Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stands as NATO leaders set up for a group photo, July 11, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania. © Yves Herman - Pool/Getty Images
The Guardian: US and UK call for more gratitude from Kyiv after Zelenskiy’s Nato complaint
Comments come after Ukrainian leader complained his country had not been given firm timetable for joining alliance
Britain’s defence secretary and the US national security adviser have suggested Ukraine ought to show more gratitude for the help it has received from the west, in response to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s complaints that his country has not been issued a firm timetable or set of conditions for joining Nato.
Their unscripted remarks – at two different events on the margins of the second day of the Nato summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius – appeared to prompt a change of tack from the Ukrainian leader on Wednesday, who later said he was “grateful to all leaders of Nato countries” for their support and help.
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Update #1: White House says it deserves 'gratitude' from Ukraine for billions spent on war after Zelensky NATO criticism (NYPost)
Update #2: Zelensky responds to NATO demand for ‘gratitude’ (RT)
WNU Editor: Putin and his destructive invasion. Zelensky breaking his election promise to sign the Minsk accord with the Donbas preferring a military solution instead. The ultra-Ukrainian nationalists who been running the country since 2014. NATO, the U.K. and the U.S. taking advantage of the situation to promote and prologue this war. All of these people, groups, and institutions have destroyed the Ukraine that I know, grew up in, and loved. Gratitude is the last thing on my mind.
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Russian general says top military brass betrayed soldiers fighting in Ukraine
MOSCOW, July 13 (Reuters) - A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling the military leadership about the dire situation at the front in Ukraine, where he said Russian soldiers had been stabbed in the back by the failings of the top military brass.
After the June 24 mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, the biggest domestic challenge to the Russian state in decades, President Vladimir Putin has so far kept Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov in their jobs.
Major General Ivan Popov, who commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army, said in a voice message published by Russian lawmaker Andrei Gurulyov that he had been dismissed after telling the truth to the top brass about the situation at the front.
"The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks at the front but our senior chief hit us from the rear, viciously beheading the army at the most difficult and intense moment," Popov said.
Popov, whose military call sign was "Spartacus" and who commanded Russian units in southern Ukraine, explicitly raised the deaths of Russian soldiers from Ukrainian artillery and said the army lacked proper counter artillery systems and reconnaissance of enemy artillery.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-general-dismissed-after-accusing-top-brass-failing-soldiers-2023-07-13/
That video of Zelensky saying thank you 47 times is something else. Brits love a little dry humour.
my people come to north canada
Its about time! I respect you 100% WNU, but your not footing the bill.
Zelensky appreciates nothing.
Actually he his, and we all are. This is western tax money funded conflict.
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