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Russia claimed victory in Ukraine’ s Luhansk region in the east, which became a focus of its invasion after a failed campaign to take Kyiv.
The takeover became complete when Russian forces and separatists established “full control” over the city of Lysychansk and a number of nearby settlements, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“On July 3, 2022, the Russian Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergey Shoigu reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin on the liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic,” the ministry said, according to Russia’s state-run news agency TASS . “The total area of the territories liberated over the past 24 hours reached 182 square km,” Russian officials added.
A Ukrainian official informed the Wall Street Journal that defenders were retreating from Luhansk in order to avoid being surrounded. This lines up with a post by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, which said, “Ukrainian forces likely conducted a deliberate withdrawal from Lysychansk, resulting in the Russian seizure of the city on July 2.” The area has been the site of “relentless artillery bombardment,” reported the New York Times .
Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, seeking to blitz Ukraine and quickly take the capital of Kyiv. However, in the face of stiff resistance by Western-backed Ukrainian forces, Moscow turned its focus to the eastern region of Ukraine .
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic for help,” TASS said in its report Sunday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously vowed not to cede any region in Ukraine to the Russians, stressing he doubts the Russian military would stop with the Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker