Eyewitness Donbas: Why the Majority Reject Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive

The Ukrainian military offensive is underway with an attempt to regain territory in the Donbas, the four regions that have been at the heart of the conflict since 2014. The only problem for Ukraine? The majority clearly want to remain part of Russia. Journalist Johnny Miller, who has been living in Donetsk, joins the show to discuss why the majority of those in Donbas do not wish to be “liberated” by Ukraine and how the Western media has stayed silent on the issue.

Eyewitness Donbas: Why the Majority Reject Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive via BreakThrough News

The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.

The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.

The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

Related:

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)

How to get arrested in Ukraine? Just wear the colors of the Russian Flag!

How to get arrested in Russia? Just wear blue and yellow

H/T: Emil Cosman

I’m calling BS on the story from Ukraine! Otherwise, they have 164,999 personnel left to arrest from the VKS! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Irony (or whataboutism?! 🤷🏼‍♀️):

American man wearing ‘Russia’ shirt detained in Ukraine ahead of Independence Day festivities, claims country’s cops are ‘Nazis’

Ukrainian Police Tortured Kherson Residents for ‘Ties with Russia’

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reportedly set up torture chambers in two police stations in Kherson – Dnieper and Komsomolsk – to deal with people who, according to the SBU, collaborated with the Russian authorities, a representative of law enforcement agencies, citing a source in the Ukrainian National Police, told Sputnik.

Ukrainian Police Tortured Kherson Residents for ‘Ties with Russia’