No….The Ukraine isn’t gonna get cluster bombs as long as Biden is President….
A look at Putin’s actions beyond the Ukraine…..
Russia soilders come home with PTSD also..
I’m sure same for Ukrainian’s also….
Nobel Peace Prizes for Human Rights Defenders in Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine ….
Fighting continues in the Donbas region….
On Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia is adding to its nuclear stockpiles; the head of NATO said he worried that the conflict in Ukraine could spin “out of control.”
The comments follow a prisoner swap that secured the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian custody. Those negotiations did not thaw U.S.-Russian relations, Putin told a televised news conference Friday.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- Nobel laureates and a proxy highlighted their desire for an end to the region’s authoritarian bent. In her speech, Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties board, asked foreign leaders to “adequately respond to systemic violations” in Ukraine and to “stop making concessions to dictatorships.” Jan Rachinsky, historian and representative of the human rights society Memorial, asked countries to stop the “chain of unpunished crimes.” In her speech on Saturday, Natallia Pinchuk, who spoke on behalf of her imprisoned husband, Ales Bialiatski, decried Lukashenko’s “dependent dictatorship” that supports Putin’s military aims in Ukraine.
- Russia is “modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal,” Austin said Friday at a ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, where the U.S. Strategic Command oversees the country’s nuclear operations. He said the United States is on the verge of facing “two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors,” as China is also increasing and updating its nuclear forces.
- The conflict in Ukraine could become “a major war” between NATO countries and Russia if things go wrong, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned in an interview with Norway’s public broadcaster. He said that a wider conflict must be prevented and that “we are working every day to avoid that.”
- Griner was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center in her home state of Texas after landing in the United States on Friday. She “is resilient and so happy to be home and be with her wife,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.). U.S. officials said she was in good spirits. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer released in the exchange, was treated well during the swap, his wife told Russian news agency Tass.
- Britain expects Iranian backing for the Russian military “to grow in coming months” as Moscow attempts to obtain more weapons, including ballistic missiles, the Defense Ministry said in its Saturday update.
- U.S. officials have also issued warnings about a growing defense partnership between Russia and Iran. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday that “support is flowing both ways” in areas such as weapons development and training.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the town of Bakhmut as “burnt ruins,” and accused Russian forces of destroying it as fighting rages in the eastern Donbas region….