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Democrats, don’t forget: These new sanctions could save lives

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A bipartisan sanctions bill would hit the regimes that terrorize us. The House should pass it. September 15, 2026 at 6:45 a.m.  The Washington Post By Oleksandra Matviichuk and Masih Alinejad Oleksandra Matviichuk is the head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. From left: Photos of killed Iranian protesters, at a D.C. rally on Jan. 16, and photos of killed Ukrainians, in Kyiv in 2023.  (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images; Ed Ram / For The Washington Post) The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act provides Congress the best opportunity in almost two years to pass major new sanctions against Russia and extend long-standing sanctions against Iran. As two activists who have devoted our lives to defending human rights in our countries — one of us, a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the other, an Iranian journalist who has survived multiple a...
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Ukraine and Russia Say There Is No Energy Truce, Despite Trump’s Claims

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The Kremlin said that an agreement would be “a very good idea” but that any deal would not have much effect on fuel markets, as President Trump had suggested. A film (shown in the article but which can't be reproduced here) mentions the Strikes in Russia and Ukraine targeted oil refineries and petrol stations overnight on Monday, while the prospect of an energy cease-fire announced by President Trump remained elusive. By Ivan Nechepurenko The New York Times Sept. 15, 2026 Updated 10:30 a.m. ET image (not from article) from The Russian and Ukrainian governments made clear on Tuesday that neither had agreed to an energy cease-fire that President Trump presented as a done deal a day before. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said at a news briefing that, while Russia believed a halt to strikes against energy infrastructure would be “a very good idea,” such a deal would not have much effect on fuel markets, as Mr. Trump had claimed. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in...
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Trump Lectures Ukraine, not Russia

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He tells Kyiv to stop hitting Russian diesel, while Putin bombs civilian targets. By The Editorial Board Updated Sept. 13, 2026 5:48 pm ET The Wall Street Journal See also Firefighters extinguish a car of a passenger train hit by a Russian drone strike at a railway station, Lutsk, Ukraine, Sept. 12. State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/ Handout/ Reuters An armed Russian jet drone hit the engine of a passenger train in Ukraine near the Polish border on the weekend. Meanwhile, President Trump lectured Ukraine’s President to stop hitting energy targets in Russia. Go ahead, make Vladimir Putin’s day, Mr. President. The passenger train line between Warsaw and Kyiv is a a main travel route for civilians, as the Kremlin knows. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and a key adviser to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are reported to have been on a different train the same evening. Were the Russians hoping to hit those European allies of Ukraine?...
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Kremlin Says Ukraine Talks Possible in October

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World Brief September 13, 2026 , 3:00 PM Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. AFP Share:       Three-way negotiations with Ukraine and the United States on ending Europe’s worst conflict since World War II could take place in October, the Kremlin said on Sunday, according to Russian media. “We do not rule out such a possibility; we are talking about the foreseeable future,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, cited by Russia’s RIA and TASS news agencies. Washington is seeking to kick-start long-stalled efforts, hoping to end the more than four-year-long war, with US negotiators visiting Kyiv and Moscow and US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin holding talks over the phone. Several previous rounds of negotiations have failed, while US-led efforts stalled with Trump’s attention diverted to the ongoing US-Israeli war in the Middle East with Iran. In an interview released on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he wo...
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Trump Jr. wedding celebrations were sponsored by powerful Russian businessman

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Umar Kremlev, who heads the International Boxing Association and does business with the state Hosted two nights September 14, 2026 at 2:47 p.m. Image From left, Donald Trump Jr., wife Bettina, Eric Trump and President Donald Trump in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Sunday.   Some of the festivities for Donald Trump Jr.’s intimate wedding celebration on two private Bahamian islands in May were paid for by a wealthy Russian who does business with the state. Umar Kremlev is the president of the International Boxing Association, a Switzerland-based sports league financed by Russian state energy giant Gazprom. He recently accompanied Russian President Vladimir Putin on a delegation to China, and he is under Ukrainian sanctions that describe him as a “close friend of the head of Putin’s security service.” Kremlev hosted two nights of celebrations after Trump Jr.’s wedding ceremony, the bride, Bettina Trump, said on Instagram on Monday. It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend,...
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Trump’s words reveal more loyalty to Putin than to Ukraine.

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 From Quora Jean-Marie  upvoted  7h Humanity ·  Follow Posted by  Mandi   7h Trump’s words reveal more loyalty to Putin than to Ukraine. Jean-Marie Valheur fascinated by geopolitics  9h Why did Trump call on President Zelenskyy today to stop Ukraine from attacking Russian oil refineries and diesel infrastructure? I’ve decided to do a fun little experiment in answering this question. How many times, I wonder, has Trump publicly complimented, spoken highly of or praised Vladimir Putin in glowing terms? It’s searchable and well-documented — 47 times! That’s a lot. By contrast, the American President has spoken only 12 times about his youngest daughter, Tiffany, in positive terms . Tiffany and her father When we look at negative statements, Trump has criticized Ukrainian President Zelensky a whopping 32(!) times in public statements. He’s been critical of Putin only 19 times in public, and always in far milder and less explosive statements than he has whe...
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