{"id":13834,"date":"2025-04-09T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:43:06","slug":"death-from-above-resistance-from-below-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/2025\/04\/death-from-above-resistance-from-below-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Death from above, resistance from below, in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n the cold, dark early morning of February 23, the Russian military launched the largest drone attack of its war against Ukraine to date, capping off the third year of aggression with a wave of 267 suicide and decoy drones. The skyline over Kyiv lit up as air defense forces fired long bursts at the drones, the sounds of explosions and machine guns mixing with the unmistakable buzz of the Iranian-designed Shaheds. Three people were killed across the country, despite 138 drones reportedly shot down and another 119 brought down by electronic jamming systems. The Russians also fired three ballistic missiles during the attack.<\/p>\n

Now with Ukrainians weeks into the fourth straight year of defending themselves against these daily attacks, a new dynamic threat is rapidly developing under the guise of a Trump administration overtly sympathetic to the rightwing Putin regime and quickly moving to undermine Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend itself, all the while claiming they are pushing for \u201cpeace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The peace of the graveyard is no peace at all, and while the threats facing those in Ukraine fighting for a secure and democratic future predate the proto-fascism advancing in the United States, the scale of recent actions taken by the Trump administration points to a future that will be defined by anything but peace.<\/p>\n

For those in Ukraine caught between Russian tanks, Western banks, their own deeply flawed, neoliberal state\u2014in addition to the unfolding abandonment by the United States under Trump\u2014the situation could hardly be more severe.<\/p>\n