U.S. to Send Mobile Rocket Launchers to Ukraine in $625 Million Aid Package -Officials

  Backlink: US NEWS The Biden administration’s next security assistance package for Ukraine is expected to include four High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers, munitions, mines and mine-resistant vehicles, two sources briefed on the $625 million package told Reuters on Monday.       […]

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Ukraine troops say they take key town, Putin ally mulls possible nuclear response

  Backlink: REUTERS  Ukrainian troops said on Saturday they had taken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons. […]

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Ukraine applies for NATO membership, “Now is not the time” says national security adviser

  Backlink: RT The US is committed to the “open door” policy when it comes to NATO, but now is the wrong time to consider Ukraine’s membership application, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday.       […]

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IMF Says Ukraine War Prompts Worst Global Food Crisis Since at Least 2008

  Backlink: VISIONTIMES The Ukraine war’s disruptions to grain and fertilizer flows have prompted the worst food security crisis since at least the one following the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown, with some 345 million people now facing life-threatening shortages, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday.       […]

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EU proposes fresh sanctions on Russia after ‘sham referendums’ in Ukraine

  Backlink: EURO NEWS The European Union aims to impose a price cap on Russian oil and further restrict commercial links with Moscow with a fresh package of sanctions announced on Wednesday by Ursula von der Leyen. The latest proposal comes in direct response to the referendums held in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine and the decree of partial […]

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‘Cosmic’ and ‘phantom’ UFOs are all over Ukraine’s skies, government report claims

  Backlink: SPACE Astronomers observed dozens of objects that “cannot be scientifically identified.” The skies over Kyiv are swarming with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to a new report from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. […]

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US Military Industrial Complex Grants Zelensky an Audience, Foreshadowing Escalation of War With Russia

  Backlink: VISIONTIMES The U.S. military industrial complex is set to grant Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a personal audience as the Keynote Speaker to an upcoming crucial industry conference. The move may set the stage for a forthcoming escalation of a key geopolitical inflection point that has fallen off most people’s radar: the ongoing war […]

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Top Russian Commander of Invading Army Captured by Ukraine—Report

  Backlink: NEWS WEEK Ukrainian media outlets and social media users have speculated that a top Russian commander has been captured as Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces gathers pace. Images and video shared on Twitter and Telegram purportedly show Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi among a group of Russian troops handcuffed on their knees with one social media […]

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‘Substantial victory’ for Kyiv as Russian front crumbles near Kharkiv

  Backlink: REUTERS Ukrainian forces were charging through an expanding area of previously Russian-held territory in the east on Friday after bursting through the frontline in a surprise breakthrough that could mark a major turning point in the war. […]

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Russia’s ‘Thinly Held’ Defenses Wrecked by Ukraine Counter-Offensive: U.K.

  Backlink: NEWS WEEK Ukraine’s counter-offensive in occupied Kherson is wrecking Russia’s “thinly held” defenses in the region that was seized by Moscow in the early stages of the war, the U.K. Ministry of Defense recently said. The British defense ministry said in an intelligence update Wednesday that Ukrainian armored forces have continued to assault Russian […]

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