Ukraine
The Russian despot’s re-election will give us six more years of chaos and horror, and Putin aims to strengthen ties with the very worst of the world’s current and future leaders.
The parents of Ukrainian journalist Oleksha “Sasha” Kuvshynova claim that the network engaged in a cover-up after their daughter was killed in an attack outside Kyiv two years ago.
Anti-Putin militants urged citizens to evacuate on Wednesday after launching a military offensive aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
He also said American soldiers would be treated as “interventionists” if sent to Ukraine.
Moscow said it resisted the “terrorist formations of the Kyiv regime,” while Ukraine insisted the units were made up of Russian citizens.
Soldiers in Ukraine’s liberated East tell The Daily Beast that they fear pro-Russian locals will poison their food and rat out their locations to Putin’s forces.
“Our flag is a yellow and blue one,” Ukraine’s foreign minister said. “This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags.”