War Day 512: Russia Sends Hellfire to Odesa for Third Night in a Row
POKER OR CHESS?
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War Day 512: Russia Sends Hellfire to Odesa for Third Night in a Row
500+ DAYS OF WAR-REPORTING—from Wednesday 19 July: my Ukraine report on Chicago's @wgnradio with Bob Sirott, delivered every weekday since Russia's full-scale invasion KHARKIV—For the third night in a row, Russia has sent a sinister onslaught of missiles on the Ukrainian Black Sea port cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv. In the past days, Russians have destroyed 60,000 tons of grain, human lives, and historic buildings. A big question, posed by Russian-born world chess champion Gary Kasparov, a genuine dissident: Is Putin playing chess, or poker? And how do we respond?
Plus: Russian bombs damage Chinese consulate
Dear American Conservatives: Burisma is Russian, Not Ukrainian
KHARKIV, 30 MILES TO RUSSIA— Here’s part of the Ukraine story you’ve probably never heard: Joe Biden has so frequently lectured Ukraine about democracy and corruption, even as his son was taking money from a Moscow-based energy firm that was part of the corrupt government the Ukrainian people kicked out of their country in the 2014 Revolution. Donald Trump and Zelenskyy were poised to collaborate—maybe to shine a light on this corruption—until Trump was frightened off, leaving Zelenskyy abandoned.
These facts are contorted or ignored by Republicans in Washington, who want to claim that Ukraine’s victory effort is a giant conspiracy. In the wake of last week's NATO summit, Ben Wallace, the now-outgoing UK Defense Secretary, said it’s incredibly difficult to keep the U.S. Congress interested in Ukraine. But, during the first day of the summit, Congress was indeed interested in Ukraine—only in the silliest way imaginable. Republican members, including Marjorie Taylor Green (Georgia) and Virginia Fox (North Carolina), claimed in a House Oversight hearingthat Joe Biden is sending weapons to Ukraine because his son made corrupt money here. In their exuberance attacking Biden, they miss an essential fact: Burisma is Russian, not Ukrainian.
Last Thursday, July 13, Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA founder, and a Trump friend, tweeted a supposed timeline of Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. In the end, he wrote, “And now hundreds of billions of your taxpayer money is flowing back to Ukraine. “Get it, now?”— as if to say, see this is all a scam.
I’ve been in Ukraine every single minute since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and as I write, often under missile threat and missile attack, I am frustrated that huge resources on hand don’t bother to examine these actual details:
Read those details here at TVP World.
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