Prologue Journal – Page 32 – Understanding current events through the lenses of the past and future.

NATO-Ukraine Council to meet in December

Pravda Ukraine The next meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council is scheduled for 3 December, coinciding with the Alliance’s foreign ministers’ session in Brussels. Source: European Pravda, citing the event programme Details: The programme reveals that the NATO-Ukraine Council will convene in the evening on 3 December. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha is expected to attend,…

Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

New York Times A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/science/footprints-ancient-kenya.html

Rare footprints suggest two of our prehistoric ancestors may have met

Washington Post The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether their interactions shaped human evolution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/11/28/prehistoric-human-footprint-study-kenya/

Israel violates ceasefire agreement multiple times — Lebanese army

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. According to the statement, the Lebanese military command “is keeping an eye on [Israel’s] violations in coordination with the relevant agencies” https://tass.com/world/1879495

Russia and Syria bomb Syrian Islamist rebels after surprise incursion

Fox News A radical Islamist group unleashed its biggest military incursion against Syrian regime forces since 2020 in the northwest of the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic, triggering Russian and Syrian warplanes on Thursday to bomb the insurgent offensive. Rebels led by the U.S-designated Islamist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stormed a dozen towns and villages…

IAF strikes terrorists in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire

Jerusalem Post IDF troops saw the two terrorists arriving at a known terror base, which had acted as a launch point for dozens of rockets toward Israel. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-831230

Export duty on coking coal to be canceled from December 1 — Russian Energy Minister

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Russia currently has the moratorium in effect on the steam coal export duty https://tass.com/economy/1879491

Journalists identify Belarusian location where Russians tortured Ukrainian POWs – video, photos

Pravda Ukraine Russian forces tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war at the state utility Prypiat Alliance in the town of Naroulia, Homiel Oblast, Belarus, in 2022. Source: joint investigation by Schemes, an investigative journalism project of Radio.Liberty, and the Belarusian Investigative Center, supported by The Reckoning Project on documenting war crimes and the hacker group Cyber…

Ukrainians Beleniuk and Nasibov among World’s Best Wrestlers

Pravda Ukraine United World Wrestling (UWW) has released its ranking of the best Greco-Roman wrestlers for 2024. Source: UWW Details: Two Ukrainians, Parviz Nasibov (67 kg) and Zhan Beleniuk (87 kg), are among the top three in their respective weight categories. The ranking was based on results from the Olympic Games, World Championships, Continental Championships…

Russians execute four more Ukrainian POWs in Pokrovsk District – Ukraine’s Prosecutor General

Pravda Ukraine Russian forces executed four Ukrainian prisoners of war on 22 November in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk Oblast. Source: Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Quote: “Operational data indicates that on 22 November 2024, Russian Armed Forces launched an assault on a position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village…