mendel has told us all that she believes Zelensky personally “stands behind many schemes of money laundering” and that he has always remained an “amazing actor” whose image “on camera” is “very different” from his real self.

...Zelensky’s profound hypocrisy permeates his private life and politics. Mendel reveals, for instance, that he was still going on trips to Crimea – to have fun with friends and drugs – while it was already under Russian control. In December 2019, he privately told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine would never join NATO. While Zelensky’s public poll ratings are steadily declining, the polls produced for internal use are so bad that even some of his fixers privately admit that he is “unelectable.”

With no respect for the truth, Zelensky’s attitude to reality itself seems broken, even deranged. From her own conversations with him, Mendel reports that Ukraine’s leader believes that “it doesn’t matter what is [actually] happening.” Things, he has argued behind closed doors, become real when they are said often enough by enough propagandists or, as she quotes him, by “thousands of talking heads.” Considering this bizarre outlook, it is revealing and revolting but also somehow, sadly consistent that Zelensky, who is Jewish, has literally demanded “Goebbels”-type “propaganda” from his communications team.

As such, the latest threats from both sides could merely be posturing to warn off any further escalation from the other. But it’s likely that the voices inside Russian elite circles for major reprisals against Europe are growing louder in light of the successful strikes that Ukraine has been accumulating on Russian energy infrastructure.

In this case, we can say that Putin likely remains one of the last ‘fail-safes’ holding back the rising tide of angry turbo-patriot nationalists who’d love to exact revenge on Europe. One would think this should terrify European leaders into making sure Putin stays in power as a levee holding this back. But in reality, there are likely many at the top echelons of the Euro-cabal and Brussels mafia that would love for Russian hardliners to take charge and attack Europe because it would give the dying EU and NATO the casus belli it needs to sell war to the stupefied population, and allow them that great reset of the financial system they’ve been seeking for so long now.

May 15, 2026

Featured • Russia Rocks Ukraine With Unprecedented 1,500+ Drones in One of Largest Aerial Attacks Ever, Simplicius, May 14, 2026

 • NATO chief wants to triple money flows to corruption-plagued Ukraine – Politico, RT, May 14, 2026

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has urged member states to devote 0.25% of their GDP to aid for Ukraine, Politico Europe reported on Tuesday, citing diplomatic sources.Rutte reportedly raised the issue during a closed door meeting of NATO ambassadors late last month. If adopted, the proposal, first floated by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky last year, would effectively triple aid to Kiev to around $143 billion annually, according to NATO estimates of the allies’ combined GDP cited by Politico.

The proposal is said to be partly motivated by frustration among some countries that they are contributing more support to Ukraine than others. Several allies, including major NATO members France and Britain, reportedly oppose the initiative. The discussions on increasing support for cash-strapped Ukraine come as the country has been rocked by another major corruption scandal allegedly involving figures close to Zelensky.

May 14, 2026

 • Ex-Zelensky aide ordered to pay $3.2 million bail as corruption case opens, RT, May 14, 2026

Vladimir Zelensky’s former spokesperson, Yulia Mendel, has been added to a Ukrainian state-linked ‘kill list’ for telling American journalist Tucker Carlson of rampant cocaine abuse in the corridors of power in Kiev and the desire of a corrupt elite to prolong the conflict with Russia. Mendel worked with Zelensky for two years during which time she says she witnessed him change from peacemaker to propagator of war. The list is run by the Mirotvorets website, which has been linked to Ukrainian security services and is notorious for publishing the addresses and personal details of anyone remotely deemed an enemy of the Ukrainian state, including Russian journalists, some of whom were subsequently assassinated.

The website has accused Mendel of “humanitarian aggression against Ukraine, spreading “narratives of Russian propaganda, calling for Ukraine‘s “capitulation“, and indirectly taking part in information-psychological special operations allegedly run by Russia. Mirotvorets cited Mendel telling Carlson that the Ukrainian delegation at talks in Istanbul in 2022 was ready to agree to “all of Russia’s demands” in order to stop the fighting, but that Kiev was pressured by the US and UK to continue the conflict and that Zelensky is now “one of the main obstacles to peace.” It also cited Mendel’s comments that Ukraine is “on the verge of disappearing,” and showing signs of “unhealthy nationalism.”

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered Vladimir Zelensky’s former chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, into pre-trial custody, setting bail at around $3.2 million over.

The ruling was delivered on Thursday on the third day of hearings in Kiev. Yermak told the court he could not afford the amount and plans to challenge the decision on appeal. Prosecutors insisted that simple electronic monitoring would be insufficient to prevent the former official from interfering with the investigation.

The case stems from a broader corruption probe conducted by the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), which is focused on businessman Timur Mindich, a long-time associate of Zelensky. Mindich fled Ukraine last November shortly before investigators accused him of orchestrating a $100 million extortion network.

Investigators allege Yermak participated in a scheme that channelled illicit funds into an upscale real estate development outside Kiev. According to media reports, the project involved Mindich, Yermak, former Unity Minister Aleksey Chernyshov, and Zelensky himself.

May 13, 2026

Featured • Remember how the West laughed at Russia’s ‘biolabs’ claims? Here are the facts, RT, May 12, 2026

Featured • The Fall Of Zelenskyy: How Washington Is Engineering Regime Change In Kyiv, South Front, May 12, 2026
Mixture of facts, reportage and analysis, and subsequent speculation, all valuable for those who want to know what is going on in Ukraine.

Featured • The End Of The Zelenskyy Era? How Washington Is Systematically Dismantling His Inner Circle, South Front, May 12, 2026

It is believed that Washington exercises control over Kyiv specifically through this organization. Earlier, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff delivered an ultimatum from American authorities to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding an immediate end to hostilities. The start of a series of arrests may indicate that Kyiv did not accept the ultimatum and decided to continue the conflict. Therefore, Washington has resorted to coercive pressure by systematically removing Zelenskyy’s team.

Interestingly, during the nighttime operation, NABU agents cordoned off the British Embassy building. Doing so most likely prevented Ukrainian officials from seeking refuge under the British Crown. This suggests that the UK and the US have opposing views on the Ukrainian issue, meaning that the former unity of the Western coalition is no longer possible.

May 11, 2026

 • Europe is Russia’s principal adversary – expert (VIDEO), RT, May 9, 2026

Europe has become Russia’s “principal adversary” for the first time since the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Dmitry Trenin, has told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi. In the latest episode of Going Underground, the renowned international affairs expert said that “today, Russia is at war again, and this is not simply a war between Russia and Ukraine” but rather a proxy war against Moscow that is being waged by the West.

According to Trenin, while the US under President Donald Trump has increasingly distanced itself from the Ukraine conflict, European involvement has become progressively more prominent of late. He told Rattansi that elites in European capitals are using a perceived Russian threat in an apparent effort to consolidate the “crumbling” European Union and to “relaunch their economies through militarization.”“They’re trying, above all, to keep themselves in power” by pushing alarmist narratives regarding Russia, he added.

The West is busy rewriting the history of World War II, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated ahead of the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Russian officials have repeatedly accused the US and EU member states of distorting historical truth and belittling the crucial role of the Soviet Union, which lost an estimated 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.

Speaking on Thursday, Zakharova said that defending historical memory is a fundamental priority for Russia. This is all the more important in light of revanchist tendencies in the West, according to the spokeswoman. She pointed out that the 51 nations that voted against the UN resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” late last year were mostly representatives of the “collective West.”

May 10, 2026

 • Putin Rips NATO Aggression At Scaled-Down Victory Day Parade As Ceasefire Holds, ZeroHedge, May 9, 2026

By many accounts Russia’s Saturday Victory Day parade and memorial observances in Moscow’s Red Square were once again muted and somewhat scaled down compared to the immense pageantry which marked the pre-Ukraine war years. President Putin used the occasion while speaking in front of thousands of military personnel and flanked by a handful of world leaders to take swipes at NATO and the West, saying he’s fighting “just” war and called Ukraine an “aggressive force” that is being “armed and supported by the whole bloc of NATO”.

“The great feat of the generation of victors inspires the soldiers carrying out the goals of the special military operation today,” Putin said. “They are confronting an aggressive force armed and supported by the entire NATO bloc. And despite this, our heroes move forward.” He added: “I firmly believe that our cause is just.” The three-day Ukraine ceasefire announced and backed by President Trump appears to be holding, as no drone attacks have been registered on Moscow or other parts of the country. Large-scale drone waves were coming on a daily basis throughout last week. Massive bombardment of Ukraine has also ceased. Ukraine’s Zelensky had reportedly ordered his armed forces to adhere to the short ceasefire...

Ukraine’s most popular format for political content recently seems to be reading aloud invective-laden transcripts of Vladimir Zelensky’s closest political allies scheming about stealing in Russian. The ‘Mindich tapes’ could have serious ramifications for the government, as they purport to implicate Zelensky in unabashed corruption. The root of the escalating graft scandal lies in an investigation that Western-backed Ukrainian law enforcement agencies conducted into Timur Mindich – a business associate of Zelensky, known as his ‘bagman’ or ‘wallet’ in Kiev – who is now a fugitive and is fighting an extradition request from his hideout in Israel.

Investigators from the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) wiretapped Mindich’s luxury apartment in Kiev – reportedly between April and July 2025, when Zelensky tried to take control of the agency and triggered a wave of mass protest and rebukes from his Western backers. Some of the Mindich tapes served as evidence in their case exposing a $100 million extortion scheme, allegedly masterminded by Zelensky’s bagman, at Ukrainian state-owned atomic energy company Energoatom, and which led to Mindich running to Israel. Since mid-April, the Ukrainian public has been showered with what are purportedly parts of the records, though none have been officially released by the authorities.

