A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's historical accuracy, tries to point out that the nazi troops state they are members of a unit that was not there.. but can't bring himself to see that they might have been lying!
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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox
SpiritualCare Centre
THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE
"Veterans and children of the Great PatrioticWar: to the Government andpeopleof Germany".
By events in Ukraine
Today, when the German government decided
to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the
world has changed -- the silhouettes of a
new world war are more than clearly
outlined! And again - Germany!
But there are honest people in Germany.. anti-
fascists, and we hope that this Message will
fall into their hands. People born between
1927 and 1945 have the status of "war
children" in Russia.
All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter. We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we suggest that veterans(or "war children"), read them this letter, independently or with someone's help,
and send us (at the coordinatesindicated below) something like the following:
Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of the Soviet Union (or Holder of the Order of Glory... or otherwise), was repatriated to Germany during the war (or otherwise).
Or just the city, full name, and age. The
main thing, is that they should be real
people who are familiar with the text.
MESSAGE TEXT
We, the last veterans -- and all the peoples of
Russia who survived that great and terrible
war.. are now on the verge of death! Our
time is already running out. For a huge
part of our lives, we hoped we would
come to the end of it, in peace -
without all-destroying hatred!
For the painfully long decades after the Second World War, we overcame our righteous anger! I long for retribution for the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical.. that we still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact that Germany for many years, has demonstrated its repentance its understanding of what it has done! And we have overcome -- not only ourselves, but also the voice of the blood of our barbarically exterminated relatives! By whom? Germans ...fascists!
We have forgiven... following the laws of human
coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,
in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine...
we looked with hope at Germany, and at the
then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't imagine that after all that the Germans did
in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains
of mutilated corpses, they would still look
with lust: at the Ukrainian fields that can
feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans,
who have covered the Crimea they once
promised with blood, will still somehow be interested in turning the Crimea into an American - and in general - a NATO base, ideal for aggression against Russia! Which would be clearly
aimed at afuture war.
After all -- only fools do not understand the meaning and goals of the entire coup inUkraine..... in the conditions of which Russia behaved in the only possible way! But the Germans are not fools! We the Russians, know for certain your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our blood, which you "prudently" shed in rivers!
We remember -- your "systematic methods of
population reduction"! Our population! Until
now - in different parts of our once united
Homeland - where the boot of German
fascism was trodden, we find hidden
mass graves of our civilians: in the
Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in
the Rostov region, in Karelia. In
Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of
civilian remains... were found
in Brest ...on the site of the
Jewish ghetto the Trostenets
concentration camp.... near
Minsk terrible in its tragedy
revealed the secret of the
remains... of thousands of
tortured and killed people!
We are talking about tens of thousands of newly discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still cries out for revenge - and for decades the memory of these barbarously destroyed
Russian people -- and monuments to Russian soldiers, liberators - have been desecrated with impunity!
And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic
States and Ukraine - in front of the entire
"civilized" world! But, in 2014, we were
sincerely convinced - that in this new
Nazi demarche it's the Germans who
will be our associates in preventing
this meanness!
We hoped that, guided by an elementary
conscience -- the Germans would not
participate.. in an obviously fascist
anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all
...the subsequent catastrophe of
modern Ukraine was committed
by direct descendants of those
who were special bastards in
the German army! Clearly,
openly!
Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved this diabolical heritage... feeding thisgeneration, but the product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And it was impossible for us to believe that it was Germany that would again give a "road map" to these inhumans! But we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed these fascist geeks...... to enter the world!
The support of modern Germany - in the face of
the new government of Ukraine-Bandera.. the
heirs of the SS division "Galicia" -- the thugs
of the UPA OUN, and all other abominations;
is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond
all that is human! But you.. Germany, have already done it and continue to do it! You
have, once again, set your sights on the
Slavic world and these geeks are blood
from the blood of German Nazism! And
again to Russia!
Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it! You know this as well as we do! You killed one nation in that Great War! Yes, we are one people!
The truth is written and often spoken about
by your own Steinmeier, who at the same
time, viciously took a direct part in the
Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact!
This American.. may not be clear about some-
things, but it's more than that, for you! And
after all, it was your vykormysh... that got
ready.. for their torchlight processions in
Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany
is behind all this. It was only temporarily
covered up by sly diplomacy - "helmets
instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks
are reset"! Your supply of German
weapons to Ukraine today... is
natural - it is in the logic of
your policy of recent
decades.
Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken
this step: German weapons will kill Russians
again! Keep killing. During the years of the
conflict in the Donbas, your professional
killers have already killed Russians, at
least by teaching them... "how to kill
correctly"! Only now -- it's even more
despicable — you're teaching this to
- your blood brothers! Donbass is on
your conscience! Thousands of lives
of its peaceful citizens --- again your
handiwork! We do not care about the
role of Americans, in everything that
happens: there, is money-God! We,
veterans of that war, its children,
are concerned about the role of
the Germans! Because it is you
who know -- exactly -- who the
Ukrainian "national battalions"
consist of --- and could have
prevented and stopped, this
new fascism ! But they did
not do it! And just by doing
this -- you are once again,
responsible to history!
And you are definitely participating ---- in the
preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia!
You can't help but understand the purpose
of everything that happened ---- from the
unconstitutional coup in Kiev .....to the
bloodshed in the Donbass! But, in fact
this is preparation for the Third World
War! And again, you are Germans...
Germany! We hear from the high
German rostrum in Berlin today:
"Russia, will pay a high price"!!!
This is the German Chancellor's
speech! Unthinkable! We have
already paid the price ------ 27
million of our lives! Isn't that
enough for you?! What price
are you still talking about?
There is no home ----- in Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And
there is no home --- in Germany, that did
not participate in that terrible, bloody
barbarism! It's scary! It's wild! And
today, there are, already, more than
13 thousand dead Russian people
in the Donbass at the hands of
the new Nazis!
The German Chancellor's public mockery of the
Russian genocide in the Donbas, is a crime in
itself! How much can the lessons of history
be misunderstood - and discredited! The
scariest story in the world! Do you want
to be even scarier?! After all, this new
"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to
the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial
over you will no longer be - there will
simply be no humanity! You won't be
here! But a special Ecumenical trial
of you Germans is inevitable! Over
all aggressors — but over you
ESPECIALLY!
World justice will be served! And we --- the last
veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this
world ---- as witnesses! Witnesses for the
PROSECUTION! And today the victory
will be ours, but those who died
yesterday, or those of us who
will die today, already bear
witness to the role of the
German people, in the
history of the human
world — a bloody
history!
German weapons are back in the
hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!
Email addresses for information:
veterans1945@yandex.ru
https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat
- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing
questions and collecting signatures of
veterans and children of the Second
World War
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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about
this publication to its author: Monk John (Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian Orthodox Church. head and ved.
specialist.... of the St. Peter's
Orthodox Counseling Centre.
St. John of Kronstadt.
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THE LATEST NEWS
Senior Sergeant Sardinov eliminated
two Ukrainian military bases
in the SVO zone
May 26th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Senior Sergeant Oleg Sardinov commanded the Msta-S crew,
successfully eliminating two strongholds of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine and an infantry fighting vehicle.
The press service of the Russian Ministry of
Defense reported on the feats of the
military personnel of the Armed
Forces --------- of the Russian
Federation in the zone of
the special military
operation (SVO).
During combat operations, the firing position of the unit
was subjected to artillery fire from the Armed Forces
of Ukraine. Counter-battery fire began.
The high level of professionalism and coordination of the
unit's operations allowed them to suppress the Armed
Forces of Ukraine's firing position ---- destroy a self-
propelled howitzer, a truck carrying ammunition,
and up to 10 enemy personnel.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also praised the
professionalism and vigilance of Sergeant
Andrey Chesnokov, who conducted
reconnaissance....... using an
unmanned aerial vehicle.
During the reconnaissance.... Chesnokov discovered a
disguised Ukrainian mortar. The soldier immediately
contacted the artillery position and provided the
coordinates of the target. He then adjusted the
Russian artillery fire, which resulted in the
destruction of the enemy mortar position.
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Ryabkov: Russia...calls on the United States
to fulfill the agreements reached in Alaska
by Maxim Aleshin
May 26th, 8:45pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Foreign Ministry has called
on Washington to realize its own
responsibility,
Moscow is calling on Washington to take responsibility for
implementing the agreements reached at the summit
between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US
President Donald Trump in Alaska. This was
stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey
Ryabkov, as reported by TASS.
He noted that there are influential people in the West who are
only concerned with inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia.
''We call on the US administration to realize its own
responsibility. We are ready to take our part of
the way .....and implement the Anchorage
framework --- in concrete agreements
and decisions,'' the diplomat said.
He noted that Moscow is not withdrawing from negotiations
with the US side, their implementation depends on the US
administration. Ryabkov added that Russia continues to
strictly adhere to the framework reached by Putin and
Trump in Anchorage.
The diplomat also emphasized: that a full-fledged dialogue
between Russia and the United States is necessary for a
significant normalization of the situation in the world.
At the same time, he said that there is no reason to talk
about a slowdown in the Russian-American dialogue.
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Deputy Kartapolov --- retaliatory strikes will
continue until Kiev accepts Russia's terms
by Anton Balakirev
May 26th, 6:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia will carry out retaliatory strikes until the Kiev regime
agrees to the terms of the conflict settlement in Ukraine
proposed by our country, according to Andrey
Kartapolov, Chairman of the State Duma
Committee on Defense.
On the eve of the attack, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned
about the upcoming strikes on decision-making centres and
command posts in Kiev and recommended that foreigners
leave the Ukrainian capital as soon as possible.
''We've said -- everything. We've warned - everyone. We no
longer have any obligations to anyone. We've fulfilled
all our obligations. Therefore, we will continue to
Former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin commented
-- on the recent strikes on objects in Kiev using the latest
Oreshnik system. According to the politician, Russia's
actions ---- are a natural response to the actions of the Ukrainian side.
''What did they think, that we would be silent? They were
warned - and they got it. This is a war -- and I want to
emphasize it, once again,'' Stepashin emphasized.
He also expressed confidence that the leadership of the Kiev
regime is waiting for an inglorious end, drawing historical
parallels with the events of 1945.
''Hitler also ended his life in a bunker. So did Goebbels
and the rest of the gang. They'll meet the same fate.
I have no doubts,'' summed up the politician.
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Russia’s Retaliatory Strike -Delivers
‘Convincing Message’ to Ukraine
and Its NATO Backers
– Expert
May 25th, 4:31pm
(Sputnik International)
Russia’s strike in response to Ukraine’s terrorist attack on
Starobelsk that killed 21 students - shatters the illusion
that the regime still controls its airspace, military
expert Alexander Mikhailov tells Sputnik.
Russia deployed the nuclear-capable Oreshnik, Kinzhal
and Zircon missiles, as well as the Iskander systems,
the analyst notes.
“In practice, only Patriot systems can reliably intercept
the Iskander - and Ukraine has very few of those left.”
As for Oreshnik, it is --- “an unstoppable
offensive weapon in Russia’s arsenal.”
Russia acts with restraint, avoiding strikes on key political
and civilian infrastructure in Kiev, despite possessing the
capability to “flatten Ukraine with every type of weapon
within days,” the expert says.
Russia’s measured approach - gradually bleeding white
Ukraine’s resources – offers the regime “a chance to
come to its senses.”
The broader message to NATO is that if it keeps pushing
Russia to the limit, it could “unleash a weapon no air
defense or missile shield would be able to stop.”
“I think the message has been
delivered clearly enough,"
Mikhailov said.
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The State Duma commented on
Russia's takeover ...of Odessa
by Evgeny Fomenko (Editor,
Russia Department)
May 25th, 2:23pm
(Lenta.ru)
Russia -- always remembers the need to take Odessa under its
control, the Black Sea city only temporarily remains part of
Ukraine. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of
the State Duma Committee on Defense, Alexey
Zhuravlev, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
"We always keep in mind the need to liberate this Russian city,
and the population will undoubtedly welcome the Russian
army ---- with jubilation," Zhuravlev said.
He noted: that Moscow could take control of the rest
of the cities on the Black Sea coast of Novorossiya.
"This is because the Ukrainian authorities are forcibly imposing
an ideology on local residents who would like to join Russia.
People will be happy to throw off this oppression as soon
as they receive at least minimal support from outside -
the pro-Russian underground is currently active in
Odessa," the deputy concluded.
Earlier, war correspondent Alexey Zhivov said that Odessa
should be taken under control to restore Russia in its
historical borders. He noted that in the current
realities, Ukrainian ports have become a
valuable asset for the EU and US.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry: The bloody
attack in Starobelsk - the last straw
by Victoria Rasseikina
May 25th, 1:56pm
(Vesti.ru)
The attack on Starobelsk was the last straw,
according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
In response ---- Russia has "begun to systematically strike Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises in Kiev," according to the Foreign Ministry.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of May 22 attacked
the academic building and dormitory of the Lugansk State
Pedagogical University. As a result of this attack,
21 people were killed.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the attack in Starobelsk was
a direct violation of a number of international acts -- including
the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols,
which regulate the protection of civilians during conflicts,
and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The number of deaths in the Ukrainian attack on Starobelsk in the LPR ..increased to 21
by Sergey Popov
May 23rd, 8:44pm
Vesti.ru
The number of people killed in a Ukrainian Armed Forces
strike on a college dormitory building in Starobelsk in
the Lugansk People's Republic has increased to 21,
and all the bodies have been recovered from the
rubble, according to the Russian Ministry
of Emergency Situations.
Earlier, it was reported that 18 people were killed
as a result of an attack by Ukrainian militants
on a dormitory in Starobelsk.
On the night of May the 22nd, Ukrainian nationalists
attacked the academic building and dormitory
of the pedagogical college in Starobelsk,
LPR. The dormitory building, where
teenagers lived, collapsed from
the fifth to the second floor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Ministry of Defense to work out options for responding to this act
of aggression by the Kiev regime.
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Former Rada Deputy Lutsenko:Kiev Will Not
Sleep ----- If Russia Invades from the North
May 23rd, 3:25pm
(RT.ru)
Former member of the Verkhovna Rada, Igor Lutsenko, said
that Kyiv would no longer "sleep" if the Russian Armed
Forces launched an offensive from the north.
"It will be enough for them to reach Ivankov's level, and
then our capital will be ------- awake," he told UNIAN.
The former MP added that modern technologies
would allow the Russian army ---- to launch
powerful strikes against the capital.
Earlier, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told RT that Kyiv is
responding to its defeats on the front
with terrorist attacks.
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People are carrying flowers to
the dormitory in Starobelsk
May 23rd, 3:08pm
(RT.ru)
People are carrying flowers to the dormitory
in Starobelsk, which was hit by the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. The memorial was
organized by college staff.
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Strike --- on military-industrial complex and
energy facilities --- Russian military struck
facilities used by Ukraine's Armed Forces
by Anton Kuznetsov
May 23rd, 12:30pm
(RT.ru)
The Russian military has destroyed Ukrainian military industry
facilities and energy facilities used by the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, as well as assembly facilities, storage sites for
UAVs, and temporary bases for Ukrainian militants and
foreign mercenaries. This is reported by the Ministry
of Defense. The ministry clarified that air defense
systems had shot down 8 guided aerial bombs
and 800 drones.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike drones, missile forces, and
artillery of the Russian Armed Forces ---- have destroyed a
Ukrainian military industry enterprise, & energy facilities
used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, plus assembly
shops, and storage facilities for long-range drones,
as well as temporary bases for Ukrainian armed
formations and foreign mercenaries...... in
142 areas.
According to the Ministry of Defense, eight guided aerial
bombs and 800 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles
were shot down by air defense systems.
Meanwhile, units of the Northern Group of Forces improved their
tactical position and defeated the personnel and equipment of
the mechanized, airmobile, and territorial defense brigades of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Tolstodubovo,
Ivolzhanskoye, Khrapovshchyna, and Proletarskoye
in the Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region -- the Russian military defeated the
formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized
brigade, as well as the territorial defense brigade, in
the areas of the settlements of Rubizhne and
Izbitske in the Kharkiv region.
The militants lost up to 190 people, 2 armoured
vehicles, 17 cars, 2 artillery pieces, and an
electronic warfare station.
Units of the Zapad military group took advantageous positions
and lines and defeated the manpower and equipment of two
mechanized and assault brigades of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Studenok,
Peski-Radkovskie, Chervony Oskol of the Kharkiv
region... and Lozovoye of the Donetsk People's
Republic. The Armed Forces of Ukraine - lost
more than 230 people, 22 armoured combat
vehicles, including a US-made Bradley
infantry fighting vehicle, 19 vehicles
and two artillery guns.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their
position on the front line. They defeated the formations
of 2 mechanized brigades, a mountain assault brigade
and a marine infantry brigade, in the areas of the
settlements of.. Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka,
Podolskoye, and Konstantinovka, in
the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 170 troops, 2 armoured vehicles,
14 cars, 4 field artillery pieces, and an electronic
warfare station.
Units of the Centre group of troops have taken advantageous
positions and lines. They have inflicted damage ---- on the
manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile,
assault, and airborne assault brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, a marine infantry brigade, and
2 brigades of the National Guard, in the areas
of Shevchenko, Dobropolye, Belozerskoye,
Sergeevka, Raiskoye in the DPR, and
Novopodgorodnoye.... in the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 290 soldiers, two
armoured vehicles, nine cars, and six field artillery pieces.
Units of the Vostok group of forces continued to advance into
the depths --- of the enemy's defenses. They defeated the
manpower and equipment of 2 mechanized brigades, 3
air assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, and a marine infantry brigade in
the areas of Malomykhailivka, Prosyanaya,
Zarechnoye, and Pokrovskoye in the
Dnipropetrovsk region, & Rovnoye,
Lyubytse, Zelenaya Dibrova,
and Voskresenka, in the
Zaporizhzhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces: lost more than 280
soldiers, three armoured vehicles, and nine cars.
Units of the Dnipro group of forces defeated formations of
the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and the marines brigade in the areas of Orekhov and
Grigorovka in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 50 AFU
fighters.... 2 armoured combat vehicles, 12 cars
& 1 electronic warfare station were destroyed.
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Nebenzyaaccused Europe of mocking
the victims of the Ukrainian attack
on the college
May 22nd, 8:54pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The European colleagues of the United Nations Security Council
openly mock the victims among children who were injured, as a
result of the shelling of the Ukrainian college in Starobilsk.
This was announced on May 22 --- by the Permanent
Representative of Russia to the World Organization,
Vasily Nebenzya.
"This is not even hypocrisy or double standards ----- but outright
mockery of the child victims," Nebenzya said at an emergency
meeting of the UN Security Council requested by Russia --- in
response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on a
dormitory in the Lugansk People's Republic.
He emphasized that none of the Security Council members had mentioned the deaths of children, and stated that the level of cynicism at today's meeting was "off the charts."
"How did we get to the point --- where representatives of
European countries don't consider children and young
students in Starobelsk --- residents of Donbas, and
Russia as a whole... to be human beings? Don't
you feel ashamed to say what we're hearing
right now?" he added.
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Zelensky's former press secretary
makes a grim statement
about Ukraine
by Marina Sovina
(night editor)
May 22nd, 7:55pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian authorities plan to continue the hostilities
for many years to come. This was told by former press
secretary to Vladimir Zelensky, Yulia Mendel, in
social network X.
“Ukraine is desperately trying to replenish its front-line
troops. Even forced mobilization is not enough, as
many people avoid service by paying bribes,”
she said.
According to Mendel, the government is tightening the rules
for reserving employees of military age. This means that
many more Ukrainian men will no longer be protected
from forced mobilization, Mendel said.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine has no real chance to win
the conflict with Russia. This was stated by Yulia Mendel.
She noted that the policy of the Ukrainian leadership
leads to.... the loss of an entire generation.
Prior to this, political scientist Ivan Mezyukho reported
that Ukraine.. is preparing for large-scale presidential
and parliamentary elections, although the country's
leaders - have not publicly confirmed this.
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Russia Has Three Responses
to Ukrainian Attack on
Donbass Children –
Expert
May 22nd, 7:42pm
(Sputnik International)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the Defense
Ministry - to plan responses to the Ukrainian drone
attack on a high school dormitory in Starobelsk
in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).
Russia has several options, National Defense magazine
editor-in-chief Igor Korotchenko, tells Sputnik.
1. Hitting decision-making centres — specifically in Kiev,
"where the leaders of the terrorist regime direct and
order attacks on Russia, including the latest large-
scale tragedy involving the deaths of children.''
2.Critical infrastructure that supports Ukrainian
Armed Forces rear operations and stability.
3.Ukrainian military and state command networks
"The retaliation strike must be large-scale and concentrated,"
Korotchenko says. "Of course, we will not strike civilian
infrastructure or the civilian population. Those are the
methods used by Zelensky’s terrorists against us."
The pundit stressed that Russia is fighting the military operation
in Ukraine in line with international law and the UN Charter.
"Accordingly, strikes will target only military sites, critical
infrastructure - considered lawful military targets - and
Ukraine’s political and military command centres."
The strike on the Starobelsk dormitory was not accidental
— it came in three waves during the night. There are no
military facilities near the dormitory.
Why... does the Zelensky regime target civilians? Because it
built up an illusion of safety and impunity, the expert replies.
According to Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children's
ombudsman, 18 children may be trapped under the
rubble of a collapsed dormitory in Starobelsk -
after an attack by Ukraine's Armed Forces.
"Preliminary reports indicate that 18 children may still
be trapped under the rubble. We are praying that the
number of victims does not increase," she said in
a statement.
The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the LPR, Inna
Shveng, told RT -- that 36 children were injured in a
terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
in Starobelsk.
From under the rubble the bodies of the deceased were recovered, reported the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
According to Ombudsman Yana Lantratova, four people were killed.
Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told RT that - Ukraine did not carry out the terrorist attack in Starobelsk on its own; the West helped it.
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Lavrov: The West Cannot Accept the
Existence... of Independent Russia
May 22nd, 11:47am
(RT.ru)
Western countries cannot accept the existence of
an independent Russia, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said.
He noted at the second International Public and Political
Hearing on the Formation of an Architecture of Equal
and Indivisible Security in Eurasia that - in this
regard - the West has remained the same
as it was several centuries ago.
“...The West cannot accept the very fact of Russia’s existence
as an independent entity representing a civilized alternative
to the West,” Lavrov said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the head of the Foreign Ministry spoke about
During this period, the Russian air defense forces have
successfully intercepted three aerial bombs and
516 drones.
As a result of active operations, units of the Northern Group of Forces have established control over Shesterovka village in the Kharkiv region. This is reported in the daily briefing
by the Russian Ministry of Defense, on the progress of
the special operation.
During the day, the Sever fighters also defeated the formations
of two mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the villages
of Velyka Babka, Granov, Riasnoye, Staritsa, & Izbitskoye
(Kharkiv region). In the Sumy region... the personnel and
equipment of a mechanized brigade, an assault brigade,
an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in
the areas of the villages of Ivolzhanskoye,
Mogritsa, Zapselye, and Degtyarnoye.
