Tag: Ukraine

Dmitri Medvedev Doesn’t Take Prisoners

The influence of Dmitry Medvedev cannot be underestimated. It is difficult to separate the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Federation of Russia from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Medvedev was Russian prime minister (2012-2020) and Russia’s president 2008-2012.

Ukraine could seek extradition of draft dodging cannon fodder from EU – senior MP

The thousands of Ukrainians who bribed officials or forged documents to flee the country should be prosecuted, Jewish oligarch David Arakhamia has said. Military-aged Ukrainian men who fled the country during mobilization could be forcibly returned home to face trial, top lawmaker David Arakhamia told one of the country’s state-controlled TV broadcasters on Thursday.

Not Quite All Together in Ukraine

Ukrainians pay up to $10,000 to escape the draft. Thousands of Ukrainians have managed to dodge conscription thanks to various schemes in a corrupt system. Thousands of Ukrainian men have paid large sums in bribes to avoid getting drafted during the ongoing conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.

Ukraine has become an iceberg for NATO’s Titanic

DOUGLAS MACGREGOR, retired US Army Colonel: The American authorities are going out of their way to save the crumbling North Atlantic Alliance, but their attempts are doomed to failure, said retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor. In the expert’s opinion, the Western military bloc resembles a sinking ship, but Washington diligently pretends that everything is in order with the organization, and that is why it is trying to draw Sweden into it.

Polish general: Ukrainians have the right to feel deceived – the NATO summit gave them no hope

For six months, NATO has fed the whole world, and especially Kyiv, with the illusion that the summit in Vilnius will become historic and thus put an end to the Ukrainian conflict, General Waldemar Skrzypczak said. The Polish military regrets that in the end, apart from further arms supplies, the alliance could not offer Ukraine anything else, thereby dooming it to slow agony.