May 8, 2026 Featured

 • Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority, Caitlin Johnstone, May 8, 2026
And so it should. Much more so than nuclear disarmament, which won't happen unless we, the U.S., stop being a killer nation, first and foremost. Featured

 • Moscow Threatens Mass Strikes on Kiev Center Should Zelensky Disturb Sacred V-Day Ceremonies, Simplicius, May 7, 2026
It is hard to pick and choose pull quotes from this excellent article. Featured

 • Germany Officially Bans all Russian Symbols on May 9th, The Last Refuge, May 6, 2026

GERMANY – Berlin police published an administrative order on 6 May restricting freedom of assembly and access to public spaces in the areas around three Soviet war memorials from 06:00 on 8 May until 22:00 on 9 May.

In the restricted zones of the Treptow-Köpenick, Mitte and Pankow districts, the wearing of military uniforms and insignia is prohibited, as is the display of the letters Z and V, St George’s ribbons, flags and items bearing Russian symbols, flags of the USSR, Belarus and the Chechen Republic, and portraits of their leaders, as well as depictions of Ukraine that exclude its occupied territories.

Russian military and marching songs – including all versions of Sacred War – are also banned, along with any actions that glorify Russia’s war against Ukraine. The ban applies to everyone present in the restricted areas, regardless of whether they are participating in demonstrations or not. (more)

May 9, celebrated as Victory Day, is one of the most significant and heartfelt holidays in Russia, symbolizing resilience, unity, and remembrance. This day honors the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. It is a time when the nation collectively reflects on its history, pays tribute to those who sacrificed their lives, and celebrates the enduring spirit of its people.

The Russian people, ordinarily invisible regular people, take historic photographs of their loved ones lost in World War II and prominently display them. Some cities and towns have marches where citizens carry those photographs during slow processions in silence. It is something rather remarkable to see and highlights a strong bond to remember just how many millions of Russians were killed during the great war.

It is more than just a day of respect, national pride and remembrance. It is a day that encapsulates the deliberate and hardened spirit of a nation. Nothing is open. The entire Russian Federation pauses to reflect on the character that defines what the word “Russian” really means. These are brutally stoic, deliberate and honest people; gifted culturally and generationally with an inability to pretend.

May 7, 2026 Featured

 • Moscow urges foreign missions to evacuate diplomats, citizens from Kiev, RT, May 6, 2026

Moscow has formally warned all diplomatic missions and international organizations about a potential large-scale retaliatory strike on Kiev, urging them to leave the Ukrainian capital immediately, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry announced a two-day ceasefire on May 8–9 to mark the end of World War II in Europe, urging Kiev to follow suit and warning of a potential large-scale retaliatory strike on Kiev. The ministry pointed to comments made by Vladimir Zelensky earlier in the day, which it said contained threats to target Moscow during the Victory Day celebrations.

Moscow’s warning must be taken with the utmost seriousness, Zakharova said in a statement on Wednesday. The spokeswoman revealed that the Foreign Ministry had sent a formal note to all diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Russia, urging them to withdraw their personnel from the Ukrainian capital ahead of a potential retaliatory strike.

“The Foreign Ministry urgently calls on the government of your country/the leadership of your organization to treat this statement with the utmost seriousness and to ensure the timely evacuation from the city of Kiev of the personnel of diplomatic and other missions, as well as civilians, in view of the inevitable retaliatory strike by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Kiev, including against decision-making centers” should Ukraine proceed with its “criminal terrorist plans,” the note reads, as quoted by Zakharova.

Russia is “well-aware” of the Western attitude toward Victory Day and the efforts to “rewrite history” and “systematically destroy Soviet memorial heritage,” Zakharova stated. “As they continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, they are acting as accomplices in the criminal plans hatched by the Kiev regime. However, the instinct for self-preservation should not fail them,” she added.

It still remains unclear whether Kiev would actually heed Moscow’s call and observe the May 8–9 ceasefire. After the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement, Zelensky branded the truce “unfair” and claimed that “no one officially suggested anything” to Kiev. Hours later, he unilaterally declared a ceasefire starting at midnight on the night of May 5–6, adding that Kiev would “act reciprocally” to Moscow’s actions.

Russia produced no official response to Zelensky’s announcement.

Moscow has condemned what it described as reckless militarization by the EU, accusing Western governments of seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia while trying to turn it into a “model external enemy” to divert attention away from domestic problems.

“It is no secret that an attempt is being made to impose on us the doctrine of ‘peace through strength’. Our response then can only be ‘the security of Russia through the animal fear of Europe,’” Medvedev wrote.

May 6, 2026

 • Moscow Targeted By Over 50 Drones, Country's 2nd Largest Refinery On Fire, ZeroHedge, May 6, 2026

Just in the last several days, Russian state media has recorded over 50 Ukrainian drone attacks targeting the country's capital of Moscow.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Tuesday confirmed that since the start of this month, Ukrainian efforts to target the capital region have greatly increased.

