Ukraine’s southern port city of Mariupol has been razed to the ground as Russian forces make “desperate” attempts to finish taking the city “at any cost,” Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Sunday.

Kuleba appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” and described how the situation in Mariupol is “dire militarily” and “heartbreaking” after seven weeks under siege at the hands of the Russian army.

“The city doesn’t exist anymore,” Kuleba said, adding that Ukrainian forces and a large group of civilians in the port city are encircled by Moscow’s forces. “They continue their struggle, but it seems from the way the Russian army behaves in Mariupol, they decided to raze the city to the ground at any cost.”

A RUSSIAN soldier has been killed by radiation from the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine after his unit camped in a toxic zone nearby, according to reports. The soldier was part of a unit that captured the Chernobyl plant in the first days of the war. 

The troops then occupied the 20-mile exclusion zone around the plant, where people are banned from living due to dangerous levels of radiation left over by the nuclear disaster in 1986. 

Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom said Russian troops had dug trenches in the radioactive mud of the most contaminated part of the exclusion zone and had received “significant doses” of radiation. 

They had reportedly camped in the dangerous zone known as the Red Forest, where radiation levels are at their highest and become ill “very quickly”. 

Troops also drove their trucks along dirt roads without wearing radiation gear, disturbing poisonous radioactive dust, Reuters reported

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terror strikes on America on Wednesday as he pleaded with the U.S. Congress to get more aid for his country to fight against its invasion by Russia.

Zelensky asked the U.S. to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stem the Russian attacks.

“Is this a lot to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people?” “Is this too much to ask?” he said in the speech, which was delivered remotely via video link from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

He also used graphic imagery as the audience went wild with a standing ovation … Actually three standing ovations come to think of it..

His address featured the display of a graphic video that included tragic footage from the conflict in Ukraine, including disturbing photographs of civilian casualties of the war, destroyed buildings, and terrifying images of military attacks there.

He called on the US to “close the sky” to prevent the Russian airstrikes that are devastating Ukraine, which President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have so far refused to do to avoid a direct confrontation with Putin’s Russia.

While this is a UK tabloid source it is presenting valid information that resulted from an interview..

Russian official said that a nuke should be launched at the United States as a ‘message’ and even if it killed 10,000 people the US would not respond..

The story comes from the DAILY STAR..

Fyodorov, in an interview translated by MEMRI TV, said: “Until there is a physical demonstration of (Moscow’s) determination, America will perceive the positions of Russia and (Putin) as a bluff. “So they need a demonstration. The most convincing demonstration would be the physical destruction of America’s Defence Department facilities. I’m talking about facilities, which international law grants us the right to destroy.”

You can read the article in full here ..

Not trying to be alarmist.. but seriously folks how close are we and what ‘Cuban missile’ type crises are occurring right now without our knowledge in the public eye?