Author: Max Griera

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned what he called an “inhumane” Christmas Day Russian drone strike. “Every massive Russian strike requires time for preparation. It is never a spontaneous decision,” he said Wednesday.  The Ukrainian defense ministry said Russia launched 78 missiles and 106 drones, of which it shot down 113. Nonetheless, Zelensky said there were power “outages in several regions.” “The targets are our energy infrastructure. They continue to fight for a blackout in Ukraine,” Zelenskyy added. Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said on Facebook that the transmission system operator took “the necessary consumption restriction measures to minimize the negative consequences…

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson considered sending troops to the Netherlands to seize a supply of five million doses of Covid vaccines held in Leiden, according to an excerpt of his forthcoming memoirs published in the Daily Mail. In the spring of 2021, the EU and U.K. were wrestling over the production of Covid-19 vaccines in a factory located in Leiden, near the Dutch coast. The factory was run by Halix and supplied AstraZeneca vaccines contracted by both Britain and the EU. Amid scarce supplies of vaccine doses, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had threatened to cut…