In the North's area of responsibility, the enemy lost up to 195
fighters, 14 vehicles, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Western Group of Forces - have taken advantageous
positions. The three mechanized, assault, and airborne brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the marines, and the territorial
defense brigades have been defeated in the areas of Lesnaya
Yatskovka, Krasny Lyman, Tatyanovka, and Prishib (DNR).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces..... lost up to 190 soldiers, a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier, 2 armoured vehicles,
24 cars, and a field artillery gun.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces -- in turn --- improved
their tactical position. The Southern Group's fighters defeated
the formations of 3 mechanized, motorized infantry, and air- mobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ..and the
National Guard brigade, in the areas of the towns and
cities of Stenki, Nikonorivka, Rai-Oleksandriivka,
Mykolaivka, Artemivka, Podilsk, Oleksievo-
Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk..... and
Konstantinivka (DPR).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 140 troops, 4 US-made HMMWV
armoured vehicles, 19 vehicles, 4 artillery pieces, and an
electronic warfare station.
Units of the Centre military group, have taken advantageous
positions --- defeating the mechanized, Jaeger, assault, and
air-assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, a marine infantry brigade, and three
brigades of the National Guard in the areas of
Belozerskoye, Raiskoye, Dobropolye,
Belitskoye, Shevchenko, Vasilevka,
Novoaleksandrovka, Novy Donbas
(DPR), and Novopodgorodnoye
(Dnepropetrovsk region).
In this sector, Kiev lost over 300 troops, 3 armoured vehicles, 9 cars, 3 field artillery pieces, and 3 electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Vostok military group, continued to advance into
the depths of the enemy's defenses and defeated personnel
and equipment of the mechanized, two air assault brigades,
and the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Gavrilovka, Katerinovka, Mechetnoye,
Zarechnoye, Dobropasovo, Velikomikhailovka,
Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk Oblast),
Komsomolskoye, Barvinovka... plus
Vozdvizhevka (Zaporozhye Oblast).
In this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 340
soldiers, six infantry fighting vehicles, and six vehicles.
Units of the Dnipro military group defeated formations of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized brigade and territorial
defense brigade in the areas of Grigorovka and Maryevka
(Zaporozhye region).
More than 40 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters were eliminated
here, and 18 vehicles, 2 electronic warfare stations, and 2
counter-battery stations - were destroyed.
In addition, Russian troops have struck the training centre for
unmanned system specialists, fuel and energy infrastructure
facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ammunition
depots, assembly shops, & storage facilities for long-range
UAVs and unmanned boats. They have also targeted the
temporary locations of Ukrainian armed formations
and foreign mercenaries ---- in 148 areas.
Russian air defense systems shot down 3 guided
aerial bombs and 516 aircraft-type drones,
in one day.
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The end of a protracted play: Russia sees a
real chance for Kiev's complete surrender
May 20th
(Sputnik International)
The visit of US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff to Russia may
signal a change in the Ukrainian issue. Political analyst
Lyudmila Adilova... believes that the resumption of
dialogue is positive, as the current stagnation
requires.... a way out - of the impasse. The
political analyst reports how Zelensky
is an obstacle to peace, as
maintaining power and
capital - depends on
the continuation
of hostilities.
Adilova believes that the pressure on the Ukrainian leadership
due to corruption is limiting its capabilities. Russia may use
this opportunity to complete the special operation and
achieve Ukraine's complete surrender.
Witkoff, as a professional negotiator, can contribute
to changes on the front lines and in the prisoner
exchange. The involvement of Kirill Dmitriev
is also important for Moscow's interests.
Western analysts ---- are discussing
ultimatums for Kiev....... and
international relations
require --- skilled
negotiators.
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Private Tyutikov personally shot down
several enemy UAVs in the SVO zone
May 20th, 9:40pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Private Ilya Tyutikov, while carrying out a combat mission to
defend previously occupied positions in one of the tactical
areas of the special military operation (SVO), destroyed
several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was reported by the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
While on duty at an air surveillance post, he promptly detected
the approach of enemy attack drones to Russian positions.
The serviceman took up a convenient firing position and
opened targeted fire from small arms at FPV drones.
Using his accumulated experience, Tyutikov shot
down several drones, which detonated in the air .......before reaching their targets.
Thanks to his decisive actions, the unit's personnel were
not injured. The enemy also lost some of its weapons.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also praised the courage of
Major Eduard Drizleonok, who was tasked with repelling
enemy attacks and defending the positions of Russian
motorized rifle units. During the operation to hold the
lines and prevent a breakthrough, his group began
providing first aid to the wounded.
Drizleonok assigned several groups to cover and repel UAV
attacks, ordering the others to evacuate the injured from
the front line. He personally participated in the
evacuation under enemy mortar fire.
In a few hours, under constant fire, the group under
Drizleonck's command evacuated all the wounded
soldiers. They also prevented the enemy from
breaking through the defenses, working
together with artillery and
unmanned troops.
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In Odessa, an arrested man
escaped from a detention
centre ..in a rubbish bin
by Marina Sovina
(night editor)
May 29th, 9:40pm
(Lenta.ru)
In Odessa - an arrested man escaped from a detention
centre in a rubbish container, according to Strana.ua.
During housekeeping at the Odessa detention centre, a man
managed to escape by hiding in a container. The detention
centre was alerted, and the escaped man was put on the
wanted list.
It is noted that he was discovered and
returned to prison. No official
comments have been
received yet.
Earlier in Odessa, a girl tried to break into the
building of the territorial recruitment centre
(TCK, the Ukrainian equivalent of military
enlistment offices) ------- to save her
mobilized boyfriend.
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Lavrov announced: that the Russian
Armed Forces had liberated 80
settlements ---- in 2026
May 20th, 5:31pm
(RT.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces, have liberated 80 settlements since the beginning of 2026. This was stated on May 20 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"Over this year, I think about 80 settlements have already been
liberated, including 35 in March and April. The process is
ongoing," he said - in an interview with the Shanghai
Media Group (SMG). The text is published on the
website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Lavrov added that Russia “does not use the means it could use”
because it does not want to cause damage to territories with
Russian people. According to him, Moscow is always open
to negotiations and maintains diplomatic channels with
the United States.
However, the Russian Foreign Minister also said that if
Washington wants to resume direct dialogue, Russia
will ask why the behaviour of President Zelensky
and the EU has not changed since the
Anchorage summit.
"It's been almost a year since the summit in Alaska, and there's
been no progress in Zelensky's or the Europeans' behaviour,
no shift. On the contrary, they're becoming more and more aggressive and arrogant. And, of course, we will
take this into account," Lavrov said.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that
the main obstacle to a peaceful solution to the conflict in
Ukraine - is Zelensky and his regime. According to the
Russian president's press secretary - amid Kiev's
belligerent statements, Moscow will continue
the special military operation (SVO) until
its goals are achieved.
This evening... the Russian Permanent Representative to
the United Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzya, said that the
negotiation process to resolve the conflict, is in a
deadlock. He also noted --- that US President
Donald Trump is “sincerely committed”
to resolving the crisis.
Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Russia Has Not Received Any Signals from Ukraine on Its Readiness for Negotiations.
A peaceful resolution of the conflict is not in the interests
of the Kiev regime — the Armed Forces of Ukraine are
only capable of carrying out terrorist attacks.
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Kiev is turningcombatinto
a game, Nebenzya said
by Oleg Ilyukhin
May 20th, 5:04pm
(Vesti.ru)
Kyiv's main means of causing damage to civilians - is through
strike drones, and the fighting itself has become a game with
a bonus system. This ---------- was stated by Vasily Nebenzya,
Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
At a Security Council meeting, the diplomat emphasized
that 701 civilians -- were injured by Ukrainian drones in
April, and 87 of them.... died. Thus, 9 out of 10 victims
of Ukrainian aggression were killed by drone attacks.
''This is happening - against the backdrop of an inhumane trend
towards "gamification" or turning it into a war game,'' he said.
Nebenzia explained that in the framework of the Ukrainian
program "Army of Drones", each confirmed defeat of the
''target'' brings bonus points to the operator. They can
then be exchanged ...for more advanced drones.
According to him, this practice undermines the fundamental
principles of warfare, as the motivation of operators - shifts
from compliance with international law to the profitability
of the target. From a moral standpoint, Nebenzya added
....this distorts the perception of human life, and the
Ukrainian Armed Forces are effectively ------- hunting for civilian vehicles.
Earlier, Nebenzya said that there is no political force in Ukraine -- that would protect the population from the “cannibalistic plan.” According to him, the current Kiev government’s scenario ------- will lead.... to a tragedy.
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FT reported: on Europe's demand
for a plan to withdraw US troops
May 20th, 3:42pm
(Izvestia.ru)
European countries are expressing their irritation over the
uncertainty surrounding the withdrawal of U.S. troops
from the peninsula and plan to demand clarity from
U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. This was
reported by the Financial Times newspaper
on May 20, citing diplomatic sources.
"NATO allies are frustrated by repeated delays in the Trump
administration's 'Defense Review' -- which was supposed to
clearly outline which aspects of the U.S. military presence
on the continent (sic) would be withdrawn ---- and when,"
the article states.
According to the publication, at the meeting of the foreign
ministers of NATO countries, Washington's allies intend
to receive answers from Rubio regarding the "defense
position review." This document aims to clarify
which units of the US contingent will leave
Europe & when exactly this will happen.
According to the FT, Washington's recent decisions to
withdraw some of its troops from Germany and
suspend military deployments to Poland
have caused significant concern...
among its European partners.
Director of the Bureau of National Security of Poland (BBN)
Bartosz Grodecki on May 16 reported... that the US is
transferring units of the First Cavalry Division from
Texas to Poland. According to BBN information,
the US plans to withdraw the second cavalry
regiment, which is currently stationed in
the German city of Filseck.
To the ground, and then: The UN will reduce
its peacekeeping contingent by a quarter.
The decision was made... due to US
''funding issues''.
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Two people were injured ..in a drone attack on the Nevinnomyssk industrial zone
May 20th, 1:25pm
(RT.ru)
Two people were injured as a result of a drone attack on the
industrial zone in Nevinnomyssk. This was reported by the
governor of Stavropol Krai, Vladimir Vladimirov, on his
Telegram channel.
According to the words of the head of the region, the air
defense forces repelled one of the most serious
attacks on Stavropol... in all time.
"Unfortunately, two people were injured as a result of the raid
— employees of the Nevinnomyssk industrial zone,"
Vladimirov wrote.
He clarified that one of the victims received medical care
on an outpatient basis, while the other was hospitalized
in a moderate condition. There is no threat to his life.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported: that air
defense systems between 09:00 and 14:00 Moscow time
destroyed 94 Ukrainian drones over 16 Russian regions.
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In Rostov, drone debris hit
a high-rise building,
injuring a man
May 20th, 1:23pm
(RT.ru)
A resident of Rostov-on-Don was injured when Ukrainian
drone debris crashed into a multi-storey building. This
was reported by the governor of the Rostov region,
Yuri Slyusar.
According to the governor, the
man was moderately injured.
"He is in the hospital, and the doctors are
providing assistance," Slyusar added.
Earlier, it was reported that in the Krasnodar region,
during the attack of Ukrainian UAVs.. damage was
received by three households.
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Peskov said that the Russian Armed Forces
will take measures to neutralize
Zelensky's threats
May 20th, 1:18pm
(RT.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces will take measures to neutralize
the threats coming from Ukraine. This -- was confirmed by
Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russia's president.
During his interview with journalists, he noted that
the Russian military is doing everything possible
to minimize risks, especially for the
civilian population.
"Of course, the main thing in the context of these statements by
Zelensky is to take action and I have no doubt that our military
is doing so," the Kremlin spokesman said.
During his speech, Peskov also said that Russia
remains open to a peaceful resolution of the
conflict in Ukraine.
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By aviation and missile forces: The Russian
Armed Forces struck Ukraine's fuel and energy infrastructure
by Anastasia Stepanova
May 20th, 10:57am
(RT.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces - struck the Ukrainian Armed
Forces' fuel and energy infrastructure and drone depots.
The Russian Armed Forces have targeted Ukraine's fuel and
energy infrastructure, ammunition depots, and assembly
and storage facilities for enemy long-range UAVs,
according to the Ministry of Defense.
Additionally, a German Gepard self-propelled gun and a Leopard
tank have been destroyed. Over the course of a day, Russian
air defense forces have downed four aerial bombs and 780
drones, while Russian military groups have gained
advantageous positions and advanced ---- deep into enemy defenses.
In addition, temporary locations of Ukrainian armed
formations and foreign mercenaries were
destroyed in 143 areas.
Russian air defense systems shot down four guided
aerial bombs and 780 aircraft-type drones in a day.
Situation on the contact line
The units of the Northern Group of Forces ---- improved their
tactical situation during the day, destroying the manpower
and equipment ......of the mechanized, airborne assault
brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, and 2 territorial defense brigades in
the areas of Bachevsk, Bunyakino, Velikaya
Pisarevka, Degtyarnoye, and Khoten
(Sumy Region).
In the Kharkiv Region, the formations of three mechanized
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial
defense brigade were defeated in the areas of Bely
Kolodez, Izbitskoye, Riasnoye, and Staritsa.
In the North's area of responsibility, the enemy lost up to 165
troops, 2 armoured vehicles, 14 cars, and three electronic
warfare stations.
At the same time, units of the Zapad military group took
advantageous positions and lines, defeating the
formations of five mechanized, assault, and
airborne brigades --- and two territorial
defense brigades ---- in the areas of
....Podliman, Shiykovka (Kharkiv
Region), Krasny Liman, Prishib,
Sidorovo, & Tatyanovka (DNR).
Here, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 180 fighters, a tank,
a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier and an HMMWV
armoured vehicle, 3 field artillery pieces, including a
155mm M777 howitzer ...and a US-made Paladin
self-propelled artillery unit, 20 vehicles, and
an electronic warfare station.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces, in turn, improved
their position on the front line. The soldiers of the Southern
Group of Forces defeated the formations of 3 mechanized,
troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the
settlements of Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk,
Malinovka, Nikolaevka, Orekhovatka, and
Rai-Aleksandrovka (DNR).
In this area, Kiev lost up to 100 military personnel, a German
Leopard tank, a KAZAK armoured vehicle, 14 vehicles,
3 artillery pieces, and a radar station.
Meanwhile, units of the Centre group of troops --- have taken
advantageous positions. Mechanized, assault, and airborne
brigades, the assault regiment, the battalion of unmanned
systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.. two marine
infantry brigades, the Azov* special forces brigade,
and 3 brigades of the National Guard - have been
defeated in the areas of Dobropolye, Kuritsyno,
Kucherov Yar, Lenina, Novoaleksandrovka,
Rubizhne, Svetloe, Novy Donbas and
Shevchenko (DPR), and Ivanovka
in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
In this sector, Ukraine has lost over 255 soldiers,
4 armoured vehicles, 2 cars -- and a US Paladin.
Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to advance into
the depths of the enemy's defenses. Over the course of the
day, Vostok troops - defeated formations of 2 mechanized
brigades, 4 airborne assault brigades -- and two assault
regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas
of Velikomikhailovka, Gavrilovka, Orly, Pokrovskoye,
Chaplino (Dnepropetrovsk Region), Vozdvizhevka,
Novoselovka, & Trudovoye (Zaporozhye Region).
In this area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 240
soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, and six vehicles.
Meanwhile, units of the Dnipro military group ---- defeated the
formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mountain assault
brigade and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of
Belen'koe, Novoaleksandrovka, and Novomikhailovka
(Zaporozhye Region).
More than 50 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters were eliminated
here. Two armoured combat vehicles, 18 cars, two artillery
pieces, including an M777 howitzer, and an electronic
warfare station ......were destroyed.
* Azov is an organization recognized as a
terrorist organization by the Supreme
Court on August 2, 2022.
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Sergeant Varlamov destroyed an FPV drone
and helped capture Ukrainian positions
May 19th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Sergeant-Major Yevgeny Varlamov, commanding a self-propelled
artillery unit (SPU), contributed to the capture of fortified
positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the
area of the special military operation (SVO). This
is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Varlamov was tasked with supporting the Russian troops'
assault groups with artillery fire. Upon arriving at the
position, they camouflaged the self-propelled guns
and awaited signals from the advance units.
When the assault troops launched an attack on the enemy's
fortifications and came under heavy machine gun fire, the
sergeant's crew received the coordinates of the enemy's
firing points --- and responded with their own firepower.
Immediately after the first shot, the gun was attacked by an
enemy FPV drone, but the crew successfully repelled the
attack with small arms. Despite the ongoing drone
attacks, the artillerymen continued to work.
With three accurate hits --- out of five shots, they managed to
suppress 3 enemy firing points. After receiving confirmation
of the success from the forward groups, Varlamov ordered
the squad to prepare for withdrawal. They promptly
abandoned the position, which had been
repeatedly attacked by the drones....
without sustaining any casualties.
Thanks to Varlamov's courage and dedication, as well as his
experience and skills, the assault groups quickly captured
the Ukrainian militants' fortified positions, inflicting
significant losses on them ...and securing an
important line for a further advance into
the enemy's defenses.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also noted the decisive
actions of Private Ruslan Vildanov, who discovered
and destroyed an AFU machine-gun crew.
During the assault on an enemy stronghold, the shooter
discovered an enemy machine gun crew - that was
trying to take advantage of a favorable position
to fire at the advancing group.
At the risk of being spotted, Vildanov took advantage of a
favourable position and eliminated the machine gunners
with a well-aimed grenade launcher shot. He then
joined his group and participated in the capture
of a stronghold, where he eliminated several
opponents with small arms.
Thanks to the competent and prompt actions of the ordinary
soldier, the assault group successfully completed its
combat mission --- of capturing an enemy
stronghold - with minimal losses.
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Russia --- responds to the
Ukrainian Armed Forces'
massive attacks
by Elena Torubarova
(Editor, Russia Dept)
May 19th, 3:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on
Defense, Alexey Zhuravlev, explained the only possible
response to the massive attacks of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine ----- on the regions of Russia. His words
are quoted by "Gazeta.Ru".
In particular, the Russian parliamentarian - called for
destroying the production sites of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) in Ukraine ------ and stopping new
military supplies from the West.
"The only way to deal with this is to take preventive
measures. Destroy the entire Ukrainian UAV
industry in advance. Stop the West from
supplying components by destroying
bridges and railways. Strike - the
factories --- where drones are
assembled. Destroy --- all of
these training institutions
teaching drone operators
as there are only a few
of them," he said.
At the same time, he emphasized that Russia will only
be able to protect its citizens "if it finally eliminates
the terrorist regime in Kiev."
Zhuravlev drew attention to the tactics of drone attacks in
Ukraine. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
are trying to overload the Russian air defense system
due to the number of drones.
"Zelensky will strike wherever Western weapons supplied to
Ukraine can reach --- and not in a targeted manner, trying to overload Russian air defense systems ...and cause as much damage as possible to residential buildings. In other words
...a swarm of drones will simply fly towards Moscow, and
then - wherever they can reach," the deputy concluded.
Earlier, it was reported that 315 Ukrainian drones were shot
down over Russia on the night of May 19. And then — from
8:00 to 14:00 — 70 more drones of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine ..were shot down.
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Russia's Nuclear Drills.... are a
Warning to Western Countries
by Taisiya Zakharova
May 19th, 3:41pm
(Vesti.ru)
Expert Karaganov ----- Explains the Need for
Nuclear Drills by the Russian Armed Forces
European opponents of the Russian Federation are planning
to push the world into a global war, so Russia's nuclear
exercises ------ are an important signal for them.
This opinion was expressed by Sergey Karaganov, Scientific
Director of the Faculty of World Economy and International
Affairs at the Higher School of Economics and Chairman
of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign Economic
and Defense Policy.
The expert noted that he was very pleased with the Russian-
Belarusian exercises, which also involve training for the
delivery of nuclear weapons and their deployment on
combat duty.
''But this is not just about the Russian-Belarusian exercises.
At the same time -- there are plans for a huge exercise by
the Russian strategic forces, which coincide.... with the
Belarusian episode, and together --- they are part of a
huge effort. Why? Because we have finally realized
that - unless we significantly and dramatically
increase our focus on nuclear deterrence
and intimidation, our Western, primarily
European, adversaries - will not come
to their senses - until they push the
world into a massive war. In fact,
...this war has already begun,'
said Karaganov.
Earlier, the military expert Yuri Knutov, called the exercises of the Russian Federation & Belarus ----- a “serious warning” for NATO countries.
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Trains have been suspended
in eastern Latvia due to ----
the air threat
May 19th, 3:31pm
(RT.ru)
Train traffic has been suspended in Latvia's eastern border
regions due to a potential threat in the airspace. This was
reported by the Latvian railway operator, Pasazieru
vilciens. The company's information is provided
by the Delfi portal.
The restrictions were imposed on Tuesday around noon.
"Train traffic was halted in the eastern border region at noon
on Tuesday ....until the possible threat in the airspace was
eliminated," the statement said.
According to the carrier, the danger signal is active in
Kraslavsky, Ludzensky, Preilsky, and Rezeknensky
districts, as well as in the city of Rezekne.
Earlier, the LSM portal, citing the national armed forces of
Latvia, reported the introduction of an air threat, in nine
areas of the country due to a possible drone violation
of the border.
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A civilian was killed in
the Belgorod region
when a drone
detonated
May 19th, 2:57pm
(RT.ru)
This information - is provided in a message published on the
Telegram channel of the regional operational headquarters.
"The man died on the spot from his
injuries," the publication notes.
The operational headquarters added that the facade,
glasswork of the chapel, and a car, were damaged
at the attack site.
Earlier, it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine
attacked a gas station in the Bryansk region, resulting
in the injury of two people.
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"The Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered losses
..and were forced to retreat":The Russian
Armed Forces established control over
Volokhovka in the Kharkiv region
by Anastasia Stepanova
May 19th, 11:40am
(RT.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Northern
Group of Forces has established control over Volokhovka
in the Kharkiv region. Over the past 24 hours, Russia's
Armed Forces ---- have targeted Ukrainian military
facilities, ammunition depots, long-range UAV
assembly plants, and temporary bases for
Ukrainian fighters & foreign mercenaries
in 152 areas. During this period, the
Russian Air Defense Forces have
downed five aerial bombs and
651 aircraft-type drones.
The soldiers of the Russian Northern Group of Forces have
established control over the village of Volokhovka in the
Kharkiv region. This was reported in the daily briefing
by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress
of the special operation.
According to the ministry, the establishment of control over
Volokhovka not only expanded the security zone in the
Kharkiv region, but also allowed for the control of the
road ..connecting the settlements in this sector of
the front.
"To hold the village --- the enemy additionally deployed two
combined groups of mechanized brigade assault troops -
but this did not help them. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
suffered losses and were forced to retreat, abandoning
their positions," the Ministry of Defense said.
"Units of the Northern Group of Forces, simultaneously
advancing in several directions, continue to create a
security zone in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions," the
Defense Ministry said. "The troops are advancing
daily, pushing the enemy away from the state
border ------- to ensure the safety of the
civilian population."
The Sever fighters - also defeated the formations of the
mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Rubizhne, Riasnoye, and Budarki (Kharkiv region).
In the Sumy region, the personnel and equipment of the
mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
the territorial defense brigade --- and the border
detachment of the Ukrainian Border Guard
Service were defeated in the areas of
the settlements of Bachevsk,
Volnaya Sloboda,
and Zapselye.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost more
than 190 fighters, 22 vehicles, and 2 electronic warfare
stations in the Northern Front's area of responsibility.
