With all eyes on Gaza, what’s happening in Ukraine?
Airstrike: the smoking ruin in the middle of the image used to be the Russian landing ship Novocherkassk.
Has everybody forgotten the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?
The tide has turned badly against Ukraine in recent weeks, despite similar events to those occurring on the Mediterranean coast:
Russian troops execute Ukrainian POWs in cold blood
A video filmed by a Ukrainian recon drone revealed a brutal murder of three unarmed Ukrainian soldiers near Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.https://t.co/U2ItJzFZBc
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) December 27, 2023
But Ukraine has just recorded a major strike back, destroying Russia’s Novocherkassk landing ship, meaning one-fifth of Russia’s Black Sea fleet has been sunk since the start of the war.
Russia’s ability to launch missile attacks from the sea is now seriously diminished, as is any possibility of an amphibious attack from the sea.
Russian supply routes to the Crimean peninsula are disrupted, weakening Moscow’s grip there.
And with supply lines disrupted, Russia’s control over the front lines against Ukraine may also be disrupted.
But this is a long game, and Ukraine’s time is running out – because the western powers that have been funding its defence are getting impatient for a return on their investment, and may abandon their debtor.
With most eyes now fixed on Gaza, Ukraine may discover what we have already seen in Palestine – that western sympathy is provided only on the condition that it will provide a cash return, and has nothing to do with alleviating human suffering.
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Russia is popping champagne corks and deciding whether to take what they’ve got in any peace deal or go for gold and take the lot or somewhere in between with Odessa a nice place to settle. Here is an headline from RT ‘Ukraine needs ‘plan B’ – ex-PM. Yulia Tymoshenko has warned President Vladimir Zelenski that the current course will lead Kiev to defeat’,
Good. As for ships they are built to be sunk in war. Extending the sinking of one of them into a vast delusion is just part of the game of war. Russia has won. Ukraine, it’s a question for them and their US EU UK handlers on how much they want to lose.
Has EVERYONE here forgotten the ‘human suffering’ endured by the ethnic Russians in the east of what was once the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (enlarged by Khrushchev, for some reason, from its original Ukrainian territory only in the early 1950s) at the hands of, amongst others, the proudly neo-Nazi (and not so much of the ‘neo’) Azov battalion in the years from 2014, after the putsch organised by the US, with the war hawk and current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland at the helm? And the long-standing attempts by the Russians to negotiate things down, sabotaged by, among others, Boris Johnson – presumably at the behest of the US neo-cons? Is it really any surprise that Russia finally gave up on Zelenskyy and his famously corrupt cohorts and the devious underhanded machinations of the massed politicos of ‘The West’? I dislike and distrust Putin considerably less than I dislike and distrust the massed leaders (and opposition leaders too, in most case) of ‘The West’. Not that keen on Xi Jinping or Narendra Modi either. Or Khamenei or bin Salman. And as for the totally despicable Netanyahu…
Two wrongs don’t make anybody right.
The press loves to frame things as ‘good guys’ Vs ‘bad guys’ whilst some of us remember that the good guys aren’t that good and that sometimes the bad guys have a point.
There’s a very real ‘culture war’ going on in Ukraine with Russian language education being banned, Russian churches being banned and Russian Orthodox holidays being forcibly ended too. For those who identify, culturally, as Russian (ie language, religion etc) they are going to have a VERY tough time from their own countrymen. This is not something anyone should support..
AND – do you REALLY consider ‘EuromaidanPress’ to be a reliable, unbiased, honest, factual reporter?
Do you have information disproving anything this site has reported that I have used?
https://euromaidanpress.com/about/partners/ – scroll down to the ‘corporate partners’
It seems to have been trusted by the British Embassy in Kyiv.
That’s really not a good recommendation..
Possibly not but these opinions are all subjective.
Who do you believe, when they’re supplying information from a war zone? We’ve seen huge issues with that in the Israel/Gaza conflict and may apply the same concerns to Ukraine/Russia.
I’m hoping to do a follow-up about the Russian airstrike that just happened and the western condemnation of it – and the hypocrisy of condemning this but not Israel’s genocidal air bombardment of Gaza.
We seem to be under the misapprehension that RF needs to win in order to ‘win’ In fact all they need to do is prolong the war.
A few things can come together in order for this to be a successful result for RF. Firstly if armaments and materiel are on an equal footing (as they seem to have been for some time) the RF has a huge advantage of available manpower. Manpower is something that foreign aid cannot replace without actual direct involvement. Ukraine must draw from a smaller pool of conscripts in order to swell their ranks. Over time the depletion is harder to replace, their population shrinks and inevitably after the war there is going to be a ‘lost generation’ similar to what Britain suffered after WW1. Secondly we have, in the next year, the potential for a change of leadership in the US. Unbelievably Trump is showing strongly in polls and might actually win! If this proves to be the case then US foreign policy is likely to have some major changes. I don’t foresee him immediately withdrawing military aid to Ukraine nor to immediately cease support politically for them. Even Trump would understand that this would confirm everything the Democrats have said about him. But I do see him moving towards pressuring the Ukrainians to get to the negotiating table again with some real concessions about Donbass and Crimea. Smaller changes in the type of aid given may force Ukraine’s hand (this and aid fatigue in the rest of the world) Of course Trump is staunchly pro Israel so if the ‘war’ in Gaza is still ongoing (even at a low level) he may throw his weight behind expanding the war and widening its remit (ie a faster genocide) Doing that might distract enough people to allow for his withdrawal of support in Ukraine not to be noticed.
This would put Ukraine back where it was just prior to the invasion. They may then revert to the agreements they were making and this MAY mean that the EU withdraws it’s requirement for Ukraine to ‘defend its borders’ in order for Ukraine to get aid and for it to be considered for membership. Unless, of course, the EU were to make up for the missing military aid that would be required (unlikely) However Ukraine’s potential membership of the EU is likely to stall in the same way that Turkey’s has.
Whatever happens this is not going to end well. In every war there are two sides, men with guns and civilians. The civilians always lose..