Ukraine

US Votes Against UN Resolution Condemning Nazis, Labels It “Russian Disinformation”

December 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Fascism, Terrorism, Ukraine

by Alan McLeod, published on MintPress News, December 18, 2020 The United States and Ukraine were the only two nations to vote against a United Nations resolution Wednesday on, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” The resolution passed 130-2. The resolution featured 70 fairly[…]

Yalta Conference Notes

December 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Russia, Ukraine

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, November 9, 2019 The Fifth Anniversary International Conference: “Crimea in the Current International Context” began on November 7 inside the Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea. In these same rooms Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in 1945 to discuss the post-WW II architecture. More than 30 nations were represented (officially or unofficially) – I was[…]

Odessa Report 2: Mayday and the May 2nd Remembrance in Odessa

May 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Ukraine, UNAC on the Road

Photo above; Fascists marching in Odessa, May 2, 2019, in the evening following the memorial for those slain by a brutal fascist attack on May 2, 2014. ~from a video by Pippa Bartolotti by Joe Lombardo of the United National Antiwar Coalition After taking an overnight train from Kiev, we arrived in Odessa and were met by two anti-Maidan supporters[…]

Odessa Report 1, Arriving in Kiev: What Happened on the Maidan 5 Years Ago?

May 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Ukraine

Memorial service on 10 May 2014 in honour of those who died in the clashes on 2 May, outside the burnt Trade Unions House ~HOBOPOCC, Flikr by Joe Lombardo, UNAC I am in Kiev, Ukraine with Pippa Bartolotti, a UNAC supporter from Wales, on our way to Odessa where there will be a mobilization to remember the massacre of more[…]

Odessa Solidarity in Washington, DC on May 2nd

May 3, 2019 UNAC Editor Resistance, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

Vigil at the Ukrainian Embass in D.C. To Mark 5 Years Since the Odessa Massacre Will Call on President Elect Zelensky to Allow an International Investigation by Phil Wilayto of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign This May 2 will mark five years since a fascist-led mob attacked and set fire to the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, causing the[…]

THE 5th Memorial Day of the Attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine

April 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Ukraine

A Call for International Actions From the Odessa Solidarity Campaign May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of[…]

Latest Odds of a Shooting War Between NATO and Russia

December 25, 2018 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Photo: Ship blocking Kerch Strait ~RT by Ann Garrison, published on Consortium News, December 13, 2019 George Szamuely is a Hungarian-born scholar and Senior Research Fellow at London’s Global Policy Institute. He lives in New York City. I spoke to him about escalating hostilities on Russia’s Ukrainian and Black Sea borders and about Exercise Trident Juncture, NATO’s massive military exercise[…]

NATO’s Aggression Reaches For Russian Waters

December 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Russia, Ukraine

Above Photo: from Land Destroyer by Tony Cartalucci, from Land Destroyer Blog, December 11, 2018 The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels seized by Russia. The vessels were intentionally violating protocol for passing through the Strait – protocol previously agreed upon by Kiev and previously observed by Ukrainian naval vessels. The extent to which Ukraine was[…]

Background to the present Russia – Ukraine crisis

December 7, 2018 UNAC Editor Russia, Ukraine

Image: Screenshot from video of Russian ship as it runs into the side of Ukrainian tug. If you watch the entire video you can see that the Ukrainian tug veers into the path of the Russian ship at the last minute. (Video from the bow of the Russian ship. ~Duran) by Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders Tensions between Russia[…]

Warning sign to Anti-War Movement: Behind Assassination of Donetsk Leader

September 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Ukraine

Image: Alexander Zakharchenko (center) during the battle of Debaltsevo in Feb. 2015. By Greg Butterfield, published on Workers World, September 3, 2018 Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the anti-fascist Donetsk People’s Republic, was assassinated on Aug. 31 when an explosion ripped through the Separ restaurant in the capital city of Donetsk. Zakharchenko’s bodyguard, Vyacheslav Dotsenko, was also killed. Twelve other[…]