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Ukraine war latest: Zelensky confirms Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil depot, Moscow Oblast logistics facilities, 6 Black Sea vessels

Key developments on July 20: * Zelensky confirms Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil depot, Moscow Oblast logistics facilities, 6 Black Sea vessels * Ukrainian drones strike Russian FSB coordination center in occupied Kherson Oblast, SBU says * Ukrainian regiment claims capture of 64 Russian soldiers * Up to 145 Russian troops remain in Kostiantynivka as Ukrainian forces hold defense, military says * Ukrainian drones strike 7 Russian shadow fleet vessels, energy infrastructure facilities in o

Mykhailo Drapatyi, the man some protesters want to replace Syrskyi

Thousands of protesters now gather nightly in central Kyiv, many of them calling out the name of one of Ukraine's most respected generals: "Drapatyi!" The mass protest in the capital, which began on July 15 after President Volodymyr Zelensky ousted Ukraine's popular, reform-minded Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, has turned into a call to replace Oleksandr Syrskyi, the current commander-in-chief. As details surrounding Fedorov's dismissal emerged, attention shifted to his deteriorating perso

Letting Russia burn

Karl Marx once wrote that theory becomes a material force the moment it grips the masses. Soviet leaders took that line and ran with it — straight into catastrophe — again and again. Vladimir Lenin turned it into a rationale for revolution, while Joseph Stalin used it as a license to starve and work millions of people to death in pursuit of rapid industrialization and a “bright future” that never arrived. Nikita Khrushchev, for his part, invoked it to legitimize de-Stalinization in 1956, as tho

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