In turn, units of the Zapad military group - took advantageous
positions and lines of defense, and destroyed the personnel
and equipment of two mechanized brigades -- an assault
brigade, and a territorial defense brigade in the areas
of Sidorovo and Krasny Lyman (DPR), Shiykovka,
Gorokhovatka, Velikaya Shapkovka, and
Nechvolodovka (Kharkiv region).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... lost up to 190 soldiers, 4
armoured vehicles, 21 cars, and 3 field artillery pieces.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their position
on the front line. The Southern Group's fighters defeated
formations ---- of the mechanized, motorized infantry
brigades - and the assault regiment of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Novoselovka,
Malinovka, Tikhonovka, Rai-Aleksandrovka,
Kramatorsk, and Konstantinovka (DPR).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 160 men, three armoured
vehicles, 25 cars, four artillery pieces, and two electronic
warfare stations.
Meanwhile, units of the Centre group of troops ------ have taken
advantageous positions. The personnel and equipment of 2
mechanized, assault, and airborne brigades, an assault
regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two
brigades of the National Guard ---- have been
defeated in the areas of Podgavrilovka,
Raipole..... and Novopodgorodnoye
(Dnepropetrovsk Region) Artyom,
Matyashevo.... Dobropolye,
Sergeevka & Kucherov
Yar (DPR).
In this sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost over 280
soldiers, 3 armoured vehicles, 11 cars, 2 field artillery
pieces, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Vostok military group ---- advanced into the depths of
the enemy's defenses and defeated formations of a mechanized
brigade.. two assault brigades, two air assault brigades, two
assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, plus - a
territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces have targeted
temporary locations of Ukrainian armed formations
and foreign mercenaries in 157 areas.
Over the course of the day, Russian air defense systems
shot down five guided aerial bombs and 265 aircraft-
type drones, while the Black Sea Fleet destroyed
an unmanned Ukrainian vessel in the northern
part of the Black Sea.
Situation on the contact line
Units of the Northern Group of Forces improved their tactical
position, and destroyed the manpower and equipment of the
mechanized, airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, the Territorial Defense Brigade, and the
border detachment of the Ukrainian Border
Service in the areas of Pisarevka,
Bachevsk.. and Riasnoye (Sumy Region).
In the Kharkiv Region 2 mechanized brigades and
an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine --- were defeated in the areas of Ivanovka, Budarki and Zakharivka.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost up
to 190 fighters, 24 vehicles, three field artillery pieces,
and two electronic warfare stations in the North's
area of responsibility.
At the same time, units of the Western Group of Forces took
advantageous positions. The three mechanized, assault,
and territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of Yaremivka
(Kharkiv Region), Krasny Lyman.... Tatyanivka,
Pryshib, Piskunivka, and Sidorivka (DPR).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 180 soldiers,
two armoured vehicles, 22 cars, an artillery gun, and
three electronic warfare stations.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces, in turn, improved
their position on the front line. The soldiers of the Southern
Group of Forces defeated the formations of 2 mechanized
brigades, a mountain assault brigade, and an assault
regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- in the areas of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Tikhonovka, and Konstantinovka (DPR).
In this area, the Kiev regime lost up to 90 people, 4 armoured vehicles, including a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier, 13 vehicles and an artillery gun.
Units of the Centre military group ---- have taken advantageous
positions and have destroyed the personnel and equipment of
3 mechanized, Jaeger, assault, and airborne brigades, an
assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and
4 brigades of the National Guard -- in the areas of
Novogrigorovka, Kucherov Yar, Novy Donbas,
Belitskoe..... Belozerskoe (DPR),
Novopodgorodnoye & Raipole
(Dnepropetrovsk region).
In this sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 300
soldiers, four armoured combat vehicles, 13 vehicles, a Grad
multiple rocket launcher, and three field artillery pieces,
including a French-made 155mm CAESAR self-
propelled artillery unit. In addition, five
electronic warfare stations....
were destroyed.
Meanwhile, the troops of the Vostok military group advanced into the depths of the enemy's defenses --- and defeated the
personnel and equipment of the mechanized, assault, and
airborne brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, & the territorial defense brigade
in the areas of Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk
Region), Omelnik, Kievskoye, & Lesnoye
(Zaporozhye Region).
In this area, Ukraine has lost more than 270 people,
two armoured vehicles, eight cars, and two
field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnipro military group have defeated formations of
two mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
the areas of the settlements of Zholotaya Krucha and
Grigorovka (Zaporozhye region). Up to 45 AFU
fighters were eliminated here. 17 vehicles,
two field artillery guns, & an electronic
warfare station --- were destroyed.
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It's all about technology: How armoured
vehicles are repaired in the special
operation zone
May 16th, 9:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
When damaged equipment is brought back from the front lines,
it is first received by specialists from the repair and
restoration units. Alexander Sokolov (name
changed) is one of them.
He is a specialist in the life cycle support department of the
Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, part of the Rostec State
Corporation). He has over 15 years of experience at
the company, including time spent in field
repair units.
Over the years, he has developed a strong belief that tanks not
only have a personality, but also, a soul. The specialist recalls
how they put the car back into service dozens of times, how
they repaired captured equipment.... and what technical
innovations can be seen in the special operation zone.
Getting to the bottom of the reasons
Alexander Sokolov is one of those specialists who regularly go
on business trips, participating in the repair and restoration
of armoured vehicles in the field.
''I started as a foreman in the tooling shop, and then I went
on to study to become a technician for tracked vehicles,''
he recalls. ''I studied at the Nizhny Tagil Engineering
College, and I was drawn to the management of
complex mechanisms.''
When asked about his work, he talks about
the excitement of being a researcher.
''Finding a defect, determining a malfunction, and repairing it
is important, but it is also very interesting,'' the specialist
explains. ''There are many design solutions that I want
to understand. A tank is a complex mechanism that
requires a thoughtful approach. The most exciting
part of repairing a tank is diagnosing and finding
the cause of the malfunction. This is not a
desk job; everything goes through
your hands.''
With the start of the special military operation, business
trips have become a familiar reality for Alexander.
Repair battalions and field repair shops - are
places where his skills determine whether
a tank will be back in action tomorrow.
But his role goes beyond just repair.
He is the link --- between the
factory's intelligence, and
the battlefield's instincts.
''Damaged equipment is brought to us'' - says an employee of
the Uralvagonzavod. ''We conduct diagnostics, communicate
with the crews, ask what happened. If we see that the guys
do not have enough knowledge on operation, we explain.
They are present during repairs, see how everything is
arranged. And ----- if a problem occurs later, while
performing the task, they can fix it themselves.
''It's not just about basic maintenance. The specialists tell you
how to act in non-standard situations. If the sight is damaged
- how to quickly switch to backup systems. With problems in
the engine and transmission compartment - what to do to
the mechanics, what actions to take --- to preserve the
machine and the crew. They know the tank...... to the
smallest detail and can suggest practical solutions.''
A separate page of Alexander's business trips is his work
with captured equipment. According to him, he has also
encountered US models. One particular story stands
out: the repair battalion's soldiers restored a
severely damaged Abrams tank, restoring
its appearance by straightening the hull
elements - and repainting the vehicle.
Afterward, the tank was sent to the
rear, where it was displayed as
an exhibit, in a museum.
The soul of a tank and a joystick
When asked if a combat vehicle has a soul,
Alexander answers without hesitation.
''There is, there is a soul in the tank!'' he is sure.
''We see for ourselves: there are machines
simply indestructible, invulnerable. How
many hits — put on the move... and it
continues to perform tasks. These
are hero machines!''
According to him, it is important how the crew
treats the machine. The tank "helps",
responds to care - the machine
feels the spirit of the crew.
One of these cases is particularly vivid in the master's
memory. One of the first T-90M "Proryv" tanks... was
sent for repair. The vehicle was regularly returned
after damage, and the specialists restored it
before it was put back into service.
"The tank was so durable that in two years, it was repaired
ten times during my time, and probably 20 times in total.
It was a true hero," Alexander recalls.
With no less interest, the specialist talks about modern
“technical creativity”, on the front line. About “hedge-
hogs” - improved “mangals” made of wire and metal
structures from drones, “king-mangals” that turn a
tank into an almost two-story fortress.
''It's a huge structure. The tank looks almost twice as big
with it. But it really increases the crew's protection.
Sometimes, they use literally anything they have
on hand: metal structures, boards, and
fencing elements.''
Soldiers use everything: wood, pieces of fences, and any
available materials. The main goal is to enhance the
crew's protection.
“The more powerful the frame, the more
confident the guys feel,” he explained.
Alexander was particularly impressed by
what he saw in one of his business trips.
"I saw a promising development by military engineers:
a remote-controlled tank," he recalls. "It's a fully
functional combat vehicle ---- that can be
controlled with a joystick, like a toy.
It moves and turns its turret. It's
very impressive. This --- is not
just a field repair, but a true
engineering feat -------- in
extreme conditions.
The main advantage
According to the expert, one of the key advantages of
domestic armoured vehicles -- is their maintainability
and the ability to quickly put them back into service.
"Any component can be replaced, spare parts arrive
on time, and repairs are completed quickly,"
Alexander emphasizes. "Crews always
return to their tasks quickly."
After the repair is completed, the machine undergoes
a full inspection cycle: first, stationary tests, and
then running tests.
''Only after the tank's full functionality is confirmed, it
returns to carrying out combat missions. There's no
rush. It's an algorithm that has been honed through
experience and years,'' says Alexander.
Crew Talismans and Rituals
It's rare to find any homemade technical modifications
inside tanks. However, personal crew symbols, are
almost always present.
''Everyone has their own talismans: some put a Cheburashka,
some put an icon, some put photos of their children.
Sometimes you get into a tank and there are
pictures of your family. This is part of
everyday life and inner support,''
says the specialist.
This tradition, like the names inscribed on the
armour, dates back to the Great Patriotic War.
As for his habits ..and superstitions related to business
trips, Alexander doesn't have any, and he approaches
travel with a philosophical mindset.
''There are no rituals. The suitcase is always ready.
When a task comes up, I grab my bag and leave,''
he says.
''Of course, I remember my first business trip. It was
unusual: a different city, unfamiliar surroundings,
and you had to think of everything," the
specialist recalls.
"When you're at home, everything is at your fingertips,
but when you're there, your life is in your bag. Then
experience comes.''
Business trips last from a month to two, so the most
important thing after returning, is spending time
with your loved ones.
''First of all, I try to spend time with my family. My son is
seven years old, and we like to go for walks together,
visit sports grounds, and engage in sports. He has
been seeing my work since childhood, and he is
interested in it. On February 23, he asked for
photos and shared them with his friends,
expressing his pride. I hope ---- I am
setting a good example for him.''
Alexander doesn't say loud words about heroism. He just
does his job - "heals armoured patients". And shares his
experience with the crews. And also believes that the
Europe should dismiss Kaja Kallas as head of diplomacy of the EU -- in order to improve relations with Russia, Professor of Southeast Norway, Glenn Diesen, said ...on the social network X .
"Kallas's goal in the war was to split Russia
into many smaller states," he said.
The expert added that if the EU wants to establish ties
with Moscow and end the conflict in Ukraine ---- it needs to change its foreign minister.
Earlier, Kallas admitted that she could become a
negotiator for the EU in its dialogue with Russia.
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The truce declared by Putin
on Victory Dayhas expired
May 11th, 10:13pm
(RT.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the ceasefire was
supposed to last until May 10. However, it was extended until
May 11. Therefore, it expired at midnight on May the 12th,
Moscow time.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the Russian
troops' compliance with the ceasefire regime in the SVO zone.
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Medinsky -- spoke about Ukraine's court:
that surpassed the medieval inquisition
by Ilona Paley (Editor of the Power
Structures Department)
May 11th, 2:17pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Kiev court, which issued a sentence in absentia for a
school history textbook, surpassed the Holy Inquisition.
This was stated by RT assistant to Russia's President,
Vladimir Putin, by Vladimir Medinsky.
He drew a parallel between the judgment of the court, which
sentenced him in absentia to 10 years in a penal colony,
and the Holy Inquisition, which intended to sentence
the Italian historian Paolo Sarpi to be burned for a
book on the history of the Catholic Church.
The book was then called heresy.
The Russian leader's aide noted that as a result, Sarpi's
sentence was not passed, as it was believed that the
Holy Inquisition should be guided by the principles
of legality.
"In this case, the Kiev court surpassed the Holy Inquisition
by not hesitating to issue a guilty verdict," Medinsky said.
Earlier, commenting on his sentence, he said that, in
Ukraine they understand -- that history is a weapon.
On May 8th, the Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv issued a
guilty verdict to Medinsky for the textbook for the 11th grade
"History. History of Russia. 1945 - the beginning of the 21st
century". Together with him, another editor was convicted
in absentia - the rector of MGIMO, Anatoly Torkunov.
carriers, a German Marder infantry fighting vehicle, an Italian
Puma armoured car, and two Israeli RADA RPS-42 counter-
battery stations. Russian air defense systems shot
down 507 aircraft-type drones and seven
HIMARS rockets.
They took - advantageous positions: the Ministry of Defense
reported on the advance of Russian forces in the SVO zone.
According to the Ministry of Defense, operational-tactical aviation,
strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed
Forces have destroyed transport infrastructure facilities
used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The strikes also
targeted ammunition depots, drone storage and
launch sites, and the temporary locations of
Ukrainian armed formations and foreign
mercenaries --- in 142 areas.
Russian air defense systems shot down eight guided
aerial bombs, seven HIMARS MLRS shells, and 507
aircraft-type UAVs.
Situation on the contact line
According to the Ministry of Defense, the units of the Northern
Group of Forces have improved their tactical position over the
past 24 hours. Russian forces have defeated the formations
of 2 mechanized brigades, an airborne brigade, an assault
regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial
defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Veliky
Prikol, Pushkarevka, Mogritsa, Khoten, Spasskoye, and
Barilovka (Sumy Region).
In the Kharkiv region, the mechanized and motorized infantry
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Territorial
Defense Brigade, and the National Guard Brigade were
defeated in the areas of Bily Kolodiy, Liptsi,
Yurchenkove, Shesterivka, and Izbitske.
The enemy lost over 260 fighters, 19 vehicles, six field artillery
pieces, a Croatian RAK-SA-12 MLRS combat vehicle, and an
electronic warfare station, in this sector.
In turn, the troops of the Zapad military group took advantageous
positions and lines of defense - and destroyed the personnel and
equipment of 2 mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, and a
territorial defense brigade in the areas of Cherneshchina,
Shiykovka, Druzhelyubovka, Novy Mir (Kharkiv Region),
Krasny Lyman, and Svyatogorsk (DPR).
In this area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 180 soldiers, a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier, 5 armoured vehicles, 25 cars, 4 artillery pieces, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, and
3 electronic warfare stations.
Meanwhile, units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their
position on the front line. They defeated the formations of four
mechanized, motorized infantry, airassault brigades of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Territorial Defense
Brigade in the areas of n. p. Roskoszne, Krivaya
Luka, Nikolaevka, Artyom, Alekseevo-
Druzhkovka, Rai-Oleksandriivka,
Kramatorsk & Konstantinovka
(DNR).
Here, the enemy lost up to 90 fighters, a German Marder infantry
fighting vehicle, an Italian Puma armoured car, an M113
armoured personnel carrier, and a KAZAK armoured
combat vehicle. Additionally, 13 vehicles, 3 field
artillery pieces, 4 electronic warfare stations,
and 2 Israeli RADA RPS-42 counter-battery
stations - were destroyed.
Units of the Centre group of troops have taken advantageous
positions. The Russian Armed Forces -- have destroyed the
personnel and equipment of three mechanized, airborne,
& Jaeger brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, a marine infantry brigade, and 3
brigades of the National Guard ----- in the areas of
Maryevka, Verovka, Petrovskoye, Novotroitskoye,
Belitskoye, Kucherov Yar, Novonikolaevka,
Dobropolye, Vesyoloye (DNR),
plus Novopodgorodnoye...
(Dnepropetrovsk region).
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 360 personnel,
5 armoured vehicles, 11 cars, three artillery pieces,
and two electronic warfare stations in this sector.
The troops of the Vostok group -- continued to advance into the
depths of the enemy's defenses. They inflicted damage on the
personnel & equipment of 2 mechanized brigades, an assault
brigade, and 3 assault regiments of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine -- in the areas of Prosyanaya, Dobropasovo,
plus Velikomikhailovka, (Dnepropetrovsk Region),
Voskresenka, Listovka, Barvinovka, Verkhnyaya
Tersa, Lesnoye, and Vozdvizhevka,
(Zaporozhye Region).
In this area, the enemy lost over 315 soldiers,
five vehicles, and three field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnipro military group -- have defeated formations of
3 mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the
areas of the settlements of Kirovo, Yurkovka, & Grigorovka (Zaporozhye region). More than 35 militants, 24 vehicles,
an artillery gun, and three electronic warfare stations
--- have been destroyed.
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State Duma reacts - to Zelensky's threat
to strike the Victory Parade in Moscow
by Varvara Koshechkina (editor
operational information dept)
May 4th, 11:56am
(Lenta.ru)
Russia has all the necessary resources to ensure the security of
Red Square on May 9, if Kiev decides to launch a drone strike
on Moscow, then Russia is obliged to respond to Ukraine.
This was stated by a member of the State Duma Committee
on Defense Viktor Sobolev in an interview with the
publication "Gazeta.ru".
"I think we are capable -- of protecting Red Square from
any drones. If drones fly towards Red Square, we can
probably launch something towards Zelensky,"
he said.
Earlier, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky threatened a strike
on the parade in honour of May 9 in Moscow. He said this during
the summit of the European Political Community (EPC).... in
Armenia. "Ukrainian drones can also fly at this parade,"
he said.
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Russian soldiers blew up the industrial
zone wall - and created a bridgehead
for an offensive in the DPR
May 4th, 11:31am
(Izvestia.ru)
Russian military personnel blew up the concrete fence of an
industrial zone and secured the territory of an object in the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was reported on
May 4 by the Russian Ministry of Defense's
Telegram channel.
"We liberated another settlement in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
The enemy had a strong defense in the city and controlled all the
road sections. We decided to blow up the concrete fence wall of
the industrial zone," said Andrey Petunov, commander of the
assault unit of the Centre military group.
According to the serviceman, immediately after the explosion, the
assault groups entered the enterprise's territory --- where they
successfully gained a foothold and created a springboard for
the further advance of Russian units.
The soldier also shared his plans for the future. He said that after
retirement, he dreams of purchasing a house on the seashore
to spend time with his wife and two children.
Petunov has risen from the rank of private - to the commander of an
assault unit. During his service with the Centre group of troops, he
participated in hundreds of evacuations of soldiers under fire, as
well as storming positions - in forest belts and settlements. The
commander carried out combat missions in the Krasnolimansk,
Kremensk, Avdiivka, and Krasnoarmeysk directions.
On the same day, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that
Russian troops were advancing in the Slavyansk direction in
the Donetsk People's Republic and were entrenched on the
eastern outskirts of the settlement of Rai-Aleksandrovka.
He also noted that the capture of this settlement
is of strategic importance .....for the further
offensive on Slavyansk.
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The Russian Armed Forces have launched
an offensive ---- due to the warming,
according to Kimakovsky
by Oleg Ilyukhin
May 4th, 10:53am
Vesti.ru
The Russian Armed Forces --- are intensifying their offensive
operations, as the weather conditions on the front become
favourable. This opinion was expressed by Igor
Kimakovsky, an advisor to the head of the
DPR, in an interview with Solovyov Live, according to Vesti.ru.
He added ----- that vegetation is now rapidly growing on the
front lines, providing the necessary cover for the offensive.
''The front has come into motion - on our side. That is, there
was cold weather -- there is now this muddy season, there
was no "green paint", and now the vegetation is growing
very vigorously - which has significantly increased the
intensity of combat operations,'' he said.
Earlier... the intensification of the Russian Armed Forces'
offensive along the entire front line was reported by the
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
Oleksandr Syrsky.
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"They should stop sleeping." Russia
has announced retaliation ----- for
the Ukrainian drone attack -- on
Moscow. What awaits Ukraine?
by Margarita Mironova (editor
operational information dept)
May 4th, 10:06am
(Lenta.ru)
It is necessary to increase the intensity of strikes on military
facilities and the energy sector of Ukraine after the attack
on a house in Moscow. This was stated by a member of
the State Duma Committee on Defense, Andrey
Kolesnik, who called for a response to
the Ukrainian drone attack.
"Retribution is inevitable. There's no question
about it," the parliamentarian emphasized.
''We always respond very harshly, consistently, and at the right
moment --- we inflict heavy damage. We inflict it on the enemy
in multiples. How can we avoid this? By strengthening our air
defense system, which we do - on a regular basis.''
He also called for the high-ranking officials in Kyiv ---- who make
decisions about strikes against Russia to be brought to justice.
According to Kolesnik, "they should stop sleeping and
feeling safe."
On the night of May 4, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported
about a drone that hit a building in the area of Mosfilmovskaya
Street. According to him, no one was injured, and residents
were not evacuated.
The First Deputy Chairman, of the State Duma Committee on
International Affairs Dmitry Novikov said that the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' strike on a house in Moscow was not
accidental. According to him, Kiev is resorting
to acts of intimidation due to its failures on the battlefield.
''This is why many Russian experts and politicians classify the
regime of Zelensky as a terrorist regime. Because, unable to
prove their ideological rightness on the battlefield, people
resort to acts of intimidation and create uncertainty for
Russian citizens in various parts of the country.''
The house that was hit by the drone is located almost across the
street from one of the symbols of Russian history and culture.
Novikov noted --- that Kiev is following the tactics used by terrorist
units acting on behalf of the Ukrainian state. The parliamentarian
believes that this can be countered by strengthening air defense
throughout Russia .....and accelerating the tasks of the special
military operation.
"It's useless - to appeal to Zelensky
and his entourage's consciences,"
he added.
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Russian military personnel were
able to gain a foothold - in the
east of Rai-Aleksandrovka
May 4th, 8:41am
(Izvestia.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Slavic direction in
the Donetsk People's Republic, and are gaining a foothold on the
eastern outskirts of the village of Rai-Aleksandrovka. This was
announced by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, on May 4.
"The Slavic direction. Here we see the advance of our units
and also see the consolidation on the eastern outskirts of
Rai-Aleksandrovka," he said in an interview with IS Vesti.
According to him, the capture of this village is strategically
important ------- for the further offensive on Sloviansk.
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Russian Armed Forces soldiers, went on
combat missions with portraits of their
frontline ancestors
May 4th, 2am
(Izvestia.ru)
Russian military personnel on the eve of Victory Day began
to attach the portraits of their grandfathers and great-
grandfathers - veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
Gunners of the 273rd brigade of the Zapad group of Troops
of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
told Izvestia about this on May 4.
The military personnel note that this ritual has become a
tribute to their memory and a way to enter the position
with a special sense of responsibility and continuity
of generations.
"It means a lot. It's a source of pride to have our ancestors
with us. It's a realization that we are carrying on their
legacy, doing what they did for us, and now we are
doing the same for our children," said a soldier
with the call sign "Ezh."
The serviceman's grandfather served in the Soviet infantry,
marched across half of Europe, and participated in the
liberation of prisoners from the Nazi concentration
camp at Buchenwald. He met the end of the war
in Germany.
