Taras Bartka, Colonel of Armed Forces of Ukraine, 19.05.2022   The experience and misuse of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in combat operations on the front line in eastern Ukraine revealed several problems, which led to serious consequences with significant losses of personnel, equipment, weapons and property as well as reputational losses. This is due to the low combat capability of units when not used for their intended purpose. Analysis of the causes of low combat capability in the misuse of the XXX TRO brigade demonstrates a problem similar for all the brigades of the TDF (Territorial Defense Forces) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.   The example of the XXX Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were involved in the forces of OTG (operational-tactical group)"YYY" on April 28 which received the combat mission to secure certain areas of the frontline, identified the following shortcomings.    1. On a wave of patriotism, in the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the announced mobilization, a large number of motivated people came to the DTROs (district territorial recruitment offices; former military enlistment offices), but they were not registered neither was information about them or about their health recorded. Given the specifics of the service provided by current legislation, DTROs sent discharged non-military servicemen, the elderly, with health problems (limited fitness, unfit in peacetime, and even the disabled III and II groups, who for patriotic reasons hid their actual state of health) to the TDF;    2. Many volunteers who arrived at the DTROs immediately volunteered for service in the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For various reasons they were not ready to serve in combat brigades of the UGF (Ukrainian Ground Forces) and other types of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; 

David Sheppard, The Financial Times, 04.11.2021Европу охопила газова криза. Ціни злетіли майже вп’ятеро вище, ніж торік, що сильно загрожує відновленню економіки після пандемії у Великій Британії та Евросоюзі. Запаси газу є настільки низькими, що зима, навіть трохи холодніша, ніж зазвичай, може призвести до суттєвого скорочення постачання газу для промисловості, а домогосподарства вже переплачують за газ.   Европа є одним із континентів, які найбільше залежать від газу — він використовується для постачання п’ятої частини її енергоносіїв — але більшість поставок надходить із-за меж Евросоюзу, зокрема, з Московії. Деякі европейські політики та галузеві аналітики звинувачують Владіміра Путіна в обмеженні поставок і запасів газу до Европи в останні місяці як у засобі тиску на цей континент, з метою щоби Европа врешті затвердила новий газопровід.   Президент Московії каже, що ці звинувачення є «політично вмотивованим шарлатанством», але більшість аналітиків вважають, що навмисно низькі поставки газу з Московії є основним фактором. Европа також переймається змінами на газовому ринку та конкуренцією з боку інших континентів, і водночас молиться про м’яку зиму. ДОМІНАЦІЯ МОСКОВІЇ Після розпаду Радянського Союзу більшість газу Московії до Европи надходила через існуючу ГТС (газотранспортну систему) в Україні [збудовану ще в 1950-1960-х роках для викачування українського газу до Московії -- прим. Radio Lemberg].   У 1990-2000-х роках "Газпром", державний монополіст-експортер Московії, почав диверсифікувати свою газову мережу, щоби зменшити свою залежність від сусідів [від України -- прим. Radio Lemberg], прокладаючи новий газогін "Ямал" через Білорусь та Польщу.   Довготривала напруженість між Московією й Україною загострилася в 2014 році, коли Москва анексувала Кримський півострів. Московія продовжила будувати газогони в обхід України — крок, який, як вважають у Києві та багато

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 12.02.2021 The Russian Federation tries out its hybrid warfare against Ukraine before deploying it against the United States. Disinformation attacks are honed against Ukrainians first because they’re a tougher target, inured to centuries of Russian imperialist aggression. Americans are a secondary target, more vulnerable because they have less experience of the depravity of Chekist violence. This is the way it was with the Russian response to two great democratic events in the life of Ukraine and the USA: the EuroMaidan revolution and the 2020 Presidential election. Kremlin information warfare mounted a massive disinformation campaign against these seminal moments. In Ukraine, Putin at war said that “Maidan was a coup!” In the USA, the campaign was “Stop the steal!” Disinformation lies at the heart of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and on America’s 2020 election. The Revolution of Dignity of 2013-14 was a genuine expression of the will of the Ukrainian people. But Russian information warfare outlets falsely called Maidan (as it was also know) a “coup.” Putin launched a massive disinformation campaign using the slogan “Maidan was a coup!” to justify his invasion of Ukraine. The early months of the invasion by the Muscovites were characterized by organized mobs seizing Ukrainian public buildings. The false front for these mobs were that they were made up of “anti-Maidan” protesters.The 2020 Presidential election was a genuine expression of the will of the American people. Calling the 2020 U.S. election “stolen” is false. But “Stop the steal!” became a Russian-backed disinformation effort to instigate the 6 January 2021 insurrection in Washington, D.C.. The false front placed on the mob organized to attack the Capitol was that it was a defence of the “real winner” of the election,

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 20.01.2021   The political career of Trump was crafted as an act of war by the Russian Federation against the United States, from beginning to end.   The Russians modelled this active measure on the one they first used with Yanukovych in Ukraine. Everything the Russians do through their agent Trump in the U.S. they tried first using their agent Yanukovych in Ukraine. Understanding what the Russians do in their war against the Ukrainian people gives insight into what they’ll do in their war against Americans.   In the end, Yanukovych escaped justice. He has never been punished for the crimes and treason he committed against the Ukrainian people. If Americans are unwise they’ll let Trump go unpunished for the terrible things he’s done to them and to their democracy. They will then have a similar fate to the one Ukrainians have endured.   Trump and Yanukovych are both past their peak of usefulness to the Russians. But useful they were, for the treachery of these two men helped expand the war the Russian Federation is fighting against Ukraine into a global war.   The crimes and treason of Yanukovych stretch over a long period. 2014 was their peak.   The greatest crimes of Yanukovych were ordering the Maidan Massacre and stealing billions of dollars from the Ukrainian state. The greatest treason was appealing to Putin to invade Ukraine and being the figurehead for Moscow’s war.   In January 2014, Yanukovych rammed the “dictatorship laws” through the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament. He sent the Berkut riot police, Internal Ministry troops, and organized gangs of thugs known as “titushki” to attack Ukrainians protesting in the centre of Kyiv. They were protesting for a better life, free of corruption, and for Ukraine to reach its rightful place in Europe and the West.   In February 2014,