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From Darya Mitina, United Communist Party of Russia:

Yesterday, May 8, the losers cried, today, May 9, the winners are celebrating!

Today at 12:00 we will lay flowers at the stele of the Hero City of Moscow at the intersection of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street. Let's bring there portraits of our comrades who laid down their lives in the fight against the fascist plague of the 21st century: Andrei Brazhevsky, Vsevolod Petrovsky, Evgeny Golyshkin, Vladislav Wojciechowski, Alexander Gribovsky, Ilya Znamensky.

The situation is escalating. The U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks is very dangerous. It threatens a world war because the design of the Abrams engines requires constant maintenance. There are no specialists for this in Ukraine. Therefore, civilian specialists from the United States will be involved for repair and maintenance, who will work at Ukrainian enterprises that are targets for the Russian army.

Everyone understands that as a result of the fighting, there is a very serious risk that these specialists will be killed. However, the death of a U.S. citizen will allow Biden to demand the introduction of a no-fly zone over Ukraine and may become a reason to declare war.

By Greg Butterfield

During a war crisis, when the capitalists push out campaigns like “Pray for Ukraine” or “Stand with Ukraine,” preying on the humanitarian impulses of uninformed people, we have to ask: Who are they actually trying to rally support for?

It’s not for the common people, the workers or the rank and file soldiers. They are trying to tie people here to the fortunes of the neocolonial Ukrainian government, the capitalist elite, military leaders and neo-Nazi gangs that infest the state from top to bottom.

On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.” This was a unique opportunity for the U.S. anti-war movement to hear directly from people in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), whose voices are silenced by the Western mass media’s pro-Ukraine war propaganda.

Stop the War Lies Webinar: Voices from Donbass

Sunday, March 27, 3 p.m. Eastern / 12 noon Pacific

REGISTER HERE

Hear directly from the independent Donbass republics under fire from Ukraine, the U.S. and NATO.

ALEXEY ALBU, coordinator of Borotba (Struggle), Lugansk. Albu is a survivor of the May 2, 2014, massacre at the Odessa House of Trade Unions and a political refugee from Ukraine.

KATYA A., co-leader of Aurora women's group, Donetsk. Katya is a lifelong resident of Donbass, a feminist, socialist and internationalist organizer.

KRISTINA MELNIKOVA, journalist, Donetsk. She has covered Ukraine’s war on Donbass for several years.

DENIS GRIGORYUK, journalist, Mariupol. He has been reporting from the front line in a city occupied by the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

Plus other invited speakers from the region.

The Emergency Campaign to Stop the War Lies is a grassroots effort to stop the lies and tell the truth about the U.S./NATO war on Russia and Donbass.

Ukraine has been at war for eight years against the Donbass republics, Donetsk and Lugansk. Ukraine’s war has cost over 14,000 lives in Donbass. Like Yemen, U.S. media ignored the human toll and U.S. role in the conflict.

For months, Washington pushed Ukraine to invade Donbass again. Russia intervened to stop a bloodbath and end the war, as well as to ensure the neutrality of its neighbor. Ukraine continues to commit daily war crimes in Donbass, including a March 14 missile attack that killed more than 20 people in Donetsk.

"Even more surprising is that within minutes of the 'breaking news,' western leaders — heads of state, foreign ministers, former politicians — popped up with statements duly kept ready and only based on the videos, seconds-long videos and a clutch of photos, ready to pour accusations. No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard."

By Alexey Albu