Notes and Essays -- John Brown

21 hours ago [no date provided]  Yogita Limaye  BBC News , in Kherson ; [article contains a video] Kherson Херсон City Clockwise from top: St Catherine's cathedral, Memorial in Park Slavy, view of the Dnieper in Kherson, the clock tower of the Kherson Regional Art Museum, a monument to Potemkin in Potomkinskyi Garden Square. Flag Coat of arms Kherson Location of Kherson Show map of Kherson Oblast Show map of Ukraine Show all Coordinates:  46°38′33″N   32°37′30″E Country   Ukraine Oblast Kherson Oblast Raion Kherson Raion Hromada Kherson urban hromada Founded 18 June 1778 Government  • Mayor Ihor Kolykhaiev [ 1 ] [ a ]  • Head of the Kherson City Military Administration [ 3 ] Halyna Luhova [ 3 ] [ b ] Area  • Total 135.7 km 2  (52.4 sq mi) Elevation 46.6 m (152.9 ft) Population   (2022)  • Total  279,131 Postal code 73000 Area code +380 552 Primary airport Kherson International Airpo...

Ukraine’s President Zelensky said fighting Russia is tough when nine out of every ten bucks’ worth of US arms promised this year haven’t shown up – the Pentagon numbers seem to support the claim.  By Stefan Korshak, Kyiv Post | October 31, 2024, 4:34 pm; original article contains an image of a US tank. Stefan Korshak Senior Defense Correspondent Kyiv Post President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent charge that only ten percent of the military assistance the US said it would transfer to Ukraine this year has actually reached Ukrainian troops, is largely accurate, a Kyiv Post review of figures published by the Pentagon found. Speaking at a meeting with reporters in Reykjavik on Wednesday, Zelensky said one of Ukraine’s many problems battling Russian invasion is that allied-promised arms assistance arrives too late or not at all - which complicates defense planning and kills and injures Ukrainians. In the case of the US, Ukraine’s biggest military materiel supporter, a whopping 90 percent ...

As US votes, Ukraine’s future hangs in balance 1 hour ago [no date provided] James Waterhouse, BBC Ukraine Correspondent in the Zaporizhzhia region Getty Images Russian shelling in Zaporizhzhia As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country’s future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away. “We hope that the woman, Kamala Harris, will win and support us,” she says. A Russian bomb had shattered her shop windows - a common occurrence in the city of Zaporizhzhia. There’s a 10-metre (32ft) wide crater in the middle of the road. “Of course we are worried about the outcome [of the election],” she adds. “We want to defeat the enemy!” For Ukraine to have a remote chance of doing that, it needs the help of the US.  It was here in 2023, on this south-eastern part of the front line, where Ukraine launched a counteroffensive it hoped would force out the Russian invaders. Instead, after little to no progress, Ukraine’s ambitions have switched to sur...