![]() Maybe Ukraine's new tanks will sweep all before them. What we have just decided to do is to prolong and deepen the war. But I know what tanks are for, and it is not defence. Unlike everyone else in the media and politics, I am not a military expert. So it is left to me to tell you that it is an act of grave stupidity for the West to supply Ukraine with modern tanks. They defame and abuse anyone who tries to tell them. Most people don't want to know and refuse to think about it, or to look up the facts. I won't waste time here going over the question of who started the Ukraine war, or even why. This was the moment at which we began the unstoppable descent into terrible danger which so many of us will bitterly regret in times to come. And he decries the obscene fact that nobody can have a debate about it without being shouted down as Putin simps. In his powerful column today, he calls out the madness of Washington policymakers and their European supporters in the UK and continental European governments. But they are quite worried that the war could easily spiral out of control, and cost them immensely. Few Europeans, in my experience, have any sympathy for the Putin regime and its invasion of Ukraine. And the US is going to generate a lot of resentment from Europeans as more people come to understand that America's supposed interests in fighting Russia do not line up with European interests. But if he's not right about the US's motivations, he is certainly right about the effects of US policy. And they're going to get one." He meant that the US, in his view, is bound and determined to fight a war with Russia, and is going to do whatever it needs to do to make that happen. A Hungarian said to me the other night, "The Americans want a war. Here in Budapest, I'm hearing a sense of dark resignation around the Russia-Ukraine war. The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, will arrive in Kyiv on Tuesday to meet Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, before heading to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.In the news report from which that image above of a German tank was taken, the reporter leads with, "Who would have thought Germany would be criticized for not sending tanks to fight Russia?" Indeed. RBK reported that the fire was now contained and its cause was not immediately clear. The Russian defence ministry is yet to comment on the reports.Įarly morning shelling by Ukraine on two villages in Russia’s Kursk region damaged several houses and disrupted gas and electricity supply, according to the local governor.Ī fire broke out at an oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region overnight, Russia’s RBK news outlet reported, citing the local city administration. Goryachev, a decorated commander, previously led Russian troops in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria. “As a result of an enemy missile attack, the Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev, was killed,” the prominent pro-war blogger Voenkor said in a Telegram post. Russian media reported that a Ukrainian missile strike on the southern Zaporizhzhia front killed an experienced Russian general. As rescue and relief efforts entered their seventh day for victims of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the Russian military was accused of blowing up a much smaller dam along the Mokri Yaly River, which has become the most successful axis so far for Ukraine’s advances in western Donetsk. On Monday, Ukraine accused Russian forces of destroying another dam with the aim of slowing Kyiv’s counteroffensive. Photograph: Oleksii Filippov/AFP/Getty Images Yuriy, a 56-year-old Ukrainian farmer stands chest-deep in water in his village of Afanasiyivka, Mykolaiv region after destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam. The claims have not been independently verified. Russian military bloggers appear to be claiming that Makarivka, one of the villages that Ukraine said it had liberated in the last couple of days, is back in Russian hands. ![]() The location and timing of the video footage has not been independently verified. In a message on Telegram, the ministry said some of the vehicles still had their engines running, illustrating the rapid flight of the crews during the battle. Russia’s defence ministry has released video footage of what it claims were German-made Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley fighting vehicles captured by Russian forces in a battle with Ukrainian forces. She also claimed that 3 sq km of territory had been captured in the Berdiansk direction. She said in a message on Telegram that Ukraine had advanced 250m in the direction of Bakhmut in the area of the Berkhiv reservoir, and 200m in the Toretsk direction. ![]() Deputy defence minister of Ukraine, Hanna Maliar, has reported small incremental advances for Ukrainian forces near Bakhmut and Toretsk. ![]()
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