Matthew said what most Americans think.

President Zelenskyy needs to assemble an elite force to quickly empower the fighting force.

I would like to know why the instructions were needed to begin with and why they weren't issued in Ukrainian? The USA military needs to stand behind the sales.

These are not the basic war weapons. They need instructors. It would be nice to save lives at the front if the weapons could be used.

June 6, 2022

Soldiers desperate for advanced arms (click here) to match those of Russian forces have resorted to Google Translate to decipher the instructions for their new tools. And the U.S. issued seizure warrants for two planes owned by a billionaire tied to Putin....

NATO needs to let Ukraine fight the war it needs to fight and that very well may be taking down Russia's munitions within Russia. It is obvious NATO is not fighting this war, but, it is unethical to sell weapons to a country and then tell it how to use them limiting their ability to conduct war. That is a bit insane. Why help through sales, if the conditions on the weapons' use results in the loss of soldiers and valuable advances against the enemy?

June 6, 2022

By Karoun Demirjian

 and 

Julian Duplain

 

Russia escalated its assault against Ukraine (click here) on the battlefield Monday, pummeling a city that has emerged as a key battleground in the east as Moscow expanded sanctions against those who have condemned its actions during the war.

The fight for Severodonetsk has “worsened for us,” Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said in a televised interview. Russian forces have been shelling and expanding their footprint in the city, though Ukrainian troops remain in control of its industrial zone.

The creeping losses come as the West scrambles to send Ukraine more firepower as fighting in the country’s eastern Donbas region intensifies. On Monday, Britain said it would send rocket launch systems that can be used to strike targets up to 50 miles away despite threats from the Kremlin that it would retaliate. The announcement follows a pledge by the United States to send Ukraine similar weapons....

It is genocide Ukrainians are fighting. In some ways, it is more so that the soldiers are dying as well. 

June 2, 2022

By Dan Lamothe

Colleville-Sur-Mer, France — The top Pentagon general (click here) said Monday that Ukrainians are “experiencing the same horrors that the French citizenry experienced in World War II at the hands of the Nazi invaders,” drawing a direct comparison between Russia’s invasion of its neighbor and a conflict fought on the nearby beaches of Normandy 78 years ago.....

It is very strange to have Russia pervert its meaning of victory in WWII. We were all part of the Allied Forces. Putin's politics has created a Russia no one recognizes anymore.