The Daily Populous Monday April 8th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by kyivpost.com and submitted by Ask4MD

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Kyiv will lose the war against Russia if the US Congress does not approve military aid to battle Moscow's invasion.

Republicans in Congress have been blocking tens of billions of dollars in military assistance for Kyiv for months.

“It is necessary to specifically tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said during a video meeting of the Kyiv-organized fundraising platform United24.

Zelensky said it would be “difficult” for Ukraine to “stay” without the aid.

He said that “if Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked.”

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than two years.

Kyiv said Sunday that a Russian strike on the town of Huliaipole in the northeastern part of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region killed three people.

“Two men and a woman died under the rubble of their own private house, which was hit by a Russian shell,” the head of the region, Ivan Fedorov, said on social media.

Officials said another civilian, a woman, was killed in the city of Kupiansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region that has seen increased attacks in recent months.

“A woman died under the rubble in an apartment on the fourth floor of a high-rise building,” Ukraine's state emergency services said, adding that it was a residential building.

Officials in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, said Russia launched another attack on Sunday, wounding five civilians, a day after a previous deadly attack there.

Grateful_Cat_Monk on April 7th, 2024 at 23:24 UTC »

The Cold War never ended for Russia. We like to think we(the US/NATO) "won" by economically shutting down the USSR with how much more they were spending on military, how much was siphoned away from the country into pockets, and how badly Chernobyl really fucked them up economically and from a scientific arms race pov.

But for Russia, it never ended. It just froze over more and they just slowly did what they could. Invading other countries to try and regain some geopolitical zones and silently, at first, pushing propaganda and infiltrating the West's political systems.

Russia has been in full swing trying to keep the war frozen over and misdirection on the West. 2014 should have especially been our wake up call that Russia will not let up on this conflict between them and everyone else until they either win or we dismantle them and reintegration into the international stage like we did with Germany.

CaptCrewSocks on April 7th, 2024 at 22:38 UTC »

What a terrible position to be in.

Pleasant_Giraffe9133 on April 7th, 2024 at 22:20 UTC »

Honestly crazy that this is even a thing. China, Iran, and NK are helping Russia. Literally every enemy of the west.

Also the US LOVES this type of war with them. It has been a thing since the Cold War ended. How many republican politicians are stroking off putin