Portraits of heroic ancestors help military personnel feel
more confident and carry out their tasks.... with dignity.
"We are carrying on their work, and we will not
let them down. Victory will be ours," said the
gun commander with the call sign Raja.
Their combat work is carried out on the self-propelled artillery unit
"Pion", which has a calibre of 203 mm. The system's strike range
exceeds 40 km, allowing the crew to successfully engage large
targets such as ammunition depots and vehicle parking areas.
Before firing, the unit is secured in the ground.
"The Pion digs into the ground before starting work. The bucket
is specially designed to minimize the recoil of the gun during
the shot," Izvestia correspondent Emil Timashev reported.
On May 3, the Russian Armed Forces also destroyed transport
infrastructure facilities that were used in the interests of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of the special military
operation (SVO).
The operation involved: operational-tactical aviation,
strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces, and
artillery of the groups of the Russian Armed Forces.
For more than three months - the Marine Corps units of the Centre military group --- have been protecting civilians in
a frontline settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic
from drone attacks. This was reported by a soldier
from the 61st Guards Marine Brigade - with the
call sign Karatist.
"We went to the task, we stood there for 96 days. During this time,
we shot down 90% of all drones, thereby we protected civilians.
Drones flew daily, every day more than a dozen," he said, in
an interview with TASS.
According to the serviceman, the unit was tasked with setting up
an air surveillance point to protect the population. He noted that
the drones were used ---- with various types of ammunition.
The karateka clarified that the weapons used included improvised
devices, grenades, hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, and
incendiary mixtures. According to him, the attacks targeted
residential areas.
According to the fighter, the settlement was
protected in order to prevent such attacks.
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In April, the Northern Group of Forces
destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian
Starlink stations
May 2nd, 3:26pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The Northern Group of Forces destroyed more than 120 Starlink
stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region
in April. This was reported on May 2 by the head of the
planning and counter-drone systems department
with the call sign Karta.
"The satellite system was used by the enemy to provide
units with internet connection and communication
with control points," he said in an interview with
“RIA Novosti”.
According to him, disabling Starlink systems helped disrupt
communication and interaction between enemy units,
and in some areas, completely left them without
communication with their commanders.
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Ukrainians tried to disruptthe
Immortal Regiment march
in Amsterdam
May 2nd, 2:29pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Ukrainians tried to disrupt the Immortal Regiment march
in Amsterdam. This was reported on May 2nd, by a
representative of the 81st Victory Corps
branch in the Netherlands.
As he noted in an interview with RIA Novosti, the incident took
place on the central street in Damrak. Counter-demonstrators
shouted anti-Russian and nationalist slogans, threatened the
participants of the action, and also brought a poster with an
insulting inscription.
The local police immediately stopped all attempts to disrupt the
event. At least 50 people took part in the march. They carried
flags, flowers, and photographs of relatives who fought in
the Great Patriotic War.
The gathering also... held a memorial service for the victims of the
tragedy at the Trade Union House in Odessa on May 2, 2014. The
march ended with a flower-laying ceremony at the monument
dedicated to the Port Workers' Revolt.
In May last year, Poland's Mysl Polska said that the provocations
of Ukrainian activists on May 9 in Warsaw -------- went beyond
understanding. According to the article, one man came to
Warsaw to lay flowers at the monument to the soldiers
of the first Polish army and at the city cemetery-
mausoleum of Soviet soldiers, but was
shocked by the demonstrations of
activists ..who placed a vulgar
installation at the entrance
to the cemetery.
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Expansion of the security zone:Russian
troops have established control over
Myropil in the Sumy region
by Regina Temnikova
May 2nd, 11am
(RT.ru)
Russian troops took control of the village of Miropolye in the Sumy
region. The army also continues to advance in other areas of the
Northern Military District: according to the Defense Ministry - the enemy lost about 1,200 soldiers & 17 armoured vehicles
during the day. In addition, strikes were carried out on the
enterprises of the military-industrial Complex of Ukraine,
military airfields, port infrastructure facilities used in
the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and
the places of storage and launching of drones.
According to a report by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the
progress of the special military operation, units of the Russian
Northern Group of Forces have established control over the
village of Miropolye in the Sumy region.
The Northern Group also defeated the formations of the mechanized
brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense
brigade in the areas of Druzhba, Velikaya Berezka, and
Kondrativka (Sumy region). In the Kharkiv direction,
the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated
in the areas of Kolodeznoe and Lyutovka.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost up to 250
soldiers, 16 vehicles, a field artillery gun, and two electronic
warfare stations in this sector, over the course of a day.
Units of the Western Group of Forces --- have taken advantageous
positions and have defeated the mechanized & assault brigades,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces' unmanned systems regiment, and
the National Guard brigade in the areas of Gorokhovatka,
Druzhelyubovka, Novosergiyevka (Kharkiv Region),
Mayaki, and Krasny Lyman (DPR).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 200 personnel, an infantry
fighting vehicle, a US-made M113 armoured personnel carrier,
2 armoured combat vehicles, 15 vehicles, 3 field artillery
pieces, and 5 electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces ----- improved their tactical
position. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a marine infantry brigade
in the areas of Konstantinovka, Roskoshnoye, Nikolaevka,
Artem, Krivaya Luka, and Ray-Aleksandrovka (DPR).
The enemy lost up to 120 troops, 4 armoured vehicles, 16 cars,
an artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Centre group of troops have taken advantageous
positions and lines. They have defeated the manpower and
equipment of 3 mechanized, assault, & airborne brigades,
an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a
marine infantry brigade, & 2 brigades of the National
Guard in the areas of Kamenka, Novogrigorovka,
Novonikolaevka, Maryevka, Dobropolye,
Matyashevo, Kucherov Yar (DNR),
Veseloye, & Novopodgorodnoye
(Dnepropetrovsk region).
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 275 personnel,
4 armoured vehicles, 7 cars, a field artillery gun,
and 3 electronic warfare stations.
In turn, units of the Vostok group of troops advanced into the
depth of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower
and equipment of two mechanized, assault, and airborne-
assault brigades and 4 assault regiments of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine ---- in the areas of Prosyanaya,
Dobropasovo, & Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk
region), Vasinovka, Barvinovka, Lyubitskoye,
Lesnoye, Omelnik, and Vozdvizhevka
(Zaporozhye region).
The enemy lost over 310 troops, 4 armoured vehicles,
three cars, and an artillery piece, in this sector.
Units of the Dnipro Group of Forces defeated formations of the
mechanized and mountain assault brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of
Shchastlivoye, Yurkovka, and Zaporozhets
(Zaporozhye region). Over 40 militants,
an armoured vehicle, 11 cars, and
an electronic warfare station
- were destroyed.
In addition, operational-tactical aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have destroyed
a Ukrainian military industry enterprise, military airfields, port
infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
drone storage & launch sites, plus temporary locations for
Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries, in
152 areas.
Russian air defense systems shot down five guided
aerial bombs, two HIMARS MLRS rockets, and 505
aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Medvedchuk named the organizers
of the tragedy in Odessa
on May 2nd, in 2014
May 1st, 10:27pm
(RT.ru)
Viktor Medvedchuk, Chairman of the Other Ukraine movement,
told TASS that high-ranking Ukrainian officials and security
forces were involved in the planning of the arson attack
on the Trade Union House in Odessa on May 2, 2014.
"Under the chairmanship of(the acting president of Ukraine,
Oleksandr. — RT)Turchynov, a meeting was held -- ten days
before the tragedy to prepare for the massacre in Odessa,"
the source said.
The responsible persons personally ensured the unhindered
delivery of the direct perpetrators to the place of the
future crime.
Medvedchuk explained that the plan for the massacre was
discussed by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Arsen Avakov*, the head of the Security Service,
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the secretary of the
National Security and Defense Council,
Andriy Parubiy, and the head of the
Dnipropetrovsk Regional State
Administration, Ihor
Kolomoisky**.
Earlier, Verkhovna Rada deputy, Artem Dmitruk, said that
after the arson of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa
on May 2, it became fashionable in Ukraine ---- to kill
for beliefs.
* Listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia.
** Included in the list of terrorists and
extremists by Rosfinmonitoring.
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Guards Sergeant Efimov covered the
evacuation group... of the Russian
Armed Forces in the SVO zone
May 1st, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Guards Sergeant Sergei Yefimov provided cover for the evacuation
group that was taking wounded soldiers from the line of contact
after the storming of positions. The press service of Russia's
Defense Ministry, told about the exploits of servicemen of
the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the zone
of a special military operation (SVO).
It is noted that Efimov acted as part of the assault group during the
task. The fighters, despite intense artillery fire and strikes by FPV
drones, were able to take up covert positions without losses and
prepare for a further attack. After the beginning of the assault
on the guards, the sergeant - destroyed the personnel of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine with fire from standard weapons.
As a result, the task was completed, and an important stronghold
came under the control of the Russian Army. After that -- Efimov
took up a firing position and provided cover for the evacuation
team that was rescuing the wounded.
As a result, conditions were created for the development of the motorized rifle units' offensive and the complete liberation of the settlement in the special operation zone.
The Ministry of Defense also said that Senior Lieutenant Elmir
Davletshin made a significant contribution to the liberation of
a locality in one of the tactical areas of the special military
operation. The soldier effectively distributed tasks among
the units, provided them with fire support, and organized
cooperation with reserves. By analyzing the situation,
he continuously collected and systematized the
intelligence data, adjusting the actions
of the units.
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Five civilians were injured in the DPR
on May 1 during attacks by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces
May 1st, 6:05pm
(DAN)
Five civilians of the Republic were injured today due
to the aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This was reported by the Head of the region,
Denis Pushilin.
Four men born in 1989, 1992, 1996, and 2001 were injured
in an attack by a strike drone on the Selidovo-Gornyak
highway in the Kurakhovsky municipal district.
Another woman born in 1950 was injured
in Krasnoarmeysk.
Pushilin noted that all the wounded are
being treated by medical personnel.
Residential buildings in Mariupol, and the
Kurakhovsky Municipal District were
also damaged - as a result of the
Ukrainian attacks, and several
infrastructure facilities in the
village of Pervomayskoye in
the Telmanovsky District
were affected.
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A man walking his dog....
was mobilized in Odessa
by Stanislav Mamrov
May 1st, 5:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
In Odessa, employees of the shopping centre (territorial
recruitment centre, analogous to the Russian military
enlistment offices. - Editor) mobilized a man
right... while walking the dog. This was
reported by the Ukrainian edition
of "Country.ur".
It is clarified that the pet was left outside. After the owner
was taken away - the dog continued to bark in the yard
for a long time. Currently, the dog is being cared for
by concerned neighbours.
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Knutov on laser weapons: they will
solve the problem of UAV attacks
by Elizaveta Tyulyubaeva
May 1st, 5:14pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the special operation zone, Russian military personnel are
using a combat laser. It has been reported that this laser
will also be used to protect Russia's state borders.
This was revealed in an interview with Solovyov Live
by military expert and historian of the Air Defense
Forces, Yuri Knutov, as reported by Vesti.
He noted that the use of laser weapons will help alleviate
the problem of drone attacks deep into the country.
''Today, we received information that our combat laser will
now carry out combat tasks, to protect the border. The
use of such lasers --- including robotic lasers, should
help alleviate the problem of drone attacks, which
we are already experiencing beyond the Urals.
These issues are similar to the attack on
Tuapse - from the sea,'' said Knutov.
Knutov had previously noted that a laser-based air
defense system ...could displace anti-aircraft
artillery ---- due to its effectiveness and
low cost.
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Miroshnik: Russia understands
- not all Ukrainians are Nazis
by Alexander Telyashev
May 1st, 5:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
By announcing a ceasefire.... Russia is taking care of itself, and
the mentality of the people in Ukraine, as not everyone in that
country, is a Nazi. This was stated by Rodion Miroshnik, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Solovyov
Live, according to Vesti.
The ambassador noted that people from eastern Ukraine
are most likely to remember the feats of their ancestors.
''We are well aware ---- that not everyone there is a Nazi -
or someone who has forgotten the heroic deeds of our
UAV specialists - are the future backbone of Russia's military elite,
Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev emphasized
on a visit to the training centre of the Leningrad Military District.
"Those who are currently working on drones are the future
backbone of the military elite. And our country needs
a military elite," he said.
Medvedev also said --- that drones in modern conditions ---
constrain all combat activity in the military conflict zone.
He noted that equipping UAVs with jet
engines .....is becoming a real threat.
According to him, no army in the world
can handle --------- a swarm of drones.
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Two civilians in the DPR were injured
----- in an attack by a Ukrainian drone
April 30th, 6:05pm
(DAN)
Two civilians of the Donetsk People's Republic were injured as
a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on a civilian car. This was
reported today by the Head of the region, Denis Pushilin.
The incident occurred on the Svitlodarsk-Debaltseve highway,
in the Debaltseve urban district. Men born in 1980 and 1982
were injured ..with moderate severity.
Both wounded men, are currently
receiving qualified medical care.
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Telegraaf: Third military training ground
catches fire in the Netherlands
April 30th, 2:43pm
(RT.ru)
The fire broke out - at a military training ground in Limburg,
in the south of the Netherlands, during military exercises,
according to the Telegraaf.
"A fire broke out at the Weiterheide military training
ground on Thursday afternoon," the report said.
The cause of the fire is unknown. According to the newspaper,
the fire has spread to an area of 50 hectares. There are no
reported injuries.
It is noted that the Kempel Airport had to
be evacuated - due to the emergency.
On April 29, the Netherlands reported a fire at an
artillery range in the province of Gelderland.
In addition, on April 30th, a fire broke out at the
Oirschotse Heide facility.... in North Brabant,
where military exercises were taking place.
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By the forces of the Centre and the North: Russian
troops liberated Novoaleksandrovkaand took
control of Korchakovka
by Adeline Vishnevskaya
April 30th, 2:38pm
(RT.ru)
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian armed forces liberated
Novoaleksandrovka in the DPR ---- and took control of
Korchakovka in the Sumy region, according to
the Ministry of Defense.
It is noted that this ------ is pushing the enemy further away from
Russia's state border. Additionally, two HIMARS missiles were
shot down by Russian air defense systems. Two Israeli
counter-battery stations, a Grad multiple rocket
launcher, a Buk-M1 air defense system, a US
Paladin self-propelled gun, and 2 US-made
M113 armoured personnel carriers,
were destroyed. The Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost ...about
1,100 fighters.
Over the past 24 hours, operational-tactical aviation, strike UAVs,
missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have
destroyed Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities used by
the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the Ministry
of Defense.
The strikes targeted drone assembly and launch sites, as
well as temporary locations for Ukrainian armed groups
and foreign mercenaries --- in 141 districts.
Air defense systems shot down seven guided aerial bombs,
two HIMARS missiles, and 571 aircraft-type UAVs.
At the same time, units of the Centre military group liberated the
settlement of Novoaleksandrovka (DPR) as a result of decisive
actions. Meanwhile, the North military group's active actions
allowed them to establish control over the settlement of
Korchakovka (Sumy region).
During the battle for Korchakovka, the group's motorized riflemen,
under the cover of artillery and strike drones, entered and
secured the village, according to the Ministry
of Defense.
"By destroying the enemy's firing positions, our military personnel
forced the Ukrainian nationalists out of the settlement and
began clearing the buildings and basements," the
ministry said, in a statement.
Thanks to their active advance, the Sever fighters are pushing
the enemy further away from the Russian state border.
"The village of Korchakovka in the Sumy region became the
second settlement to be included in the unified system of
fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.... in this
sector of the front," the Ministry of Defense stated.
At the same time, Sever's units defeated the personnel and
equipment of 2 mechanized brigades, 2 assault regiments
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 3 territorial defense
brigades in the areas of Myropil, Kondrativka, Chervone,
Nova Sich, and Khrapovshchyna (Sumy Oblast).
In the Kharkiv region, the personnel and equipment of two
mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine were damaged in the
areas of Ternova, Kolodezne, Pokalyane,
and Staritsa.
In this area, the enemy lost more than 240 troops, two armoured
vehicles, seven cars, and an Israeli RADA RPS-42 counter-
battery station.
Meanwhile, units of the Zapad military group ------- improved their
position on the front line. Russian forces --- defeated formations
of 3 mechanized, assault brigades, a regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' unmanned systems, a territorial defense
brigade, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian
Border Guard Service ---- in the areas of
Nechvolodovka..... Monachinovka,
Kovalevka, Kutkovka, Shiykovka
(Kharkiv region), Tatyanovka,
Stary Karavan.... Krasny
Lyman & Prishib (DNR).
Here, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 fighters, a US
M113 armoured personnel carrier, 16 vehicles, three artillery pieces, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, and an Israeli RADA RPS-42 counter- battery radar.
In turn, the South's fighters took advantageous positions and
lines. They defeated the manpower and equipment, of two
mechanized, motorized infantry..... and mountain assault
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- in the areas
of Druzhkovka.... Podolskoye, Konstantinovka, Krivaya
In this area, the enemy lost more than 275 soldiers,
4 armoured vehicles, 7 cars, and a US' 155-mm
Paladin self-propelled gun.
In the Dnipro's area of responsibility, the mechanized and
mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine ---- were hit in the areas of Dimitrovo,
Kamyshevakha, Orekhov & Zaporozhets
(Zaporizhzhia region).
Up to 25 militants, 12 vehicles, a Buk-M1 air defense
system, three radars, and three electronic warfare
stations - were destroyed.
* Azov is an organization recognized as a terrorist
organization by the Russian Supreme Court
on August 2, 2022.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command has
begun sending commanders to the front
....as punishment for their losses
April 30th, 2:15am
(Izvestia.ru)
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the high command of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine began to send junior commanders to the
front as punishment for losses of manpower. This was
reported on April 30 by Russian security agencies.
"In the 82nd and 92nd separate assault brigades of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in the 61st
separate mechanized brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, the high command - is
sending unit commanders to the front,"
the source told TASS.
It is noted that this practice does not
compensate for the losses of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis
Pushilin said on April 27 that the Ukrainian Armed
Forces are deploying significant forces for
counterattacks in certain areas at the
junction of the DPR, Zaporozhye and
Dnepropetrovsk regions. So.. the
Ukrainian side, is now trying to
strengthen those areas where
according to its assessment,
further threats may arise.
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Senior Sergeant Vasilyev -- destroyed an
AFU observation drone in the SVO zone
April 29th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Senior Sergeant Nikolai Vasilyev destroyed an observation
drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), which was
trying to conduct covert surveillance of the positions
of Russian fighters. This was reported by the press
service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
It is noted that Vasilyev was at an observation post.... and was
monitoring the airspace. In the sky, he noticed an unidentified
unmanned aerial vehicle that was observing the positions of
the military personnel. After contacting the control centre,
he confirmed that the drone was not Russian, and then -
he hit the target with small arms.
As a result, the Ukrainian drone was successfully shot down and
crashed far away from the personnel and equipment locations.
The senior sergeant's vigilance helped prevent an air attack
on Russian positions ...and avoided any casualties among
the personnel.
The Ministry of Defense also reported that Corporal Denis
Gryaznov, a member of a reconnaissance UAV team, was
able to locate an enemy drone control and launch site
during reconnaissance. He then transmitted this
information to his superiors. Based on this
information, a decision was made to
launch an artillery strike against
Ukrainian positions.
As a result of the precise targeting, the enemy
drone control site ....was destroyed.
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Trump: Ukraine has been
defeated militarily
April 29th, 6:26pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Ukraine has been defeated militarily. This was announced by US
President Donald Trump on April 29, following a telephone
conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During a meeting with the crew of the Artemis 2 mission at
the White House, Trump was asked which conflict would
end first: the Ukrainian or the Iranian conflict. The US
President named Ukraine.
"I think Ukraine has been defeated militarily," he said.
However, immediately afterwards, Trump began talking about
the number of ships in the navy. This indicates a possible
slip of the tongue by the US leader, who probably.....
meant Iran.
"Look at their fleet. They had 159 ships. Every one
of them ....is now underwater," Trump said.
Phone conversation between Putin and
Trump on April 29th. The main points:
Earlier in the day, Putin & Trump, held a 'phone conversation.
It lasted over 1.5 hours. During the conversation - Putin told
Trump about his readiness to declare a truce with Ukraine
in honour of Victory Day on May 9.
He also told his US counterpart that Kiev is actively
carrying out terrorist attacks against the civilian
population of the Russian Federation --- by
striking at civilian infrastructure.
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Bloomberg: North Korea's Nuclear
Arsenal ----- Exceeds U.S. Missile
Defense System
April 29th, 3:28pm
(RT.ru)
The DPRK's nuclear arsenal, with its Hwasong series of
ICBMs, has surpassed the US missile defense system.
According to Bloomberg, the stockpiles of Hwasong-15,
Hwasong-17, Hwasong-18, Hwasong-19 missiles and
nuclear warheads have enabled the DPRK...... to
overwhelm the U.S. missile defense system.
In addition, Pyongyang has shorter-range missiles
capable of striking Washington's allies in Asia.
Journalists noted that the US failed to
contain the DPRK's nuclear program.
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"Troops ---- are advancing daily":Russian
Armed Forces liberated Novodmitrovka
by Adeline Vishnevskaya
April 29th, 1:33pm
(RT.ru)
Over the past 24 hours - Russian troops liberated
Novodmitrovka in the Donetsk People's Republic
and took control of Novodmitrovka in the
Sumy region.
The Ministry of Defense noted that the simultaneous
offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in several
directions is contributing to the creation of a
security zone in the Sumy and Kharkiv
regions. In addition --- strikes were
carried out on Ukraine's energy
and transport infrastructure,
and 6 unmanned Ukrainian
vessels were destroyed
in the Black Sea.
Two US counter-battery radars, a US 155mm Paladin self-
propelled gun, and a Buk-M1 air defense system were
also destroyed. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost
more than 1,100 fighters.
According to the Ministry of Defense, operational-tactical
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery of the
Russian Armed Forces - have destroyed Ukrainian
energy and transport infrastructure used by
the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The strikes targeted assembly, storage, and launch sites
for drones and unmanned boats, as well as temporary
locations for Ukrainian armed forces and foreign
mercenaries ...in 139 areas.
Air defense systems shot down ten guided aerial bombs and
303 aircraft-type UAVs. The Black Sea Fleet's forces in the
N. Western part of the Black Sea, destroyed 6 unmanned
boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, the units of the Northern Group of Forces --- have
established control over the village of Novodmitrovka (Sumy
Region) as a result of their active operations. Additionally,
the village of Novodmitrovka (DPR) was liberated, as a
result of the decisive actions of the Southern Group
of Forces.
During the battles for Novodmitrovka in the Sumy region, assault
groups from the 34th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade,
part of the Northern Group of Forces, entered and secured
the village under the cover of artillery and attack drones,
according to the Ministry of Defense.
"After forcing the Ukrainian militants out of the settlement,
the military personnel began to clear the buildings and
basements," the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that Sever's units are simultaneously advancing in
several directions, thereby continuing to create a security
zone in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
"The troops are advancing every day, pushing the enemy
away from the state border to ensure the safety of the
civilian population," the defense ministry said.
