As Russia continues its deadly attacks on Ukrainian civilians and critical infrastructure, many are questioning whether the West’s support is sufficient.
Stephen Moore argues that Ukraine needs more air defense, greater sanctions pressure on Moscow, and stronger political resolve from its allies.
Moore also explains why fears of escalation have failed to deter the Kremlin and what additional steps could help tip the scales on the battlefield.
Host: Jonasz Rewiński
Is the West doing enough to help Ukraine?
My appearance on TVP World today. Russian drones and missiles have struck several European countries. Russia is shipping weapons to Iran. Ukraine is fighting back. Nobody seems to care.
STEVEN MOORE
AUG 22
With Putin getting free shots on Ukraine with every ballistic missile he fires, it is easy to think that Russia is winning in Ukraine. It is winning by one metric – Russia is killing more civilians than Ukraine.
Putin is getting more aggressive. Russia has fired drones into Romania multiple times this summer. Officials found an armed Russian drone in an airport in Leipzig/Halle. NATO forces shot down two drones in Latvian airspace. Russia openly attacked a Moldovan border crossing. A Russian cruise missile impacted inside Poland.
About two dozen Russian ships have ferried military cargo across the Caspian Sea from Russia to Iran multiple times. Ukraine has damaged or destroyed at least nine ships involved in that operation in the last couple of months. Read it again – Russia is sending weapons to Iran to kill US service members. Ukraine is working to stop the flow of weapons.
Ukraine’s deep strike capabilities have taken out many of the factories in Russia that are making missiles and drones. Cutting down on the amount of Russian weapons in the world is not only good for Ukraine, but for the United States and Europe.
But nobody in the US or Europe has found any missile interceptors to help Ukraine stop Russian ballistic missiles.
Check out my appearance on TVP World to hear more.
Putin has destroyed 800 churches in Ukraine and killed dozens of pastors and priests. Our five new short films shine a light on stories of faith and courage from the front lines of Ukraine.
STEVEN MOORE
We are making more films because Vladimir Putin is destroying more churches, killing more Ukrainian Christians, trafficking more Ukrainian children and lying about it to the world. Too many believe him.
Putin has shut down every church in occupied Ukraine he does not control and made it a crime punishable by years in prison to hold a Bible study in one’s home. Not a single Catholic priest remains in occupied Ukraine. The Russians have destroyed more than 800 churches, killed dozens of pastors and priests and taken tens of thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia yet Ukraine Freedom Project polling shows that 31% of Republicans see Russia as a country that promotes and encourages traditional family values.
Forty-seven percent of Trump’s voters identify as evangelical Christians, with Catholics comprising an additional 25%. Russia spends $2 billion on promoting its false messages worldwide annually, much of it targeting this group. Anna Shvetsova and I have been pushing back on the massive flow of Russian disinformation to Christians since summer of 2023.
In the summer of 2024, Colorado-based entrepreneur and (at the time) aspiring filmmaker Colby Barrett asked us to partner with him on a documentary film. Anna and I took Colby and a documentary film crew on two ten day trips around the Ukrainian front interviewing Christians who were fighting back against Putin’s oppression and told stories of triumph through faith. These efforts produced the award-winning documentary A Faith Under Siege.
After its May of 2025 premier at The Museum of the Bible, A Faith Under Siege has reached millions through multiple showings on Newsmax, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and elsewhere. Content by FourthSign Productions, Colby’s production company, is streaming on Angel Studios, DIRECTV, SalemNOW, Newsmax+, TBN+, FaithChannel and many more. Our content has millions of views across YouTube.
Polling by the Ukraine Freedom Project shows 3.1 million American evangelical Christians have seen the film, and 11 million are aware of the film thanks to the efforts of The Special Marketing Operation, which has donated nearly 200 million online ads placements so far to promote A Faith Under Siege.
Colby and I co-authored an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal last November showing how a surge in support for Ukraine among religious conservatives has driven the larger resurgence of support for Ukraine among Republicans.
Five New Films Debut in August
The creative team behind A Faith Under Siege is releasing five new short films. The Trinity Broadcasting Network has made August “Faith in War” month with a Friday prime time special on each short film.
For more on this topic, see the following link :
https://stevenmoore.substack.com/p/putins-continuing-war-on-ukraines?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1902376&post_id=209351816&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1fx5so&triedRedirect=true
Guardian :
The leader of weeks of protests against Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s sacking of Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister appeared to call them off after Fedorov demanded elections. The pro-Fedorov movement’s chief organiser, veteran combat medic Dmytro Koziatynskyi, said he “cannot imagine” how to hold polls with troops at the front and the protests had been about seeking dialogue with the government. Elections are considered impossible and illegal under Ukrainian law because of the war.
“I’m also deeply concerned about the societal divisions during the election process and how that could affect the course of the war,” Koziatynskyi said. “In any case, street protests are definitely not the place for electoral discourse.” The Reuters news agency said that on Wednesday only a few dozen people remained in a central Kyiv square where thousands once protested. “When we came out to protest, we did not come with the idea that elections should be held,” said 22-year-old Iryna Vasyliaka. “That is not what we were here for.”
Fedorov’s call for elections appeared to be a clumsy misstep, one opposition lawmaker told Reuters. “This demonstrates that [Fedorov] doesn’t have a presidential-level feel for the country.” Olena Prokopenko from the German Marshall Fund said Fedorov’s move was a “false start” that could burn his political capital before elections would realistically be held. “With this statement, he pretty much played on Ukrainians’ most sensitive pain points.” Ukraine’s parliament this week strongly endorsed Zelenskyy’s new defence minister and Fedorov’s successor, Yevhenii Khmara; but the protests did force Ukraine’s president to replace Oleksandr Syrskyi, the disliked “Soviet-style” head of Ukraine’s military, with a younger military reformer, Mykhailo Drapatyi.
“Read it again – Russia is sending weapons to Iran to kill US service members. Ukraine is working to stop the flow of weapons.”
And the criminal in the White House who some call president is doing NOTHING to stop mafia land from helping Iran or at least to help Ukraine to stop the mafia state. NOTHING AT ALL! He has blood on his hands just like his boyfriends Putler and Doughboy. This includes the blood of our own troops who got killed in his illegal war.