Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t win war unless US lifts limits on striking military targets in Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the allies’ support for providing new military aid and a path to NATO membership. But Zelensky also said Ukraine could not win a war with Russia unless restrictions on the use of US weapons to attack military targets inside Russia were lifted. Russia’s devastating missile attack on the eve of […]
Biden Ignoring Budapest Memorandum Commitments to Ukraine
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: The following article was published February 22, 2022 and is dated given the massive and brutal invasion by Vladimir Putin’s military forces to decapitate the Ukrainian democratically elected government. The article is published in The Prickly Pear to highlight the increasingly incompetent Biden foreign policy and the consequences […]
Ukraine war briefing: Russia launches ‘double tap’ missile attack on a small town near Kharkiv | Russia
Russia launched a “double tap” missile attack on a small town near Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people, a paramedic and a police officer, authorities said.Authorities also reported that a series of attacks in the southeastern Donetsk region killed four people, and two more in the southern Kherson region. Prosecutors said the mid-afternoon missile […]
Fire at Russian Oil Depot After Reported Ukraine Drone Strike
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An oil depot in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region caught fire in a Ukrainian drone attack early Saturday, local officials said, the latest long-range offensive by Kiev’s forces into the border region. Ukraine has stepped up air strikes on Russian territory in recent months, targeting refineries and oil terminals in an effort […]
Jeffrey Sachs: Ukraine escalation could go nuclear
Cancel culture is Did not exist Or effectively banned. But try telling that to Jeffrey Sachs, the globally respected economist who faced cancellation simply for telling the truth. To this day, he is shunned by the media that once sought his comments. When he strayed from the approved talking points, he was summarily banished. Banned, […]
Ukraine pushes NATO to allow attacks on Russia’s key bases
Western restrictions on the use of Western weapons to strike Russian targets have made it “impossible to fight” effectively, according to a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The partners have to take off any restrictions to use these weapons, not just [on] Ukrainian territory but have the possibility to answer, including [on] the […]
The cost of Biden's complacency in Ukraine
There is a woefully lacking sense of urgency from Washington and Brussels to provide Ukraine with the weapons and ammunition it needs to survive and ultimately defeat Russia. President Joe Biden’s comments following Monday’s missile attack on Kiev are proof enough. He said:condemned the missile attackThe president described the incident as a “horrifying reminder of […]
NATO: Ukraine on ‘irreversible’ path to membership
Defense andInternational Security Full text The US has announced that it will transfer strategic weapons, including hypersonic missiles, to Germany. The United States and Germany announced on Wednesday that they would move more strategic weapons to Europe, including an undeveloped hypersonic missile system, amid rising tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine. The White House […]
NATO declares Ukraine on 'irreversible' path to membership
Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership, NATO’s 32 member states confirmed in a joint statement on Wednesday, the second day of their summit in Washington. The allies have been negotiating for months about what language to include in the joint statement, but discussions on specific language, including “irreversible,” continued in Washington throughout […]
UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer | Defence policy
Keir Starmer said his new government would stick to plans to spend at least £3 billion a year on military aid to Ukraine for as long as the conflict with Russia continues. Speaking after his first official bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit in Washington, the prime minister confirmed that […]