Author: John Todd Roberts

American Who Lived 8 Years in Ukraine Speaks Out on Russia War

The interviewee in this video is an independent American journalist and U.S. Navy veteran. He has his own YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos

I was particularly interested in the speaker’s comment, referring to the last eight years of the conflict in Donbas: “What I’ve seen here with my own eyes is indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas year after year by Ukrainian forces.” I find his eyewitness testimony credible and his criticism of western media valid.

Ukraine – Everything You Know Is Wrong! with Dmitry Orlov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTjEF05f0A

I recommend this video for a number of reasons. The main one is its ham radio or samizdat quality.

If you get your news and opinion from American mainstream media sources, you may find it entertaining or instructive to hear what others have to say.

Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American writer. You can learn more about him at Wikipedia.

Putin may be losing the information war, but Zelensky’s NATO concession suggests Ukraine may be losing on the battlefield. The West must not fool itself into thinking otherwise.

Source: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

The writer carefully corrects the narrative that Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is bogged down or stalled. I say carefully because he stops short of calling Russia’s invasion a military success in the making, as a number of analysts have done. He does, however, warn against the misinterpretation of events: “On the actual battlefield, the Russian offensive has undoubtedly slowed over the past week. But what is being described as a ‘stalled’ takeover may be the result of the Russians taking time to reorganize their forces and improve their logistics.”