In recent statements, Moscow seems much more realistic about the consequences of actual conflict with Kiev and Western powers.

The White House is said to be considering the deployment of military advisers and new weaponry to Ukraine in a move that would probably cross President Putin’s “red lines”.

A report in Covert Action Magazine from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine describes grave fears of a new offensive by Ukrainian government forces, after increased shelling, a drone strike by a Turkish-built drone and an attack on Staromaryevka, a village inside the buffer zone established by the 2014-15 Minsk Accords.

In the early hours of a sunny July morning in 2020, Belarussian special forces stormed a spa hotel outside Minsk. The 33 Russian nationals who emerged, hunched over with their hands in handcuffs, were accused by Belarussian authorities of belonging to Russia’s secretive private military group Wagner, and promptly deported. Now, a report by investigative journalism site Bellingcat says that the Russians were lured to Minsk as part of a sting operation orchestrated by Ukrainian military intelligence.

The Kremlin’s sharpened rhetoric is accompanied by what some experts believe to be the early signs of Russia’s growing preparedness to escalate the military conflict in eastern Ukraine.

But there’s already a solution.

The United States and its NATO allies are busily arming Ukraine and engaging in other actions that encourage the leaders in Kiev to believe that they have strong Western backing in their confrontation with Russia and Russian-backed separatists.

The former leader of Ukrainian fascist paramilitary group ‘Right Sector’, known for its far-right views, has been appointed to the role of adviser to the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, he reported on Tuesday.

Yesterday the Washington Post as well as Politico were again engaging in warmongering disinformation. Both claimed that Russian troops are amassing at the Ukrainian border.

Russia says the use of Turkish drones near the Line of Contact is a violation of the Minsk Agreement, but Ukraine begs to differ.