On Monday, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) warned that the latest Senate proposal to provide funding for Ukraine and Israel has a provision buried inside it designed to trigger Trump’s impeachment should he win reelection in November.
Well that should drain support for Ukraine.
An international team of investigators say they have tracked down eight Ukrainian children, believed to have been abducted during Russia’s invasion.
More than 60 detectives used digital open source techniques to trace the missing children who are understood to have appeared in Russian propaganda.
Experts from 23 countries joined forces at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague.
They used advanced facial recognition to find recent images of the children online.
We have been warned — over and over again lately — that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an inflection point in history.
And while the soaring political rhetoric may have sounded good over the last few years, it’s very likely that this week — after a cascade of events in Kyiv, Moscow, Washington and, yes, even Ottawa — we truly arrived at that turning point.
We just might not like where it’s going.
Protesters in Kiev demand the immediate resignation of Zelensky chanting “Zelensky — get out.”
Under Zelensky’s Presidency, presidential elections have been suspended and freedom of religion has been supressed, with the Orthodox Church banned.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 10, 2024
In World War Two, the average age of a combat soldier was twenty-six. In the Falklands, it was twenty-three. For Ukrainian soldiers, it’s forty-three. The war in Ukraine has been, so far, fought mostly by fathers so their sons and daughters can rebuild the country when the fighting ends. But resisting Russia has cost so much and has continued for so long that the Ukrainian army is depleted. What to do next is a question that’s not just dividing the country but its two foremost leaders: President Volodymyr Zelensky and Valery Zaluzhny, the head of the military.
A year ago, when Washington and much of Europe were still awash in optimism that Ukraine was on the verge of repelling Russia from its territory, it seemed inconceivable that the United States would turn its back on the victim of Vladimir V. Putin’s aggression.
Now, even as Senate Democrats try to salvage an aid package for Ukraine, that possibility remains real. And the political moment feels a long way from 14 months ago when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stood before a joint session of Congress, wearing his signature drab green sweater, and basked in a minute-long standing ovation.
Swedish prosecutors said Wednesday they would drop their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater Nord Stream pipelines.
The cause of the blasts in the pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany is unknown, but it is widely believed that they were the result of an attack.
Public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said there was no Swedish jurisdiction in the case.
Isn’t that convenient!
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks a big game on Ukraine but is not meeting the needs of a country at war, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says.
“Justin Trudeau is a big talker and a little doer when it comes to Ukraine,” Poilievre said during a press conference in Montreal, Que., on Tuesday. “He’s made all these announcements of hundreds of millions of dollars of different equipment that he’s never actually delivered.”
“I don’t want to overemphasize it … but what is burgeoning, what is starting to sort of grow from out of the weeds into a fairly healthy seedling here, is this almost the Trump-esque, ‘Canada First’ mentality,” she said.
Growing number of Conservative voters think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine, poll suggests
A survey released Tuesday morning by the Angus Reid Institute says a quarter of Canadians believe Canada is offering “too much support” to Ukraine in its fight, up from 13 per cent who said the same thing in May 2022.
Conservative supporters are a driving force behind that result, according to the poll.
The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in the last election, and who now say Canada is doing too much to assist Ukraine, has more than doubled — from 19 per cent in May 2022 to 43 per cent now — according to the public opinion research group’s findings.
Whole lot of spin goin on. Funny how CBC missed the part about how Liberal and NDP voters must make up the remaining 57% of of the 25% of Canadians who think we give too much to Ukraine. Are we to assume that Liberal and NDP voters do not wish to put Canada 1st?
A Ukrainian military leader is asking Canada to hand over tens of thousands of rockets that are awaiting demolition at a Saskatchewan military base.
In an exclusive interview with Global News, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov urged the government to let Ukraine have the decommissioned CRV7 rockets.
Doing so would help Ukraine fend off Russian forces and save taxpayers the cost of destroying them, said Lt. Gen. Budanov, chief of the Ukrainian defence ministry’s intelligence directorate.
Tucker Carlson appears to have been photographed in Moscow, triggering speculation of an interview with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.
Russian media published a picture that is said to show Carlson attending a performance of Spartacus at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.
The image – alongside another of him allegedly at Istanbul airport on a layover – reignited rumours that the political commentator and former Fox News host may be the first Western journalist to interview Putin since the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Already some displaced families that came to Canada are living in tents. And another 90,000 people are expected in the next 60 days
What’s the plan?
Feb. 24 marks the second anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Gen. Rick Hillier, irrepressible even in quasi-retirement, is sounding the alarm on Canada’s lack of preparedness to absorb yet more displaced Ukrainians. He’s particularly galled by stories of newcomers — at-risk families we invited to our country — living in tents in downtown Toronto.
Canada has been sitting on a request from Ukraine to take more than 83,000 missiles off our hands that was sent last year.
It questions the claim by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada will be there to support Ukraine with whatever they need.
Confusion over the sacking of a general has revealed Zelenskyy’s falling popularity
The warfare in Ukraine dominating headlines over the past week has taken on a fratricidal flavour. Largely political in nature, it has been, if not literally fatal, arguably more poisonous. On Monday, scraps of a rumour made it online: Volodymyr Zelenskyy was about to fire his Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Apparently the two had a meeting at which the Ukrainian President told him the news personally.
The $130 billion sent to Ukraine so far for its war against Russia is apparently not actually going to Ukraine, but is really “benefiting American interests,” a spokesperson for Ukraine told Breitbart News.
The shock claim was in response to a request for information by Breitbart News on whether or not any American tax dollars had gone specifically to Uman, a city in the war-torn Eastern European nation that is currently seeing a condo built on a Jewish mass grave, as previously reported, in violation of a bilateral agreement with the U.S., and in violation of international law.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine’s security service reported.
The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the Ukrainian border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison.