The distance of Moscow from the Ukrainian border is nearly 300 miles, but lately Ukraine has also demonstrated the ability of its long-range drones to target as far away as Perm and the Ural Mountains.

"The defense ministry’s air defense assets have downed yet another UAV. Emergency relief specialists are working at the scene, where the debris from the UAV landed," Mayor Sobyanin stated.

And he detailed, per TASS, that "from May 2 to 5, the capital was attacked by 51 drones. In the current 24-hour period, 19 UAVs have been shot down."

Also, one of Russia's largest refineries came under fresh attack on Tuesday, with Oil Price reviewing the following:

One of Russia's largest oil refineries, the 400,000 barrels-per-day Kirishi refinery southeast of St. Petersburg, was on fire early on Tuesday following drone attacks overnight, Bloomberg reports, citing satellite images from NASA.

...the Kremlin did not immediately comment on or confirm the shake-up, but it comes amid growing anger among the Russian populace and among leadership following a series of major Ukrainian drone attacks.

For example, the major Black Sea hub of the Tuapse Oil Refinery has been struck four times in the last several weeks, creating a local environmental disaster which has also seen days of large fires.

The recent series of highly destructive Ukrainian drone attacks has even reached faraway Perm, near the Ural mountains, where an oil complex there was reported struck.

These latest drone waves have not been stopped by Russian anti-air defenses, and Ukraine's cheap but highly capable drone attacks have appeared to easily thwart any countermeasures.

May 5, 2026 Featured

 • DAYS 53-65: World on the Brink in the Hands of a Madman, Joe Lauria, Consortium News, May 4, 2026

To those armchair warriors who think they are smarter than everyone else and ridicule anyone who thinks the American president sometimes actually runs the show and isn’t always subject to the wiles of the Deep State, consider what economist Jeffrey Sachs has to say about it.

Former British MP and TV host George Galloway asked him on Sunday: “If there is a war, it seems to rest on the tortured, fevered speculation and social media ramblings and so on of one individual. How can that be?”

Sachs responded:

“Do individuals make a difference? Well, when there are systems, the answer is no, not so much. But we have completely broken all rational systems in the United States. And by that I mean the actual processes of decision are quite exposed right now and they rest with Trump. It’s weird. But it’s not an exaggeration.”

“We’re not talking about an interagency process,” said Sachs. “We’re not talking about intelligence estimates. We’re not talking about a plan. We’re not talking about the president of the United States consulting with congressional leaders. We’re not talking about American public opinion, which runs overwhelmingly against everything that is happening.”

...On Consortium News’s Saturday evening program The World This Week, analyst Scott Ritter suggested that Putin may be offering Trump a grand bargain to solve both wars. Russia would save Trump from the trap he’s in in Iran and in exchange Trump would accede to Russian terms to end the war in Ukraine.

Presuming such an offer was made, it would not resolve the issue of the hold Netanyahu has over Trump, very possibly because Israel in all likelihood owns a copy of the unredacted Epstein files and videos, which could well incriminate Trump.

There would also be the matter of getting the fiercely Russophobic Europeans, chief among them Britain, to go along with a deal that would favor Russia. While Trump ridicules Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he reveres the king. He looks into the king’s eyes and appears to see another one.

How then might Iran be reassured of an end to conflict and an end to the threats of future wars? Iran might only be reassured if some way were to be found to tie American and Israeli hands in respect to further rounds of war on Iran — although how would Israeli hands be tied? Only (presumably) by cutting financial, munitions and intelligence support for Tel Aviv.

And that would imply firstly, ‘revolution’ in the global U.S.-Israeli structural relationship, and secondly, a different President.

Could an alternative be some sort of Sino-Russian guarantee of direct intervention were there to be further military escalation? Such a prospect would imply a new global concert of powers — an event that would seem premature at this juncture of time with the U.S. engaged in hostilities of various types and on different planes with both China and Russia, which themselves are escalating and not diminishing.

May 4, 2026

 • Ukraine Flexes With Much Deeper Drone Reach Targeting Russia's Refineries, ZeroHedge, May 3, 2026

Apr 30, 2026

 • Trump and Putin Discuss Ukraine and Iran in Phone Call, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com, Apr 29, 2026

President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Wednesday, during which the two leaders discussed the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

According to Russian officials, during the call, Putin said he was ready to declare a ceasefire with Ukraine on May 9 for Victory Day, the day Russia celebrates the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II.

Apr 29, 2026

 • 25,000 Ground Robots In Battlefield Planned By Ukraine For Frontline Logistics, ZeroHedge, Apr 29, 2026

Apr 28, 2026

Featured • Russia Still Seems To Have Hope For A Deal With Trump, Moon of Alabama, Apr 27, 2026

I do believe that Lavrov’s distinction between the U.S. and EU/NATO-Europe with regards to Ukraine is purely tactical.

Russia is still hoping to make a deal with Trump. But I am sure that it is well aware that it is the U.S. which is pushing for further European’s aggression against Russia.

