Author Archives: RomanInUkraine
Stripping Dead Enemy Soldiers of Supplies After Ambush
Russian POWs claim they were told they’d be shot if they retreated
Russian servicemen confirm information that they are shot if they retreat. Putin is killing his own soldiers. This is a war crime.
Ukraine War – Drone Shows Intense Close Combat Between Ukrainian & Russian Troops In Kherson (from start of war)
Most likely the Ukrainians drove into a Russian Ambush and lost one armored vehicle. It seems like they dismounted in the kill zone, perhaps not realizing it was a prepared ambush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1dXAs2ybIU
Poland’s Accession to NATO
This site details the headline-by-headline history. Poland spent years trying to join NATO.
Here is a speech by Poland’s PM in 1997:
https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1997/s970221b.htm
Update (15 April): It seems the website nato.int has completely changed since I posted that. It used to let you choose a month and year and see all the nato-related headlines.
Stories of Children Being Killed Today
Funerals
I saw one underway in Lviv a few days ago.
Report Card for Foreign Country Support of Ukraine
SSU intercepted conversation: RU ordered to shoot at civilians in Kharkiv
“Few left from 2,000 LRN volunteers. Now 2,000 coming from DNR.
We couldn’t take the city because of civilians. Now they say kill everybody- civilians, kids or not kids. Anyone.
Recent mass casualties taken from Ukr artillery- 200 killed, 300 wounded, 400 (additional) wounded.”
Ukrainian forces claim that they found a chained Russian soldiers who froze to death.
Ukraine faces the ever-present threat of a celebrity divorce in the West
UN has confirmed use of prohibited Cluster Munitions by Russian Forces
About Kherson –
There’s a theory that it’s the source for the Ancient Greek description of Hades. Flat, endless land. A broad, slow-moving river.
Ugh. Pres Biden should NOT say the quite part out loud. Keep at least some unpredictability.
Ukrainians Shoot at a Russian Drone near Irpin
They should lie on their backs to do this – much more stable.
A Private Danish Company Donates 4 Firetrucks to Ukraine
Horrible pictures of Suffering coming from Mariupol
A Georgian volunteer fighting in Ukraine posts a video from frontlines
A Georgian volunteer fighting in Ukraine posts a video from the frontline near Kyiv. Morale seems pretty high.
Road to Brovary, Kyiv Region
Zelenskyy: About 1,300 Ukrainian Servicemen Killed. RIP
According to President Zelenskyy, about 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen were killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
