Slava Ukraïni—with yet another British Prime Minister - UK Column News - 21st November 2022

Rishi Sunak’s “deeply humbling” first visit to Ukraine to pledge £50 million of your money
MoD tweet: lighters for troops training in Britain, engraved with message for heroes
So, the Ukrainian push to Kherson was not enough for peace after all; was Sunak dispatched to be the stop-peace man?
- Barron’s: Poland says it will not allow the Russian delegation to the OSCE talks [Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe]
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova: This violates the OSCE Rules of Procedure and causes irreparable damage to the institution’s reputation
- BBC says Ukraine is winning—Ukraine war: Hope returns to Kherson after Russian forces leave
Yahoo! News: Ukraine begins evacuation from Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts [southern regions of Ukraine] (syndicated report from Ukraïnska Pravda)
Ukrainian deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk issues statement on voluntary evacuation to western Ukraine for all who want it—tacit admission that the south-east is lost
Pravda (Ukraine): Residents of liberated Kherson Oblast are urged to evacuate—Kherson Oblast [regional] head Yaroslav Yanushevych statement admits desperation remains and calls for thousands of left-behind “collaborators” to be “punished”
Yet the above BBC report suggests all is a jolly liberation knees-up
David Scott commentary: Mass evacuation being described as “optimistic”—a new low
Daily News (Ukraine) and Kyiv Independent: Ministry of Economy confirms that at least 5 million Ukrainians have lost their jobs due to the war
Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Minister of the Economy, speaks of 7 million having left the country due to hostilities
On-screen backstory: Berezhna’s LinkedIn profile includes an internship in the Parliament of Canada
On-screen backstory: Another deputy economy minister has held managerial positions with a US-headquartered firm
UkrInform: War leaves 53% of Ukrainians unemployed—note dateline: 24 March (just a month into the war)
Some sources are now saying over 50% of Ukrainian electricity generation is down
Sources:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-november-2022