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(KYIV) –Ukraine’s drone and missile campaign has disabled more than 40 per cent of Russia’s oil refining capacity, according to former British diplomat Cormac Smith. The sustained strikes have forced Moscow to import petrol, an extraordinary reversal for a country once known as one of the world’s largest energy exporters.Continue Reading

(KYIV) – The Kremlin’s latest claims that it is ready to negotiate peace with Ukraine are nothing more than “propaganda” and a “tool of war,” according to Oleksandr Merezhko, Chair of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Speaking from Kyiv amid ongoing power cuts caused by Russian missile attacks, MerezhkoContinue Reading

(POKROVSK, DONETSK REGION) – Putin’s Pokrovsk Gamble ‘Bleeding Russia Dry’ as Heavy Losses Mount in Ukraine Russia is losing between 700 and 800 soldiers a day in its slow and costly attempt to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, according to Cormac Smith, a former British diplomat who workedContinue Reading