 +9 FEATURED Photos from the Front!The writer is a former military man, now researching and writing about the Ukrainian Conflict. Questions can be sent directly to lhaesten@gmail.com. Sep 26, 2022  (0) |
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FEATURED Sep 23, 2022 One of my men, now assigned to another unit, and the best friend I have made here - a Brit, as is perhaps obvious from his voice - sent this. The Russians must really secretly... |
+5  FEATURED Oct 20, 2022 The writer is a former military man, now researching and writing about the Ukrainian Conflict. Questions can be sent directly to lhaesten@gmail.com. |
FEATURED Aug 4, 2022 The writer is a former military man, now researching and writing about the Ukrainian Conflict. Questions can be sent directly to lhaesten@gmail.com. |
FEATURED Aug 4, 2022 Military types are a varied lot; such is the nature of any military force. But here, where the Westerners on the ground come from the most varied of backgrounds, the most inte... |
 0:21 Jul 28, 2022 On the night of July 26, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit two vital bridges in occupied territory. To grasp the full import, we must revisit the opening salvos of Russia's invas... |
FEATURED Jul 28, 2022 In my previous article, I wrote about relics of the Soviet years that still litter Ukraine. And without knowing the interlocked history of the two countries, it is difficult t... |
+2  FEATURED Jul 24, 2022 All of these men give explicit permission to have their images posted. The writer is a former military man, now researching and writing about the Ukrainian Conflict. Quest... |
+2  FEATURED Jul 24, 2022 Cerberus Komando is an Afrikaans-named unit helping in Ukraine. The word "commando" in English does not mean the same as "Kommando" is Afrikaans - it means, in Boer, a mounted... |
0:21  Jul 15, 2022 Public figures in the US often note that Ukrainians are good at memes. It's a Ukrainian tradition to mark significant events with art and music. When the Turkish company Bayka... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 Please allow
me to generalize about Americans and other foreigners serving in Ukraine.
Fighting for your own country is to be expected, but it takes a special person
to tak... |
+3  FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 I grew up believing, and not wrongly, that the Soviets stood ready to rain nuclear fire upon the West. In 1983 it almost happened, thanks to a faulty Soviet early warning syst... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 The reasons why someone with no ties to a country he likely
couldn't place on a map six months before he came to fight for it vary so
widely that almost any statement made a... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 It is true that the Ghost of Kyiv
turned out to be a patriotic fabrication; then again, the picture of George
Washington crossing the Delaware was so absurdly stylized, not ... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 The newspapers worldwide do a disservice to the truth on the
ground, but they have one thing correct: it has turned into a slugfest, a war
of attrition, and it is coming dow... |
Jun 17, 2022 The Ukrainian people are in disbelief about what is happening in the world arena. International communities once revered as top professionals have been exposed as nothing more... |
FEATURED Jun 17, 2022 So many aphorisms, wise sayings, koans…whatevers exist about the power of truth. Keats wrote that it was the same as beauty, and inseparable from it; it is said to be libera... |
+9  FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 My time in Ukraine, as much as time on other deployments,
has shown me that without a doubt, as Americans we are a privileged people. Not
just materially, but in many ways. ... |
0:21  Jun 2, 2022 Ukrainians may be on the front lines in the war with Russia, but the general populace is as clueless about military operations as is the rest of the world. Should military new... |
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May 26, 2022 The name says it all. The situation is simply morbid. War is not a fist fight. It is a complex organization of three hierarchies -- strategic, operational and tactical -- sepa... |
+4  May 24, 2022 The other day I stumbled on a YouTube channel where pro-Putin apologists opined that military aid, even for self-defense, spurred violence. I watched in shock as one woman cal... |
+5  Updated May 29, 2022 Ukraine's economy is in shambles. War has caused across-the-board job losses, agricultural crises, and metallurgical disasters. The once thriving construction industry is at a... |
+4  May 19, 2022 To sum things up - it's pretty hard, but you know that already. I wouldn't go so far as to say that things are horrible, but they're certainly not easy. A disclaimer: I'm not ... |
+6  May 10, 2022 Not many people have found themselves in a situation when they had no choice but to fight, and even fewer when they had to fight in a war. For most civilians, the toll of war ... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 This is a picture taken of a soldier walking with a cane, about 65, but stepping up to his duty. I took it surreptitiously, but this is the quality of the people: they are sic... |
May 9, 2022 It should come as no surprise that May 9 was more subdued than usual this year. Although it was never a major celebration in Ukraine, the way it is in Russia, people always we... |
+2  FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 So many times in the articles I have submitted to help with this noble work – and I don't say that from a bully pulpit, whatever that is, or with a heroic tear leaking from ... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 In days of the Soviet Union, when religions were frowned upon at best and suppressed at worst, Victory Day was one of the most important of secular holidays in Moscow. All Ame... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 Hilaire Belloc, the Anglo-French man of letters, soldier, scholar and poet, in an excess of zeal and simplicity, wrote: “Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and the... |
FEATURED Updated Jul 24, 2022 We could learn a thing from the Europeans, who seem to be rallying around the Ukrainians as they flee the onslaught of a “James Bond villain brought to life.” Here at the ... |
+3  Updated Jun 2, 2022 Catastrophes can happen in an instant,
when you least expect it, and life is changed forever. I lived through 9/11. I
was a college student at Pace University, right across ... |
+12  May 2, 2022 Living during war time is emotionally and psychologically daunting to say the least. It's not the bombs and rocket strikes that get you so much, although in the beginning it w... |
+11  Apr 27, 2022 Few reports have trickled out about attacks in Russia and territories controlled by Russia, but over the past two weeks, and especially in the last five days, strategic sites ... |
+4  Apr 29, 2022 Here is a personal account of what it is like to live in a place that finds itself under constant bombings and rocket attacks. After more than two months at war, I can almost ... |
+7  Apr 25, 2022 Russians have been attacking Ukraine with all the military power it has. For now, they gave it everything attacking the Ukrainian land except for nuclear weapons. As a matter ... |
+11  Apr 22, 2022 Most Ukrainians are Christian Orthodox much like most of Greece. As a matter of fact a religious reconstruction in Kyiv happened under the influence of the Greek Orthodox chur... |
+4  Updated Apr 21, 2022 The world watched as the supposedly amazing Russian warship embarrassingly went to the bottom of the Black Sea. This came as a surprise to all of us in Ukraine. There is a com... |
+8  Updated Apr 21, 2022 The second day of the full fledged war was February 25th. The day after isn't any less memorable than the first by any means. It was a day of total confusion and psychological... |
+8  Updated Apr 21, 2022 Volunteering for the army is definitely not a new concept in the world. We had volunteers throughout world history especially when it came down to armed conflicts. Many have r... |
Updated Apr 21, 2022 The following will be a recollection of how the war began. The beginning being the first moments when it finally hit home one brisk early morning on February 24th. It is a vas... |
Updated Jan 18, 2024 The time has come to dispel a myth. Rumor has it that Ukraine has received ‘unprecedented'
help throughout the war. Let's revisit this idea and shine light on the truth
ab... |
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