Why else would Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, laud the German government plans for expanding its military if not for waging war against Russia...

Apr 26, 2026

Featured • Prof. Glenn Diesen : How the Hungarian Election Will Effect Europe, Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom, Apr 23, 2026

Apr 25, 2026

Featured • Russia Prepares to Fight Europe… White House Setting the Stage to Renew Attack on Iran, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Apr 24, 2026

Russia, based on a recent briefing by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is taking Europe at its word and is preparing for the possibility of a full-scale war. In an annual “reality check” with Russian NGO leaders in Moscow (April 24, 2026), Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered his most sobering assessment yet. .. The era of “proxy hybridity” is over—the masks are off.

Responding to European statements that Europe must be prepared to fight Russia in the next 3-5 Year Window, Lavrov stated bluntly that the EU is mobilizing for a direct military confrontation with Russia. In this strategy, Ukraine is being used as a “battering ram” to bleed Russia dry and buy Europe the time it needs to fully rearm its industrial base over the next few years.

The Minister emphasized that without NATO satellite intelligence and Western officers on the ground, Kiev would be paralyzed. This is no longer a “proxy” conflict; it is an open war against Russia. As the world undergoes a “geopolitical break,” Russian civil society is being tasked as a primary “soft power” force via NGOs. MFA promises to support projects in Asia and Africa.

Lavrov said:

“An open war has been declared against us. The Kiev regime is merely the ‘spearhead’ being used to buy them time. They couldn’t be any more obvious.”

Here is the Bottom Line: The Russian diplomatic corps has shifted from a “negotiation” posture to a “mobilization” one. Moscow is signaling that it is preparing for a long-term, high-stakes endurance match with a militarized Europe. This is not an extension of the Special Military Operation… This is preparation for war.

Apr 24, 2026

 • EU Finally Unblocks €90 Loan For Ukraine, Weighted Toward Military Spending, ZeroHedge, Apr 24, 2026

Apr 21, 2026

Featured • Power Again Rebalanced in Europe Amidst Political Shake-Ups, Simplicius, Apr 20, 2026
Useful political overview from multiple angles. There remains a considerable danger of the Ukraine War spreading to the Baltics or elsewhere. EU nations are desperately moving to military Keynesianism. Also of considerable interest: evidence that U.S. battlefield intel with AI (Palantir's Project Maven) was deeply helping Ukraine from the opening days of the war.

 • ‘Pandemic of fascism’ looming over West – Moscow, Apr 20, 2026

The West is being swept by a “pandemic of historical revanchism” as it seeks to erase the memory of World War II and rewrite the Soviet victory over Nazi ideology, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned. Zakharova made the remarks in an interview with TASS on Sunday on the occasion of Russia’s Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, which is being observed for the first time this year. The spokeswoman said that while for a time Russia was absolutely certain that WWII was “a sacred topic for the whole world,” many Western countries adopted a different approach.

Apr 18, 2026

Featured • PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity, Consortium News, Apr 18, 2026

Featured • EU spied on Orban for years – former Slovak minister, RT, Apr 16, 2026

The EU spy campaign that helped bring down Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a lesson to anyone who defies Brussels, former Slovak Interior Minister Vladimir Palko has warned. “What they did to Orban yesterday, they can do to you tomorrow,” he told the outlet ‘Marker’ on Monday. Orban’s Fidesz party suffered a landslide defeat to Peter Magyar’s Tisza on Sunday, with Tisza outperforming even the most one-sided polls to win a 54% to 38% over Fidesz. Magyar’s party now holds 137 of 199 seats in parliament, giving the incoming PM power to rewrite the country’s constitution as he – and his allies in Brussels – see fit.

That the EU wanted this result was obvious. Orban had been a thorn in Brussels’ side for 16 years and was an insurmountable obstacle to the bloc’s plans to approve a €90 billion loan package for Ukraine. Throughout the election, evidence of interference by the EU, Ukraine, and opposition-friendly Hungarian media trickled out of Budapest. With the election over, the full extent of the EU’s intelligence campaign against Orban – and its implications for populists across Europe – is slowly becoming apparent. “The defeat of Viktor Orban after 16 years of rule is not surprising at all,” Palko told Marker. “However, the tragedy is what happened in the election campaign.”

“Orban and his foreign minister were wiretapped by European intelligence for six years,” he continued. “Not Russian, not American. The secret service provided the content of phone calls to some journalists from several EU member states, and the members of the EU establishment used the content against Orban. This was an intervention into Hungarian elections.”

Palko, who served as deputy director of Slovakia’s SIS intelligence agency in the 1990s and interior minister between 2002 and 2006, confirmed information that had already surfaced in the runup to the election: namely that opposition journalist Szabolcs Panyi gave Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto’s contact details to an unnamed EU intelligence agency, that then wiretapped Szijjarto and leaked details of six years’ worth of his calls with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov back to Panyi and other pro-opposition reporters. Panyi’s outlet, Direkt36, derives 80% of its project costs from the EU.

