Even as Ukraine raids Russia, it is losing another key battle

Kiev hates that a significant share of the population refuses to conform with the “negative nationalism” that they’ve aggressively enforced upon them since 2014 by continuing to worship at the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches’ sites instead of the government-backed Orthodox Church of Ukraine’s.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces says it’s using the US-made rockets to destroy pontoon bridges in Kursk

Kursk operating same reactor model that melted down in 1986. IAEA’s Grossi says he’s enormously concerned, plans to visit

It has been three weeks since ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed into the Kursk province in southwestern Russia, surprising — or maybe not surprising — the U.S. and its clients in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Two days later, the AFU began artillery and drone attacks in Belgorod, a province just south of Kursk. It has been a little more than a week since explosions at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which lies in what is now Russian territory along the Dnipro River, ignited a fire in one of the plant’s two cooling towers. All six reactors are now in cold shutdown.

“I wrote an article some time ago entitled, ‘Ukraine. The Only Solution”. This article outlined what I believed to be the only possible solution to the Ukraine question if the objects of the SMO were to be achieved, and the future of Ukraine and the Russian borders made safe for future generations. Without going into detail, which I do in the article, that ‘only’ solution which can guarantee these essentials is the return of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

Conflicted Western leaders have encouraged and armed Ukraine to fight a war it has no chance of winning

The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought at a very costly price. The Ukrainian armed forces managed a lightning advance through largely undefended territory. But that territory is defended now, and the advance seems already to have been slowed. And though it seems to have lost momentum well short of its goals, Ukraine may still have to pay the full price.

Two weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise attack, Russian forces have recovered from the initial shock and are trying to use the expanding war to their battlefield advantage.

There is only one acceptable end to the war in Ukraine. And it doesn’t involve giving Kyiv the weapons it would need to entirely drive Russia out