Ukraine in Fear

Putin’s next move would be difficult to predict because he “faces a mismatch between his ambitions and Russia’s current conventional military capabilities”.

11 months into Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine, the outcome of the war remains unclear. The Russian military appears incapable of taking Kyiv or occupying a major portion of the country

Fears are growing that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offensive, the largest conventional military invasion since World War II, may be the prelude to another global war.

For months, pro-Kremlin media has struck a bellicose tone, proposing that President Vladimir Putin take the extraordinary step of launching a nuclear strike against Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a meeting with the Russian Security Council on the matters related to national security

"Today we have a discussion on the issues of ensuring the national security of the state on our agenda," Putin said, opening the meeting in Moscow.

Germany's defense minister said his government has not yet decided whether to send German-made battle tanks to Ukraine, but signaled the country hadn't ruled out the option

The three main figures in Ukraine's interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv

In recent days, Western defense officials have been pressing Germany to allow the export of its sophisticated Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine

Agriculture is called the backbone of Indian economy because 70% of Indian population are engaged in agriculture and raw material for the Industrial sectors

They pointed out that a large part of India's capital and wealth was being transferred or drained to Britain

One of the little known facts about World War II is that it was India’s contribution of men and material that bailed out the West.

All this led Indians to believe that the US might influence Britain to repay her enormous wartime debt

India’s share of these by 1945 was about 45%, or £1.51 billion – the equivalent of $83.93 billion today

The failure to agree to provide German tanks to Ukraine may signal growing divisions within NATO over supplying heavy weapons amid Russian warnings

"We have no time, the world does not have this time," Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, wrote on Telegram

"The question of tanks for Ukraine must be closed as soon as possible," he said. "We are paying for the slowness with the lives of our Ukrainian people. It shouldn't be like that."

The Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania made a joint call to Germany on Saturday to step up its leadership and send its main battle tanks to Ukraine

Germany has come under intense pressure to change its position and allow the supply of its most modern Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine

The EU should be doing significantly more now to bolster its own defense by aiding Ukraine. As the largest economic bloc in the world, the EU needs to demonstrate that it has the political will to pay for its defense and to share more of the burden to uphold common norms and values.

While relations with independent civil society in Russia continue to be close even under the changed circumstances, cooperation with Russian state authorities has been largely halted in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

Russia is warning of an “extremely dangerous” escalation if NATO deploys heavy weapons such as battle tanks and long-range missile systems to Ukraine

As the Soviets gained control over the countries of Eastern Europe that they occupied during the war, the Western allies reacted by tying Western Europe more closely together, including the western portion of Germany

However, American and West German officials soon realized it would not be possible for Germany to reunify without East German territory becoming a part of NATO

If Germany is unwilling to give in to the pressure to become more active, it must accept that EU efforts will ultimately stall.

Fear of German dominance is nothing new in Europe – it has been the story of much of the 20th century. With Brexit however, wariness of an all too powerful Germany has once again gained new traction

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s new defence minister, said his ministry would check the army’s inventories of Leopards to see how many could be provided to Kyiv, as it continues to deliberate whether to release them to Ukraine

He said the review would try to establish whether the Bundeswehr’s Leopards are compatible with the systems that Germany’s partners use and how many of them are available.

“The impression that occasionally arises that there’s a united coalition and Germany is standing in the way is wrong,” he said, adding that there were “many allies” who shared Germany’s view of the tanks issue

The Russian army said Saturday that its troops had launched an offensive in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, where fighting this week intensified after several months of an almost frozen front

In its daily report, Moscow's forces said they led "offensive operations" in the region and claimed to have "taken more advantageous lines and positions".

Ukraine will reclaim Crimea as it is "our land," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said as he addressed the "Ukraine Breakfast" session at Davos on Thursday.

US General Mark Milley has expressed strong doubt that Ukraine would succeed in driving Russian troops out of its territory this year.

Sometimes ago U.S./NATO reported All military campaigns rely on logistics. A tank without fuel is of little use – as the Russians showed in the early days of their full-scale invasion, when they abandoned many vehicles and other equipment due to a lack of supplies.

The world needs to study the truth behind the western medias report.

“After 331 days of brutal war which Russia has been waging against Ukraine, they are still making an inventory of stocks, of (the) Bundeswehr (the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) and in the industry, to check whether they have something to send to Ukraine! It is ridiculous,”

The World War II-era lend-lease program was viewed as a pivotal tool that allowed for the allies' victory against Nazi Germany. It allowed the U.S. government to lend or lease war supplies, rather than selling them, to any country deemed vital to the United States' defense

Same method used for Ukraine also “The White House says nearly all of the $3.5 billion in drawdown authority Congress provided last month for military assistance is depleted.”

The massive terms-of-trade shock triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the second major driver behind the dollar’s strength. The euro area is highly reliant on energy imports, in particular natural gas from Russia. The surge in gas prices has brought its terms of trade to the lowest level in the history of the shared currency

The U.S. has a problem with its debt, which has exceeded $31 trillion in 2022. This is compared to a GDP of $25.66 trillion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. While it's still the biggest superpower in the world and in overall terms, is also the wealthiest nation in the world

The U.S. will designate the Wagner Group, a private Russian mercenary company currently deployed in Ukraine, as a "significant transnational criminal organization" and will announce additional sanctions against the group, the White House said on Friday

They were all veterans of wars waged by the U.S. over the past 30 years, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, or stationed in some of the nearly 800 military bases the U.S. maintains in more than 70 countries and territories around the world.

The United Nations says that its first humanitarian convoy has reached the area around Soledar, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks. "Our colleagues in Ukraine have just reached government-controlled areas close to Soledar in eastern Donetsk Oblast," Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA, told reporters in Geneva on January 20. He said that the three-truck convoy was carrying food, water, hygiene kits, and medical supplies for 800 people.