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Trump discusses ceasefire talks with Putin
Trump stated after his call with Putin that Moscow and Kyiv would begin working toward a ceasefire agreement, though his tone suggests additional sanctions against Moscow are unlikely at this time.
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Zelensky rejects Putin’s peace demands, stating ‘they don’t want peace’
'It's our land' — Zelensky responds to Putin's call with Trump, Russia's Ukraine ceasefire demands. "It means that they don't want peace… if they demand what they know we won't agree to," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. https://
kyivindependent.com/its-our-land-u
kraine-responds-to-putins-call-with-trump-russias-demands/
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Russia expands brigades into divisions, redrawing NATO’s northern front
Analyst Emil Kastehelmi: They’re expanding brigades into divisions. That means thousands more troops near our borders. This is slow-motion escalation less dramatic than 2022, but still a strategic shift. NATO’s northern front is being redrawn—one warehouse and runway at a time.
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Russia relocates air force north to avoid Ukrainian drone strikes
Near Kamenka, 100+ Russian army tents appeared in 2024. At Olenya air base, <100 miles from Finland, dozens of warplanes are now stationed. Helicopters returned to Murmansk—first time in 20 years. Russia is moving its air force north to evade Ukrainian drone strikes. 2/
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Putin’s root cause argument: Ukraine’s existence not the issue
In a certain sense, Putin is even right — to end the war in Europe, we really do need to eliminate its “root causes.” It’s just that the true “root causes” aren’t the existence of Ukraine as a state and as identity, as Russian war propaganda insinuates, but rather the existence
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Russia’s illegal occupation of eastern Europe and post-Soviet Ukraine
Source: https://
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
2025/may/19/russia-illegal-occupation-eastern-europe-ukraine-post-soviet
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Russian military commits atrocities and runs filtration camps in Ukraine
The Russian military tortures, rapes, and deports — just like the KGB once did in Poland, East Germany, and Lithuania. Russia’s security services run filtration camps. Ukrainians are told: take a Russian passport or leave. 5/
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Russia repeats USSR’s occupation crimes in Ukraine
Russia never paid for the USSR’s biggest crime: a 45-year occupation of Central and Eastern Europe, marked by deportations, prisons, and secret police. Now Russia repeats the crime in Ukraine: forced passports, torture, renamed streets, settlers. 1/
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Lebedev: Russia’s war crimes began in 1939, not Bucha
Lebedev for The Guardian: it’s not liberation. It’s re-occupation. Russia’s war crimes didn’t start in Bucha — they began in 1939. With the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the USSR invaded the Baltics, Poland, and Romania. For 22 months, it was Nazi Germany’s ally. 2/