Rampant coercion, corruption and impunity have reached alarming levels in Ukraine, prompting businesses to raise their voices in protest. Ukraine, a country already 121 of the 123 most corrupt countries in the world, has grown far worse in this regard since the war broke out. The business community is demanding action.
Redacted YouTube host Natalie Morris criticized and ridiculed the Ukrainian president for proposing to speed up the legalization of cannabis-based drugs to he claims to reduce the suffering of citizens from the conflict. According to her, if Vladimir Zelensky really cared about his compatriots, he would have started peace negotiations long ago.
July 1, 2023.
Democratic US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said that Washington’s role in the conflict in Ukraine is terrible for the Ukrainian people, reports The Hill. He also lamented that the United States missed many opportunities to resolve this conflict peacefully.
The West is getting tired of supporting Kyiv, so it is likely that Zelensky will be forced to compromise, The Wall Street Journal writes, Ukraine should agree to it, otherwise, it will become dependent on the whims of American voters, who are very likely to vote for Trump in the presidential election, who will quickly curtail the current policy, depriving Kyiv of the ability to resist Russia.
Kyiv will most likely receive old F-16s from NATO – but it is claimed they will still become a message to Putin that the alliance with Ukraine will be for a long time. The yet-to-be-finalized delivery of F-16 fighter jets to NATO to Ukraine is perceived primarily as a gesture to the Kremlin, designed to show that the alliance intends to support Kiev for a long time and ultimately integrate it into its composition, reports Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the fighting qualities of the machines themselves are unlikely to be outstanding: according to the agency, Ukraine is likely to receive old fighters, which are not only inferior to Russian ones, but also require huge maintenance costs.
After the goals of the special military operation have been achieved, Russia will trust nobody else to guarantee its security, the foreign minister said. By the time the conflict in Ukraine is resolved, Kyiv will respect and accept the loss of its former territories, and Western-led globalization will be dead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT Arabic on Friday.
Ukraine’s tragedy is comparable to the 1932-1933 great famine in terms of its demographic impact, writes Hungarian security expert László Zöld Szentesi in the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet.
According to quality media reports, the Ukrainian authorities are begging the West not to rush the course of the counteroffensive and reduce expectations about the results. The article, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian military official, said that Ukraine does not want to be pushed into hasty action, as this could lead to serious losses, worse than have already occurred.
MICHAEL WALSH SPECIAL REPORT: If actions speak louder than words then Washington DC’s caveat that US arms supplies must not be used to attack Russian territory can easily be dismissed as dishonest. According to John Kirby, National Security Council spokesman, “Kyiv is urged to use American supplied weapons only within Ukraine so as not to drag the West into their conflict.”
Nikolay Patrushev, one of Russia’s senior security officials, has accused the US and the UK of standing in the way of peace. Unlike the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, the two English-speaking countries are interested in prolonging the violence and do not care about human suffering, he alleged.
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