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Well, the bloodiest and most significant battle in Ukraine to date is over - bar the shouting: Bakhmut has fallen.This scratch on the map has finally been seized by Russia who are so confident about their victory that they’ve immediately re-dubbed it by its old, Soviet name - Artemovsk.
This time last year as the Soviet Victory Day celebrations were due to be marked on May 9, I and many other fireside fusiliers were speculating about what might happen.This time last year as the Soviet Victory Day celebrations were due to be marked on May 9, I and many other fireside fusiliers were speculating about what might happen.
From: MK O'Sullivan, Victoria Street, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.
The recent leaking of top secret Pentagon diagrams and documents, allegedly by a youthful, part-time airman in the US National Guard, has really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Now, a huge amount of material seems to have been smuggled out of a supposedly secure headquarters, copied and then posted on the internet and, whilst a number of theatres are involved, it’s the Ukrainian material which has caused most dismay.
As part of their comment process, U.S. Forest Service rangers and staff hosted an informational meeting Feb. 22 to discuss their proposed actions for vehicle-based dispersed camping in the Salida