Just days before the Nord Stream gas pipeline attack in September 2022, warships belonging to the U.S. Navy were on the scene and ordered nearby officials to keep away.
That is according to John Anker Nielsen, who is harbour master at Christiansø, the easternmost part of Denmark in the Baltic Sea, northeast of the island of Bornholm and close to the sites of the Nord Stream explosions.
Vladimir Putin has demolished his favourite Black Sea holiday villa where regular Ukrainian drone attacks have made the area dangerous to visit.
Satellite images published by the Russian opposition website Proekt showed a gaping hole in the ground where Putin’s dacha near Sochi had once stood.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with former President Trump, though it led to nothing concrete, was a sensible move by both sides. In Zelensky’s case, it was an acknowledgement of the obvious fact that Trump may win in November, and it will then be desperately important for Zelensky to have some kind of working relationship with him. For Trump, the meeting was meant to protect him against allegations of being an ally of Putin, and also acknowledged the simple truth that if he is elected and wishes to promote an end to the war in Ukraine, he will have to deal with Zelensky.
It was billed as a decisive week for Ukraine.
A chance for President Volodymyr Zelensky to present his boldly named “victory plan” to America’s most powerful politicians, during a visit to the US.
But it’s unclear if Kyiv is any closer to getting any of the key asks on its wish list.
And Zelensky has antagonised senior Republicans, including Donald Trump.
Zelensky told the New Yorker magazine he believed Trump “doesn’t really know how to stop the war”, while he described his vice-presidential running mate JD Vance as “too radical”.
The Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, as a feud between the Republican Party and Volodymyr Zelensky escalates.
Johnson’s intervention comes after President Zelensky visited an arms factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania – the hometown of President Joe Biden in a key swing state – with several top Democrats.
In a public letter, the top Republican said the visit was “designed to help Democrats” and claimed it amounted to “election interference”.
President Zelensky is in the United States for his latest, possibly last, throw of the dice before the American election, in his attempt to prove that victory can be achieved against Ukraine’s Russian invaders.
The redoubtable leader of Ukraine has brought what he calls his ‘victory plan’, which embraces every facet of his nation’s future. It includes his strategy for forcing President Putin to end the war and for the West to guarantee his beleaguered country’s long-term security and economic prosperity.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is bashing former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), attacking them in American media outlets and touring an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania Sunday — reportedly arriving there at the taxpayers’ expense on an Air Force jet.
“One personal highlight from my week was being accused of enabling fascism by a member of the King’s Privy Council because I argued a film shouldn’t be cancelled under pressure from politicians and special-interest groups. “For Chris Selley, screening Russian intel operations at (the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)) is free speech: peak Canadian naïveté fuelling Kremlin war propaganda,” former Conservative immigration minister Chris Alexander ventured on X. “If Ukraine’s only friends were as fair-weather as Canada, the war against fascism would be lost.”
Canadians fighting over whether to ban a film funded by Canadians. Do we not have better things to do?
Donald Trump doesn’t know how to stop the war in Ukraine, despite claiming he could end it on his first day as US president, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
In his harshest criticism yet of the Republican presidential nominee, the Ukrainian president also described Trump’s running mate JD Vance as “dangerous” and “too radical”.
“His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice,” Mr Zelensky said of Mr Vance in an interview with the New Yorker magazine before he flew to the US to present his “Victory Plan” to the White House this week. “But I believe that we have shielded America from total war.”
This will not win Hearts and Minds.
The Polish government has called upon other European nations to halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age. “Stop paying those social security payments for people who are eligible for the Ukrainian draft. There should be no financial incentives for avoiding the draft in Ukraine,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Friday, September 13th, at a conference in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
Around 970,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighbouring Poland since the start of Russia’s invasion two-and-a-half years ago. About a third of them—300,000 people—are men of military age, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, who added that there are an estimated one million men in total who have left Ukraine.
A plan to rebuild and modernize two dozen decommissioned Canadian light armoured vehicles for donation to Ukraine is stuck in bureaucratic limbo more than nine months after the defence department handed the vehicles over to an Ontario company that specializes in restoration, CBC News has learned.
Defence Minister Bill Blair signed off on the transfer last January. He said negotiations between Armatec Survivability in Dorchester, Ont., and the Canadian Commercial Credit Corporation (CCC), an arm of the federal government, are still ongoing.
Zelensky loves Justin and Freeland but I suspect he will only accept cash support in future.
Pentagon officials say US can’t supply many more long-range missiles to Ukraine because it needs to keep a ‘healthy reserve’
Britain and the US fear Russia may have shared nuclear secrets with Iran in exchange for missiles to use in its war against Ukraine.
At their summit in Washington DC, Sir Keir Starmer and Joe Biden discussed the threat from the strengthening military cooperation from two of the West’s biggest adversaries.
It comes days after it was revealed Iran has accumulated four “significant quantities” of enriched uranium which could each be used to make a nuclear bomb.
No worries Ukraine! Canadian military Second World War pistols slated for destruction will instead be sent to Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky accused the West of emboldening Vladimir Putin as the United States put off a decision to arm Ukraine with long-range missiles amid escalating tensions.
The Ukrainian president questioned Britain and America’s commitment to supporting Ukraine’s defence against Russia, expressing frustration at the time it was taking for them to authorise the use of western-supplied missiles to strike targets across the border.
Citing security concerns, organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have paused the upcoming North American premiere of the new documentary Russians at War, which has been heavily criticized by members of the Ukrainian community.
The decision, which affects the three public screenings of the film set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, arrives one day after TIFF issued a statement standing firm on its decision to screen the film following a storm of controversy over the production, including the decision by Ontario’s public broadcaster TVO, which helped fund the documentary, to pull its support.
Vladimir Putin has warned that Nato would be “at war” with Russia if the West gives Kyiv a green-light to use longer-range weapons to strike targets inside his country.
“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict… It would mean that Nato countries are at war with Russia,” the Russian president told a state television reporter on Thursday afternoon.
The United States may allow Ukraine to use British and French missiles but not its own longer-range weapons inside Russia, according to two sources familiar with discussions that have taken place.
