Alternativa nyheter kring Ryssland-Ukraina kriget (samlingstråd)

A Ukrainian battalion on the side of Russia.

A volunteer battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky is being formed in the DPR from Ukrainian soldiers, prisoners of war. Servicemen joining it disagree with the actions of the Ukrainian authorities. All of them have undergone a full criminal record check and have been proven not guilty of war crimes or criminal offenses.
Members of the new military unit are currently waiting to be granted Russian citizenship. They will then sign contracts with the Russian Armed Forces, and the unit will be sent for retraining and combat shakedown.

Ukrainian commander reveals true scale of losses – and pays the price
He revealed that all of the original 500 soldiers in his unit had either been killed or injured, a rare acknowledgement from inside the Ukrainian ranks, where losses are kept strictly confidential.
Kupol told the Washington Post this week that the Ukrainian army training was often poor and that some of the rookie replacements didn’t know how to throw a hand grenade or fire a rifle.
Others had abandoned their positions shortly after arriving at the front line, he said.
“I get 100 new soldiers,” he said. “They don’t give me any time to prepare them. They say, ‘Take them into the battle.’ They just drop everything and run. That’s it. Do you understand why? Because the soldier doesn’t shoot. I ask him why, and he says, ‘I’m afraid of the sound of the shot.’ And for some reason, he has never thrown a grenade. … We need Nato instructors in all our training centres, and our instructors need to be sent over there into the trenches. Because they failed in their task.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-commander-revealed-true-scale-171152943.html

Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Bakhmut fear “they are being sent to their deaths” amid a relentless push by Russian forces to capture a city.
Putin’s forces are said to outnumber Ukrainians by two or three times on the Bakhmut front, where an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 troops are currently fighting.
“When they drive us to Bakhmut, I already know I’m being sent to death,” a Ukrainian soldier named Volodymyr told the Kyiv Independent.

The 54 year-old, an infantryman from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, said he struggled to eat after fighting for months.
“(The Russians) keep firing at us, but we don’t have artillery,” he said. “So we have nothing to attack them back with. I don’t know if I will return or not. We are just getting killed.”
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-soldiers-sent-defend-bakhmut-114107752.html

How many of those calling for Putin’s arrest were complicit in the illegal invasion of Iraq?
The seventh of the Nuremberg Principles, which Brown cites in calling for Russian prosecutions, points out that “complicity” in a war of aggression “is a crime under international law”. Both officials would clearly qualify as complicit. Rice was one of the architects of the war. Brown, as a cabinet member, was party to the decision. As chancellor of the exchequer, he financed the war.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/many-those-calling-putin-arrest-070005714.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink