Nightmare in Nikopol
'Just being here is Russian roulette'
Truth to the World | Supplies to Ukraine
You can follow and support us by visiting our new website Ukrainian Freedom News. If you subscribe to our Telegram Channel, we can send you updates without social media’s algorithmic interference.
Truth to the World | Supplies to Ukraine
Daily Situation Summary: “Cleaning” of Ukrainian Security Services of Ukraine, Ukrainian flag in Mariupol
by PAVLO VITENKO
Summary by regions
LUHANSK REGION
The Russians tried to attack simultaneously in four directions. Verkhnokamyanske was attacked both from the side of the Lysychansk oil refinery and from the Zolotarivka district. From there they wanted to advance towards the Donetsk region. They tried to improve their position near Bilohorivka. In many places, the offensive was stopped, in some places, fighting continued. The enemy also carried out an airstrike on Verkhnyokamyanske. In total, four missile strikes, two airstrikes and 11 artillery shells were fired at our positions.
DONETSK REGION
The Russians orcs fire from the "Hrad" MSG, the "Uragan" MSG, and artillery. Avdiivka (residential sector, AKHZ), Soledar (residential sector), Bakhmut (residential sector) are under fire …
Read the full report at Ukrainian Freedom News.
Nightmare in Nikopol: Russians Begin to Shell City From Across the Dnipro River
Just being there, says a local friend, is a genuine terrifying game of Russian roulette. Inside or outside, day or night, you could be hit.
From just a few weeks ago:
… to this week:
Read more on our Telegram Channel.
Foreign Defenders of Irpin Return to City They Helped Free to Give Food to Survivors
Goodie, a British warrior (pictured at far left) who has fought in Ukraine since the first weeks of the war, returned to Irpin, the Kyiv suburb where he helped repel the Russians in March. The warrior and his comrades brought food to the people whose city they helped save.
Goodie is one of the courageous foreign fighters Ukrainian Freedom News, thanks to its supporters, has been able to house during breaks from battles.
We welcome your support for these fighters here.
Pro-Russian Americans Are Tweeting That the Vinnytsia Target, the ‘House of Officers,’ Was a Nato Outpost, Simply Because of the Name. No, It’s a Concert Hall, with an Old Soviet Name, and Musicians Died in the Attack
by JOE LINDSLEY
Once on a Pentagon tour, I learned that the Soviets believed for years that the little hot dog stand smack in the middle of the Pentagon's innermost courtyard was some super secret installation, sacred to the American military. No, it was a food stand in a courtyard.
Perhaps Russian intel, fueled by the crazy Russian soul, has not improved: Did Moscow target central, civilian Vinnytsia because in the square is a statue of a Ukrainian jet?
That building in center is called the House of Officers. It's an old Soviet pile but until Thursday's airstrikes it was a concert hall. Second photo is the promo for the July 14 show.
Yet pro-Russian Twitter, including many Americans, are saying, "Oh yes there was a secret NATO meeting in the 'House of Officers. Nice job, Putin."
No. Nato or the Ukrainian military are not playing some symbolic video game. There was going to be a concert that night, and now 21 civilians including three children are dead.
The jet statue is there in central Vinnytsia because the city is the HQ of Ukraine's Air Force, since 1992. Before that, it was home to the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. Such statues, dating back to Soviet times, are common in eastern and central Ukraine.
Maybe the House of Officers was some strange sh*t during the Soviet days but in free Ukraine, it's a concert hall. The Russians can't understand this, I suppose. Or they genuinely want to kill civilians.
Also: In 1793, Imperial Moscow "annexed" the city and banned Roman Catholicism.
They've been real sh*ts, and dumb ones, for centuries.
Near-Daily War Journal Podcast: “Their faces, it was something brilliant, it was fire in their eyes”
Here's today's episode of our Near-Daily War Journal with Ukrainian bartender Zakhar Pikh and American journalist Joe Lindsley.
—Strikes causing new fear in Dnipro
—on Ukrainians listening to bad Russian music
—on a brave Ukrainian driver in war zones who plays 20th century Russian chanson while on daring rescue missions
—on the brilliant fire in the faces of the soldiers at the fronts
Also on Spotify (except in Ukraine, where Spotify doesn’t allow podcasts):
🎙🎙🎙 WGN Radio: The connections between Ukrainian and Irish history
Joe Lindsley of Ukrainian Freedom News speaks in a daily report with Bob Sirott of Chicago’s WGN Radio. You can listen here.