The current Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced by Rustem Umerov Ukraine President Zelensky has annouced…
The new guy comes from the Ukraine Parliament, Not the military…
Confirmation that the Ukraine as installed anti-missle defense units around the port city of Odessa with the report of 23 of 25 Russian drones being shoot down there….
Turkey’s President wants to get Putin to resume Ukraine grain shipments…
Four shisp HAVE moved thru the Balck Sea from the Ukraine unharmed since the Russians backed out of the Turkey/Uraine /Russian Grain agreement….
South Africa wants everyone to know it NOT shipping arms to Russia….
Sweden gets invited to a NATO drill ran by the German Navy in the Baltic Sea….
Zekensky says his military IS advancing in taking back Ukraine teritory captured by the Russians…
Russian is offering money to men from neiborhing countries to fight agaiunst the Ukraine there….
Adoptions of Ukrainians are halted into the Russian conflict ends causing problems for those who were in the process ….
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects around the globe.
Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced by Rustem Umerov if the Ukrainian parliament approves the move, Zelensky said in a video Sunday evening. “I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction both with the military and with society as a whole,” he said. “I expect the parliament to support his candidacy.”
Umerov was a member of the parliament that will consider his appointment. He has been involved with Russia-Ukraine negotiations.
Air-defense systems downed 22 of 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones headed for Odessa, Ukraine’s air force said Sunday on Telegram, noting that the attack lasted more than three hours. The Washington Post could not immediately verify the assertions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are scheduled to meet in Russia on Monday for what could be discussions integral to reviving the grain initiative. The Turkish government wants to resume the grain deal in an effort to lower global food prices, according to the state-owned Anadolu Agency. “We’re cautious, but we hope we’ll achieve success because this is necessary for the whole world,” Erdogan aide Akif Cagatay Kilic told a Turkish broadcaster. When Russia terminated its end of the agreement this summer, Zelensky called the move “blackmail.”
Umerov was a member of the parliament that will consider his appointment. He has been involved with Russia-Ukraine negotiations.
Air-defense systems downed 22 of 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones headed for Odessa, Ukraine’s air force said Sunday on Telegram, noting that the attack lasted more than three hours. The Washington Post could not immediately verify the assertions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are scheduled to meet in Russia on Monday for what could be discussions integral to reviving the grain initiative. The Turkish government wants to resume the grain deal in an effort to lower global food prices, according to the state-owned Anadolu Agency. “We’re cautious, but we hope we’ll achieve success because this is necessary for the whole world,” Erdogan aide Akif Cagatay Kilic told a Turkish broadcaster. When Russia terminated its end of the agreement this summer, Zelensky called the move “blackmail.”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declined to release a report on potential weapons loaded onto a Russian vessel in December, saying the report’s evidence was “classified.” U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety told reporters in May that South Africans loaded weapons onto a ship called the Lady R outside Cape Town. No arms were exported, Ramaphosa posted Sunday on X.
Germany’s navy will host joint exercises with NATO nations in the Baltic Sea this month. Fourteen nations will send 3,200 troops to train off the coast of Latvia and Estonia, including future NATO member Sweden, according to a news release from the German navy. The exercises began in 2007, Rear Adm. Stephan Haisch said in the announcement, and for the first time “a realistic scenario is being practised within the framework of alliance defence.”
The Nobel Foundation reversed an earlier decision to invite Russia and its ally Belarus back to this year’s awards ceremony in Sweden amid backlash from Swedish and Ukrainian officials. Russia and Belarus were excluded from the event last year because of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine halted adoptions. Now some orphans are stuck in limbo: Wendy and Leo Van Asten first met “M and M” — a brother and sister from eastern Ukraine — when the children stayed at the couple’s home near Madison, Wis., for four weeks at the end of 2018, as part of a program connecting Ukrainian orphans and foster children with American families. The bond with the children was immediate, they said.
The couple instantly started the adoption process, maintaining contact with M and M — whom they call by the initials of their first names out of affection and to protect their identities. But nearly five years later, it is unclear whether the couple will ever get their wish, David L. Stern reports.
Ukrainian officials have halted international adoptions until the end of the war. And many Western officials and analysts say fighting could continue for years — a prospect that fills families such as the Van Astens with desperation….