To shame NATO and the U.S. more fully and openly into his war, Zelenskyy is accusing reluctant Western nations of being appeasers cut from the same bolt of cloth as Neville Chamberlain at Munich.

Since Sunday, 29 May, Ukrainian artillery has opened fire on exclusively civilian residential areas in the city of Donetsk and other cities in Donbass.

On 27 May 2022, we were in Svetlodarsk, just a few days after the city had been taken over by Russian and LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic) forces. The inhabitants told us about the eight years under Ukrainian rule, and the crimes (robbery and rape) committed by Ukrainian soldiers against the civilian population.

A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.

There is some very interesting news about the inner turmoils of the Zelensky Regime in its death agony. I have this piece by reporter Andrei Rezchikov, concerning the forced resignation of Ukraine’s “official” Ombudsman, a person named Ludmila Denisova. In her official capacity, Ludmila was responsible for guarding the human rights of Ukrainian citizens. Other job duties include: Organizing humanitarian corridors. Assisting refugees. Enabling prisoner of war exchanges. None of which she did.

Some of the most sensible commentary about the Ukraine war is being made by people in their nineties, born before the Second World War and with vivid recollections of the Cold War.

Russia pressing ahead in the Donbass while preparations are already being made for next assault in the south

The conflict in Ukraine must stay focused on what is good for Ukraine, not America.

In the Paris daily Le Figaro this month, Henri Guaino, a top adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was president of France, warned that Europe’s countries, under the shortsighted leadership of the United States, were “sleepwalking” into war with Russia. Mr. Guaino was borrowing a metaphor that the historian Christopher Clark used to describe the origins of World War I.

As Kissinger once said, to be an enemy of America is dangerous – but to be a friend is fatal