In this noteworthy article, written exclusively for the NewColdWar website, Slava Myrolub describes another war. A quiet but nonetheless horrific war, it is one in which critics of Ukraine’s regime are being kidnapped by the country’s security services and, while their whereabouts remain unknown, they are being forced to make statements on social media contradicting their widely known, respected and firmly held beliefs.

Those of you who followed the link on my essay of yesterday and watched the 10 minute interview with Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko on TRT World’s “Newsmakers” program will surely agree that this high visibility Ukrainian politician is leading the remaining residents of the country’s capital and the broader population of Ukraine straight to disaster in the name of patriotic self-defense.

‘I support everything that is for victory and for Putin,’ one villager said

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has, in the context of the tragic conflict now raging in his country, been propelled from the most unlikely leader of a country mired in corruption with a parlous economy into something approximating to Marvel superhero, doughtily defending Ukraine against an implacable Russian bear in the cause of Western values of democracy, human rights, the rule of law and, well, by now we all know the script.

Far rightist Azov troops’ mobilization of potent Nazi symbols muddies the waters of Western support for the Ukrainian resistance

Speaking to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for many things from the United States.

We can now add the lives of Ukrainians to the death toll of two decades of unnecessary war, spurred by Washington’s arrogance and myopia.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine, looking for a cause or simply to fight.

There is a distinct sentiment across Asia, Africa and the Arab world that Europe is throwing itself into a disaster and that the international order itself is crumbling

We’ll skip peace talks, and go straight for Russian regime change?