The brutal treatment of ‘collaborators’ could extend to millions of people

UKRAINIAN forces were accused of shelling residential areas of the eastern city of Donetsk on Saturday night with hundreds of so-called petal mines littering the streets in the aftermath.

But they have no trouble issuing endless warnings to prepare for the imminent Russian invasion, which for some reason never comes

The rejection of one of Russia’s core demands comes shortly after NATO ruled out discussions of the principle of the “indivisibility of security”.

But what would all those DC national security pundits (and their journalist friends) do with their ample time if peace breaks out in Ukraine?

Written exclusively for the NCW website by Ukraine expert Dmitriy Kovalevich, this month he investigates the rumours and the reasons behind them that are currently circulating in the Ukraine’s and in some western media of an imminent threat of invasion by Russia.

The charade has come to a point that – diplomatically – is quite unprecedented: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lost his Taoist patience.

This past April, it appeared as if Russian President Vladimir Putin was preparing for a full-fledged invasion of Ukrainian territory. As many as 110,000 Russian troops, alongside additional military trucks, tanks and other armored vehicles, were being positioned close to Ukraine’s border in what the U.S. and Europe described as a highly publicized attempt at Russian coercion. Fortunately, a military incursion never occurred.

On Tuesday, 23 November, Russia’s most senior military general, Valery Gerasimov, had a “deconfliction” phone conference with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, in which the two discussed “pressing issues of international security.”

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies say Americans should hope that the CIA director’s recent visit to Moscow helped Washington understand the stakes.