Russia Escalates, West Equivocates, While UN Blames Ukraine
War Day 678; new feature: more voices from Ukraine
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War Day 678: Russia Escalates, West Equivocates, While UN Blames Ukraine
War Day 678: Russia Escalates, West Equivocates, While UN Blames Ukraine
🇺🇦 600+ DAYS OF WAR REPORTING on Chicago's WGN Radio with host Bob Sirott and reporter Joe Lindsley, the only American reporting in Ukraine every single day until victory 🎙️ from Tuesday 2 January 2024
The past four days, Russia has bombarded Ukrainian cities with missiles after many months without such major attacks. What's going on?
Plus: Led by American musician Brother Hill, here's a Ukrainian version of "We Shall Overcome," sung for wounded soldiers.
FROM THE SPECTATOR:
The re-supplied Russians hit Ukraine with full force
BY JOE LINDSLEY
❝But despite Ukraine’s success with the smattering of long-range weapons it received, Washington has refused to send more. In fact, the spending package over which Congress has been dithering does not include anything that would allow Ukraine hit military targets in Russia.
❝And so while the West waited for months, Russia received its resupply. That resupply hit early Friday.
❝This new attack began rather slowly last Friday, around 3 a.m. when Russia sent Iranian-made suicide drones throughout Ukraine. Here on a foggy night in Lviv, it was like watching in slow-motion that scene from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the horrifying demons are released ... ❞
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▪️Joe randomly draws a Tarot card created by #NEIVANMADE, and the artist unveils the gripping story behind his sketch. Episode 1, “The High Priestess,” captures a young girl studying in a shelter amidst a missile attack, embodying the pursuit of wisdom as the ultimate shield.
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UKRAINIAN FREEDOM VOICES
Six hundred and seventy-fourth day of the Big War launched by the russia.
Of almost 10-year russian war against Ukraine. Of centuries of the russian attempts to destroy the Ukrainian nation.
BY TARAS BYK
Ukrainian political strategist and activist working on the dissolution of the Russian Federation
IT WAS YET ANOTHER night we woke up to the sound of air alarms and explosions. My son, instead of sleeping in a comfortable bed under Christmas tree, had to go to the basement. Just like hundreds of thousands of other children all over Ukraine.
On this night, between the Christmas and New Year, Ukraine has experienced one of the most brutal air attacks - the russia has sent over 120 missiles and dozens of Shaheed drones on peaceful Ukrainian cities. What where the targets? Maternity house in Dnipro, school in Lviv, residential buildings in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia. This attack has killed at least 39 civilians, 120 have been wounded.
Some russian missiles have covered distance of around 2,000 kilometers. Just imagine for a second a horrific scenarios that Ukraine can fail, lose this war and get occupied by the russia. The russia in its essence has always been and will be an empire, its entire history is based on conquering other nations, occupying othe territories and broadening its borders. That is why, Moscow won't stop on Ukraine.
Under this scenario, with military bases in the western Ukraine, the Kremlin will reach targets in Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. And it won't be Sviatko in Lviv or Melania in Kyiv who will have to hide in basements. It will be other little beautiful children all over Europe - Jonas in Berlin and Oliver in London, Emma in Brussels and Gabriel in Paris, Giulia in Rome and Helga in Vienna - who will have to run to shelters from the russian missiles instead of sleeping near Christmas trees...
However, we can still avoid this scenario. If entire civilised world sticks to three simple rules:
1. Stand with Ukraine! Don't push us for any negotiations with the russia - there is no possibility to reach an agreement with a country whose aim is to destroy us. Provide us with all possible weapons and support needed for our full victory!
2. Make right choices! Be careful whom you are voting for in your elections. Remember, every politician who is suggesting Ukraine's surrender today by giving up our territories, will be giving up territories of your country if the russia decides to invade you.
3. The only solution is the russian dissolution! If the russian empire after this war remains in its current borders, it will be a question of time whom and when it attacks again. Therefore, the world should be ready for the russian collapse and support of the new free nations of postrussia.
It will be a difficult year. However, we have no other choice but to win!
Stay strong and united in 2024!
Слава Україні!
BY NEIVANMADE | Ukrainian artist | instagram.com/neivanmade/
January 2, 2024. Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully repelled the world's largest combined missile attack using hypersonic weapons.
"Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day..."
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