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On August 9, Ukraine and the world celebrate the International Day of Indigenous Peoples. An indigenous people is one that has inhabited a certain territory since time immemorial and does not have its own country. In Ukraine, the Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks are legally recognized as indigenous peoples. Homeland for all three is the Crimean peninsula, and for 8 years these indigenous peoples of Ukraine have been deprived of the opportunity to freely develop their distinctive culture and language in Ukrainian Crimea. Since 2014, about 30,000 Crimean Tatars have been forced to leave the peninsula illegally occupied by the…

On August 4, Amnesty International published a notorious report alleging Ukraine uses fighting tactics that endanger civilians and, thus, pushing the blame from the aggressor state to the country desperately defending every inch of its territory. The publication immediately faced harsh criticism from the Ukrainian government, journalists, and human rights organizations. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called out Amnesty International for creating a “false balance between the criminal and the victim,” and Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov called the report “out of touch with reality and a way to destroy the authority” of the organization. Many experts have criticized Amnesty’s…

What is on kremlin mind is immediately said on propagandist tongues. Russian television panelist has made the latest nuclear threat on Kremlin-controlled media by saying missiles could be fired at the U.S. and the U.K. The comment came as the fate of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was being discussed on Monday's edition of Vremya Pokazhet (Time Will Tell) on Russia's First Channel. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is growing increasingly alarmed by military action at the facility located around 140 miles northeast of the Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol. If, God forbid, the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is…

By the end of the year, Ukraine will conduct a successful counteroffensive and return some key territories currently captured by the Russians. Volker believes that Ukraine will regain "some key territories" by the end of 2022 as a result of a successful counteroffensive. "Next year, we will see further attempts by Ukraine to knock the Russians out of their land, probably also, to a certain extent, successful. At the same time, winter will affect the Ukrainian army, but it will also affect the Russian army, and it is now too stretched, it is further from its land, it will be…

Russian weapons in Ukraine ‘powered’ by Western parts: Report Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine contained more than 450 foreign-made components, think-tank says. More than 450 foreign-made components have been found in Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine, evidence that Moscow acquired critical technology from companies in the United States, Europe and Asia in the years before the invasion, according to a new report. Since the start of the war five months ago, the Ukrainian military has captured or recovered from the battlefield intact or partially damaged Russian weapons. When disassembled, 27 of these weapons systems, ranging from cruise missiles to air…

A Ukrainian woman takes part in weapons training at a shooting range in Lviv in Ukraine in July 2022. Photo: Mykola Tys/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Analysis: it's clear that civilian resistance has proven to be of huge assistance to Ukrainian military forces in the war against Russia In recent weeks, there have been numerous signs that there is a growing resistance movement emerging in Ukraine as a response to the ongoing Russian invasion. Within this, there has been photographic evidence (difficult to confirm) that some of the Ukrainian resistance have found inspiration in the 1984 movie Red Dawn. Some…

The partisans are fighting to prevent Russia's hold over Kherson becoming permanent: to block a referendum that Moscow appears to be planning to stage. Russia has already introduced the rouble and its own mobile phone networks to the region and is pumping its propaganda from state-run TV channels into Ukrainian homes. Russians are powerless to stop the resistant movement, so try to invent the new ways In Kherson, at the checkpoints, the Russian military massively use technology to restore destroyed information on a smartphone. This was announced by the first deputy head of the regional council Yuriy Sobolevsky on the…

Hyped-up scandals surrounding the alleged misuse of weapons obtained from Western partners in Ukraine have recently appeared not only in Russian propaganda, but also in the Western information field. The accusations against Ukraine are absolutely groundless, but at the same time very dangerous. They can really influence the audiences of the countries whose help is so necessary. Western weapons are currently critical for Ukraine’s ability to effectively resist invaders. Kyiv understands this and tries to build a trusting relationship with its partners. Moscow understands it just as well and tries to undermine this trust. The Centre for Strategic Communication and…

The many voices are pressing the Biden administration to place Russia on the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Members of the U.S. Congress are lobbying Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make the listing, and both the Senate and the House of Representatives – the higher and lower congressional houses – have introduced resolutions calling on him to do so, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi describing the designation as “long overdue”. This advocacy follows vigorous efforts by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since April to get Congress and the White House on board with the…

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman called on the U.S. to send more powerful HIMARS to Ukraine to further bolster its defense efforts against Russia on Monday.Starting in June, the U.S. started to send HIMARS to the Eastern European nation. The rocket system is built by Lockheed Martin and is long-range, mobile, and fires with precision. Notably, the units have a range of about 50 miles, almost double the range of M777 howitzers, the Western-made weapon Ukraine was using prior to the HIMARS. The rocket system has been touted as a game changer for the Ukrainians, who have countered…