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Stories, Sounds, and Facts of War: Every weekday, Ukrainian Freedom News’s Joe Lindsley gives a live report from Ukraine on Chicago’s WGN Radio. Listen below—plus find our daily situation report from our Ukrainian team.
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Reporting from Lviv: As the battle intensifies in the small salt-mine town of Soledar, eastern Ukraine, the skies are eerily quiet in much of the rest of the country. This gives space to think about the awful absurdity of Russia’s war—and to remember strange moments from the past that inform me in this great war between good and evil.
Here in my daily radio broadcast from Ukraine with WGN Radio’s Bob Sirott, I recall a lesson I learned, comically, about civility in democracy from former First Lady Barbara Bush:
11 January 2023, daily Ukraine report on Chicago's WGN Radio:
Topics:
—President Zelenskiy’s Golden Globes speech: “This will not be a trilogy; there will be no World War III”
—What is Russia doing right now? Have the Russians shifted tactics away from artillery?
—The strange calm in the skies: One week without major missile strikes, or even air-raid alarms
—“Escalation vs Victory”: When Ukraine has a major victory, Russia and some in the West say that Ukraine is “escalating” things. In the face of that, President Zelenskiy says there is only one way to “de-escalate” the situation with Russia": to get more and better weapons to Ukraine to neutralize the Russian threat to the world. Ukrainians will do the fighting; they just need the weapons. (Former NATO deputy chief General Sir Richard Shirref agreed with this recently, saying Britain should have sent more tanks to Ukraine months ago):
Daily Situation Summary: 11 January: Lublin Triangle, battles for Soledar
BY PAVLO VITENKO, Ukrainian Freedom News
Occupiers do not control Soledar and cannot surround Bakhmut — Institute for the Study of War
The Russian Federation is preparing a desperate offensive in the next few weeks — British intelligence
The war in Ukraine caused an increase in the number of victims from explosive weapons in the world by 83% — The Guardian
Putin loses more than 170 million dollars a day due to restrictions on oil exports — Bloomberg
Poland will supply Ukraine with a company of Leopard tanks - TSN
Negotiations with Russia are unrealistic, it must be defeated on the battlefield - said the US general Ben Hodges
Turkey transferred its Cold War-era cluster munitions to Ukraine — Foreign Policy
CNN: There is a huge "gray" zone in Soledar, positions change from hand to hand
In Lviv, the presidents of Poland and Lithuania signed with Zelensky the declaration of the Lublin triangle
The presidents signed a joint declaration.
Presidents of Poland Andrzej Duda and Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda arrived in Lviv on Wednesday, November 11, for a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
This is reported by the Office of the President of Poland.
In Lviv, the leaders of the three states signed a joint declaration of the Presidents of the Lublin Triangle.
"From the first days of the full-scale invasion, we felt the support of our brotherly peoples of Poland and Lithuania. Thankful to Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nausieda for their visit. Thankful for the help of our people!" - wrote Zelensky.
Zelensky thanked foreign leaders for supporting Ukraine in the war with the Russian invaders.
Region-by-region summary:
KHERSON REGION
The enemy does not stop shelling populated areas along the right bank of the Dnipro River. According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the civil infrastructure of 12 settlements was damaged by artillery shelling, in particular: Antonivka, Vesele, Dudchany, Mylove, Respublikanets, Dniprovske, Zolota Balka and Kherson.
Yesterday, the Russian occupiers once again shelled Kherson. A local resident was injured. An enemy shell landed in the yard of an apartment building. …
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