Ukraine is not yet NATO. (click here)
...The U.S. ambassador in Budapest, David Cornstein, told a parliamentary committee that Hungary could do more to “prioritize alliances” at a time when he said Russia posed a renewed threat to Ukraine and to Europe....
That's interesting, Munchkin provides relief for Russians and Putin violates the ceasefire and shells Ukraine for over 24 hours. No Ukrainians were injured, however, one of the Donbas militants was killed and two others were wounded.
11 January 2019
...Over the past day, (click here) January 10, Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire three times, opening fire at the Ukrainian military. At the same time, on one occasion, Russian proxies used weapons prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation Staff reported on Facebook Friday morning. "The enemy opened fire from 82mm mortars and large-caliber machine guns at positions of the Ukrainian military near the village of Zhovte on the Luhansk line, from grenade launchers of various types, large-caliber machine guns, and small arms – in the area of Vodiane and Pavlopil in the Mariupol direction," the report says....
...Recall that on January 9, pro-Russian militants twice violated the ceasefire in Donbas.
January 10, 2019By Kenneth P. Vogel, Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Julia Mendel
An image posted to Facebook on Jan. 21, 2017, shows Serhiy Kivalov, a lawmaker from Ukraine, attending the Liberty Ball, part of Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
...How active a role Mr. Flynn (click here) played in the discussions about a peace plan for Ukraine is unclear, but congressional investigators have been pursuing whether he or his former business partners might have gained financially if the sanctions on Russia were ended.
The committee, whose chairman is Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, is continuing to pursue its investigation of Mr. Flynn’s business dealings and “his potential misuse of his public position when he was national security adviser,” a committee spokeswoman said.
In 2017, a whistle-blower told committee investigators that Mr. Flynn had mentioned to a business associate around the time of the inauguration that the Russia sanctions would be “ripped up” as one of the administration’s first acts. Mr. Flynn believed that ending the sanctions could allow a business project he had once participated in to move forward, according to the whistle-blower....
