Donald Trump ordered a “pause” on U.S. military aid to Ukraine on Monday, hoping to push Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky into agreeing to a peace deal with Russia. The move comes only days after a contentious meetingbetween Trump, JD Vance, and Zelensky in the Oval Office, which saw the U.S. …
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Extortion, lies, and capitulation have formed the core of President Donald Trump’s effort to end one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, as the White House courts Russia and upends American policy, pressuring beleaguered Ukraine to give up billions of dollars in resources in exchange for U.S. support. Bad …
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A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …
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I met Karina on a sunny hillside in Eternal Glory Park in central Kyiv last April. The spring tulips and cherry blossoms that line the park were in full bloom. Ukraine’s omnipresent flowers have a rebellious quality during wartime. We sat to talk as the shouting and honking of a …
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Donald Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “dictator” on Wednesday in a rage-fueled social media post amid his administration’s push to end Russia’s war against the nation. “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.” President Donald Trump has frequently threatened to leave the alliance. In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Zelensky told moderator Kristen Welker that …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first foray into international security policy hasn’t been going very well — and that’s outside of him reportedly inviting a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist overseas with him. According to a Thursday report from The Washington Post, in preparation for his first trip abroad as the Trump administration’s …
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The Russian government launched what it announced was a “massive” attack on “critical” energy targets in Ukraine on Christmas Day. The major drone and missile assault on Kharkiv led to power cuts and outages across Ukraine, including in its capital Kyiv. Ukrainian defense authorities were initially mum on casualty estimates …
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Russia’s unprecedented use of a massive ballistic missile against a city in central Ukraine is a message to Kyiv and its allies, and shows the war is escalating in unpredictable ways with just two months left in the Biden administration. In the early morning on Thursday, Russia struck Dnipro, an …
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Making any video game is a minor miracle, and the developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (out now), GSC Game World, has defied the odds by finishing the game amid Russia’s invasion of its home country, Ukraine. GSC’s experiences of living through and fighting against an invasion have influenced …
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