Aug 21--EuroFile for Kremlin File: Olga Tokariuk & Alexander Khara

Linas Linkevicius @LinkeviciusL

Putin still hopes that the West will get tired and allow him to win in #Ukraine. If this were to happen, it would be the biggest betrayal and there would be no point in even talking about any ‘face saving’ in the West. There’s no option but victory over #Russia’s neo-Nazis.

Olga Tokariuk & Alexander Khara bring on Ukraine

Scott Lucas will be filling in for Olga for a few episodes of Kremlin File. Season 3 of Kremlin File will start up in mid-September. This is a joint EuroFile-Kremlin File podcast event.

For this episode, Scott and I were joined by Olga Tokariuk, an independent journalist and a non-resident fellow at CEPA, and Alexander Khara, for diplomat for Ukraine and an advisor to the Ukrainian MoD, to talk about the latest developments in Russia’s war of aggression and genocide against Ukraine and especially about Ukraine’s road to victory.

We also call attention to Olga’s Friday afternoon spaces events that focus on Russian war crimes and genocide against Ukraine with special guests who have been victims or are investigating on the ground.

John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar

War Diary Day 178 Bakhmut at night: a town of 100,000 emptied by Vladimir Putin's killing machine.

Irene Kenyon, Amnesty International- Lost Integrity and Unethical Lies—Into the Void

Amnesty International was supposed to be an organization that stands up for human rights globally. The NGO claims it has more than 10 million supporters worldwide and its stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments."

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III @SecDef

We just announced another Ukraine 🇺🇦 security assistance package. It includes a mix of capabilities — some new, some the Ukrainians have been using very effectively. As Russia’s unprovoked invasion enters its sixth month, our commitment to Ukraine remains unwavering.

Erszenhorn & Mcleary, Ukraine’s 'iron general' is a hero, but he's no star—Politico

Moscow and most of the world expected Russia to demolish Ukraine’s military within days.

But not Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, the commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who has orchestrated and led the fight that has left Russian forces bloody, beaten and in messy retreat.

If a single person can be credited with Ukraine’s surprising military successes so far — protecting Kyiv, the capital, and holding most other major cities amid an onslaught — it is Zaluzhnyy, a round-faced 48-year-old general who was born into a military family, and appointed as his country’s top uniformed commander by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July 2021.

Ukrainian London @UkrainianLondon

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Philip Oltermann, Questions over German politician's 'links to Russian pipeline'—The Guardian

A candidate vying to be Germany’s next finance minister is facing questions over possible links to lobbying on behalf of Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project as his party enters crunch talks to form the next government.

An email seen by the Guardian links Nord Stream 2 lobbying to the deputy leader of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), Wolfgang Kubicki, throwing into doubt cross-party claims of a “more critical” attitude towards the contentious energy deal in a potential three-party coalition alongside Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Greens.