Ukrainian video of the detonation at the Kerch Bridge, between southwest Russia and occupied Crimea, June 3, 2025
EA-Ukraine Video: The Economic Walls Close on Russia’s Invasion — Will Trump Rescue The Kremlin?
In a 27-minute discussion, EA correspondent Cormac Smith speaks with Frontline’s Philip Ingram about Ukraine’s counter-attacks against Russia’s invasion, including the prospect that Kyiv can regain Crimea.
Cormac explains Ukraine’s three-pronged approach: 1) Pushing back Russia on frontlines: 2) “decimating Russia’s logistics chain”, including supplies to Crimea, occupied since 2014; and 3) long-range strikes inside Russia.
A lot of people have been saying that Crimea is a step too far. I can tell you it is not.
[Ukraine President] Volodymyr Zelensky said a year and a half ago, “This war began with Crimea. And it will end with Crimea.”
Cormac evaluates Russia’s response with mass missile and drone assaults trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.
There is a question about how much truth Vladimir Putin is being told by his generals and whether he believes that his war is going better than it is.
He is now trying to terrorize the Ukrainian people with these attacks which are clearly war crimes.
Cormac also discusses a Russia-owned aluminum plant that is still allowed to operate in western Ireland despite international sanctions on Moscow.
Permit me to introduce myself.
I am a female Nigerian international lawyer (LL.M Harvard), educator, human rights advocate, opinion writer, essayist, and poet, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
I am a regular contributor to the Guardian Nigeria newspaper. Furthermore, my work has appeared in ‘The Hill’ Washington DC, Roundtable Journal of the Commonwealth Institute, London, UK and the Global Policy Institute Blog, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California among other international publications.
In my role as an educator, I was privileged to be formally presented to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her visit to Nigeria for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2003.
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L -R: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Stuart Mole Director-General, Royal Commonwealth Society, Irene Fowler Director, Vivian Fowler College and Priscilla Quoa, Vivian Fowler College student/2003 winner of the Commonwealth Essay Competition.
“Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry:” – Joseph Brodsky, Soviet-born exiled poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
My poetry collection decrying Russia’s demented war on Ukraine was published by the Kyiv Post, Ukraine.
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/19691
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/658
The continued unimpeded dismantling of democratic systems, norms and values in superpower nations such as Russia, will result in dastardly fallouts that will impact the global community at-large.
A countless number of nations will regress to Machiavellian governance by the opportunistic and ruthless, creating a hellscape for their domestic populations.
The dastardly scenario will ultimately negate a rules-based international order and be fertile ground for soulless, rogue elements to threaten humanity with the use of nuclear weapons. This potential catastrophe is playing out in real time and is borne-out by Putin’s incessant nuclear sabre-rattling, on the world stage.
As a proponent of a rules-based international order and functioning democratic governance across the globe, I use my voice to advocate against tyranny and autocracy. This is especially crucial pertaining to the African continent, as most of our democracies were cynically cobbled together in the service of imperial interests.
In this context, I am taking the liberty of sending my latest poem (hereunder) titled ‘Putin Dances With The Devil,’ and would be honoured if you would consider sharing my work.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience and yhank you for your attention.
Long live an independent Ukraine!
Kind regards,
Irene Fowler
Putin Dances WithThe Devil
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Putin, a zealot and marionette, of the ruler of darkness
Corrosive acid, pumping from his bloodless heart
Coursing through iron-pipe-arteries, to feed a demented mind
He evinces swollen, sodden, sickly hands of an insatiable, blood-sucking vampire
Reptilian eyes, laser-focused on courting death, depravity and destruction
Whilst, an oral cavity, hosts venomous spiders, weaving entrapments of lies, deceit and mayhem
Unspeakable terror and horror, wrapped-up in their tangled webs
The faux-czars’ spindly, weak, bent limbs, support a diseased-ravaged and rotten midsection
As he dances with the devil!
Cloaked and draped from head to foot, in Russia’s white, blue and red
Putin’s monstrous, medusa-like head, crowned with priceless gemstones of diamond, emerald, sapphire, topaz, ruby, beryl and garnet
Pair skating blisfully on a deep frozen ocean of the blood of innocents
A nightmarishly inhuman face, upturned, awaiting his lover’s kiss
They display a passionate exchange, and seal, of requited affection
Flaunting, a public affirmation of undying love
Whilst, conveying the unspoken words of ‘I do’ and ‘until death do we part.’
© 2025 by Irene Fowler