Author: Guy D. McCardle

Some Russian soldiers who have already fought in Ukraine are refusing to go back, citing things like insufficient paychecks and the possibility they may be killed.

Amnesty International, the international, non-governmental human rights watchdog, has reported that hundreds of citizens are being killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv by the widespread use of cluster munitions and indiscriminate use of rockets.

A Ukrainian husband and wife physician team refuses to run from the trauma that is ripping apart their homeland.

Veterans Village of San Diego’s (VVSD) motto is “Leave No One Behind.” It’s a noble but lofty goal.

As public support for the war in Ukraine wanes, Putin is trying to create a new generation of Russian Super-Soldiers by beginning military indoctrination and training in elementary schools and high schools. Nearly 600,000 are enrolled in the Russian Youth Army program.

Is he dead? Did Putin fire him? Where in the world is Russian General Aleksandr Dvornikov? No one seems to know.

Three-year-old Belgian Malinois Max was found starving and nearly dead in the Ukrainian woods. He had been surviving off scraps of food and garbage, and when he was found, he wore a Russian military collar. No one could understand how such a beautiful dog could just be left behind to die.

In addition to sixty new rocket systems, Ukraine is saying that they need access to additional sophisticated air defense systems to protect their citizens from relentless shelling by the Russians.

For months now, Russian soldiers have time and time again denied the intentional killing of Ukrainian civilians. Even as soldiers, they continue their denials, such as 21-year-old Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin pleaded guilty to illegal killing and was sentenced by a Ukrainian court to life in prison.

Exactly how much is too much? It’s clear to many of us in the west that the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers is an acceptable cost to Vladimir Putin to take Ukraine and do with her as he sees fit.

The United States Navy has identified the sailor killed in a motor vehicle accident near Jacumba, California, last Friday as Electronics Technician 2nd Class John Deltoro, age 29.

In modern-day Ukraine, their Kraken forces are no less scary, killing Russians by the score and taking back once-occupied sections of their homeland.