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Trump makes numerous false claims at Cabinet meeting – CNN – CNN News
Facts FirstFact check: Trump makes numerous false claims at Cabinet meetingBy Daniel Dale, CNN,10 minute read, Updated 4:10 PM EST, Wed February 26, 2025 Source Links: Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims at Cabinet meeting | CNN Politics Washington CNN — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in remarks at the first Cabinet meeting…
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Joint statement on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine | News | European Parliament
Press room Joint statement on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Joint statement by the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Council and the President of the European CommissionThree years ago Russia started its full-scale and illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. Russia’s brutal war deliberately targets civilian and…
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Trump’s flurry of false claims about Ukraine – The Washington Post
In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points. Source Links: Trump’s flurry of false claims about Ukraine – The Washington Post
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Alas, Ukrainian Rare Earths: But “There’s No There There”? – InvestorNews
“Gertrude Stein, an influential writer who spent much of her life in Paris, famously said in 1937 about her birthplace, Oakland, California, that ‘there’s no there there.’ This aphorism has become a way to describe something that fails to live up to expectations. The same can be said about Ukrainian rare earths. There are no…
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NLS Shares Ukrainian Books to Aid War Refugees | Library of Congress Blog | Library of Congress
February 8, 2023 by Neely Tucker This is a guest post by Claire Rojstaczer, a writer-editor in the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. It recently appeared in slightly different form in the Library’s Gazette. This is a guest post by Claire Rojstaczer, a writer-editor in the National Library Service for the…
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‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine | Libraries | The Guardian
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians By Stephen Marche, Sun 4 Dec 2022 03.00 EST The morning that Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, Oksana…
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UNESCO: At least 53 cultural sites in Ukraine are damaged : NPR
By Deepa Shivaram, April 2, 20226:08 PM ET Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UNESCO says it’s verified damage to at least 53 cultural sites in the country. The organization says it assesses damage reported in the media or by Ukrainian officials and has a system to monitor main Ukrainian sites and monuments via satellite imagery.…
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Olena Zelenska: Ukraine’s first lady emerges as a staunch defender of her nation on social media – CNN
By Lianne Kolirin and Tim Lister, CNN, Updated 9:05 PM ET, Wed March 9, 2022 (CNN) Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, posted an open letter addressed to the world’s media on Tuesday, detailing what she described as the “mass murder of Ukrainian civilians.” In recent weeks Zelenska has repeatedly used social media to…
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What to Know About Ukraine’s History – DailyNewsGems
By Bill Lucey, 03/05/2022 Editor’s Note: Bill is an online friend, News Researcher; Writer. Over a week into Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, turmoil and continued bloodshed remains, with residents of Kyiv rushing to the train station to escape Russia’s wrath. More than one million Ukrainians have been displaced, adding to the humanitarian crisis. Russian troops,…
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Resources at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress Blog
March 3, 2022 by Neely Tucker The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first…
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman says West must not bend to Putin’s “nuclear saber-rattling” – CBS News
By David Morgan, February 28, 2022 / 1:31 PM / CBS News As Ukraine continues to fight off Russian invaders, the sanctions imposed on Russia by the West are already having a devastating impact on that nation’s economy. But they have not stopped President Vladimir Putin yet. Over the weekend he put his nuclear forces…
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Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s on Czechoslovakia – The Washington Post
The Nazi leader used similar tactics to dismember and devour Czechoslovakia before World War II By Michael E. Ruane, Feb. 24, 2022, at 1:15 p.m. EST By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there. The previous…
