▶Latest >Reports Russia increasing intensity of operations in Donbas >Russia takes control of Svitlodarsk town >Workers digging through rubble allegedly find 200 bodies in Mariupol apartment block basement >Food shortages could cause more deaths than war, UK minister warns >Heavy fighting taking place in & around Severodonetsk >Azov's Cpt Palamar appears in video from Azovstal, claims elements of Azov command remain in the plant & will conduct undisclosed operation >Senate passes $40 billion package for Ukraine >Russia continues air & artillery strikes on Azovstal Steel Plant, indicating that a remnant of Ukrainian defence is still in the plant >Several Missiles hit Lviv >Remaining Azov fighters in azovstal agree to surrender, as per instructions of Ukrainian command >Finland & Sweden to join NATO, Russia threatens to cut gas and energy supplies >UK signs mutual security pacts with Sweden & Finland >ISW: Ukrainian counteroffensive in northern Kharkiv took further ground & possibly closed to within 10km of Russian border >ISW: RU forces involved in battle of Mariupol likely heavily damaged, Ukrainian forces succeeded tying down & degrading substantial Russian force >Lavrov: Special military operation going according to plan >UK MoD: Russia forced to merge & redeploy depleted & disparate units in eastern Ukraine >War could last years, Nato warns >Gazprom cuts gas to Poland & Bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles
>our weapons go to complete crook nations like Saudi Arabia >involved in yemeni coalition (i think even leading it) I hate our hypocritic government, claiming its something new to send weapons to Ukraine
> 40 BILLION help package: > $8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); >$3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the ‘office’ that dictates military tactics to Kiev); >$5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified “global food supply chain”; >$6 billion for actual weapons and “training” to Ukraine; $9 billion in “economic assistance” (which will disappear into selected pockets); >$0.9 billion for refugees.
