By Jonathan Beale BBC News, Tomakivka  

Maksym had been fighting for 200 hours without a break when he was killed by a Russian sniper in the city of Bakhmut. 

"For eight days he did not eat, or sleep," his mother Lilia says. "He couldn't even close his eyes for five minutes because the sniper could shoot." 

There's a reason why she now calls Bakhmut "hell". It's the city that took the life of one son and left her only other child seriously injured. 

Her one scant comfort - that one died saving the life of the other.

 

Maksym and Ivan volunteered to fight when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. At the time Maksym was 22 years old and Ivan just 18. 

Ivan, the younger brother who still carries the scars, says they were inseparable. "He was always with me and I with him. For me, he was the dearest person." 

 

Ivan shows me videos and photos of them together - in a trench, in a military vehicle, trying to get some rest. 

As time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.

 

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DYING FOR THE WRONG CAUSE IS THE ZELENSKY EFFECT.... HE IS A TURD-HEAD, A TV PUPPET WHO HAS BEEN GROOMED OVER THE YEARS TO BECOME THE MOST DESPICABLE CORRUPT DESPOT TO FIGHT THE BAD WARS OF NATOSHITSTAN....

YES YOUR BROTHER DIED. TERRIBLY UNFORTUNATE. DAILY BETWEEN 400 AND 700 "UKRAINIANS" LIKE YOU ARE BEING KILLED BECAUSE OF NATO AND OF BORIS JOHNSON'S ANTI-PEACE ATTITUDE. BLAME HIM AND NATO FOR YOU LOSING YOUR BROTHER. DON'T BLAME THE RUSSIANS...

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By recognising that the question of NATO enlargement is at the centre of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.

George Orwell wrote in 1984 that “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S. in ways that leading U.S. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations.

Recognising that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.

The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement,, and in the most recent G7 statement. Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds!

There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

Biden and his foreign policy team refuse to discuss these roots of the war.

 

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https://johnmenadue.com/the-war-in-ukraine-was-provoked-and-why-that-matters-to-achieve-peace/

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

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One of the world’s biggest snack companies, Mondelez International, has been labeled an enemy of Ukraine due to its reluctance to exit Russia, Ukrainian media reported on Thursday.

The Ukrainian National Corruption Prevention Agency (NCPA) has designated the producer of Milka and Alpen Gold chocolate, Oreo and Barni biscuits, Picnic bars and Dirol chewing gum an “international sponsor of war” in an effort to “put pressure on those involved in the war.”

Headquartered in Chicago, Mondelez is among the largest foreign companies still operating in Russia. The US company is the Russian market leader in chocolate, sweets, and biscuits and is also ranked second in the chewing gum and lollipops categories.

 

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https://www.rt.com/business/576964-ukraine-us-cookie-sponsor-war/

 

METHINKS THAT MANY INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES ARE "IMPATIENTLY" AWAITING THE COLLAPSE OF UKRAINE, WHICH IS A BOTHERSOME COUNTRY WITH A BAD TANTRUMIC ATTITUDE. SOON FOLKS, SOON.....

 

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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