Blinken warns Ukraine cease-fire now would result in ‘Potemkin peace,’ legitimizing Russian invasion

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms.

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The true scale of Russian combat losses

Prigozhin’s latest statements confirmed the actual scale of Russian combat losses in Ukraine.

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As hold on Bakhmut slips, Ukrainian forces push to encircle city

Ukrainian forces have been reduced to small footholds in the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, which despite its limited strategic importance has emerged as the war’s bloodiest battlefield. 

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Russia says 2 senior officers have died in eastern Ukraine

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday two of its senior commanders have died in fighting near Bakhmut, a pivotal city in eastern Ukraine.

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Germany is finally focusing on defending NATO, but its military ‘lacks almost everything’ it needs to do it, a former German general says

Like other Western countries, Germany has scrambled to support Ukraine against Russia that has highlighted “the neglected state and outdated focus” of Germany’s military, a former general says, but before Berlin can support Kyiv or defend NATO, it will have to refurbish its own forces.

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The Incomplete U.S. Evacuation in Sudan

This time, the U.S. military evacuated all U.S. government personnel and a “small number” of allied diplomats in an operation on April 23. But that left some 16,000 Americans still in Sudan, and there are few clear means to escape for those who want to leave.

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