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Just days after two American fighters in Ukraine have reportedly gone missing, it has been discovered that former US Marine Grady Kurpasi has also gone missing on April 28.

The readers have spoken, and I’m here today to continue my investigation into how relations between Ukraine and Russia got as bad as they are now.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have published a video claiming that they hit a Russian naval tugboat named the “Vasily Bekh” with two Harpoon missiles in the Black Sea on Friday.

Vladimir Putin has frequently invoked World War II and the denazification of the world as an excuse for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is with no small amount of hypocrisy that neo-Nazi groups are fighting in Ukraine in the name of Russia.

The Netherlands’ intelligence service has reported last Thursday that they caught a Russian spy named Sergey Cherkasov posing as a Brazilian national who was allegedly planning to infiltrate the International Criminal Court.

A rare Ukrainian S-300V1 was spotted in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, risking its top air defense system to foil Russian aircraft and missiles in the vicinity.

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.

The Russian forces issued an ultimatum to the Ukrainian forces in the Azot Chemical Plant and Severodonetsk to surrender. To the surprise of no one, Ukraine refused this ultimatum and kept fighting.

President Biden has announced that the US will be giving another $1 billion in military aid for Ukraine amidst heavy Russian shelling in the Donbas region.

The fate of two former US servicemen who volunteered to fight in Ukraine is unknown at this time. Ukraine can not find their remains after a fierce battle and Russia has not officially confirmed that they have been captured.

Russian authorities have put investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov on the country’s federal wanted list and frozen his bank accounts. Soldatov is one of Russia’s leading and remaining independent journalists, having intimate knowledge of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

The Ukrainian Government requested a ton more NATO-standard heavy weaponry such as multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), howitzers, and tanks to help their forces repel further Russian advances in Severodonetsk.