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President Vladimir Putin is being watched closely by experts and officials who fear Russia might be planning a military escalation with its neighbor Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Russian troops have reportedly gathered at the border with Ukraine, and experts fear Russia could be about to stage a repeat of its 2014 invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which prompted global outrage and sanctions on Moscow. “We all should be very worried, to be honest, I do share this assessment,” Michal Baranowski, director and senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Warsaw Office, told CNBC when asked if Russia could be about to embark upon military action against Ukraine, describing Russia’s highly tense relationship with Ukraine as being a conflict “under the threshold of war.” “This assessment is shared by many here…

Russia’s rage at and frustration with Ukraine has become very clearly visible. On October 11, former president and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, published an expletive-laden article aimed at Ukraine and at President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, describing his country as a vassal state of the US with whom it is impossible to negotiate. He accused the Ukrainian people of losing their identity (which for him and his colleagues is Russian) and described Zelenskyy as disgusting, corrupt, and faithless, having repudiated his (Jewish) identity to serve rabid nationalists. This, Medvedev continued, meant Ukraine’s head of state resembled a Jewish Sonderkommando, a reference to those incarcerated Jews forced on…

Найближчими днями у West Point – The U.S. Military Academy відбудеться похорон українця Миколи Кравціва — генерал-майора Армії США, який народився у Львові і виростав в Пласті. Своїми ідеями та новаторством від докорінно реформував американське військо, яке ніяк не могло оговтатись після війни у В’єтнамі. Він був єдиним українцем, якого у 100-річчя Статуї Свободи в Ню-Йорку особисто відзначив мер міста медаллю Свободи…

If you look up Babyn Yar on the Internet through Google or other search engines you will come away essentially with the following information: in two days following Yom Kippur, September 29-30, 1941, the Nazis murdered almost 34,000 Jews. On the evening of Yom Kippur, they advised the Jews of Kyiv to collect their belongings and valuables and come the following morning at 8 AM to a designated place. On the following two days, they brought them to a ravine named Babyn Yar, told them to strip, shot them and watched as their lifeless bodies fell into the ravine. It was the first mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust. While that number is certainly astonishing and…

Over the past few weeks, the West has increasingly seen aspects of the full potential force of Russian aggression. These include a menacing military build-up on the Ukrainian border, the weaponization of the energy market against Moldova and support for Belarus’s hybrid warfare, using migrants along its border with the European Union. The lack of clarity in Moscow’s intentions, and the Kremlin’s unwillingness to comply with international law and agreements, only exacerbate the situation. An expansion of the kinetic conflict in Ukraine may not be in the cards, but Russia has put most of the pieces in place should it choose to do so. Given the ever more…

Напередодні Дня пам’яті жертв голодоморів в Україні, який цьогоріч відзначається 27 листопада, Служба зовнішньої розвідки України публікує низку матеріалів із архівних фондів про те, як українські емігрантські організації створювали комітети допомоги голодуючим, як представники розвідувальних структур УНР і ОУН добували інформацію про голод в Україні, збирали докази злочинів сталінського режиму, виготовляли листівки та іншу пропагандистську літературу, яку нелегально переправляли до УСРР, намагалися донести світові правду про стан справ на батьківщині і як…

Якщо ви шукаєте Бабин Яр в Інтернеті через Google або інші пошукові системи, ви знайдете, по суті, таку інформацію: за два дні після Йом Кипура, 29-30 вересня 1941 року, нацисти вбили майже 34 000 євреїв. Увечері на Йом Кіпур, вони наказали київським євреям зібрати свої речі та цінності та прийти наступного ранку о 8 ранку у визначене місце. Іх доставили у Бабин Яр, наказали роздягнутися, розстріляли та спостерігали, як їхні бездиханні тіла падають у яр. Це було перше масове вбивство євреїв під час Голокосту. Хоча ця цифра, безперечно, вражає і, відверто кажучи, майже…

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) calls on the Government of Canada and the international community to take decisive steps in response to Russia’s escalation of aggression against Ukraine and increased Russian military movement near Ukraine’s borders. These military movements have been coupled with mistreatment and victimization of migrants by the Russian client regime in Belarus, and the purposeful destabilization of security at the EU’s border with Belarus. “For eight years Russia has waged a war of aggression against Ukraine, and is now again signalling a further invasion of sovereign…

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has assured Ukraine of the alliance’s backing amid what he called an “unusual concentration” of Russian forces in the area. Speaking at a press conference Nov. 15 in Brussels with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Stoltenberg said NATO members would continue to provide “significant political and practical support,” including military training, to Ukraine as the standoff continues. Ukrainian officials fear the current military context could foreshadow a repeat of Russian moves that led to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. NATO and the…