Ensuring the failure of Russia’s special operation is considered by Westerners to be an end that justifies supporting whatever means the GUR claims is required, including the killing of Russian civilians wherever they may be in the world just like Kiev’s intelligence chief declared that his agency intends to do until his side wins. Ukrainian…
The Battle of Bakhmut represents the most hard-fought battle and abhorrent bloodbath the world has not seen in the last 80 years. Up until only a year ago, Bakhmut was just an ordinary ex-Soviet Ukrainian provincial town, which lived its idle parochial life in anonymity. What the mood of its residents was like in the…
The month of May has arrived but without the long-awaited Ukrainian “counteroffensive”. The western media is speculating that it may come by late May. There is also the spin that Kiev is judicious to “buy time.” The chances of Ukraine making some sort of “breakthrough” in the 950-km long Russian frontline cannot be ruled out…
The longer the Kiev regime survives, the worse the danger persists for Russia from uncontrolled instability on its border. Just as the Western public is growing increasingly skeptical of the U.S.-led proxy war against Russia and the insane military and financial aid being pumped to prop up the corrupt Kiev regime, we then see a…
Natylie Baldwin: You point out in the beginning of your book that Ukraine’s economy had significantly declined by 2018 from its position at the end of the Soviet era in 1990. Can you explain what Ukraine’s prospects looked like in 1990? And what did they look like just prior to Russia’s invasion? Renfrey Clarke: In researching this…
A new assassination attempt shook Russia last week, targeting a prominent civilian figure — this time, writer Zakhar Prilepin, whose car was blown up in Nizhny Novgorod region. The hit, which Prilepin survived, is reminiscent of the incident that killed political scientist and activist Darya Dugina last year near Moscow, and also the bombing that…
