A man stands atop a Russian tank and flies the Ukrainian flag, defying the Russian occupation of Kherson in southern Ukraine, March 2022
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: 4 Years Later, Ukraine Still Stands
UPDATE 0825 GMT:
Four civilians were murdered and two injured in Russian airstrikes on the Zaporizhzhya region in southern Ukraine on Tuesday night.
Three of the victims were recovered from the rubble of a destroyed family home. The other was found in a damaged two-story apartment building.
Russian forces carried out 643 attacks on 32 settlements across the region over the past day, damaging homes, vehicles, and infrastructure.
UPDATE 0811 GMT:
The Trump Administration has demanded that Ukraine halt attacks on a key oil terminal on the southwest Russian coast because of “American investments”, says Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Olha Stefanishyna.
Stefanishyna said received a demarche from the State Department after Ukraine’s attacks last November on the oil terminal in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.
We heard that the Ukrainian attacks on Novorossiysk affected some of the American investments that are being made through Kazakhstan. And we heard from the State Department that we should refrain from, you know, attacking American interests.
The Administration did not propose refraining from attacks on other Russian energy infrastructure.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium marine terminal near Novorossiysk was damaged, but there was no oil spill. Loading was suspended, and tankers were diverted outside the CPC’s waters. Oil exports were urgently rerouted to alternative routes.
The Kazakh Energy Ministry said the attacks were unacceptable and posed a threat to global energy security.
Among the Consortium’s member is the US oil company Chevron.
On the 4th anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, I spoke for 35 minutes with Ukraine’s War and Politics 24 about Ukrainians, their resistance, and their nation.
I chat with host Daniel Tkiie about the state of the invasion, including Vladimir Putin’s concern that he may not succeed in conquering Ukraine.
This is Vladimir Putin’s legacy. He invaded in February 2022 and set off global consequences because he wante dto conquer Ukraine.
If he does not get all of the Donetsk region, he has failed.
He doesn’t have Kyiv. He hasn’t toppled the Zelensky Government. And he doesn’t have Donetsk — despite 1.3 million Russian casualties.
I set out the latest on Ukraine-Russia-US talks which are unlikely to halt the Kremlin’s assault.
But my focus is on how Ukrainians have survived the assault on the ground and from the air, accompanied by Russian attempts to split Europe and manipulate the Trump Administration.
