The monthslong battle by Ukrainian toilers fighting to beat back Moscow’s bloody invasion and defend their national independence is now focused in the country’s eastern and southern regions. Moscow has massed its ground forces and is making costly gains in…
“We are called the iron people,” train driver Yurii Yelisieiev, 42, told the June 16 Wall Street Journal. He was referring to Ukrainian rail workers, who, as part of the resistance to Moscow’s war, have kept this vital freight and…
“Compared to last year, government control this year was even stronger,” Daniel Chan wrote the Militant from Hong Kong June 15. He was referring to the large police operation blocking protesters there trying to hold a vigil to mark the…
Moscow’s invasion and murderous bombardment of Ukraine has been resisted tenaciously by the Ukrainian people for over three months, opening a new stage in the decline and disintegration of the capitalist “world order” set up after World War II. The…
May 18 was the 78th anniversary of Moscow’s forced deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people from their homeland to Central Asia in 1944. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin said the Tatars were all agents of the Nazis. The date is…
In the first three months of the widespread and fierce resistance by Ukrainian working people against Moscow’s invasion, they have succeeded in repelling the ill-prepared and increasingly demoralized Russian forces who sought to take Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s…
Ukrainian prosecutors rushed to put 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin on trial May 13, charging him with having committed “war crimes.” This is the first of what authorities there say will be hundreds of such prosecutions. If convicted Shysimarin faces…
In a successful counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces pushed the invading Russian army back from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, reaching the Russian border May 16. Moscow’s plans to capture more of the Donbas have stalled. The Vladimir Putin regime had insisted it…
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his speech at the annual May 9 display of military force in Moscow on the anniversary of the defeat of Germany in the Second World War. He didn’t admit the defeats that Russian forces have…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues to face courageous resistance from the Ukrainian people, who are determined to prevent Russian forces from conquering their country and to win back the territory Moscow has already seized. Russian forces continue pounding cities across…
