29.10.2024

The Federal relations expert Harun (Vadim) Sidorov believes that the BRICS summit held in Kazan is directly related to the decolonization agenda and is “an illustration of the different attitudes of the Kremlin and its opponents towards it.” According to the Idel.Realii columnist, “The Kremlin, which is already facing official accusations of colonialism from the West, is actively trying to shift the blame to the West’s relations with the so-called “global South.” The Russian Foreign Ministry tried to present the adoption of the...

29.10.2024

"The New York Times” reported that Russia has been providing small arms to the Houthis. American officials including Secretary Austin during his recent visit to Ukraine indicated that according to American military intelligence Russia is considering providing the Houthis with missiles should the West escalate the war in Ukraine. Apparently, recently released in a prisoner exchange with the West, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is negotiating the sale of advanced missiles. This information was given to the Ukrainians to justify Western reluctance to allow Ukraine's use of Western weapons deeper into Russia. I suppose that any excuse is as...

29.10.2024

In an impactful move to defend the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians held by Russia, and support families affected by Russian aggression, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has formalized its cooperation with the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (CHTPW). This new Memorandum of Cooperation marks a vital step forward in the collective effort to facilitate the release of Ukrainian citizens held in Russian captivity. The CHTPW, operating as the coordinating council of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, is tasked with overseeing all matters related to prisoners of war. UWC President Paul Grod and General Kyrylo Budanov, head of the POW coordination center and head of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, formalized a cooperation agreement, emphasizing the importance of unity ...

29.10.2024

Moscow seems to have pressed pause on its plans to arm the Houthis with missiles, but the threat of it gives the Kremlin leverage elsewhere in the world. What all this amounts to is what a Leninist maxim calls probing with bayonets. The next line: "If you find mush, you push." Mush was George W. Bush's feeble response to Russia's invasion of Georgia, followed by Barack Obama's equally feeble one to Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014, It was Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from NATO, his attempt (foiled by his own advisers) to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, his pathetic hopes for a deal with the...

15.10.2024

Go back to 24 February 2022, the most fateful day in Europe this century: the day when Vladimir Putin sent his armies into Ukraine. The least discussed aspect of the revival of Russian imperialism was the miserable failure of Western intelligence. It wasn't that Western analysts missed the invasion—they didn’t. The Biden administration and its allies did an admirable job. They warned Ukraine and Europe, and pre-empted Russian propaganda efforts to create a false pretext for the invasion. But their success ended there. They vastly overestimated Russia’s military prowess while grossly underestimating Ukraine’s resolve—a misjudgement that persists today, with devastating consequences. Intelligence sources briefed journalists, who then shared these faulty assumptions...

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17.09.2024

I condemn TVO’s decision to help fund the film “Russians at War” using its funding allocation from the Canada Media Fund. The film “Russians at War” whitewashes Russia’s crimes against the people of Ukraine by falsely portraying members of Russia’s military as victims and by absolving them of their responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine and the war crimes they have committed. For years, the Russian military has committed genocide, rape, torture, murder and the mass systemic abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children - a crime for which the International Criminal Court has indicted Vladimir Putin. The director of...

17.09.2024

A Kremlin cyber operations unit has been embedded in RT since last year and has gone to global lengths to spread Russian propaganda, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The State Department on Friday said Russia’s state-owned RT news agency has expanded operations to become a sophisticated, mainstay arm of the Kremlin’s military intelligence nexus, and helped deploy a covert fundraising operation for body armor, radios, rifles and other military equipment for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Canada and the United Kingdom joined the ...

10.09.2024

On behalf of the DOF, FUDF FUND, League of Ukrainian Canadian Women-Oshawa branch, and Ukrainian Youth Association of Oshawa, we extend a most sincere THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED TO HELP US HELP Brandon – a resident of Oshawa, a non-Ukrainian, a Canadian volunteering in Ukraine. Brandon's work is in tactical defence and training. Brandon trains with an American unit, as well as with Invictus Global Response. Ukraine does not pay salary for his work; living expenses, etc. are self-funded. As previously mentioned, Brandon, along with Monty and Eric (American marines), were ...

10.09.2024

The first night in Lviv was replete with sirens of various categories and lengths This had been preceded several days earlier by an unprecedented missile attack resulting in serious fatalities including that of a family of four with the remaining father hospitalized. Once again this target bore no proximity to any military targets, energy grid, or anything remotely connected with the war and Ukrainian resistance. It was simply a grotesque message from the Russians to Ukrainians: we will wipe you off the face of the earth. Today, Friday, September 6, 2024, the people of Lviv paid their...