Notes and Essays -- John Brown

A visit to Odesa and Kyiv reveals a country anxious to stop the killing and determined to keep living. By Robert Doar The Wall Street Journal June 7, 2026 3:28 pm ET JB: On Doar, see Musicians perform at the Kyiv central train station.   Genya Savilov/ Agence France-Presse/ Getty Images Odesa, Ukraine If you don’t count the military checkpoints, air-raid sirens or 11 p.m. curfew, you wouldn’t know Ukraine was at war. I spent three days here at the end of May at the Black Sea Security Forum with 1,000 other people from Europe and the U.S. The seaport was bustling, the food exquisite, the Moldovan wine plentiful. Between speeches on Ukrainian drones and Europe’s newfound resolve to defend itself, we visited the Odesa opera house to hear the city’s orchestra and see a ballet. “Ukraine has not won, but Russia has already lost,” I heard repeatedly, along with laments that the U.S. was providing much less help than in the first three years of the war. Stepping into the breach are Germa...

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Via Quora [on Quora ] Posted by Elena Gold   [JB link] ‼️💥🎉HOORAY!!  U.S. Congress Approves More Aid for Ukraine 🇺🇦/ The Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 2913 -- JB see ) has PASSED in the House — 226 in favor, 195 against. 18 republicans supported the bill. The bill includes more aid for Ukraine and tougher sanctions against Russia. It is the first Ukraine aid bill to pass the House since the Trump administration took office in January 2025.  The draft law was put to the vote after the discharge petition (forcing the speaker to put the bill to vote in the House) gathered required 218 signatures. During the voting yesterday, 6 Republicans supported the discharge petition. Today, already 18 Republicans crossed the floor to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom. That’s good dynamics. Keep it up, USA! 🇺🇸 3K views View 222 upvotes View 5 shares

  President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to London to meet with the leaders of Britain, Germany and France, whom he said could be negotiators in talks with Russia. Listen · 5:21 min Share full article Volodymyr Zelensky, in a black shirt stands behind a white lectern with two microphones. A blue and yellow flag and text are on the podium. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this month in Kyiv, the country’s capital.Credit...Tetiana Dzhafarova/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Constant Méheut By Constant Méheut June 7, 2026, 11:20 a.m. ET President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived on Sunday afternoon in London for talks with the leaders of Britain, Germany and France as Europe considers taking a more active role in peace talks with Russia after more than a year of unsuccessful U.S. mediation. Ukraine and its European allies see a new opening to revive talks that have stalled as Moscow made uncompromising territorial demands and Washington shifted its focus to the war...

Ukraine’s deadly strikes are bringing the war home to Russians, and discontent is bubbling up By Zahra Ullah and Ana Archen, CNN World Zelenograd and Khimki, Russia — When Elena Vladimirovna woke up around 4 a.m. to the sound of loud buzzing over her Moscow region apartment, she looked out of the window to see multiple drones overhead.   The noise quickly faded, and she thought the danger had passed. But then came a loud bang from close by. “Below us, under the balcony, there is a canopy like a ledge. The drone fell on this canopy, and then it burst into flames, black smoke started coming,” she recalled. A room in her fifth-floor apartment caught fire. The 56-year-old mother-of-two, who preferred not to give CNN her full name, said that she and one of her sons rushed towards the blaze with buckets and basins of water. But when they heard an explosion, they realized they should grab the dog and flee. Her building in Zelenograd was just one of many hit in a mass wave of Ukrainian ...

The Kyiv Independent   Sunday, June 7  Ukrainian soldiers and civilians take part in a Dragon Boat Veterans racing competition in Kyiv on June 6, 2026. Dragon Boat racing, which traces its origins to ancient China, is conducted to help injured service members and military veterans regain physical fitness, mental well-being, and a sense of community. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/ AFP via Getty Images)  Crimea oil depot reportedly struck in Ukrainian attack. An oil depot was struck in an aerial attack on the town of Yedi Quyu in Russian-occupied Crimea early on June 7, social media channels reported. Ukraine's drones take aerial control over part of land route to Russian-occupied Crimea, military says. Ukraine's 3rd Special Operations Forces Regiment said its drones are capable of targeting Russian equipment and logistics along the Melitopol — Chonhar route in Ukraine's south. Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russian city of Voronezh, Atesh group clai...