Russia would have the right to retaliate if Finland and the Baltic states are deliberately allowing Ukrainian drones to pass through their airspace, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said on Thursday. “Recently, there has been an increase in Ukrainian drone strikes against Russia via Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia,” Shoigu told journalists. “As a result, civilians are suffering and significant damage is being caused to civilian infrastructure.” Either Western air defenses are proving ineffective, or these four countries “deliberately provide their airspace, thereby becoming open accomplices in aggression against Russia,” he added.

In the latter case, Moscow has the right to self-defense in response to an “armed attack” under Article 51 of the UN Charter, the security chief stressed. In recent weeks, Kiev has intensified drone strikes on Russia in what Moscow has characterized as “terrorist attacks,” with the Russian military regularly reporting hundreds of UAVs downed in a single night. Late last month, Kiev attacked Russia’s Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk with swarms of UAVs. The raids resulted in fires in both cities, which house extensive petrochemical infrastructure.

Apr 17, 2026

Featured • Serious Escalation: Russian MOD Implies Threatening Consequences Against Europe for Being Party to Conflict, Simplicius, Apr 16, 2026

A new RT piece highlights the significance.

A dispersed European industry is powering long-range attacks – and reshaping the nature of the war.

The article implies that Ukraine’s domestic drone industry is essentially one of “assembly”—taking parts actually manufactured entirely in Europe for the battlefield.

Ukraine has been virtually hollowed out, has no more funding, and has its entire armed forces now hoisted up by the European and Western “strategic rear”, which produces Ukraine’s drone industry. If we are to believe the earlier statistic, this means Europe is now essentially providing for the vast majority of Russian casualties on the battlefield.

For Russia, this situation is thus existential. It needs to find a way to hinder this “untouchable” Ukrainian “rear”. And the only way may turn out to be via strikes. There is likely a reason we saw the Oreshnik used on Lvov, right on NATO’s borders, as Russia has been trying to send a message to Europe that it may soon be left with no choice but to take out this “strategic rear” by any means necessary, just as Iran was forced to do in its recent conflict.

What should Russia do?

Apr 10, 2026

 • Putin announces Easter ceasefire, RT, Apr 9, 2026

Apr 8, 2026

 • German ‘militaristic frenzy’ could end in tragedy – Moscow, RT, Apr 7, 2026

Germany’s continued military buildup could lead to another tragedy on a global scale, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned. Last week, German media reported that male citizens who remain abroad for more than three months without prior approval could face penalties in line with a new requirement under the Military Service Modernization Act. The rule, which came into force on January 1, 2026, obliges German males between the ages of 17 and 45 to obtain permission before leaving the country for an extended period. The Defense Ministry said the measure is intended to maintain a reliable registry of individuals eligible for military service.

In a post on Telegram on Monday, Zakharova noted that previously German men were required to register before going abroad only during a “state of tension” or a “state of defense,” but that the measure has now been expanded to peacetime “as part of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s strategy of militarizing the country.” Germany recently moved to reintroduce lottery-based conscription as Berlin is looking to increase the number of its active troops from 180,000 to more than 260,000 by 2035. The spokeswoman suggested that “in the heat of militaristic frenzy, Germany has completely forgotten the lessons of history.”

Apr 6, 2026

 • EU acting like ‘suicide ship’ by keeping Russia sanctions – Slovak leader, RT, Apr 5, 2026

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has urged the EU to lift the sanctions on energy exports from Russia and resume dialogue, comparing the bloc’s policies to a “suicide ship.”Since the beginning of the US-Israel war with Iran in late February, oil prices have risen by 60% and gas prices by 70% in the EU, according to European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen. The bloc previously experienced price hikes after deciding to phase out deliveries from Russia due to the Ukraine conflict. In a post on Facebook on Saturday, Fico blasted the EU for “ideological blindness and incompetence” and accused Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky of exacerbating the crisis.

“I am not calling for anything else – only for a return to common sense. The whole EU, and especially the European Commission, are beginning to look like a suicide ship when it comes to energy security,” Fico wrote. He called on the EU to lift “the absurd sanctions” and take “vigorous steps” to restore flows via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, which delivers Russian oil to the EU through Ukraine.Kiev, which has long tried to pressure Slovakia and neighboring Hungary to abandon energy supplies from Russia, claimed that the pipeline was rendered inoperable by a Russian strike. Zelensky said last month that Ukraine would repair it if the EU prevents Hungary and Slovakia from blocking a $104 billion loan to Kiev.

Apr 1, 2026

 • Zelensky claims Russia has issued Donbass ultimatum, RT, Mar 31, 2026

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that Moscow has given Kiev two months to withdraw its forces from areas still under its control in Russia’s Donbass region. Zelensky made the comments ahead of scheduled talks with the US on Wednesday about resolving the conflict.

Zelensky stated that the upcoming negotiations with Washington are set to focus on a potential trilateral agreement to end the conflict and that one of the main issues remains the question of territory.

