What the hell happened to Amanda Carpenter? No, seriously. What happened to her. We’re so old, we can remember a time when she wasn’t just conservative, but sane. Granted, it’s been years, but still. We hope for her sake that somewhere lurking in her DNA is just a tiny fragment of her old self. Because this…
President Biden started the week with a surprise visit to Kyiv and a meeting with Ukraine President Zelenskyy. We noted in an earlier story that there were air raid sirens sounding as Biden and Zelenskyy strolled casually through downtown Kyiv, indicating that the whole scene might have been more staged than a Broadway play. How…
US President Joe Biden on Monday walked alongside Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelensky on the streets of Kyiv after he became the first sitting American president to visit an active warzone without presence of active US Military personnel. Biden came under a cloak of secrecy into a war zone to demonstrate what he called America’s…
The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction. The Putin ally’s message on Sunday, January 22 comes after new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment by NATO and Western countries but not the battle tanks…
UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his first visit to Kyiv on Saturday November 19, pledging to continue the firm support for Ukraine that was a focus of former prime ministers, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. He pledged to provide a new air defence package to help shoot down Russian drones. Sunak said…
Ukraine paraded destroyed Russian tanks and armour along the streets of Kyiv on Saturday August 20, to mock Russia’s invasion as it prepares for Independence Day celebrations. Before Saturday, the vehicles most of which were destroyed in the first weeks of the war, were set up outside the iconic St Michael’s Monastery as a…
Boris Johnson has made his second visit to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine. The British prime minister met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in the capital of Ukraine today to offer a new military training programme which will see the UK train up to 120,000 Ukranian troops every 120 days under the new proposals. …
It would appear that Vladimir Putin doesn’t want anyone in the west getting too comfortable or thinking that they’ve figured out what he’s up to. After shifting the focus of the invasion almost entirely to the eastern, industrial part of Ukraine, the Russians shelled the capital city of Kyiv this morning. They hit railways and…
The United States is considering sending special operations forces into Ukraine to help guard the US Embassy in Kyiv, according to new report by the Wall Street Journal. The war in Ukraine started on February 24 but days before, the US evacuated all its staff from its embassy in Kyiv. Early this week the embassy…
US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led a team of Republican senators on a surprise trip to Kyiv on Saturday, May 14 to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The trip which is the latest in a string of high-level US trips comes as a bipartisan bill to send $40 billion in additional aid to…