The Ukraine invites the Indain Prime Minsisrere to see the war damage…
Getting ready for the Ukraine Spring counter offensive…
Bakhmut is getting leveled…..But the Ukraine force STILL hold piece of it…
Russia maybe bringing its best troops to break the stalmate there ….
‘War is Hell’…..
War Prisonor swaps go on….
That and Grain talks are the only communication beween the two waring countries….
Is Putin conquering Belrus without a shot taken?
Oh, The Ukraine is now drafting men for combat duty also…..
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kyiv to experience the damage of the war firsthand, a tactic the country has also tried with China. Here’s what we are covering:
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In an effort to court Russia’s friends, Ukraine invites India’s prime minister to Kyiv.
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Russia has adopted ‘scorched earth’ tactics in the fight for Bakhmut, a senior Ukrainian commander says.
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Who leaked the U.S. intelligence documents? No one will say, but the Kremlin has some observations.
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Ukraine hopes an anticipated counteroffensive will crush Russia’s aspirations, but a victory is far from certain.
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Near Ukraine’s front lines, soldiers learn how to deal with combat stress.
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Ukraine emerges from its ‘most difficult winter,’ ending blackouts and able to resume energy exports….
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Ukraine and Russia swapped prisoners Monday, each side sending about 100 home, as they have periodically throughout the war.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- The Defense Department is still assessing the validity of the leaked documents that have triggered a Justice Department investigation, Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said. “An interagency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on U.S. national security and on our Allies and partners,” she said in a statement Sunday.
- The Kremlin is analyzing the leaked documents, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, describing them as “quite interesting.” “They are all being studied, analyzed, widely discussed,” he said, adding that revelations of U.S. spying on other countries were unsurprising. Asked about allegations of Russian involvement in the leaks, he said there was no need to comment, citing a “tendency to blame everything on Russia.”
- The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces said Russia is bringing in special forces and airborne assault units to reinforce its assault on the eastern city of Bakhmut, which has been the focal point of fighting in the Donetsk region for months. In comments to Reuters on Monday, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky said Russian airstrikes and artillery are destroying buildings and positions. He described the situation as “difficult but controllable.”
- Russian air defense forces are practicing border protection in the northwest after Finland’s accession to NATO and Sweden’s membership bid, Lt. Gen. Andrey Demin, commander of Russian air defense forces, said in comments published Monday. Finland joined NATO this month, doubling Russia’s land border with the military alliance. The two Nordic nations applied to join last year, a change in Europe’s security landscape triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- “Another large POW swap was successful,” Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, said on Twitter. “We are bringing home 100 of our people. Among them are soldiers, sailors, border guards, and national guardsmen.”
- “106 Russian servicemen who had been held captive in mortal danger were returned from Kyiv-controlled territory,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. “The freed servicemen will be flown to Moscow by Russian Air Force air transport planes for treatment and rehabilitation in medical facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
- Intermittent exchanges of prisoners, and of dead bodies, remain one of the few instances in which Moscow and Kyiv are still coordinating directly.
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko saidRussia must guarantee it will defend his country as its own territory in the event of external aggression, according toBelarusian state news agency BelTA. Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, made the comments Monday at a meeting with Russia’s defense minister in Minsk.
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The Ukraine draft and short time US Marine type basic training……
Almost a quarter-million Ukrainians will turn 18 this year — making them old enough to sign up to fight, or, if they’re male and still in the country, too old to leave.
The Ukrainian army has long relied on volunteers. But now many Ukrainian men — even those working as volunteers or doing other useful jobs as civilians — cannot escape the draft, or at least registering in military offices….
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Thousands of other civilians are preempting such situations, instead signing up in droves for a force called the Offensive Guard — made up of eight new assault brigades.
Some are responding to the posters plastered across the country’s highways calling on civilians to join — and “turn your rage into a weapon.” The young men may have recently turned 18 and now qualify, or have cleared up family obligations that previously stopped them from joining. Others hope enlisting of their own accord will give them better training and prestige than if they were drafted….
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The training condenses the roughly three-month U.S. Marine Corps basic training into just four weeks, he said. During that time, the troops learn everything from marksmanship and cartography to radios and engineering. It’s possible — likely even — they could then be deployed almost immediately to the country’s hottest front lines…..