(2024-01-05). Ukrainian Post-Mortems Starting to Appear. sonar21.com 
The war in Ukraine continues to grind on and Ukrainian troops are falling back all across the 600 mile front. Not a good start to the New Year for Zelensky and the future is bleak at best. Russia is methodically destroying Ukrainian factories set up to manufacture military tactical clothing, ammunition, drones and vehicles. Repair facilities also have been hit and obliterated. Ditto for military training facilities aka bases. Ukraine's recent use of cluster munitions on Belgorod and Donetsk killed a few civilians but enraged Putin and his military commanders. In response Russia has unleashed a devastating s…
(2024-01-04). China criticizes U.S.' discriminatory treatment of Chinese students. ecns.cn Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin has expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition to the U.S.' treatment of Chinese students following reports that several of them had been subjected to lengthy interrogations upon entering the U.S.
(2024-01-05). A Message to Israeli, U.S. and NATO Soldiers and Pilots: It's Genocide, "Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield" globalresearch.ca It is not through negotiations with Netanyahu & Biden, that we will be able to put an end to the genocide. What is required is a campaign which enables Israeli, U.S. & NATO combatants To Disobey Unlawful Orders…
(2024-01-05). India-Russia Ties Get a Makeover. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-05). The Russian Art of War: How the West led Ukraine to defeat. mronline.org The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war.
(2024-01-05). Ukraine War Day #681: Kvartal-95 Sketch Scandal. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com 
Dear Readers: | Yesterday we were discussing Russian popular culture (gangster shows and so on), today it's the turn for Ukrainian popular culture, namely sketch humor.‚My starting point During the course of this war, a lot of ordinary Ukrainians have had to leave their homes and move around a lot.
(2024-01-05). Ukraine – Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #3, Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. reliefweb.int 
(2024-01-05). Ukraine: USG Humanitarian Response to the Complex Emergency (01/04/2024). reliefweb.int 
(2024-01-05). In Ukraine, 2023 Was a Year of Disappointment: Ever-Present Corruption, Military Failure and Flight From the Country. orinocotribune.com By Dmitri Kovalevich — Jan 1, 2024 | Dmitri Kovalevich is the special correspondent in Ukraine for Al Mayadeen English. He writes a monthly situation report as well as occasional special reports. This is his situation report at the end of 2023. | For Ukraine, the year 2023 was far from comforting, notwithstanding the efforts by the country's government and heavily-censored media to uplift the spirits of the population with promises of economic improvement and military victories in the new year. | The news at the end of the year makes clear, even to optimists, that everything promised by the West and by the U…