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by Andrew Korybko Source: Andrew Korybko Substack · Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an attack that killed nearly two dozen students. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN brought it up at an emergency meeting only to be met with denials by Ukraine that any attack had even taken place despite indisputable evidence to the contrary. About…

by Andrew Korybko Source: Andrew Korybko Substack · There’s recently been a flurry of news about the increasingly interconnected Arctic and Baltic fronts of the New Cold War. The UK announced a new multinational naval initiative to contain Russia in these seas, which followed the Russian Ambassadors to Finland and Norway warning about threats from them. Prior to all of this, some Russian sources accused the Baltic States of allowing Ukrainian…

The UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Canada have rejected a proposal for NATO member states to spend 0.25% of their GDP on military assistance to Ukraine, The Telegraph has reported. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was hoping that mandatory funding for Kiev would be approved at the bloc’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye on July 7-8, The Telegraph said in an article on Sunday. · A NATO insider told the paper that Britain, France, Spain, Italy, and…

Last year can be seen as the year in which the united anti-Russian coalition fell apart. In essence, there are now three players acting against Russia (Ukraine, Europe, and the US), and each has its own interests. By Sergey Poletaev · Sergey Poletaev has prepared a series of articles in which we analyze the position of each player and its goals and interests in the conflict, and suggest how Russia might respond. · In this piece, we focus on the…

Kiev’s deadly attack on a college dorm in the Russian town of Starobelsk last week was the “last straw” for Russia, and it will be conducting “systematic strikes” on assorted targets across the Ukrainian capital from now on, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has announced. The ministry made the statement on Monday, a day after a large-scale retaliatory strike on Kiev, prompted by the drone attack on the college in the Lugansk People’s Republic.…

Breaking news this hour. Russia's patience has run out. Moscow announces it will start systematic strikes on Ukraine's military industrial complexes, this following Kiev's terrorist act in the Lugansk region, that killed 21 students. · Ukraine repatriates the remains of a notorious World War Two Nazi collaborator for a hero's burial in Kiev. RT examines how Zelensky is attempting to rewrite history - and honour those who fought on behalf of…

Russian forces launched a “massive strike” overnight against military targets in Ukraine, using intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system and Iskander ballistic missiles, Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, air-, sea- and ground-launched cruise missiles, as well as attack drones. The strike came after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Defense Ministry to “submit proposals” for a response to a Ukrainian drone attack on…

The US and Iran are poised to sign a deal which will prolong the ceasefire another 60 days, during which the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and restrictions on oil trade against Tehran lifted, Axios has reported, citing American officials. In the meantime, the sides will try to reach a final deal to end the conflict, it added. Tehran has said the sides were moving closer to a “convergence of views,” but expressed concerns about a U-turn by…

Western mainstream media are “afraid to see the truth” about the Ukrainian attack on the Starobelsk college dorm, Russia’s newly appointed human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, has said, slamming the incident as a “deliberate murder of children.” The attack on the dorm, staged overnight from Thursday to Friday, left at least 21 people dead, mainly teenage girls. The massacre has been largely ignored by the Western media and politicians,…

Russia launches retaliatory strikes on Ukraine using ballistic missiles, including the hyper-sonic Oreshnik. All this in response to Kiev's drone strikes on a school dormitory in the Lugansk Republic, which took 21 young lives. · RT reports from the scene of the attack, while CNN and the BBC refuse an invitation to visit the site. We speak with an adviser to the Iranian president, as his nation suffered a similar tragedy, which the Western…