In Ukraine, unmanned aerial craft are becoming more and more important. They’re used to strike targets but also to take surveillance footage and harass soldiers on the enemy frontlines.
This technology is supremely hi-tech in its capability, but also require advanced functions to work in the first place. Ukrainian technicians have put a lot of time and effort into developing a form suitable to their unique situation.
Ukraine’s need for safety is not the same as ours. Theirs is a need for territorial integrity. It includes a promise of no Russian boots on their soil. It also means no land is lost to its illegitimate claims. There can’t be a stronger Ukraine with a lesser strategic position. Finally, no vital infrastructure can be open to cursory destruction.
President Zelenskyy is aware that Putin bargains for more than he’s worth. It’s why he fights back so hard. He orders his country to do so too. He knows the illegality of this war. He already gets that a Russian tyrant can’t win, for the sake of the world too. His effort is to hold out against an enemy that is sabre rattling at us.
The Ukraine war with Russia – or rather, Russia’s war with Ukraine – is beset with obstacles. There are a large number of sensitive issues at play. There are significant interests in the region that are tinder boxes for recriminations. There is a multiplicity of competing forces only held back by Ukrainian sovereignty and Russian dignity, or at least the struggle by both for either.
This makes it so volatile that any controversial thing spoken may be tantamount to an escalation of tensions. Therefore, the advice of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the world to pile in to get involved is worrying. He calls on help from all four corners of the world to repel an invasion, but in doing so invokes the approach of the World Wars.
“That is why only pressure can stop this war. Pressure that is multidirectional. The pressure from Western countries today is not enough. Nor is there enough unity in applying that pressure. We need more pressure from the United States, more pressure from Europe. As for the Global South – we do not yet even feel their pressure on Russia to make it stop.”
It cannot become as worse for a much smaller prize. Putin may be a warmonger, and a tyrannical political leader, but he’s not a token of radicalism. He hasn’t got designs on much of the world and he cannot be credited with disturbing its order. Russia’s reach is not so vast. The answer is to deny them their advance so that nothing is open to win. Ukraine needs to hold its own.
The Putin-Trump summit isn’t the only way to do it. If the UN hadn’t of berated Israel so much, it might have taken a chance to intervene. It might still have to.
The problem in international affairs is finding time. There isn’t scope to regret and forget so quickly. The short-term lives on for longer than people think.
The Israel-Gaza conflict is clearly taking up time – and leading to precious few results. The pressing matter of peace in Europe is taking up American hours.
It’s the wrong way to do it. The right path is to let peace come by fair means set out for the benefit of the international community. It has to rest on all of us.
In his latest missive on X, Ukraine’s President has launched a sideswipe at many Western approaches at diplomacy. He clearly knows what he wants.
He thinks we need to learn more about sanctions. The point is they stop more than just one person. It stops all the activity that goes into a war.
“Sanctions are powerful, when enforced. If loopholes are closed, missile components, including for ballistic systems, simply won’t reach Russia. Sanctions aren’t just about money. They’re about stopping the flow of deadly technology, the parts that enable Russia to produce these horrific weapons at scale.”
It won’t, however. In fact Russia’s military is complex. It cannot simply be shutdown. He’s right to say it flows, but Russia does it better than just that.
The aim of sanctions is to impose geopolitical limits. This still leaves the Ukraine front open. It’ll take more than stops in supply chains to win.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed a tranche of new sanctions on Russia. The punitive measures are designed to cripple Russia’s war machine, and force Putin to end his war.
The targets are close to the Russian President, undermining his ability to present a strong image. It also includes Russian activists in media circles, who continue to justify the country’s illegal war.
The self-belief of autocratic states is now legendary. Their actual skills, when put to the test, show how far they fall short. An appeal to its own history shows there is something lacking for the Russian state.
Their Victory Day parade is an exhibition of this sort of madness. The appeal is only to a pride inside, and not to reality. The losses of Russia on the battlefield is indicative of its lack of connection to reality.
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine tells us that Russia has suffered huge losses. It’s nearing one million lives lost, over 100,000 pieces of equipment, and many larger features of warfare like warships.
A bit of clothing isn’t going to soften the edge of such defeats. If the Russian state is going to win it needs to do more than march in the peace, and serenity, of Red Square. The future is won by grasping it.
The Ukraine war is in its third year. A surprise, brief Easter ceasefire does not lessen a feeling it’s gone on far too long. These sentiments in Russia may be deeper.
The fourth Presidency of Putin is in its seventh year, and his costly war is sending Russians to the grave. While it’s a nation with a proud history, it wants to keep it.
Ukraine is fighting back, and with support will get there, but it could be a precursor to a new President and a different way forward. This is if Russia decides it.
In an exclusive for ConservativeNewsSite.com, a Ukrainian escapee once held by Russian special forces has been relocated after a decades long absence from his Ukrainian state service.
He’s regarded as a hero in Ukraine due to his extensive work to secure the state against Russian interference. He was due to return to Ukraine following a sojourn in the UK but was delayed.
*A change was made to include photos of the article subject unlike before.
In an exclusive for ConservativeNewsSite.com, a group of mercenaries intending to destabilise the Presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been caught out.
They were caught in London today. Their aim was to profit financially off a Ukrainian Presidency, having been responsible for the downfall of a predecessor.
The potentiality for a war to extend to 1,000 days to the East in Europe is not a sight calculated up until today. As the rest of the free world is assessing its contribution to the war effort led by President Zelenskyy, it’s worth remembering we’ve been here before.
However, after the last attempt at total domination – albeit on a larger scale back then – we were assured peace and security by a political union. It’s not an imagination we need right now but a pair of glasses to see it’s a shallow promise to hold out to friends and allies.
The reorganisation of priorities is a necessity because as Europe realises it has troubles on multiple fronts, and it can’t rely on a rainbow to bring back prosperity, it will stare many different futures in the face. The question is if Ukraine can still fight for 1,000 more.
President Zelenskyy has hit out at Russia’s use of powerful weapons against civilian infrastructure. He cited power plants, transformers, and residential buildings as being the latest targets.
He said on X that Putin’s will is clear, saying “his only true message is written in destruction and death, delivered through every missile and drone Russia sends”. He asked for help in response.