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Was it legal according to Ukrainian law to kill Illya Kyva?
So, I'm curious, is that an admitted extrajudicial killing, as far as Ukrainian law is concerned? [...]
Or maybe it's another one of those "karma got to him" statements, i.e. not quite an ...
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Was it legal according to Ukrainian law to kill Illya Kyva?
Or maybe it's another one of those "karma got to him" statements, i.e. not quite an outright admission, but the BBC missed the nuance?
Yes, it sounds like "karma got to him".
See ...
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Was it legal according to Ukrainian law to kill Illya Kyva?
There is room for controversy, but the standard for extrajudicial killings in times of a declared war in a place not under the total control of the government carrying out the killing are analyzed ...
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Did the deaths of Russian generals previously have any measurable impact on the war in Ukraine?
Q1: Is this a major event? I don't understand why the media even bothers reporting this.
This might look too harsh (so please help me to edit this), but this is probably because you have very little ...
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Did the deaths of Russian generals previously have any measurable impact on the war in Ukraine?
According to some armchair analysts who got interviewed by media the last time that happened, there is a correlation between dead generals and previous trouble on the battlefield, especially if the ...
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Is the submission of the Ukrainian President needed so that the Verkhovna Rada can dismiss the Minister of Defense?
The Western press indeed reported this as Zelensky firing Reznikov (and just ahead of Zelensky's visit to the US, IIRC).
OTOH, if you read Radio Svoboda (RFERL in Ukrainian), it's presented as just a ...
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Does the PVV want to stop all support for Ukraine?
The PVV party program (published in September 2023) mentions Ukraine four times. In the section on defense (on pages 36-37) it says:
Terwijl onze Krijgsmacht niet eens meer in staat is om het eigen ...
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Have any countries besides Germany announced plans to increase military aid to Ukraine? (Nov 2023)
Reporting in the NYT lays out the future Ukraine funding plans from EU countries Europe Moves to Fill Weapons Gap Amid Doubts About U.S. Commitment to Ukraine
It reports that:
Germany, Norway, ...
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Has support for providing more help to Ukraine (so they might win the war) tanked in Europe too, after the fizzled counter-offensive of this summer?
Even if all Europe would say, no, never anything more for Ukraine, this does not mean they would be immediately helpless on the field:
Most of the previously agreed support comes with long delivering ...
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Has support for providing more help to Ukraine (so they might win the war) tanked in Europe too, after the fizzled counter-offensive of this summer?
Hungary objects for a long time now providing weapons and direct financial aid to Ukraine because of Ukraine's suppressive politics towards its ethnic minorities, including ethnic Hungarians of ...
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Why is the West ignoring Belarus when threatening with sanctions related to the current Ukraine and Russia situation?
History of sanctions against Belarus start from 2006, when unilateral sanctions have been imposed by the US and EU. So, you do not need Ukraine narratives to conduct a sanctions policy.
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What are the recently declassified documents about the destruction of Kakhovka dam?
Perhaps not quite the full answer you expected, but 10 days later NYT ran a long piece on that. In it, it's mentioned that
But multiple lines of evidence reviewed by The New York Times, from original ...
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