For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, links to an article from Popular Resistance describing decades-long U.S-led Western efforts to weaken Russia economically and to a New York Times columnist’s article omitting mention of those efforts. — MCM
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Between battles, Ukraine’s soldiers have a place to recover, by Vasilisa Stepanenko | AP KHARKIV, Ukraine — The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments. “This rehabilitation is helping soldiers, at least for a week, to put themselves together,” said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine pleads with allies to send tanks as fighting grinds on in east, by Pavel Polityuk | Reuters * U.S. predicts months of intense fighting in Bakhmut in east * Luhansk governor says troops advancing “step by step” * Send us tanks, Zelenskiy urges Western allies | KYIV — Ukrainian and Russian troops battled in eastern regions today as Kyiv tried to push back occupying forces, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to provide his army with heavy tanks to boost their firepower. The Ukrainian military . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin says ready for Ukraine talks if Kyiv accepts ‘new territorial realities.’ From AFP. President Vladimir Putin told Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan he was open to dialogue with Ukraine if Kyiv accepts territories occupied by Moscow as Russian, the Kremlin said today. “Putin again confirmed . . . READ MORE . . .
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Western firearms supplied mostly to Ukraine units manned by foreigners – DPR officer. From Tass. DONETSK — Western firearms are supplied primarily to Ukraine’s special force units manned by foreigners, Andrey Bayevsky, a member of the parliament of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lieutenant Colonel of the DPR People’s Militia, told TASS today. “Of course . . . READ MORE . . .
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The first U.S. onslaught to weaken post-Cold War Russia, by John V. Walsh | Popular Resistance There is no doubt that the actions of the U.S. and the West were critical factors in the Great Russian Depression of the 1990s and early 2000s. An understanding of this goes a long way in making sense of events leading up to the present moment of U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and the brutal sanctions imposed on Russia. This understanding, however, does not fit the narrative to which the NYT confines itself . . . READ MORE . . .
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Wonking out: The nightmare after Gorbachev, by Paul Krugman | The New York Times Most articles on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev dwell on the political failure of his reform project. The Russian Federation, the main successor state to the Soviet Union, has not, to say the least, become a democratic, open society. Ukraine may . . . READ MORE . . .
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