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Yan Petrovsky was a commander of the Rusich Group – a Russian far-right and neo-Nazi paramilitary unit. Yan Petrovsky and the Rusich Group have been committing War Crimes since 2014. The Rusich Group has been linked to Russia’s Wagner Group—both with a long history of brutality. Co-founder Alexey Milchakov gained notoriety for publishing images of animal cruelty and openly celebrating war crimes.
Finland sentences Russian neo-Nazi mercenary Yan Petrovsky to life for war crimes in Ukraine:
Hard to believe the Russian people haven’t already executed Putin and his cronies. Since the start of Putin’s 2022 reinvasion of Ukraine he has been taking away freedoms that the Russian people had gained under Mikhail Gorbachev.
Putin and his cronies spent years bragging about the new modern and powerful military they were building, but their massive military failings in the attack upon Ukraine has proven they were more focused on stealing from the Russian treasuries.
In almost two years, Russia has lost thousands of tanks—so many they have been forced to bring out Soviet-Era T-54 Tanks (entered service in 1948) as replacements. They lost so much artillery, aircraft, and armored combat vehicles that Putin was forced to go on bended knees to Iran and North Korea.
Russia lost just 14,453 Killed troops and 53,753 Wounded during 10 years of war in Afghanistan. In Ukraine, after almost 2 years, Russia has lost a staggering 348,300 Killed troops and 1,044,900 Wounded.
Russia, and much of the World, still haven’t figured out what Ukraine’s ‘Counteroffensive’ is about. Most everyone was expecting the usual mad dash of Tanks & Infantry into and/or around the enemy’s defensive positions, but after about 2-months most everyone is wondering if the counteroffensive has already failed.
Ukraine doesn’t have much of an Air Force—a primary ingredient of a mad dash of Tanks & Infantry into and/or around the enemy’s defensive positions, so a main ingredient of their counteroffensive involves the ‘Starve, Stretch and Strike’ method. Think ‘Rope-a-dope’:
Karmi’s NOTE: Series is from – The Kyiv Independent. I have started following their UKRAINE’S TRUE HISTORY ‘n wanted to share it wid many Westerners who don’t get a lot of facts from their news sources. I’ll do a ‘Brief’ in ‘Snips’ of each episode, so be sure to follow the links to the entire episode.
Russia’s centuries-long quest to conquer Ukraine:
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 shocked many around the world.
But anyone who paid attention to Ukrainian history would have seen it coming.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered several excuses for the invasion. One was to kill all the supposed “Nazis” in Ukraine. Another was to eliminate Ukraine’s supposed military threat to Russia.
But the true reason was to annex Ukraine as a territory that Putin believes has always rightfully belonged to Russia. In speeches that recalled imperial times, Putin claimed that Ukraine’s independence was a mistake that he intended to correct.
This meant conquering Kyiv, toppling the elected government, and destroying the Ukrainian national identity.
Putin’s twisted vision isn’t new. Russia has been doing this for close to 400 years.
Karmi’s NOTE: Series is from – The Kyiv Independent. I have started following their UKRAINE’S TRUE HISTORY ‘n wanted to share it wid many Westerners who don’t get a lot of facts from their news sources. I’ll do a ‘Brief’ in ‘Snips’ of each episode, so be sure to follow the links to the entire episode.
10 popular misconceptions about Ukrainian history, debunked:
From the birth of Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state, to the onset of armed conflicts in the ensuing centuries, untangling Ukraine’s past is never easy.
Ukraine – through its long and turbulent history – gained independence in 1991.
The country’s long history before and after independence has seen Ukrainians enduring wars, revolutions, occupations, and a fraught relationship with its neighbor, Russia
Understanding Ukraine’s origins becomes even more complex as Russia has been on a centuries-long quest to distort Ukrainian history in an attempt to justify its brutal invasions.
While most of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign is dismissed by Ukraine, the West, and many around the world, the wide net that Russia’s false narratives have cast globally have allowed historical misconceptions to arise.
The Kyiv Independent has put together 10 common historical misconceptions about Ukraine that can still be commonly heard today.