Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from this afternoon. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
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Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from this afternoon. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
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(Image by NEIVANMADE) On a London-NY flight, when attendant Consuelo comes to thank me for flying.“What do you do?”“Journalist.”“Where?”“FT,” pointing to my FT paper.“I read it all the time! What do you write for them?”“Ukraine correspondent.”“Oh gosh. Has Bakhmut fallen?”“No. Bakhmut holds.” — Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 8, 2023 More on Bakhmut after President Zelenskyy’s …
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(Image by NEIVANMADE) Tonight is one year since Putin gave the order to re-invade Ukraine. This part of the war is now one year old. Of course we’re also 8 years and just about 11 months into the longer war that this past year has been a part of. It is important to remember that …
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(Image by NEIVANMADE) Long day today so let’s get started. Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
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It’s been a very, very, very, very long day. I’m fried. So this will be a brief update. I do want to start with one correction from last night. One of the news reports I excerpted and referenced in regards to Erdogan’s position regarding Sweden’s ascension to NATO referenced F-16s. One of you all in …
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This morning in Bovary, Ukraine a helicopter carrying Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, and state secretary Yuriy Lubkovich crashed into a school. The three were killed, as well as several others aboard the helicopter and a number of people on the ground including 3 children. I can’t believe Minister Monastyrsky …
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(Portrait of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley by Clarence Lamont MacNelly, 1972. Image found here.) We’re sending 50 Bradleys to Ukraine! The infantry fighting vehicles, not the dapper gent above. And Germany is sending Marder personnel carriers and a Patriot battery! A joint press statement from President Biden and Bundeskanzler Sholz: Joint Press …