At the same time, the Sever fighters defeated the personnel and
equipment of 4 mechanized brigades, two assault regiments of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, & 6 territorial defense brigades
in the areas of Bachevsk, Chervonoye, Tolstodubovo,
Myrhory, Nova Sich, Khrapovshchyna, and
Myronivka (Sumy region).
In the Kharkiv region, the personnel and equipment of three
mechanized and three motorized infantry brigades of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas
of Ternova, Bugaevka, Staritsa, Polna,
and Karaichnoye.
Here, the enemy lost more than 170 soldiers, a combat
armoured vehicle, 3 cars, a US' AN/TPQ-50 counter-
battery radar, and six material depots.
In turn, units of the Zapad military group improved their
position -- on the front line. Russian forces defeated
formations of four mechanized, assault brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine & a territorial
defense brigade in the areas of Kovalevka,
Monachinovka, Kutkovka, Pristen
(Kharkiv region), Tatianovka
and Krasny Lyman (DPR).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 170 fighters,
17 vehicles, a US' AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery
radar, and three ammunition depots.
The South units defeated the manpower and equipment of
5 mechanized, motorized infantry, assault, and mountain
assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
areas of Konstantinovka, Nikolaevka, Orekhovatka,
Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and...
Rai-Aleksandrovka (DPR).
In this area, the enemy lost over 170 troops, three armoured
vehicles, a field artillery gun, and 11 vehicles. 1 electronic
warfare station, an ammunition depot, five supply depots,
and a fuel depot - were destroyed.
At the same time, the Centre's fighters --- took advantageous positions. They defeated the formations of 3 mechanized, motorized infantry, Jaeger, and air assault brigades, an
assault regiment, a battalion of unmanned systems of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two marine infantry
brigades, the special forces brigade "Azov"*,
and six brigades of the National Guard in
the areas of Priyut, Novogrigorivka,
Lenina, Rubizhne, Krasnoyarske,
Gruzskoye, Svetloe, Kucherov
Yar, Novoaleksandrovka,
plus Zolotoy Kolodez,
Shevchenko.... and
Dobropolye (DNR).
The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 275 soldiers,
an armoured vehicle, 8 cars, 2 artillery pieces, and an
ammunition depot, in this sector.
In addition, units of the Vostok military group continued
to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses.
They defeated formations of a mechanized brigade,
two assault brigades, an airborne assault brigade,
and 3 assault regiments.. of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, in the areas of Kolomiitsy, Pokrovskoye
(Dnepropetrovsk region) Novoselovka, Rovnoye
Barvinovka, Lyubitskoye, and Vozdvizhevka
(Zaporozhye region).
In the East's area of responsibility, the enemy lost more than
295 soldiers, a combat armoured vehicle, four vehicles, a
US' 155-mm Paladin self-propelled gun, and a material
storage facility.
Dnipro units defeated the personnel and equipment of two
mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in the areas of Malokaterinovka, Kamyshevakha,
Dimitrovo, Orekhov, and Zaporozhets
(Zaporozhye region).
Up to 40 militants, 20 vehicles, an artillery gun, a Buk-M1 air
defense system, three electronic warfare stations, and an
ammunition depot ....were destroyed in this area.
* Azov is an organization recognized as a terrorist
organization by the Russian Supreme Court
on August 2, 2022.
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Belousov congratulated
--- the Russian military
by Sergey Istomin
(Editor of Russia Dept)
April 29th, 1:26pm
(Lenta.ru)
Defense Minister Andrey Belousov congratulated the Russian
military who took part in the battles for Ilyinovka in the
Donetsk People's Republic. The Defence ministry...
published the minister's address on Telegram.
The village was taken under control reported journalists
on April 28. The settlement was occupied by units of
the southern group of troops.
As it became known, in this regard, Belousov sent
congratulations to the command and personnel
of the 10th Guards Tank Regiment of the
Order of Zhukov.
In his address, he emphasized that the courage and bravery
of the Russian soldiers - allows them to successfully carry
out combat missions and make a significant contribution
to the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the
Special Military Operation (SVO) zone.
In addition, the Minister congratulated the command and
personnel of the 77th Separate Motorized Rifle
Regiment. He noted that as a result of their
professional and decisive actions, the
enemy suffered significant losses
...and fled.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on
the takeover of Novodmitrovka, in the Sumy region.
Another settlement with the same name was
occupied by the Russian army --- in the DPR.
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Residents of Rodinsky hid from Ukrainian
militants and volunteers... during
the evacuation
April 29th, 12:47pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The civilians of Rodinsky town in the Donetsk People's Republic
(DPR) --- had to hide from the militants of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU) and Ukrainian volunteers. They told Izvestia
correspondent Alexander Safiulin about this, on April 26.
Civilians had to wait for an evacuation for a month after their
home was destroyed. Russian military personnel waited for
favourable weather conditions to minimize the threat
posed by Ukrainian militants. Soldiers from the
110th Guards Brigade of the Centre Military
Group - arrived on the scene.
"We were running --- and I was afraid of stepping on something.
When we went to the mine, the military told us what to avoid.
My dad said, 'If there's a drone don't pay attention, just keep
walking and look under your feet,'" said Daria Ishchenko,
11, who was evacuated with her family.
Daria's older sister, Maria Ishchenko, noted the assistance
provided by the Russian military, who not only protected
civilians, but also helped them carry their belongings.
"We thought... that now, we would quickly report everything, we
would have enough strength. But we ran literally 100 m to the
garages, and that's it. Then the guys quickly took their bags:
let's help you, quickly, while there are no drones. All of the
military men we met, all with an open mind, were very
kind to us. We went well," Maria explained.
However, not all families were able to escape the attacks. The
Armed Forces of Ukraine launched three drone attacks on the
father of the family who was following. The Kiev nationalists
were well aware that they were targeting peaceful,
unarmed civilians ..with a young child.
The lack of principles among the Ukrainian Armed Forces became
apparent --- even before the evacuation. Civilians could wave a
white flag, and the drones would leave them alone. However,
once this practice was discontinued, people were unable to
go out even for water, except in foggy conditions. In winter
they had to wait for the dogs to create a path......... as an
enemy reconnaissance drone was monitoring the area.
"They're behaving inappropriately. It seems like they're on drugs
or have mental disorders. One of them started shooting at me
with a pellet gun," said Daria and Maria's father,
Nikolai Ishchenko.
Local residents .....also had to hide from volunteers from the
Ukrainian organization White Angel, who tried to forcibly
take children away from their parents. This happened
to the neighbours of the Ishchenko family.
"It was a 'good' evacuation. They came with machine guns and
everything. They told my husband, 'Don't get into a conflict,
we're taking the children.' That's it," Nikolai shared.
Armed volunteers took the civilians away and rented an
apartment with all the family's money, even though the
rent could have been almost three times cheaper.
Eventually, the "evacuated" family returned.
Now, civilians are being evacuated for real. Russian military
personnel are taking entire families to safe places where
they can live and speak their native Russian.
Refugees Svetlana and Alexander Trasiukh said on April 22
that the VSU militants killed civilians in Rodinskoye in the
Krasnoarmeysk direction of the special operation.
According to Svetlana, one of the attacks
caused a fire in their private house ----
which killed her mother and child.
Eyewitness Anatoly Kuznetsov, added on April 25th, that the militants attacked a group of civilians who were evacuated
from Rodinskoye town ------- killing two people. According
to him, despite the mortar fire, he decided to continue
moving --- towards the evacuation point.
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NEWS.ru: General Lipovoy revealed how
the Armed Forces of Ukraine attack
Russian regions
by Polina Uryvskaya
April 29th, 11:23am
(Vesti.ru)
Disassembled drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are
fraudulently imported into Russia -- and then used to
attack industrial facilities. This - was reported by
Hero of Russia, Major General Sergey Lipovoy,
in an interview with NEWS.ru.
''Presumably, these are drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
which could have been assembled on Russian territory and
launched from remote areas that are not visible to radar
stations. Ukraine carries out such attacks on a
regular basis'', he said.
In addition, the general noted that the technical capabilities of
the drones supplied to Ukraine by the EU and NATO allow
them to strike targets in Russia and from territories
controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In
other cases, such drones --- according to
Lipovoy, may be imported into Russia
in a disassembled form, under
various pretexts.
Earlier, it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine
tried to attack enterprises in the Orenburg region, and
4 UAVs were shot down.
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Polyansky: Most EU countries recognize
the need for dialogue with Russia
by Maxim Aleshin
April 28th, 10:44pm
(Vesti.ru)
Approximately two-thirds of the member states of the EU
believe.... that a dialogue with Russia on the issue of
security is necessary. Dmitry Polyansky, Russia's
Permanent Representative to the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE), told RIA Novosti about this.
Meanwhile, Estonian President Alar Karis said that
it is time for European countries to prepare for
the restoration of contacts with Russia.
In turn, Finnish President Alexander Stubb expressed the
opinion, that Europe will have to open communication
channels with Russia. He noted ----- that Europeans
have been discussing the possibility of resuming
contacts with Moscow -- since the start of the
special operation.
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Zakharova: Kiev and West can't
impose conditions on Russia
re the Ukrainian settlement
April 28th, 9:14pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Kiev regime and its Western sponsors are not in a
position -- to dictate terms to Russia regarding the
settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. This was
stated --- by Maria Zakharova, the official
representative of the Russian Foreign
Ministry, in an interview with the
Firstpost news portal.
She emphasized that Russia has always been ready
to resolve the conflict through diplomatic means
''as soon as possible''.
''But the settlement cannot be a one-sided game, at
the expense of our country's interests. Moreover,
Kiev, along with its Western sponsors, is in no
position to dictate any terms to us,''
said Zakharova.
She also reminded us that a sustainable resolution
of the Ukrainian conflict --- is only possible if its
underlying causes are addressed.
''Ukraine -- must return to the foundations of
its statehood: a non-aligned, neutral, and
non-nuclear status,'' noted Zakharova.
Earlier, she emphasized: that the elites of the EU & UK
consider a peaceful settlement in Ukraine - to be a
threat to themselves..... and actively oppose it.
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Senior Sailor Rastegaev - suppressed an
AFU firing point by throwing a grenade
April 28th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Acting as part of the assault group, senior sailor Sergey
Rastegaev took part in the operation to identify weak
points in the enemy's defenses and then capture
defensive fortifications. The press service of
the Russian Defense Ministry told about the
exploits of servicemen ---- of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation.
It is noted that in the conditions of a constant threat of
unmanned and artillery strikes, Russian assault troops
were able to secretly approach the enemy's positions
and get close to them. In this, the terrain helped the
fighters, masking their movement. After that,
Rastegaev was the first to overcome a
section of minefields of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine and quietly......
reached the trenches..... for the
subsequent flanking maneuver.
Since it was necessary to act decisively and without delay,
the soldier suppressed the firing point with a grenade
throw and then broke into the fortification. His
actions weakened the enemy defenses,
allowing the other assault troops, to
defeat the remaining enemy forces
and establish a new position.
Following the operation, the Russian Ministry of Defense
concluded that it was Rastegaev's personal courage
and ability to make decisions in a critical situation
that ensured the success of the entire
assault group.
It is also reported that Guard Junior Sergeant Gennady Pyatkov
helped to provide ammunition and provisions for the positions
of the howitzer artillery division, which was carrying out
combat missions in an important tactical area.
The soldier served as a driver-electrician in the control platoon
of the howitzer artillery division as part of a rigging group.
During the operation, his vehicle was targeted --- by enemy
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) several times. However,
Pyatkov remained calm and continued to drive the
vehicle even under attack. Electronic warfare -
(EW) played a crucial role in destroying the
enemy drones.
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A man was killed in an attack by
the Ukrainian Armed Forces
in the Belgorod region
April 28th, 6:39pm
(RT.ru)
One civilian was killed and four were injured in various
ways in the Belgorod region - as a result of attacks by Ukrainian militants.
"In the village of Borisovka, in the Volokonovsky district,
a man was killed by a drone detonation. He died from
his severe injuries before an ambulance arrived,"
said the regional operational headquarters.
A father and son were injured near the village of
Krasnaya Yaruga, and a woman was injured in the village of Oktyabrsky.
In addition, on the Bobrova-Rakitnoye highway, the UAV
detonated against the road surface, causing the driver
of the GAZelle to suffer a barotrauma.
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Putin: Kiev's reliance on terror against
Russia ------- will not change anything
April 28th, 6:11pm
(RT.ru)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Kiev's
reliance on terror against Russia, will not
change anything.
He said this at a meeting on ensuring security
for the upcoming elections in Russia.
Putin noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine
are "losing certain territories" ....every day.
"This, is why they are betting on terror, both
against the military and against civilians.
They hope.. that this will change
something. It won't change
anything," Putin said,
during the meeting.
According to him, Kyiv and its
patrons --- have switched to
open terrorist methods.
Earlier, Putin said that the risks
of terrorist threats in Russia,
are growing.
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TSK employees block the
Odessa-Kyiv highway to
check all vehicles
April 28th, 4:44pm
(RT.ru)
According to Serhiy Khlan, a member of the Kherson Regional
Council, TSK officers are blocking the Odessa-Kyiv highway
to check all vehicles.
This is reported by STRANA.ua.
According to him, such raids sometimes result in
abuse of authority and unprofessional behaviour.
Earlier, in Kryvyi Rih, military enlistment office
employees sprayed pepper spray.... during
the detention.
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As a result of decisive action: Russian troops
liberate Ilyinovka, take control of Zemlyanki
by Adeline Vishnevskaya
April 28th, 12:53pm
(RT.ru)
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian armed forces have
liberated Ilyinovka in the DPR - and taken control of
Zemlyanki in the Kharkiv region. The Ministry of
Defense has clarified that artillery and UAVs
were used ---- to destroy the firing points,
the strongholds, and the approaching
Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves.
In addition, Ukraine's energy and transportation
infrastructure --- has been targeted. The Kyiv
regime has suffered over 1,000 casualties.
According to the Ministry of Defense, operational-tactical
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery of the
Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian energy
& transport infrastructure used by the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
In addition, the sites of drone assembly, storage, and launch, as
well as the temporary locations of Ukrainian armed formations
and foreign mercenaries in 142 districts, have been targeted.
Air defense systems shot down ten guided
aerial bombs and 281 aircraft-type UAVs.
Meanwhile, the North units established control over the village of
Zemlyanki (Kharkiv region) through active operations, while the
South units liberated the village of Ilyinovka (DPR) through
decisive actions.
It is noted that -- during the fighting, assault groups from the 69th
Motorized Rifle Division of the Northern Group of Forces entered
the village of Zemlyanki and gained a foothold there.
"The artillery and strike UAV units of the unmanned systems troops ------ destroyed the firing points, strongholds and
approaching reserves of the Ukrainian nationalists.
After pushing the enemy --- out of the settlement,
the military personnel began to clear buildings
and basements, and engineering teams
began to clear the area of explosive
hazards," the Ministry of
Defense said.
They emphasized, that establishing control over the village of
Zemlyanki contributes to expanding the security zone along
the Russian border.
At the same time, the Sever fighters defeated the personnel and
equipment of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades,
the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two
territorial defense brigades in the areas of Sosnovy Bor,
Liptsy, Krasny Yar, and Varvarovka (Kharkiv region).
In the Sumy region, the personnel and equipment of the
mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and the territorial defense brigade were damaged
in the areas of Myropil and Korchakovka.
In this area - the enemy lost more than 150 fighters, a
vehicle, 2 ammunition depots, and 2 material depots.
At the same time, units of the Zapad military group improved
their position on the front line - and defeated formations of
the mechanized, assault, and territorial defense brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of
Cherneshchina, Kutkovka (Kharkiv Region),
Tatyanovka, and Krasny Lyman (DPR).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 soldiers, two
armoured vehicles, 15 cars, and two artillery pieces.
The South's fighters defeated the personnel and equipment
of two mechanized, motorized infantry, mountain assault,
and territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine ---- in the areas of Konstantinovka,
Nikolaevka, Artem, Kramatorsk, and
Rai-Aleksandrovka (DPR).
The enemy has lost over 130 troops, two armoured vehicles,
two field artillery pieces, and 13 vehicles. Two ammunition
depots and 8 material & fuel depots, have been destroyed.
In turn, the Centre's units improved their tactical position.
Russian forces defeated formations of two mechanized,
airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a
marine infantry brigade, a territorial defense
brigade, and two brigades of the National
Guard, in the areas of Vodyanskoye,
Svetloe, Rubizhne, Gruzskoye,
Vasilevka, Belitskoye,
Kucherov Yar -- and
Dobropolye (DNR).
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 300 fighters,
five vehicles, and an artillery piece, in this sector.
In addition, units of the Vostok military group continued to
advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses. They
defeated formations of a mechanized brigade, two air
assault brigades, and two assault regiments of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of
Pokrovskoye, Orly, (Dnepropetrovsk
region), plus Lesnoye, Barvinovka,
Novoselovka & Vozdvizhevka,
(Zaporozhye region).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 260 troops,
an armoured vehicle, and three cars.
At the same time, the Dnipro fighters defeated the manpower
and equipment of three mechanized and mountain assault
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of
Grigorovka, Kirovo, Yurkovka, Preobrazhenka, and
Chervony Zhovten (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 40 militants, five vehicles, an electronic warfare
station, and four ammunition and material depots
were destroyed.
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Ukraine has reported a severe shortage
of ammunition for Patriot systems
by Maxim Aleshin
April 27th, 9:31pm
(Vesti.ru)
Ukraine is facing a critical shortage of missiles
for its Patriot air defense systems. This was
reported by Yuriy Ignat, a spokesperson
for the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
He stressed a particular shortage of PAC-3 ammunition,
which is designed to intercept ballistic missiles.
Patriot systems capable of shooting down ballistic
missiles are actually on a "starvation diet", local
media report his words
Earlier, Ignat said that a critical shortage of ammunition
threatens the destruction of key military facilities.
Meanwhile, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky,
commented on the situation with missiles for the Patriot air
defense systems with the words “it could not be worse”.
He also noted that the United States is paying less
attention to Kiev .....due to the conflict with Iran.
[Rhondda Records adds: wonder how long it will be before they realise the shortage
of....Patriot systems? and start asking for lots of those?]
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The ICAN Coordinator Eblenkamp:
Europe Facing Nuclear Winter
Due to Finland's Actions
April 28th, 9:21pm
(RT.ru)
According to Florian Eblenkamp, coordinator of the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Finland's plans
to lift the ban on the import and deployment of nuclear
weapons - increases the risk of their use and the
possibility of a "nuclear winter" in Europe.
The organization described Helsinki's plans as "irresponsible,"
emphasizing that "even a limited exchange of nuclear strikes
would trigger a nuclear winter that would devastate Finland,
Russia, and the entire region."
"We stand in solidarity with the Finnish people, the vast majority
of whom oppose the deployment of nuclear weapons in their
country," TASS quoted Eblenkamp as saying.
Earlier, the Finnish Cabinet submitted a proposal to the
parliament .....on allowing the import and storage of
nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, Russian President's Press Secretary
Dmitry Peskov described the move as a direct
manifestation of hostility, in an interview
with Channel One.
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Sailor Alexander Suvorov destroyed
an enemy boat without a crew
April 27th, 9:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
A serviceman of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
sailor Alexander Suvorov, discovered and destroyed a
crewless boat (BEC) of the enemy during the task of
monitoring the coastline. This was announced by
the press service of Russia's Defense Ministry.
It is noted that the soldier discovered the unmanned boat during
the execution of a task at the post. The soldier personally
participated in the elimination of the target. The object
was hit by a loitering munition. As a result of Suvorov's
professional actions, it was possible to prevent the
enemy from breaking through in one of the areas.
The Ministry of Defense also reported - that Junior Sergeant
Vladislav Petrushin, a member of an artillery unit, promptly
identified an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone
attempted to attack the Russian unit, but was promptly
destroyed by Petrushin using his personal small arms.
The destruction of the target allowed the artillerymen
to continue their combat operations and strike the
enemy's assault group and artillery piece.
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"They don't value nuclear security - at all":
Russian Foreign Ministry --- on Another
Attack on the Zaporozhye NPP
April 27th, 3:52pm
(Radio Sputnik)
Another attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which resulted in
the death of a station employee, demonstrates the
bloody and criminal nature of the Kiev regime and
its curators. This was stated by Maria Zakharova
---- the official representative of the Russian
Foreign Ministry.
Earlier on Monday, the facility's press service reported a
Ukrainian drone strike on the transport workshop of the
ZAES. As a result, the driver was killed.
"The Kiev regime --- continues to demonstrate its bloody and
criminal nature. On April 27, a new reckless and criminal
attack was carried out on a Russian peaceful nuclear
power plant, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
(ZNPP),resulting in the tragic death of one of the plant's employees.''
''We strongly condemn - this atrocity. We express our deep condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
We note the courage ------ and resilience of the ZNPP
personnel, who ----- despite the deadly threats and
provocations from the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
continue to carry out their duty --- and maintain
the safe operation of the plant, demonstrating
the highest level of professionalism,” was
said in a comment by Zakharova, which
was published on the website of the
Foreign Ministry.
The diplomat noted the particular cynicism of the Ukrainian
authorities’ actions, as the attack took place a few days
after the conclusion of the 10th Meeting of the
Contracting Parties to the Convention on
Nuclear Safety.
At the forum, the Russian delegation firmly defended the
country's position on the inadmissibility of attacks on
peaceful nuclear facilities.
"It is obvious that the Ukrainian side has a different opinion,
making it clear that they do not value nuclear security, as
well as those who continue to"protect"-- and justify
Zelensky's nuclear adventures. It seems - that by
deliberately creating radiological threats in the
heart of Europe, Kiev --- is trying to"test the
patience"- of its Western sponsors........ in
order to get them to spend more money.''
''The recent tragedy ---- is an example of what these
investments are being used for," added Zakharova.
The diplomat expressed hope that the IAEA and its Director
General Rafael Grossi would be uncompromising in their
condemnation of the Kiev regime's lawlessness. ''The
international community --- must impose a just and
severe punishment on Ukraine --- and force it to
cease its attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear
Power Plant and other peaceful nuclear
facilities'' ---- concluded the official
representative of the Russian
Foreign Ministry.
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Journalist Christophorou called Lavrov's
statement about the war....a harsh
message ---- for the EU
April 27th, 3:03pm
(RT.ru)
According to Cypriot journalist, Alex Christoforou, Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement that the West
has declared war on Moscow has sent a strong message
to Europe.
He announced this on his YouTube channel.
"They are sending very serious warnings," Christoforou said,
adding that Russian officials have been sending harsh
signals to the collective West in recent weeks.
In his opinion, the current situation resembles the period
...preceding the start of the special military operation.
The journalist emphasized that Moscow had previously
sent warnings to the United States and NATO, but
they had been ignored.
"These were the warnings that Russia issued a year
or two before the start of the special military
operation," he said.
Earlier, Christoforou said that the head of EU diplomacy,
Kaja Kallas, expressed concern.. after a statement by
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov - about the
West's direct confrontation with Moscow.
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Lukashenko said: that thousands of
Ukrainians have stayed in Belarus
April 27th, 2:54pm
(RT.ru)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that there
are several thousand Ukrainian refugees in the country
who do not plan to return to their homeland.
This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to
the Telegram channel "Pool of the First."
"No, they say, we won't go there after the war; we want to
stay here," the source quoted Lukashenko as saying.
He noted that many of them have already
obtained Belarusian citizenship and
continue to live in the country.
Earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that
Berlin intends to work with Kiev...... to return
Ukrainian refugees home.
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Two in a day: Russian armed forces
took control of Taratutino and
liberated Ilyichovka
by Adeline Vishnevskaya
April 27th, 1:48pm
(RT.ru)
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops liberated Ilyichovka in the
DPR and established control over Taratutino, in the Sumy region,
according to the Ministry of Defense. In addition, strikes were carried out on the production site of UAVs & Ukraine's energy
and port infrastructure. A Croatian MLRS, 2 US' armoured
vehicles, a counter-battery station, and a Grad MLRS
were destroyed. The Ukrainian Armed Forces ----
suffered approximately 1,100 casualties.
According to the Ministry of Defense, operational-tactical aviation,
strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed
Forces have struck the production site of long-range drones.
In addition, strikes have been carried out on Ukrainian energy and
port infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
as well as on temporary locations of Ukrainian armed formations
and foreign mercenaries ---- in 143 areas.
During this time, air defense systems shot down two
guided aerial bombs and 114 aircraft-type UAVs.
During the battles, assault groups from the 34th Separate
Motorized Rifle Brigade, part of the Sever, entered the
village of Taratutino ....under the cover of artillery
and attack drones - and secured their positions.
"After forcing the Ukrainian nationalists out of the settlement, the
military personnel began to clear the buildings and basements,"
the defense ministry said.
Control over Taratutino --- contributes to expanding the security
zone along the Russian border, and also allows Russian troops
to quickly identify and destroy enemy military equipment in a
strategically important area, the Defense Ministry added.
It is also noted that the Sever units - defeated the personnel and
equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade --- in the areas of
Myropil, Nova Sich, and Korchakovka (Sumy region).
In the Kharkiv region, the personnel and equipment of two
mechanized infantry brigades, an assault regiment of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a brigade of the National
Guard were destroyed in the areas of Polnaya,
Zemlyanki, Ukrainskoye, Krasny Yar,
and Varvarovka.
In this area, the enemy lost more than 165 fighters, as well
as four vehicles, a Croatian RAK-SA-12 MLRS combat
vehicle, and eight material depots.
At the same time, the Zapad fighters defeated the formations of
two mechanized, airborne, and assault brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the
areas of Kutkovka, Velikaya Shapkovka, Borovaya,
Cherneshchina (Kharkiv Region), Krasny Lyman,
Tatyanovka, Prishib, and Mayaki (DNR).
Here, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 soldiers, as
well as 4 armoured vehicles, including 2 US' HMMWV, 11
vehicles, 3 artillery pieces, a Grad multiple rocket
launcher, and a US' AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery
radar. Four ammunition depots ----
were destroyed.
In addition, the village of Ilyichovka (DPR) was liberated
thanks to the decisive actions of the Zapad fighters.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces have taken advantageous
positions and lines. They have defeated the manpower and
equipment of 3 mechanized, motorized infantry, mountain
assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a
marine infantry brigade, and a territorial defense
brigade in the areas of Konstantinovka, Krivaya
Luka, Artem, Rai-Aleksandrovka, Nikolaevka,
and Kramatorsk (DPR).
In this sector, the enemy lost over 195 fighters, as well as a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier, 2 armoured vehicles and 19 cars. 3 ammunition depots, 7 material depots, and fuel depots ---- were destroyed.
In turn, the Centre's fighters improved their tactical position.
Russian forces defeated formations of three mechanized,
airborne, and air assault brigades, an assault regiment
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... a marine infantry
brigade, a territorial defense brigade.... and four
brigades of the National Guard, in the areas of Novoaleksandrovka.... Belitskoe, Sergeevka,
Vasilevka, Kucherov Yar, Dobropolye (DPR)
plus Novopodgorodnoye, and Ivanovka
(Dnepropetrovsk region).
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 280 soldiers, as well
as 3 armoured vehicles, 21 cars, 2 artillery pieces, and 3 electronic warfare stations.
In addition, units of the Vostok military group continued to
advance ---- into the depths of the enemy's defenses. The
formations of a mechanized brigade, 2 assault brigades,
& 2 assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
were defeated..... in the areas of Dobropasovo,
Velikomikhailovka (Dnepropetrovsk Region),
Barvinovka.... Novoselovka, Lyubitskoe,
Vozdvizhevka, Omelnik, and Lesnoye
(Zaporozhye Region).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 270 fighters, as
well as five vehicles ....and an artillery piece.
At the same time, units of the Dnipro military group - defeated
the personnel and equipment of the mechanized & mountain
assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
areas of Zaporozhets, Preobrazhenka, and Dimitrovo
(Zaporozhye region).
Up to 45 militants were destroyed, as well as eight vehicles,
a field artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
According to the Ukrainian journalist Yulia Zabelina, citing sources, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is considering the idea - of totally abolishing mobilization exemptions.
According to Strana.ua, the option of leaving reservations only
for employees of defense enterprises is being discussed, but
this idea ....is also met with skepticism.
She notes --- that the proposals also include the abolition of the
search for draft evaders and the transition to a more targeted
recruitment system based on age or specific specialties.
Earlier, the head of Vladimir Zelensky's office Kirill Budanov* said
that forced mobilization in Ukraine would not be stopped, but the
authorities would try to make the process "more humane."
* Included --- in the list of extremists
and terrorists by Rosfinmonitoring.
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TASS: Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters
near Sloviansk are starving and
lacking medical care
April 25th, 3:28pm
(RT.ru)
Soldiers of the 81st Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine near Sloviansk are deprived of food and
medical assistance.
Russian security agencies told TASS that after the scandal
involving the photos of exhausted soldiers from the 14th
Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, other Ukrainian soldiers also began talking
about their condition.
For example, according to the security forces, the 81st
Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine showed their photos from positions
east of Sloviansk.
"Many military personnel are not only starving, but also
deprived of medical care," the agency quoted the
source as saying.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukrainian militants are in
positions without food and water, which causes
them to lose consciousness.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, dismissed the
commanders of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the
10th Army Corps, which are fighting near Kupyansk, after the
distribution of footage - of exhausted Ukrainian soldiers on
the network.
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Three people ..were killed in the LPR
during an attack by Ukrainian UAVs
April 25th, 2:44pm
(Radio Sputnik)
Three people were killed in an attack by Ukrainian UAVs on
the village of Solontsy in the LPR last night, and two were
wounded. This was reported by the head of the republic,
Leonid Pasechnik.
"Four houses were completely destroyed. The Ministry of
Emergency Situations liquidated the fire, the rubble is
being dismantled," he wrote in Maks.
In Lugansk, a bus park was damaged - by an enemy drone strike,
and the power supply was disrupted in several areas of the city.
According to Pasechnik, power engineers
are already restoring the power supply.
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"As a result of active and decisive actions":
Russian troops took control of Bochkovo
in the Kharkiv region
by Adeline Vishnevskaya
April 25th, 11:58am
(RT.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive attack
on Ukraine's military-industrial and fuel and
energy complexes.
Russian troops have established control over the village of
Bochkovo in the Kharkiv region, according to the Ministry
of Defense. A massive strike - was also carried out
against Ukraine's defense industry, fuel and
energy complex, and port infrastructure.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed
Forces have lost more than 1,100 fighters in the Special
Military Operation zone over the past 24 hours.
The Russian Armed Forces carried out a massive strike with
long-range precision weapons of land, air, and sea-based
origin, as well as strike drones, against the defense,
industrial, fuel, and energy sectors.. as well as
Ukraine's port infrastructure, which are all
used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The strike was carried out in response to Ukraine's terrorist
attacks on civilian facilities in Russia. Its objectives were
achieved. All designated targets were struck, according
to the Ministry of Defense.
In addition, the units of the North Military Group have established
control over the village of Bochkovo in the Kharkiv region - as a
result of their active and decisive actions.
The Sever fighters also defeated the personnel and equipment of
the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the
territorial defense brigade in the areas of Ternovaya, Izbitskoe,
and Shesterovka (Kharkiv region).
In the Sumy region, the personnel and equipment of a mechanized
brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and
two territorial defense brigades, were destroyed in the areas of
Myropil, Komarovka, and Novodmitrovka.
In this area, the enemy lost more than 160 soldiers, a combat
armoured vehicle, 4 vehicles, an electronic warfare station,
and three material supply depots.
Units of the Zapad military group improved their position on the
front line. The Russian Armed Forces defeated formations of
2 mechanized, assault brigades & a regiment of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the areas of
the settlements... of Velikaya Shapkovka, Palamarevka,
The wife of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers
told the Ukrainian TV channel TSN that her husband's
soldiers are losing consciousness ...due to a lack of
food and water.
"When the guys went into position, they weighed more
than 80-90 kg, but now they weigh about 50 kg.
They're not the only ones - and other women
have been contacting us. It seems.... that
the problem is much more widespread.
They went 17 days... without food.
They couldn't be heard on the
radio, or they didn't want to
be heard," the woman said.
According to the TV channel, the problems with food
supplies at the positions began in December last
year. It is also noted that the military did not
have proper communication, otherwise,
according to the article, they could
have received regular packages
from their families.
Earlier... STRANA.ua also reported that the Ukrainian
Armed Forces are in positions without food or water.
In addition, it was reported that UAV operators of the
North military group - use drones to record the
difficult situation of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces in the Kharkiv direction, due
to the disruption of supplies.
_____________________________
Foreign Ministry:Serbia Will Not Join
the EU's Anti-Russian Policy
by Vladimir Kolinichenko
April 23rd, 9:23pm
(Vesti.ru)
Serbia's refusal to join the EU's anti-Russian policy
strengthens the foundation ---- for developing
Belgrade's ties with Moscow, according
to the Foreign Ministry.
Deputy Foreign Minister, Alexander Grushko, took
part in the 21st meeting of the Russian-Serbian
Intergovernmental Committee on Trade,
Economic, Scientific, and Technical
Cooperation.
Grushko met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia,
the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivica Dacic, and the
Minister of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the Chairman of the Serbian part
of the IPC, Nenad Popovic, according
to the Foreign Ministry.
''It has been confirmed that Serbia's principled and
consistent refusal to join the EU's anti-Russian
sanctions regime strengthens the foundation
for developing comprehensive cooperation
between Russia and Serbia - and creates
additional opportunities for expanding
it ....in the interests of our friendly
states and brotherly peoples,''
emphasizes the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
The parties discussed cooperation
between Serbia and Russia.
___________________________________
Peskov explained what the joint exercises
between Poland and France--- indicate
by Denis Al-Yousifi
April 23rd, 3:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
The joint military exercises between Poland and France
are a direct manifestation of military construction in
Europe ....directed against Russia, according to
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the
Russian president.
''We see a surge of militarism in Europe, a surge of aggression
in Europe - towards Russia. This is a direct manifestation of
military construction ---- aimed at the Russian Federation.
Full-scale confrontation - is returning,'' said Peskov,
answering a question from journalists.
________________________________________
Zaluzhny: called the situation at
the front line ''consistently bad''
by Alexander Mironov
April 23rd, 3:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army's strikes - on the Ukrainian Armed Forces'
military logistics make it impossible for Ukrainian militants
to launch an offensive. This - was reported by Valeriy
Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces --- and the current
ambassador of Ukraine.... to the UK.
Speaking to students at the Kyiv School of State Administration,
Zaluzhny commented on the situation of Ukrainian groups.
Speaking generally about the situation on the front,
Zaluzhny described it as "stably bad."
''Russians - they are trying to work faster, I believe, and scale
up faster. Its attacks on logistics -- make it impossible for us
to create any strike groups so we can launch an offensive,''
he said.
According to the diplomat, the statements made by some
Ukrainian officials that the Armed Forces of Ukraine
are allegedly recapturing positions from Russian
troops, are “absolute nonsense.”
''It seems a little strange, and it's almost impossible today,''
the ex-commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, spoke out.
However, Zaluzhny did not specify who was spreading this
information. However, similar statements were made by
the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, and
the current commander-in-chief of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky.
Earlier, Zelensky also supported the idea
of bringing young Ukrainians back from
abroad to ''replenish'' the army.
________________________________
Ministry of Defense:Russia's Armed Forces have struck Ukraine's energy and transport infrastructure
by Anastasia Stepanova
April 23rd, 11:30am
(RT.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed
Forces have carried out strikes on Ukraine's energy and
transport infrastructure -- which is being used by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces. Additionally, Russian air
defense forces have downed ten aerial bombs
and 418 aircraft-type drones in the past
24 hours.
Russian troops have destroyed Ukraine's energy and
transport infrastructure facilities, which are being
used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was
reported in the daily briefing by the Russian
Ministry of Defense on the progress of
the special operation.
The strikes were carried out by operational-tactical
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery
of the Russian Armed Forces.
In addition, temporary locations of Ukrainian armed
formations and foreign mercenaries were hit in
138 districts.
Russian air defense systems shot down ten guided
aerial bombs and 418 aircraft-type drones in 1 day.
Situation on the contact line
Units of the Northern Group of Forces improved their
tactical situation over the course of the day by
defeating the formations of a mechanized
brigade, an assault regiment of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 2
territorial defense brigades, in
the areas of Novodmitrovka,
Stetskivka, Pisarevka,
and Malaya Slobodka
(Sumy Region).
In the Kharkiv Region, the personnel and equipment of two
mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and
2 border detachments of the Ukrainian Border Service
were defeated in the areas of Makarikha, Rubizhne,
Veseloye, and Sosnovy Bor.
In the North's area of responsibility, the enemy lost more than
220 fighters, an armoured personnel carrier, 18 vehicles, an
Israeli-made RADA counter-battery station, two electronic
warfare stations, an ammunition depot, and seven
materiel depots.
At the same time, units of the Zapad military group -- improved
their position on the front line and defeated formations of two
mechanized and an assault brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine in the areas of Osadkovka, Borovaya (Kharkiv
Region), Tatyanovka, and Krasny Lyman (DPR).
Here, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 soldiers, two
armoured vehicles, 18 cars, and three artillery pieces. Four
ammunition depots were also destroyed.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces -- in turn -- took up
more advantageous positions. The South fighters destroyed
the manpower and equipment of 3 mechanized brigades of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense
brigade in the areas of Ra-Aleksandrovka,
Tikhonovka, Novoselovka, and
Konstantinovka (DPR).
In this area, Kiev has lost up to 185 military personnel, three
armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles, three field artillery
pieces, and two electronic warfare stations. Three
ammunition depots and five material depots
have been destroyed.
Units of the Centre group of forces --- also improved their tactical position. The formations of three mechanized,
air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
a marine infantry brigade and two brigades of the
National Guard were defeated in the areas
of Novogrigorovka, Novopavlovka
(Dnepropetrovsk region), and
Kucherov Yar, Svetloe, plus
Toretskoye, Dobropolye
and Kalinino (DNR).
In this sector, the Kiev regime lost over 360 fighters,
four vehicles, and three field artillery pieces.
Meanwhile, units of the Vostok military group --- continued
to advance.. into the depths of the enemy's defenses and
defeated formations of the mechanized, airborne assault
two assault brigades and three assault regiments of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine --- in the areas of Pokrovskoye, Gavrilovka, Lesnoye, Velikomikhailovka, Aleksandrovka (Dnepropetrovsk Region), Yasnaya Polyana, and
Vozdvizhevka (Zaporizhzhia Region).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 295 troops,
two armoured vehicles, and five cars.
At the same time, units of the Dnipro military group defeated
the personnel and equipment of the mechanized, mountain
assault, and territorial defense brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Kamyshevakha,
Yurkovka, and Orekhov (Zaporizhzhia region).
Up to 60 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters were eliminated
here. Two armoured combat vehicles, 20 cars, and three
Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled
out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of
simply stating it wished to develop weapons
beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump
administration accused Moscow of
violating the treaty by lying about
the range of its 9M728/9M729
missiles used by Iskander
missile systems.
Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal
departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it
began testing the first of multiple missiles
that violated the treaty’s limitations.
The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic
showdown, across Europe, in late 1983,
triggered by Washington’s deployment
of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range
ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.
With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,
and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle,
the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-
head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes
...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast
strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to
identify, analyze and respond to the threat,
greatly increasing the risk of them mis-
reading a situation and launching a
mistaken nuclear return volley,
believing it to be their
only chance.
In addition, tensions in Europe had already been
ramped up by years of psychological operations
designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as
US bombers charging Soviet borders and
turning away at the last second
That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic
“Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out
attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983, it put Soviet fears through the roof.
However, it wasn’t until after the war games had
concluded, several days later, that NATO
commanders discovered key signs: the
Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike
aircraft in East Germany and Poland
with nuclear bombs, and orders to
strike “front-line targets” at a
moment’s notice.
The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II,
banning land-based missiles with ranges of between
500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled
tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only
between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --
which left other countries, such as China, free to
develop their own intermediate-range missiles.
The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,
considering the long-standing Russian fears
over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system,
built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania.
While the US claimed the system was purely
defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can
also be used to launch offensive missiles.
Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed
was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of
1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis
cruisers have fired at sea for years.
1992 Treaty on Open Skies
The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase
transparency and put to rest fears of an impending
attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35
partner nations to perform reconnaissance
overflights over other nations... using
specialized aircraft with specialized
equipment. However, flights could
not interfere with other military
activities and could be refused
by the overflown nation, for a
variety of reasons.
The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the
treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused
by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft
access to several areas almost a decade
earlier - denials Moscow insisted were
within its rights under the treaty.
The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,
meaning the six-month cooldown time had the
US leaving the treaty, after the November 2020 elections, that Trump lost.
The decision sparked an outcry across Europe, with Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;
that nation having long used Open Skies to perform overflights in western Russia, to calm its nerves about troops and
installations there.
Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to
avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on
the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.
The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal
as illegal then... although much of their criticism
focused on his refusal to notify Congress before
pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked
message --- sent to concerned “international
partners” by the Biden administration said
it was afraid that doing so “would send
the wrong message to Russia and
undermine our position... on the
broader arms control agenda.”
Istanbul, Astana Declarations
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November
1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland
...intended to further the peaceful
cooperation of the Detente era.
Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers
and continues to serve as a regional forum for
resolving international issues.
Two of its most important declarations of principles
came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in
Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010,
which, among other topics, affirmed each
nation’s right to its own security in the
context of an international community.
"The security of each participating State... is
inseparably linked to that of all others. Each
participating State, has an equal right to
security. We reaffirm the inherent right
of each and every participating State
...to be free to choose or change its
security arrangements, including
treaties of alliance, as they evolve.''
''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each
participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not
strengthen their security ...at the
expense of... the security of
other States.'' the Astana
declaration states.
While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,
the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this
week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate
written responses to Russia’s December security
proposal -- the US response was considerably
more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from
Brussels and speaking for 30 member
states, acknowledged the Russian
security concerns and proposed
mutual briefings in the NATO-
Russia Council and the re-
establishment of their
respective envoys in
Moscow & Brussels.
However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s
central concern --- the eastward expansion of
NATO and the impact that has on Russian
security, especially since now, the US
explicitly regards Russia as a
challenger to its position ...as leader of the post- Cold War global order.
Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,
in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey
Lavrov said "The principle that one should not strengthen one's security -- at the expense of
the security of others is deliberately avoided.
Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations are mentioned by our Western partners in the discussions on European
security that are currently
taking place. We cannot
accept this.”
Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at
Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau... focusing on
international & breaking news. Born in southern Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and
East European Studies, at the University of
Glasgow and is a former history professor.
At Sputnik, she covers military technology,
the expanding neoliberal police state, and
the ongoing struggles against it in the US
and around the globe.
Image: palestine
Paul Larudee: Zionist Dream
Turning into Nightmare
November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)
Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator,
says Zionists have come to this understating
- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined
self-annihilation.
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee
said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own
destruction the moment they created a
plan for a Jewish state in someone
else's homeland. It is increasingly
becoming an international pariah
...contributing to the wars and
conflicts in West Asia, South
America, Africa, and other
parts of the world. It only
creates more enemies
for them.”
Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political
activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian
movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area,
he is involved with the International Solidarity
Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza
Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.
Larudee was a member of the US delegation
aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
which was attacked by Israeli forces.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist
enterprise were born in sin.” What do we
learn about the nature of Israel?
A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to
gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,
but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed
to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate
that as Zionism became more successful in its
genocidal project, it also became more
acceptable to more Jews. But that is
now being reversed. As Zionism
becomes more racist, violent,
and aggressive, it is starting
to lose Jews who cannot
stomach such behaviour.
Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son
of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do
you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their
occupation of the Palestinians’ land?
A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used
to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most
aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,
who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,
much like the Europeans who took the land from
the native peoples in the western hemisphere.
They want to expel all Palestinians by any means
necessary, and take their land. They do not need
Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to
endure hardship, although Israel actually
helps and enables them. The other type
are the opportunists. Israel builds
subsidized housing and industrial
parks on Palestinian land... and
makes it attractive for settlers
to move there. Israel creates
many advantages for them...
so as to increase the Jewish
population in the occupied
territories and push the
Palestinians out.
Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel
and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-
wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State
Department aide, said Israel will be gone in
some 20 years. How do you assess
these statements?
A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.
Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes
and manipulations of other governments, it is
increasingly becoming an international pariah,
contributing to the wars and conflicts in West
Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of
the world. They believe that this makes them
strong, but it only creates more enemies for
them. Sharett seems to understand that the
Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.
It can only be realized by committing greater
and greater crimes, but even many Zionists
consider this too high a price for their dream,
and their dream is turning into a nightmare.
Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction
the moment they created a plan for a Jewish
state on someone else's homeland.
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UN Must Prevent Normalization of
Israeli Violation of Human Rights:
Iran Envoy
November 20th, 11am (al Manar)
Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva
put the onus on the United Nations: to take
action: against the normalization of the
systematic violation of human rights
and humanitarian laws, by the
Zionist regime.
In an address to a meeting between ambassadors
of the member states of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva,
and to members of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN Council on Human
Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil
Baqaei Hamaneh called for the
clarification of true and false
narratives, referring to the
stories... that equate the
victims of Israeli crimes
with the perpetrators
of the heinous acts.
“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false
narratives, the narrative that equates the victims
of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is
humanly shocking, legally unfounded,
and morally shameful,” the Iranian
envoy stressed.
He added that the inquiry commission has an historic
responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of
systematic human rights violations by the
Israeli regime.
The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the
meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of
human rights, to become normal, Press
TV reported.
In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate
an international probe into “systematic” human rights
abuses committed during the asymmetrical war
between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance
groups in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented
by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian
delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in favour, 9 against, and 14 abstentions.
The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing
independent, international commission of inquiry”
into the war to probe the “underlying root causes
of recurrent tensions and instability, including
the systematic discrimination and repression
based on group identity.”
Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been
caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians...
with the videos going viral online and sparking
international condemnation.
The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive
use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,
Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat
to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called
on the International Criminal Court to launch an
immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv
regime’s crimes, in the occupied
Palestinian territories --- after
the Israeli forces shot dead a
young man, in the northern
part of the West Bank.
Source: Iranian Agencies
Image: Bill Dores
China is no threat
to people in the US; Wall Street,CIA & the Pentagon are
-- Analyst
October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)
US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says
China is no threat to the people in the US., but
Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.
Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime
antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview
with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched
a new mission centre to address what it calls “the most important geopolitical threat” posed... by China.
CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week
that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will
“further strengthen our collective work on the most
important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st
century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese
government.”
Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats
as well, including those emanating from Russia, North
Korea and Iran.
The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence
of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main
foreign policy target.
Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year,
the Biden administration has been directing resources
toward countering China.
Why is the CIA targeting China?
“The CIA is grabbing more tax money --- to start a ‘mission
centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important
geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news
- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating'
evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent
‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores
commented to Press TV.
“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been
slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s
being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face
the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the
combined military budgets of China, India,
Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany,
France, Japan, South Korea, Italy
and Australia,” he added.
“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been
operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...
the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act
to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.
“The People’s Republic of China... has five times the population of the United States. But it spends only
$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are
deployed in - or around - the borders and
coasts of China. By no stretch of the
imagination is China threatening
he US militarily. Why would it?
For what gain?” he asked.
“So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a
twisted concept based on the twisted premise that
the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s
population, should dominate the world
politically & economically. And that
really means the billionaires and
millionaires, that Occupy Wall
Street protesters called the
‘One Percent,’” he stated.
China’s economic ‘threat’ to US
“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate
ruling class, is economic. China produces more than
the United States, and its economy is growing much faster,” the analyst said.
“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of
other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth,
and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly
weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once
held on the world economy. An article in the US
magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is
‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions
regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to
‘punish’ countries that defy their
dictates,” he explained.
“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make
a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's
government the way US oil companies dictated to the
Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or
the way they dictate to their paid servants in the
White House and the Capitol today,”
he observed.
“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in
the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our
well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic
growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global
economic collapse,” he said.
“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut
down plants all over this country and foreclosed on
millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-
logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down
wages and destroy millions of jobs,”
Dores said.
Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign
“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate
China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of
the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s
nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.
“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence
that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US
leads the world in mass incarceration and murder
by police,” he noted.
“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of
Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent,
and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide
treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority
are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native
nations... targeted by the police,” he said.
“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political
prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard
Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have
spent decades behind bars on framed-up
charges,” he stated.
“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted
the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between
1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000
people. Half of those killings were misclassified,
according to a study published in the Lancet
medical journal,” he said.
US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and
murder of Palestinian people’
“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports
but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of
Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,
including the mass imprisonment of 2 million
people in the giant concentration camp
called the Gaza Strip. The US also has
no problem with the oppression of
the majority Muslim people of
Kashmir, by the Indian state,” Dores noted.
“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’
a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay
China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,
the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other
innovations... that made its economic
development possible,” he said.
“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But
Washington... has flooded the world with devalued
dollars ever since the Nixon administration took
the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s.
The US has long used the dollar as an
instrument of financial warfare,”
he said.
Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?
“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South
China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US
Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway?
For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the
coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the
coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.
“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods
through the South China Sea. Most of that is
bound to and from China,” he said.
“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce.
It does have an interest in keeping US warships
away from its coast and ports,” he said.
“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi
Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the
children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the
US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce
between nations in the world today,”
he said.
“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and
fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the
US should do what China does: Invest in schools,
health care, housing, railroads and renewable
energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops
and spies home. The world would be a
much better and safer place,”
he concluded.
Image: Sa’dollah Zarei
Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel
create crisis in Caucasus
Sunday, October 3rd, 11:51am (PressTV)
by Sa’dollah Zarei
The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for
preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is
still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.
Here are some points with regards to this issue:
1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of
Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are
pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly, a reaction to the great achievements of the
Islamic Republic and the resistance front.
When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of
Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is
a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli
conspiracy over the past forty years and turned
into a major crisis for the occupying regime.
Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and
Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move
-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement
has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of
colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear that the enemy, although very hardworking, is in a state of “passivity.”
Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy
ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious
antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making
scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely
thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.
2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik
agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns
the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s
objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that
the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment
of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural
consequence and thus does not create a
right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.
The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the
two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a
region meant to undermine the security, political and
economic position of a third country.
While acknowledging their military and political failure, in
Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing
a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly
afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a
signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a
signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance
and accept the post-war reality, and at the
same time, following the end of a recent
44-day Karabakh war, the US stated
that they 'support' the agreements
reached between Azerbaijan and
Armenia. All this suggests that
the US has been standing behind this war and the situation that ensued.
Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced
the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war,
and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main
reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This
means that it was an American-Israeli war.
Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-
ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that
in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed the forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West
Christian administration, and supported a
Muslim government instead! Isn’t that
a telltale sign?
The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials
were talking about in the course of their withdrawal
from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to
start such a war in Afghanistan? Which forces
could be used by the US to launch a proxy war
in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban
- which was taking power - into a proxy war?
Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.
Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The
answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able
to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban —
which took control of the capital without firing a
single shot — ready to enter a proxy war?
Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve
as the proxies of the American war? The
answer is clear. The old forces, besides
having an anti-American spirit... have
currently no military capability. Could
the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in
Afghanistan, in the medium term,
with the Taliban et al present on the scene? The answer to this
question is also, no. This is
because... for at least the
next 50 years... US crimes
will be in front of the eyes
of the Afghan people, and
the prospect for any kind
of Afghan-American,
cooperation...
is bleak.
So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,
the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a
fertile ground... and the required strength. From the
American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must
be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon
against anti-American revolutionary uprisings.
The Americans have long focused on the
model of racism and pan-Turanism... in
the case of this region, and considered
them as “a possible solution,” or more
accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”
and pinned their hopes on it.
Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the
developments in the north, and its overlapping in the
Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti
Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the
officials of these countries, tell us that we are
facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.
When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an
interview about the widespread presence of Israeli
forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he
is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.
3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that is indicative of the proxy war in the developments
unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on
the one side, and its scale, on the other. The
Saudis have explicitly said that they are
working to launch a 24-hour television
network for the Turkish region of the
Caucasus called “Turk national.”
Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch
such a TV network? The people in this region are neither
Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of
a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious that this decision cannot be implemented without the consent and cooperation of the governments in the region.
4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn
a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the
action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to
react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt
that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military
arena is a well-known policy of the American front.
On the other hand... we know that what is intended for the Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military
war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We
are thus not talking about a war in the sense
that it is perceived. We are talking about
actions that disturb the peace of this
region and the interests of the
powers around it.
Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli
drones and forces have been involved in the recent war
between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of
Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred
to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”?
Since there are talks about the formation of a definite
security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has
the right to dismantle and confront the centre of
conspiracy against itself, without coordination
with any place or individual.
This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible
to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few
days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks
in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in
Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a
base for the presence of Iranian military personnel.
The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise
if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli
force are possibly present?
Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments
to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will
naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve
the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern
border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States,
Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate
defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten
out of the situation while fraught with humiliation.
They are inciting sedition while they do not have
the power to tolerate and manage the war. If
these acts of sedition are not put aside, they
will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.
(The views expressed in this article.... do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo
before it does any more damage
October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)
By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary
film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”,
enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of
Congress, whose work has been show- cased on international festivals...
including Raindance in London.
Follow Boris on Twitter @malagurski
Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions
in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has
overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and
overstayed its welcome.
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul,
Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the
similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon,
South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to
draw, was with Kosovo.
When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it
sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s
Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as
saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away
control of its Southern province of Kosovo in
1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring
a nation-building project... that seemed to have culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s
provisional authorities declared
independence from Serbia.
It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of
the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent
country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily
dependent on Western aid... and military
support. Most Albanian politicians are
aware of this and they are highly
obedient with regards to NATO,
whose KFOR troops are
‘keeping the peace’
in Kosovo.
However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security
Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war
with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over
Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent
Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The
resolution also called for... the return of an
agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian
personnel to maintain a presence at
significant sites and key border
crossings.... NATO has never
allowed this to happen. The
last Serbian prime minister
who called for this agree-
ment to be honored, was
assassinated in 2003, a little over a month
after his request.
On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation
building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate.
One of the poorest areas of Europe... with as much as
45% of the population living below the official poverty
line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo
Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of
trafficking weapons and human organs,
replaced their military uniforms with
politicians’ suits and are governing
the entity. The previous president
of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’
...is currently being tried for war
crimes, and crimes against
humanity, at The Hague.
He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in
Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with
‘The Snake’.
Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just
the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable
of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into
conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of
negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally
used force --- to implement the removal of
Serbian license plates. And all that NATO
was willing to contribute to deescalate
the tensions... was to offer its KFOR
troops, to replace Kosovo’s special
unit, without even trying to resolve
the essence of the dispute. What
is NATO still doing in Kosovo?
Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan.
Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay
off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it
didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo.
So it’s time for NATO to start packing
its bags.
The statements, views and opinions expressed
in this column, are solely those of the author,
& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.
Image: Iqbal Jassat
“Normalization":Betrayal of Palestineby Arab despots no easy road
by Iqbal Jassat
October 1st, 11am (PressTV)
Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh
measures of violent repression -- accompanied
by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists
given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a
notorious game Israel has elevated to a
daily ritual.
In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all
the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught
up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in ethnic cleansing, is a religious obligation.
Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology
of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed
to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in
the first Zionist congress held on the eve of
the 19th century.
That this is well documented and widely known is
not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's
goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians
from their centuries old homeland and
forcibly impose thereon a foreign
entity known as Israel, has
always been a bedrock
for resistance.
Israel has thus always been considered an enemy
thrust upon a native population through the most
horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir
Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres
committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't
spare hundreds of villages... to
colonize Palestine.
That more than seven decades later the expansionist
goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great
human cost to successive generations of the
indigenous Palestinian population, is
reflected in daily atrocities.
None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as
well as organs of the United Nations, are contested.
Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek
to distort and malign commentators who speak
truth to power, as anti-Semitic.
Yet against this background of terrorism and current
conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass
imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via
mainstream media for all the world to
witness - it is bizarre that a handful
of Arab regimes, have broken rank
with Palestine's freedom struggle.
And at a time when even Haaretz describes
the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:
"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-
eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks
- when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or
even have a picnic on their own land.... But they
cannot recall an attack like the one experienced
Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat
al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat
Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them
masked, conducted what can only be
described as a pogrom."
The treachery associated with what has become known
as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of
betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE,
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes
have in effect confessed that the protection
of their shaky thrones... counts for more...
than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic
values, they have bargained that "normalization" with
the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and
protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt
has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their
intelligence networks and security apparatus to Israel, knowing full well that in doing so, they have abandoned Palestine.
Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an
illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast
to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of
"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously
backed by the Biden administration... has exposed these leaders - as surrogates of western imperialism.
The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords"
reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships.
Besides being financially dependent on its
neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is
designed to entrench its power and
crush any resistance to author-
itarianism or efforts towards
freedom and democracy.
In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings,
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti
-government protests. This trend continues today
by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the
status quo, and preventing the success of any
popular uprisings.
In this context, one may justifiably condemn Bahrain’s gross insensitivity and abject abdication of Palestine's freedom struggle... as treacherous.
Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama
where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag
is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a
Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be
establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has
reportedly said that it has no plans yet to
open an embassy in Khartoum.
Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these
capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-
fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding,
human rights movements (many banned and
leaders exiled) have declared their outright
rejection of America's much-vaunted
Abraham Accords.
Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite
Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain
the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National
Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a
"threat", saying, "This is provocative
news and this trip is completely
rejected, and he (Lapid) should
not set foot on Bahraini soil."
Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli) presence on Bahraini soil --- means incitement."
Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-
based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-
political advocacy group, that concerns
itself with media and political analysis.
(The views expressed in this article do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
Image: Paul Antonopoulos
Greece And FranceTake First Step
Towards European Independence
Following AUKUS Debacle
September 28th (South Front)
by Paul Antonopoulos,
independent geopolitical analyst
Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the
beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.
Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few
to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed
upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However,
Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not
because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up
military state opposed to Russia, as per the
aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself
against the threats of another NATO
member, Turkey.
With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression
against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating
distrust between the Anglosphere and the
Europeans... Greece has ensured new
extra security assurances against
its long-time enemy.
Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights
that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance
are already being felt, as the two countries are making
the first serious steps towards a Europe independent
of Washington.
Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained
that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge”
against the Americans as it will strengthen European
autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours
that a defensive pact between France and
Greece was almost reached last year,
but ultimately broke down at the
last minute for “unknown
reasons.”
To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-
received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.
and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a
deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s
insistence, that a frigate purchase must include a defense agreement.
Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation
Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately
did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With
negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact
last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided
to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This
was rumored to be partially motivated
as part of 'negotiations' to pressure
the French to accept Greek terms.
However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European
trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus
galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European
independence. And finally, a deal to purchase
three brand-new French Belharra-class
frigates, was stricken.
For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the
signing of the agreement that:- “It is an historic day for Greece and France. Today’s development is an
initiative that responds to the demands of the
times on our continent. It paves the way for
an autonomous and strong Europe of the
future. Whether there is a timetable for
creating a European army: the debate
on European military autonomy,
evolves. Options such as this
corporate defense partner-
ship, move to this central
strategic choice.”
Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-
European military that would likely drive out NATO, as
the premier defensive pact in Europe.
Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at
supplanting NATO... is its careful wording.
Although Turkey was not mentioned
explicitly, there is little doubt that
part of the motivation for the
Franco-Greek defense pact
was Turkey’s unilateral
aggression in the
Mediterranean.
Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek
agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga
tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense.
NATO still does not address the problem of
NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the
whole Eastern Mediterranean region.
France and Greece now react and
signed a security bilateral pact.”
The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement
ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its
territory, the other will come to assist, even if the
attacking country is part of other alliances.....
including NATO. This is an obvious message
directed towards Turkey, a NATO member
that on a daily basis violates Greek air-
space and threatens to invade its
Aegean islands.
These violations and threats receive no repercussions from
NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their
economic relations with the country, whilst many
NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a
bulwark against Russia.
France for most of its modern history, but especially
galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had
an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.
The European experience under former U.S.
President, Donald Trump, and the recent
snub from President Joe Biden, with the
AUKUS debacle... has only increased the urgency of achieving European
independence from Washington.
Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will
become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become
independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart
its project alongside Greece.
Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow
states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington
rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have
shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-
political balance in the Mediterranean and will not
wait, while member states continuously bicker
amongst themselves on foreign policy issues.
If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an
independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more
EU member states become interested in also being
integrated into a continental structure that is
independent of transatlantic alliances.
Image: Eric Zuesse
Why did the Taliban win against
the Americans in Afghanistan?
by Eric Zuesse
August 21st, 2021
Why did the communists win
against the Americans in Vietnam?
Why did the communists win
against the capitalists in the
Russian Revolution?
Why did the American Revolutionists
win against the British Empire?
I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because that answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:
When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has been since the creation of the British East India Company in 1600, and as America has been since the end of World War II in 1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC (military-industrial complex), which has inevitably produced the cancerous growth of America’s permanent-warfare state, what, then, is the reason to continue living by staying merely as a colonist or a vassal-regime (or even as the imperialist regime itself), which means, when the imposed regime is so profoundly corrupt --- as any
imperialist power necessarily is --- to accept such corruption, as this?
There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue
living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged
-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as
corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be
intolerable for a significant number of the residents in
any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for
them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll
go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by
the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired
soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And
when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead
of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined
rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such
motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with
a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any
empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it,
because they don’t want to understand how
repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but
their own boot-lickers.
Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place
his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave
and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high
enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes
even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if that’s a foreign power.
No longer will the rationalizations(that “We are protecting the residents here”) be able to continue fooling the invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge- regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime, and its imposed local stooge-government or colony) are there really, to control the local subject-population; and, ultimately, enough of the oppressor’s forces will know this to cause the imposed stooge-government, to be conquered by those indigenous residents there - people who will be recalled as heroes, by the other
residents in that land.
This is an advantage that any revolutionists
have, against the imposed regime.
This is the real meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than
merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it
concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as
Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan;
or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before
America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.
It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country
that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The
invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes
can’t match this motivation.
Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the
residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not
really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy
(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in
Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land
which had not invaded their own.
That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded
America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza
Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.
-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have
been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically
patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore,
lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not
only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan.
(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom
and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have
pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten
unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated
and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been
done without any war between nations, and also fully in
accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being
sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and
Saudi Arabia.
George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as
an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law
so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would,
of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as
high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -
because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945
(i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s
culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the
success of getting away with doing it. However,
everyone else, and especially outside America’s MIC, suffers from it.
What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying
imperialist powers actually earned by having placed
their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back
home, in the country that had invaded and
occupied that colony.
By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a
hero among the locals in a failed revolution against
the imperialist power, any tombstone will be
unnecessary to be that person’s memorial,
because the true memorial is in the heart,
and in the mind, of the locals there, not
in anything that is in the land of the
invading foreign power.
And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that,
whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes
(because their war was just), today’s Americans are
waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust
- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic
defenses against an aggressor). Between
America’s founding and the present time,
America has switched from doing war
against military occupiers, to doing
war as military occupiers.
And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000
troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like
dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,
better equipped and trained, mostly melted and
surrendered with no will to fight.”
What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what
the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era.
It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has
motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces
of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can
happen in any land, at any time.
America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s
how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The
only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.”
They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt
America is.
Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe
Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s
military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as
Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they
didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents
of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden
was evidently willing to risk it.
His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American
people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the
evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed
Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets
invaded there in 1979.
Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has
routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as
bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered
land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people
who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies
such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon.
Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading
politicians, including the members of Congress, and the
Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control.
They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public
to support these invasions and military occupations. The
Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent
not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and
appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,
etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control
their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt
country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All
imperialistic countries, are controlled by their
aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.)
The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -
that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now
rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a
different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans,
America represents only corruption. There is nothing
unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan.
It has been happening for thousands of years, and
it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that
particular location.
However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s
bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably
nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was
learned from America’s invasion & occupation
of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and
occupation of Vietnam, and from the
many other such post-WW-II
American foreign disasters.
For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes
(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the
American people will be learned from history; and, instead,
the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to
be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-
respected of all of the 19 named institutions in America - the world’s permanent- warfare state.
The American military wastes the most money and the most blood
of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it
enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The
way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied
billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.
As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th,
the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander
Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan
Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to
Establish New Government”, and he explained why the
Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and
Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed
state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will
do everything possible to strangle the fully looted
Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US
and its allies have all left that land, the war
against the people there will continue, in
full force, from the same people, though
with different methods.
PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The
true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or
military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said
“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism,
this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence
of Western liberal secularism and individualism.”
He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists
(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender
issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to
consider the financial and economic corruption of the
imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting.
Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to
spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order
for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their
empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and
other religious persons might object only (or even just
mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader
segment of the Afghan population were repelled by
the rampant financial and economic corruption of
the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers.
This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.”
It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even by people who don’t understand what “imperialism” means.
(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)
Image: Iqbal Jassat
Israel is committed to
aggressively pursuing
'Zionist colonialism',
says analyst
August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)
A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly
following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied
Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders
handed out to indigenous Palestinian families in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds, are in line with the regime’s land
expropriation policies: to build more illegal settler homes.
“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which
has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-
cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more
years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member
of Johannesburg-based Media Review
Network, told Press TV, in an
exclusive interview
on Saturday.
He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of
Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard
for the inalienable rights of indigenous
Palestinians to their own lands
and homes.”
“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading
interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under
the international law. It is also indicative of
the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the
former apartheid regime of South
Africa,” Jassat noted.
The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations
and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their
“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and
blatant violations of international
conventions and principles.
“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases
existing within these institutions. These biases prevent
the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home demolitions, expulsions and incremental genocide,” he pointed out.
Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long
guilty conscience has prevented these states from
criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal
practices, as such denunciations would
be treated as anti-Semitic.
“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of
their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,
therefore, place their so-called security goals
above injustices against Palestinians,”
the analyst said.
“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected
despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots
on the false notion... that their security is tied
to Israel. That explains the close proximity
between their notorious intelligence
services and Israel's Mossad
and Shin Bet.”
Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization
agreements that several Arab states have struck with Israel, have stifled opposition to the Tel Aviv regime’s colonialist and expansionist policies.
He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians'
struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,
has even resulted in the regime being granted
observer status, at the African Union.
Image: Finian Cunningham
Russia-Chinathe Endgame
by Finian Cunningham
July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)
The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week
spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the
never-ending wars that it spawns.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi
Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-
Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July
2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a
mutual commitment to peace, prosperity
and global stability.
As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China
is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-
political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique
reference to the US-led Western states which are
driven by ratcheting up antagonism and
tensions with Moscow and Beijing,
using all sorts of spurious
complaints.
The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat)
and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and
China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the
daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just
how much the agenda has become irrationally
hostile towards Moscow and Beijing.
Week after week there are unfounded allegations about
Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind
up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of
Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a
world order that has reached its expiration.
Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative
geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle
the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific
with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision
of a multipolar world where nations cooperate
for mutual development.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with
Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and
Russia is a key partner in implementing that
ambitious win-win project for global peace
and prosperity.
This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western
capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance,
control and exploitation for American and European
profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system
necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...
whereby the natural resources of foreign
nations are commandeered by brute
military force, conflict, subjugation,
subterfuge, skulduggery and
other machinations.
The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia
and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system.
And that explains why the Americans and their European
vassals make every effort to demonize and distort
Russia and China.
But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is
unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that
all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only
reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.
It’s about people-centered development ...
versus profit-driven disorder.
Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a
geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest
national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.
kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s
total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that
Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of
natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry,
agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of
highly advanced technology in multiple
sectors. And... it shares a long land
border with China, for easing trade.
Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten
times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and
manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian
resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy.
China has already become the world’s biggest
economy over the United States, according
to some measures.
The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are
also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always
based on an extractive predatory relationship with the
rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting
conflict and poverty on others.
As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for
mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably
entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,
which are atrophying from massive inequality,
indebtedness, moral decadence and
social decay.
Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have
military defenses from new generations of hypersonic
weaponry that make them impregnable against any
warmongering notions by the United States. A
failing empire like the US and its Western
satellites is always a dangerous time, as
it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse,
but starting a war with Russia & China
...is not an option.
The views & opinions expressed in the article
do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.
Image: Barry Grossman
Barry Grossman:US, Israel
Adopting Bullying Tactics
for ICC War Crimes
Investigation in
Palestine
June 30th (FNA)
Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political
commentator focused on human rights related issues.
He has been extensively published, on various legal
subjects and is a frequent commentator on political
affairs. He has taught law at the University of
Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash
University’s Faculty of Law.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the
issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel?
A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that
“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,
this is pure antisemitism”.
There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;
indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long
standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and
all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken
seriously, by a growing and very substantial
minority of people in the wider population.
Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism
or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the
unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended
consequence of discrediting even the most
genuine efforts to draw attention to those
people whose speech is, indeed,
motivated by little more than
hatred for Jews.
Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to
Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC
can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?
A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the
Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course
preceded by pressure and instructions from think-
tanks, as well as the security/policy making
apparatus, which are, of course, fully
infiltrated by individuals promoting
Zionist agendas.
In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared
their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already
clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics,
including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety
corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers
involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of
the ICC to fall into line.
That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities
raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the
ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider
the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes
and other violations of international law, perpetrated
by the occupation.