While Kiev continues to insist on freezing the conflict at the current battle lines, Zelensky claimed Moscow has told Washington that it expects to liberate all of Donbass within the next two months.

“Ukraine has two months to withdraw, and then the war will end. And if Ukraine doesn’t leave, then Russia will capture Donbass and the terms will be different,” Zelensky said, paraphrasing Moscow’s alleged comments to Washington.

...Donbass, along with two other former Ukrainian regions, overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in 2022, and Moscow has insisted that Kiev’s full withdrawal from the territory is a key condition for a sustainable peace.

The Kremlin has also said that it does not oppose security guarantees for Kiev in principle, but has insisted that they must not be one-sided or aimed at ‘containing’ Russia, and should only come after a peace deal is reached.

It also maintains any settlement must include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, denazification, and recognition of the regions that voted to join Russia as its territory.

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 • Vandals destroy peace sign at long-time New Mexico peace group for 6th time, press release, Aug 18, 2025
 • Bulletin 360:Five Russian strategic airfields attacked, planes destroyed; possible Putin assassination attempt, terrorist attack on Russian passenger train, call Congress and the President, Jun 1, 2025
 • Peace in Ukraine - How Do We Get There?, LASG virtual discussion with Scott Ritter and Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Jan 15, 2025
 • "Peace in Ukraine -- How Do We Get There?" A discussion in Los Alamos with Scott Ritter and Dmitri Trenin, Jan 7, 2025
 • Stop the War in Ukraine While We Can, Greg Mello, LASG Vlog, Jun 24, 2024
 • What were up to, and reflections on some opportunities and dangers at hand, Greg Mello, VFP Webinar, Jun 20, 2024
 • Can U.S. seize the moment for peace?, Greg Mello, Santa Fe New Mexican, Jun 16, 2024
 • Bulletin 346: Momentous events, and two op-eds, Jun 16, 2024
 • Press backgrounder: U.S. Considers Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal, Jun 10, 2024
 • Bulletin 345: Ukraine strikes Russian early-warning radar against nuclear attack, May 25, 2024
 • "Russophobia, the Ukraine war, and nuclear weapons," LASG presentation, Peter Kuznick, Steven Starr, & Greg Mello discuss the dangerous phenomenon of "Russophobia" in the West in the context of the potentially widening war in Ukraine, with its attendant nuclear dangers, video, Apr 16, 2024
 •Bulletin 342: Russophobia, the Ukraine war, and nuclear weapons," panel discussion in Santa Fe Tuesday April 16, 6 pm / Pit production: myths and contradictions, Apr 10, 2024
 • LASG friends ltr: "Russophobia, the Ukraine war, and nuclear weapons" -- panel discussion Tuesday April 16, 6 pm, St. John's United Methodist Church, Santa Fe, Apr 8, 2024
 • Bulletin 341: Pit seminar materials available; Russophobia seminar postponed; big jump in FY24 warhead spending as arms race takes hold; Ukraine losing war sparking panic in West, Mar 4, 2024
 • Bulletin 340: "Year in Pits;" Zoom update & discussion on pits 2/27; rich opportunities in the land of nuclear (dis)enchantment; end the Ukraine carnage and genocide in Gaza, Feb 22, 2024
 • The Real Purpose In Making The Bomb Was To Subdue The Soviets. Now Its Happening Again, On A Vast Scale. Why? July 22 At Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Reporter, Jul 19, 2023
 • LASG friends ltr: Ukraine over the tipping point; more on July 22 event in Los Alamos; comment on generic "nuclear disarmament," Jul 12, 2023
 • Bulletin 330: "'The real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets.'* Now it's happening again, on a vast scale. WHY?" A conversation with acclaimed historian Peter Kuznick and Greg Mello in Los Alamos, July 22, Jul 7, 2023
 • Ukraine War Makes it Harder to be a Nuclear Dove | Our Land, Laura Paskus, New Mexico in Focus, Jun 30, 2023
 • Bulletin 329: Russia rules out nuclear disarmament negotiations; second week of Ukrainian offenses fail; what will US and NATO do? Build 60 projects in LANL's Pajarito Corridor?, Jun 17, 2023
 • LASG friends ltr (06/15/2023) Pit production zoom today; halt military "aid" to Ukraine, which just kills more Ukrainians, accept peace
 • Ukraine; Biden's Manicheism; the U.S. cannot even conduct a nuclear arms race, let alone win one, LASG friends ltr, Mar 16, 2023
 • Ukraine protest and updates, pit production delays and cost increases in NNSA's new budget, LASG friends ltr, Mar 14, 2023
 • Antiwar rally 2 pm Saturday in Albuquerque; LANL pits delayed, endorse the "Call for Sanity"; Ukraine update; the Nordstream investigation (and likely impeachment) "imperative" LASG friends ltr, Mar 11, 2023
