Reports

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  Little Estonia is no longer afraid of the Russian Bear2024-10-11
  Estonia boldly states that it no longer fears Russia. The small European country has taken a number of steps to reduce the threat and increase its security, including significantly increasing its defense spending and modernizing its armed forces.
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  Followers of Hare Krishna go to fight for Ukraine. War has changed Krishnaites2024-09-23
  War is rapidly changing people’s consciousness. If before the war Russian and Ukrainian believers of Hare Krishna were unaware of their differences, now it is as if they live on different planets.
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  The bloody Olympic Games begin in Paris. With the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes2024-07-25
  For many athletes, the Olympic Games in Paris will have a bittersweet aftertaste. Thirty-one athletes from Russia and Belarus will perform under a neutral flag.

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  The Kremlin fears that the West is trying to break Russia apart. If only!2024-10-18
  Russia’s stony-faced foreign minister is getting paranoid. Sergei Lavrov believes that “at present, about 50 countries are trying to break up Russia.” The West is the Kremlin’s worst enemy.
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  Zelensky’s ‘Plan B’: Ukraine’s Fight for Survival Against Russia2024-10-08
  When recently asked whether he has a Plan B, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “We’re already in Plan B. We’re living and fighting in it.” And that’s because “We’ve never had a Plan A.” That should have been “not to let the full-scale Russian invasion happen, to strengthen Ukraine with military aid and impose preventive sanctions against Russia so that it would have been scared of the mere thought of a full-scale invasion.”
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  The real reason Trump hates Zelensky2024-10-03
  Who’s afraid of Volodymyr Zelensky? Donald Trump and the Republican Party, that’s who. So much so that they have insulted and demonized the diminutive Ukrainian president as if he were the embodiment of evil.

Frontline stories

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  Pokrovsk: Putin’s forces are desperate for a prize eastern city and Ukraine will fight street to street to keep them out2024-09-27
  The Russians taking Pokrovsk would split Ukraine’s defensive line in the region and harm supplies in the eastern part of Donetsk. Now facing constant bombardment, soldiers and residents in Pokrovsk speak to Askold Krushelnycky about the drawn-out siege they are bracing themselves for.
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  I’ve witnessed first-hand the horrific cost of Putin’s war – as casualties hit 1 million2024-09-24
  The combined number of casualties on both sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine has reached the ghastly 1 million mark, according to a media report. The tally of deaths in Europe’s largest conflict since the Second World War.
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  Kostyantynivka: It feels like the Ukraine invasion has made the Russian invasion more ferocious2024-09-20
  Residents of Kostyantynivka, which is perilously close to the front lines, tell Askold Krushelnycky about the relentless shelling they are facing as Russian troops advance on one of the few towns in the region still in Ukrainian hands.