By Illia Ponomarenko
In spite of what the Kremlin says, (click here) Ukraine has no plans for any offensive actions in Russian-occupied Donbas, the country’s top military commander, Colonel General Ruslan Khomchak, said on April 9.
Ukraine remains committed to a diplomatic solution to the conflict, he added.
Khomchak made his statement amid the worst regional security situation in years. Russia has been spotted concentrating major military assets near the Ukrainian border since late March, putting Kyiv and the West on high alert.
Russia accused Ukraine of preparing an all-out attack against Russian-backed militants in the east. According to Kremlin officials, this would give Moscow the excuse to intervene, ostensibly to protect the civilian population....
Ukraine has instituted sanctions against individuals in addition to the USA's sanctions.
Russia is coming. It is a matter of time. Putin knows he is losing the war against the USA through his propaganda and corrupt elections. He is going to start a war with the West. NATO is in danger. Don't expect anything less and for the USA that means near border wars quite possibly with nuclear weapons. Putin is coming to end The West. There is no doubt in my mind.
April 16, 2021
By Andrew E. Kramer
Maslovka, Russia - Deep in a pine forest in southern Russia, (click here) military trucks, their silhouettes blurred by camouflage netting, appear through the trees. Soldiers in four-wheel-drive vehicles creep along rutted dirt roads. And outside a newly pitched tent camp, sentries, Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders, pace back and forth.
Over the past month or so, Russia has deployed what analysts are calling the largest military buildup along the border with Ukraine since the outset of Kyiv’s war with Russian-backed separatists seven years ago.
It is far from a clandestine operation: During a trip to southern Russia by a New York Times journalist, evidence of the buildup was everywhere to be seen.
The mobilization is setting off alarms in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European capitals and Washington, and is increasingly seen as an early foreign policy test for the Biden administration, which just hit Moscow with a new round of sanctions. Russia responded almost immediately, announcing on Friday that it would expel 10 U.S. diplomats....
