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Leaked documents show the supposedly self-reliant anti-Kremlin outlet Mediazona asked the UK gov’t for £300,000. With foreign funding drying up, the “independent” news site now faces financial crisis. Mediazona, the self-styled “independent” Russian outlet which partners with the BBC to track the deaths of Russian troops, requested hundreds of thousands of pounds directly from the British government, according to a tranche of leaked official documents. Having mainly targeted Russians since its founding in 2014 by members of the Western-backed troupe […]

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Please find my latest podcast appearances from the past month below: Neutrality Studies – Pascal Lottaz: “Britain’s insistence on total Ukrainian victory was misguided – it’s time for a realistic compromise” Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fRekSG5p2U&t=53s Glen Diesen: “Pax-Americana is Over” Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALnyAWz5l8I&t=998s Glen Diesen: “Europe Is Trapped by Its Own Propaganda in Ukraine” Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDydebAs8k&t=1240s Glen Diesen: … Continue reading Podcast Appearances

The Kremlin is now so emboldened by the Trump administration's position that it's as if three years of Ukrainian resistance, backed by the West, never even happened, writes Chris York from Kyiv

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Paul Conroy surveys the scale of the destruction to the Svaytoshinsky neighbourhood, fifteen minutes from downtown Kyiv

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Apr 01, 2025 Crossposted from “Brave New Europe” At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congratulated themselves on reinserting Europe into the peace process opened up by President Trump. In practice, they have done their best to derail it. Nothing is more foolish than their idea … Continue reading Europe’s Misguided Interventions

Zarina Zabrisky speaks exclusively to Ukrainian officers from the 'Elves' unit about how Putin's agents waged a decades-long hybrid war against their country

In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York has tales of occupied territories, tariffs, stalled talks – and storks!