 • Ukraine losses mount toward critical point; ANSWER rally against the war is now 2 pm (not 1 pm), March 18, Albuquerque; nearly half U.S. citizens believe WWIII is near, LASG friends ltr, Mar 7, 2023
 • Ukraine news and views; antiwar rally March 18; pending guest editorial; pit production precis, LASG friends ltr, Mar 3, 2023
 • Bulletin 325: Understanding the Nordstream sabotage and punishing those responsible, Feb 18, 2023
 • Ukraine news with comments and excerpts; bookmark for future reference if desired,LASG friends ltr, Feb 8, 2023
 • Bulletin 324: Opposition to Ukraine war gains visibility in New Mexico and via our web site, more broadly, Feb 6, 2023
 • Anti-nuclear activist opposes helping Ukraine, encourages peace, Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb 5, 2023
 • Bulletin 323: "Nuclear Hotseat" interview / Ukraine war updates, Feb 4, 2023
 • Bulletin 322: Right and Left To Join in D.C. Protest: Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine / Bulletin of Atomic Scientists resets clock, blames Russia, Jan 25, 2023
 • $10 Trillion for Nuclear War: Racing to the Nuclear Cliff, The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, Jan 10, 2023
 • Bulletin 321: Last day for 2022 donations! / A few quick updates, Dec 31, 2022
 • Bulletin 320: Neocon humiliation -- or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics / 3 days left for 1:1 donation match!, Dec 29, 2022
 • Bulletin 319: Ukraine; NDAA: omnibus appropriations bill; fundraising --thank you; some matching funds still available, Dec 21, 2022
 • Stop the war now, Jean Nichols, The Taos News, Dec 19, 2022
 • Bulletin 318: Speak out now against further U.S. escalation in Ukraine; daily updates for your use, Dec 14, 2022
 • Agenda for tonight's emergency Ukraine meeting in Albuquerque, and by Zoom, Nov 15, 2022
 • Bulletin 314: Reminder re next week's antiwar, disarmament, & nuclear safety events: come if you can or tune in, outreach needed; pit interview on KNME tonight 7 pm; fundraising drive continues; erratum, Nov 11, 2022
 • Bulletin 313: Important meeting about Ukraine next week; DNFSB hearing in Santa Fe; more, Nov 7, 2022
 • Biden Administration releases aggressive nuclear strategy envisioning "first use" of nuclear weapons in wars like Ukraine, press release, Oct 27, 2022
 • Bulletin 310: Speak up! We urge you to take up the call for peace in Ukraine, Sep 25, 2022
 • Pope Francis: "World War III has been declared." We agree. Stop LANL's pit factory; Stop the U.S. war against Russia, presentation, Jun 15, 2022
 • Bulletin 301: Oppose the war! Demand and create accountability for lawmakers who fund and promote more war in Ukraine, May 16, 2022
 • Grave dangers loom in Ukraine war votes and escalations; opportunities open for journalists and citizens; We urge news media to widen debate, pose questions, create accountability, press release, May 16, 2022
 • LASG friends ltr: Thursday evening public discussion in Albuquerque: Ukraine, propaganda, progressives supporting Nazis and war, May 10, 2022
 • Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real, Brian Becker & Greg Mello discuss the U.S. policy of waging proxy war on Russia, BreakThrough News, May 4, 2022
 • Bulletin 299: Emergency call to action: stop Biden's proposed $33 billion war escalation, Apr 28, 2022
 • Bulletin 298: Talk on pits & renewed U.S. nuclear weapons production Tuesday evening 4/26/22; antiwar billboard; what you can do, Apr 25, 2022
 • The core debate, Searchlight New Mexico, Mar 23, 2022
 • Bulletin 294: Please consider forwarding this fine statement from UNAC re Ukraine, Mar 23, 2022
 • Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia, World Socialist Website, Mar 15, 2022
 •  A proposed solution to the Ukraine war, Greg Mello, Current Concerns, Mar 7, 2022
 • A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War, Consortium News, Greg Mello, Mar 7, 2022
 • Bulletin 293: Ukraine conflict: If you want a ceasefire (as we do), stop firing, Mar 5, 2022
 • Bulletin 292: Statement on the Ukraine conflict and war with Russia, Mar 1, 2022
 • "What can we in New Mexico do?," LASG letter, Feb 23, 2022
 • Bulletin 288: US nuclear weapons since 2020: continuity and change, Dec 7, 2021 (see discussion of US, NATO, and Russia)
 • Nuclear experts speak on the dangers of war between the US and Russia, World Socialist Web Site, Apr 15, 2017
 • US Leaders Reject “Nuclear Winter” Studies, Ignore Existential Danger of Nuclear War. Turn a Blind Eye towards Armageddon, Steven Starr, Global Research, Nov 1, 2016
 • The Ukraine Conflict: What's Behind It? Why Is It Important?, Sep 26, 2015
 • Bulletin 200: Warhead budget bloat; U.S.-caused Ukraine catastrophe at the brink; hello peak oil, Feb 8, 2015