The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability
to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and
Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World
nations continue to provide unqualified support for
the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain
neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the
occupation’s crimes.
A second very significant strategic issue arises from a
prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order
to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s
crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to
investigate violations of international law alleged
against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---
bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict
does not concern itself with the order in
which things played out and any finding
against Palestinian groups will certainly
receive far more traction, both in the
international community as well as
in occupied Palestine, than any
finding of culpability on the
part of the occupation.
Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as
having much to gain from this process, but it
does stand to lose no small part of the
standing in public opinion, which it
has taken decades to develop, at
the cost of thousands of
Palestinian lives.
Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not
a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?
A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation
is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a
sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not
yet extended Palestine’s observer nation
status to full membership --- the way it
quickly recognized Israel’s existence
as a full member, in 1949.
It is also worth remembering that
31 UN member nations still do
not recognize Israel.
Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian
delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings
investigating allegations of war crimes and
other violations of international law
committed against Palestinians by
Israeli nationals & organizations,
even though Israel is not, itself,
a party to the ICC treaty.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA),
whose statehood and sovereignty has been
subject to intense dispute across the
international community... is a
signatory to the Rome Statute
(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it
would be bizarre, if it was
not permitted to have a
delegation present, at
the ICC proceedings.
Image: US Encirclement of China
US Encirclement of China:
A 'Progress' Report
by Brian Berletic
May 22nd (The Saker)
We post this long-read article in full -
as the New Eastern Outlook site has
been down for a number of days.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely
the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s
time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US
efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.
Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly aimed at encircling and containing China’s rise, and maintaining primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.
The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in
regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:
…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the
July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only
if they are in support of a long-run United States policy
to contain China.
The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major
power threatening to undercut [American] importance
and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but
more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against
[America].
The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are),
“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the
Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c)
the Southeast Asia front.”
Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military
presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two
decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both
Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence
of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-
throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly
with China and replacing them with US-backed
client regimes – this policy to contain China
endures up to today.
Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals
the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and
the various dangers to global peace and stability
Washington’s continued belligerence poses.
The Japan-Korea Front
Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to
Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:
In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan
and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more
than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-
deployed US force anywhere in the world.
The article notes that according to the US Government
Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion
to maintain military presences in Japan and South
Korea between 2016 and 2019.”
The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to
why this massive US military presence is maintained in
East Asia:
“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free
and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response
to emergencies and are essential for US national
security.”
“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical
presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US
forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary and claims of promoting a “free and open Indo- Pacific region” is highly subjective – begging the question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific “free and open”.
And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-
Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed
increasing pressures on both Japan and South
Korea to not only help shoulder this financial
burden, but to also become more proactive
within Washington’s containment strategy
toward China.
Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself,
Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also
known as the “Quad.”
Rather than the US solely depending on its own military
forces based within Japanese territory or supported by
its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with
India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to
take part in military exercises and operations
in and around the South China Sea.
India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US
3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-
ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.
The India-Pakistan Front
In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the
US helps encourage escalation through political
support and media campaigning of India’s
various territorial disputes with China.
The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing
relationship with China – including the support of
armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan
appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to
Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.
The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb:
Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”
would claim:
Initial reports had suggested the target
was China’s ambassador.
Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta
but was not present at the hotel at the time of the
attack on Wednesday.
The article also noted:
Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,
is home to several armed groups, including
separatists.
Separatists in the region want independence from the
rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and
China of exploiting Balochistan, one of
Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its
gas and mineral wealth.
Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and
open support the US government has provided these
separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is
more than just a local uprising against perceived
injustice, but yet another example of armed
conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington
against China.
As far back as 2011 publications like The National
Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would
openly advocate expanding US support for
separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
The article was written by the late Selig Harrison
--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based
(corporate-financier funded) Centre for
International Policy --- & would claim:
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the
heart of Baluch territory. So an independent
Baluchistan... would serve US strategic
interests, in addition to the immediate
goal, of countering Islamist forces.
Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-
Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both
fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a
pretext for Western intervention. Citing
“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan,
Pakistan - clearly - serves as an example of the latter.
In addition to op-eds published by influential policy
think tanks, US legislators like US Representative
Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions
such as (emphasis added),
“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution
104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that
the people of Baluchistan, currently divided
between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan,
have the right to self-determination and
to their own sovereign country.”
There is also funding provided to adjacent, political
groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan,
Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s
own National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) website under “Pakistan.”
Organizations like the “Association for Integrated
Development Balochistan” are funded by the US government and used to mobilize people
politically, constituting clear interference
by the US, in Pakistan’s internal
political affairs.
The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s
growing global network of infrastructure projects, as
part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US
clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated robust strategies to counter it; everything up to and including, open war, as seen in the Pentagon Papers, regarding the Vietnam War.
The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates
that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local
militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and
is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy:
of encircling and containing China.
The Southeast Asia Front
Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider
effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia
...and deny the region from fueling China’s inevitable rise.
The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating
from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself
repair relations amongst themselves and with China.
Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their
largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-
structure development, a key supplier for the region’s
armed forces, as well as providing the majority of
tourism arrivals throughout the region. For
countries like Thailand, more tourists
arrive from China, than from all
Western nations combined.
Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have
nothing to benefit from by participating in American
belligerence toward China, the US has found it
necessary to cultivate and attempt to install
into power various client regimes. This has
been an ongoing process, since the
Vietnam War.
The US has targeted each nation individually for years.
In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile,
Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters
in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included
some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-
wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of
over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and
bystanders.
In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in
Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for
over a decade, in building up the opposition.
Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment for Democracy subsidiary – the International
Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, that same year, that:
…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked
to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess
what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.
He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a
direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into
power, within the Malaysian government, stating:
I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders
the new leaders of this government, many of whom
were just our partners we had been working with
for 15 years and one of the most senior of them
who’s now one of the people running the
government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you
never gave up on us even when we
were ready to give up
on ourselves.’
Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia ---- Twining
would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering
in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve
US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but
in regards to the entire region and specifically
toward encircling and containing China.
Twining would boast:
…guess what one of the first steps the
new government took? It froze Chinese
infrastructure investments.
And that:
[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is
probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this
is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s
an example of the long game.
It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over
the decades --- with NED money building a parallel
political system within the nation and eventually
leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed
National League for Democracy (NLD) party
taking power in 2016.
For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for
opposition groups there, that the elections virtually
guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single
time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s
own website alone... lists over 80 programs and
organizations receiving US government money
- for everything from election polling, and
building up political parties - to funding
media networks and “environmental”
groups used to block any Chinese-
initiated infrastructure projects.
The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year,
ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant to correct this.
However, in addition to backing political groups
protesting in the streets, the US has – for many
decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels
across the country. These rebels have now
linked up with the US-backed NLD and are
repeating the US-backed regime change
tactics used against the Arab World in 2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen,
and Syria – including explicit calls
for “international intervention.”
A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”
Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US
State Department, in a bid to create synergies across
its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has
introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform
individual US-backed regime change efforts in Asia, into a region-wide crisis.
The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea
Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-
democracy activists,” and that:
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing protesters, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar.
Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”
(intentionally) is the actual common denominators that
unite it – US funding through fronts like the National
Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred
of China - based exclusively on talking points
pushed by the US State Department itself.
Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the
coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to
encircle China with – we can then look at more
recent US government policy papers like the
“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the
White House archives from the Trump
administration.
The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:
How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific
region, and promote a liberal economic order, while
preventing China from establishing new, illiberal
spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of
cooperation to promote regional peace
and prosperity?
The paper also discusses information campaigns designed
to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour
and to influence operations around the globe.” These
campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war
fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in
Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom
company Huawei is a global security threat,
and that China – not the US – is the single
largest threat to global peace and
stability today.
In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is
predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue
its own decades-long impunity upon the global
stage, and the continuation of all the wars,
humanitarian crises, and abuses, that
have stemmed from it.
Understanding the full scope of Washington’s
“competition” with China... helps unlock the
confusion surrounding unfolding individual
crises like the trade war; the ongoing
violence and turmoil in Myanmar;
bombings in southwest Pakistan;
students mobs in Thailand; riots
in Hong Kong; and attempts by
the US to transform the South
China Sea, into an inter- national conflict.
Understanding that these events are all connected - then
assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us a clearer picture of the overall success of Washington in encircling China. It also gives governments and
regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage policy, in protecting against US subversion: that threatens national, regional, and global peace
and stability.
Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
Australians should be ashamed that they have a regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!
Image: sanctions infograph
How Exceptional America Is
by Eric Zuesse
September 30th, 2020
America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes
at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only
Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and
all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to
prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other
nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions,
the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get
them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark,
and less embarrassing, America’s international
isolation. But America is also extraordinarily
exceptional in other ways, which have
nothing to do with the UN.
America is truly an exceptional nation. As the
Republican Party magazine National Review
stated, on September 15th, “Last week,
the US and Israel were the only states to vote against a General Assembly resolution on the coronavirus response. Some have seized upon that vote to paint the
USt as a bad faith actor that stands alone in the world.”
However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global
coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even
more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against
Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other
countries that the U.S. regime considers to be
its enemies. (None of these countries ever
invaded or even threatened to invade
the USA; all of those sanctions are
100% U.S. aggression.
They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy
wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned
countries are marked in red -- on the map of the
world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions
against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely
invades and bombs Syria just for good measure.
So, it joined America’s position on that.
That UN General Assembly vote was held on September
11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day,
“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel
object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body
adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine
and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity
by the UN’s most representative body, though many
countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.”
The AP further stated:
It calls on governments and international financial institutions
“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially
in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that
“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and
just societies, including by empowering and engaging all
women and girls.”
And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and
environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery
efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic
policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement
to combat climate change. …
By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to
urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying
any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in
accordance with international law and the Charter of the
United Nations that impedes the full achievement of
economic and social development, particularly in
developing countries.”
The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in
attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution,
one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and
reproductive health” --- and the other --- to
“promoting global sustainable transport.”
In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions,
the United States opposed all references to the World
Health Organization, which the US administration had
stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing
to do enough to stop the virus from spreading
when it first surfaced in China.
Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that
in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted
against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only
that there had been “objections from the United States
and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of
the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision
to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of
omission that is common in propaganda. America
was more isolated than that ‘news’-report
made clear.
This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of
the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about
any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share
those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition
to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.
In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime
--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions
include, for example, punishments against any company
or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96%
completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany,
for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of
America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S.
regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-
Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG).
That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to
prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional,
because European nations haven’t customarily been treated
as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating
purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia),
as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated
this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19
and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization
because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese
Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a
legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security,
and other national and international objectives, and
the United States is not alone in that view or in that
practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier,
been stated by the US regarding a different matter,
on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is
very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was
also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing
corporations and countries to not buy from the
lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign
right to do.
However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was
the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th
June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear
grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no
matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and
asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).
Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly
claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one
indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US
was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on
24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3
Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-
Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on
November 21st, only 3 countries - the US, Ukraine, and Canada — voted against a resolution to condemn racist fascism,
or nazism, and to condemn denial of Germany’s World War II Holocaust against, primarily, Jews.''
This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115
in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were
in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was
opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015,
I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues
Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again,
Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power,
had stood up for nazism; she had just
delivered an address -- in Ukraine --
rallying that country’s supporters
of nazism to war against Russia.
Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump
Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and
reported that:
On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting
through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that
condemns bigotry, and especially condemns
nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet
again, continues in the tradition from his
predecessors, Presidents Obama, and
Bush, each year, placing this nation in
the company of only one or two U.S.
allies throughout the world who join
with the US in refusing to commit to
opposing and doing everything to
reduce, not just political Nazism
(which, of course, is past), but
ideological nazism, racist
fascism - institutionalized
bigotry (which, sadly, is
not past).
But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in
many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.
There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able
to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that
although publicly available reports allege it spends
approximately 37% of the entire world’s military
expenditures, the U.S. regime actually - spends
around 50% of the entire world’s military costs,
and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary
physical capacity to impose its will, if and
when merely economically blockading an
‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to do the job of getting it to comply.
And the other main reason is that, since the US government
is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is,
but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging
pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their
cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are
being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s
billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the
empire that is imposed.)
American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of
exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims
to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.
(Strategic Culture Foundation)
Image: sanctions map
Please watch the video above... We have never existed in such peril, and yet almost no-one is able to act.
Nuclear words: Putin's FINAL warning:
(People DO need reminding -- unless US, UK and French policy changes, and stops being so 'exceptional' -- that is, outside the UN legal Charter and thus, criminal --- there will be a reaping.)
World Will Not Survive the US' Neocons' Doctrine of US World Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
"The government of the United States is clearly in demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof", writes American well known analytist and ex- official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.
Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the House Intelligence Committee was released that is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat National Committee, are now in a conspiracy against American democracy and the President of the United States, with the full support of the presstitute media.
As if that is not enough, also released today, is the Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear posture review specifies a country’s attitude to nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear attack. The assumption was that no one would use them. There was always the chance that false warnings of incoming ICBMs would result in a nuclear button being pushed - setting off Armageddon.
There were many false warnings during the Cold War
President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.
This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War, which he succeeded in doing. It did not take successor governments long, to resurrect the Cold War.
The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible, and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part of the existing arsenal of the United States would be sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in First Strikes, even against countries that do not have nuclear weapons.
This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive increase in the threat level from the US.
Those responsible for this document should be committed to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they can put it into action.
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators. Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.
As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this explains US hostility toward Russia and China and also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military to remove governments in the Middle East, seen by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For two decades --- the US has been fighting wars for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves the power and influence of the insane neo- conservatives. It is certain, that people as insane as the neoconservatives, would launch a nuclear attack on Russiaand China.
The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be completely unaware of the threat that the neo- conservatives pose to them. I have never experienced in interviews with Russians and Chinese, any awareness of the neo- conservative ideology. Possibly, it is too insane for them to grasp.
Ideologues such as the neoconservatives are not fact-based
They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia & China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions of Russia or China, would lead to the total defeat of US forces.
Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be used to destroy Russia and China.
Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them- selves and others that they impose on the world.
Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
By its collaboration with the military/security complex & the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on US unilateralism.
The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed “hegemony or death.”
They will get death. For all of us.
(Source - DONi News Agency)
According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org
Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb ''restored by May 2017''
DPR authorities have finished restoring the Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.
‘Saur Tomb has been being restored since November, and we planned to finish this by May 2017’, the Minister said.
He said "many people contributed to this project of restoration of the memorial damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.
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Cool Russia!
[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass, "Toys for Poroshenko" Music Video by Artem Grishanov
POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES. I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't - please seek psychiatric help.
Full Text: Official Declaration of the Malorossiyan Federation
Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya, (means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine. DONi News Agency
On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical and cultural centre, without the status of capital city.
Here is the full English translation of the declaration:
Political Declaration
The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago and implemented in different versions during the 20th century, has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands of people, including children, women, and elderly people.
And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos, escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.
To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation and came to the following conclusions:
- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants a peaceful and prosperous present and future;
- the current authorities – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat, against the backdrop of political terror and the absence of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;
- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of economic catastrophe and depopulation;
- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power insteadof "Banderites with a European face";
- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one) has discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians' blood in the country;
- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic, mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism, Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of national exclusivity and superiority);
- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan, the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn, and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and Genocide of the Donbass people.
On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.
We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine", propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine" as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror and the genocide of its own people.
In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways forever, including because of participation in the civil war, on different sides of the front line.
We must turn the page of our people's history, which is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.
Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state structure, new principles of social and economic development, and new historical prospectives.
But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.
In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos & disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it necessary to declare a state of emergency for the transition period – up to 3 years. During this time, the process of adoption of the new Constitution and the establishment of the rule of law, should be completed.
Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced, & penalties for criminal offenses, especially against the person, are to be increased. The fight against corruption will be toughened, as well as the penalties for it.The shadow arms market is to be eliminated, including by registering weapons in accordance with the new law.
In the same period an investigation is to be carried out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –- from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime: the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd, 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the so-called ATO.
In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be prepared to charge the state criminals who have led the country into disintegration and civil war: V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique: Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby, Nalivaichenko and others.
We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to build a new society on the basis of friendship and mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The creative genius of our people will manage to bring Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization and play a role in history. The role of Good, and Truth.
Official translation by the DONi Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017
(Source - Russia Insider)
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Nato – A Dangerous Alliance May 24th
As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace
When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism, some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too. After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato and furthermore, to expand it.
Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course, was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers. Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin, the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for the new Nato members because of the policy on “interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being able to use the same military equipment, it was out with the old Soviet military hard- ware and in with sales of, for example, Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing millions of dollars.
This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece. Think of the situation in Greece today.
Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in the West, took no notice.
To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin: more and more of the Russian people believe that “the West” is against them.
Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic states, to deter Russian aggression.”
From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear armed policy. It continues to claim that nuclear weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear weapons do not deter conflict.
Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism. Remember September 11th 2001, when New York was attacked by terrorists in planes, brandishing knives?
The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly on alert at sea.
Were these any use in the madman’s attack on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?
Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”
When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations to Nato.”
Under the direction of the US administration, with its policy of global domination, Nato has established a string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, at Incirlik.
The latter is now causing deep problems as relations between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the US, become more and more fractious.
There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?
Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.
The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply means, a domination of policies by the US.
Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organisations around the globe.”
In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.
Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.
Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with ''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East. Few people realise that Nato carries out military exercises with Israel.
Nato has also established bilateral relations — named individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.
Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation between Nato and the United Nations continues to make a substantial contribution to security in operations round the world.
“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”
This seems like Nato bidding to be the UN's military arm.
This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe, set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to prevent and resolve conflict by non-military means and to promote co-operation in humanitarian and other fields.
The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read of their work in the press, compared with the times you hear about Nato?
Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all, the US is home to the finest PR companies in the world.
To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:
- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the list is endless.
- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones, bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of moves for conflict resolution.
- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside their territory and increase their presence through world- wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”
- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe — under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost of £205 billion.
The Nato summit will be held and activists will beholding a “counter-summit” with protesters organising workshops and a demonstration.
CND activists will be there from the UK, but -- we also need people to raise the issues with their MPs, write letters to the press and raise awareness on social media.
Let’s put pressure on the government to invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.
(Source - Morning Star)
In 2017 in the Donbass - give the children Peace!
Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian Ukraine demand autonomy
Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes -- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian (sub-Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned to President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:
recognize the results of 1991's regional referendum --- when 78% of the region's residents, voted in favor of granting it the status of a self-governing region.
"We have two main demands - to recognize the Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge the regional referendum of 1991, where 78% sub-Carpathians voted for the region being a self-governed territory within Ukraine," Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the leader of the Ruthene movement & a member of the People’s Council's presidium of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenes.
Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene ethnic organizations it is important to maintain the Ruthene language by establishing minimal norms for broadcasting in the native tongue, over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.
This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub- Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region turned to the central authorities with the same requirement, the previous time, in the summer of 2015.
It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe & the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary, the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian government towards accepting the result of their referendum.
The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider them to be a separate ethnos, and continue calling them Ukrainians, although the UN has issued recommendations more than once, to recognize their status as a separate ethnos.
More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of Ruthene organizations of making appeals for encroachments on the territorial integrity of the country.
(source - TASS)
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Zionist lobby preventing West from criticizing Israel: Analyst Fri Dec 16, 2016
The European Union has censured the Israeli regime for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in the occupied territories. According to a statement by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military control.
Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.
“Every government within the EU has a very strong Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that the Western people are facing,”Hall explained.
“Not only the governing parties but the opposition parties as well, are constraining discussion and discourse within a very narrow range, that puts Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our Western countries,”he added.
The professor also called on Western citizens to“intervene directly and make contact with the Palestinian people, directly.”
“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada, & citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass the constraints of our governments & the biases and power of this lobby over our governments,” he noted.
Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting of homes demolished in Palestine.
“This type of numerical accounting fails to really describe the nature of this destruction of homes in its broader context ------ where thousands of Palestinian people are in dungeons and being tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,” he said.
“The reality: that the world is letting this happen is very discouraging,” he added.
Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian state is no longer viable, given the emphasis on building up settlements, and destroying the structures of the indigenous people of Palestine.
"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.
The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in the West Bank to build illegal settler units has affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom, 1,221 have been rendered homeless, including 586 children.
(source - PressTv)
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UN Adopts"Paper Tiger" Resolution, on Israel's Withdrawal from the Syrian Golan
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi -The UN General Assembly adopted yet another resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.
However, UN General Assembly resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with- out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN Security Council members, to enforce them; A highly unlikely prospect.
In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly again condemned Israel's non-compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).
The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose Israeli laws, administration & custody on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and void -- and has no legality at all.
The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of UN member States.
The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of acquiring territories ----- through the use of military force. The General Assembly also repeated that Israel's continued occupation & enforcement of Israeli law & administration violates international law, the UN Charter, & the Geneva Convention's principles on the protection of civilians during war.
During the UNGA session, a number of states condemned the Israeli practices in occupied Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.
37 states proposed the now adopted draft resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, unless permanent Security Council members are willing to put their money where their mouth was, when they adopted UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.
Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took any tangible steps when the now former Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, defiantly declared that "Israel and the Golan are part and parcel" and that "the international community should get used to facing the fact that Israel will permanently annex the Syrian territory".
Most favourite scapegoat
The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC members, with regard to supporting Israel and neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan is the US. However, Russia is in no way more actively pursuing Israel's adherence with UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) -- than any other -- of the self-anointed permanent UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were ominously silent about the Golan when Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Moscow.
Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.
A brief review of recent history pertaining to the Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices to show that the UN System has failed, utterly, and that it is perverted to the point that many analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.
In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement & Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press that Israel is -- running a joint operations room with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan.The UNSC failed to respond and more importantly, failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, has displaced about half a million of the Golan´s original inhabitants.
Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in the Golan to show how much Israel cares and does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.
In March 2014, Israel launched one of many military attacks against Syrian military and security forces, from the Golan, while the UNSC and most media were "silent".
In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi, a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon, was appointed to head the Israeli Defense Forces Northern Command.
NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof Lehmann, reported that the appointment of Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning large-scale military operations in the Golan in the near future and the widening of the Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.
In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel would hold on to the Golan.
A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF... In 2013, it transpired that Israel was giving support to Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence and military operations room in the Israeli occupied Golan, plus logistical support, weapons, field hospitals, and direct combat support.
In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.
All permanent UNSC members with the exception of Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively spoke out against terminating the peace keeping mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.
In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan. Partners in crime include Genier Energy.
On the board of directors? Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry Summers and Michael Steinhardt, among others. Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and control of what's believed to be potentially vast untapped oil and gas resources in the country.
On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor- in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's "Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia, as a permanent UNSC member. On April 21st, after talks between Netanyahu and Putin in Moscow, it could be concluded that Russia failed -- spectacularly.
In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
In October 2016, Israel announced plans to build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan, & none of the permanent UNSC members took any action.
So much for the latest UN General Assembly paper tiger.
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The UK Labour MPs who didn’t back the Yemen vote have blood on their hands by David Wearing
Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP group than from her own supposed comrades.
According to subsequent reports, some Labour members even tried to work with their Tory counterparts, in order to defeat their own party’s motion.
Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that British support is “precisely focused on training the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to “create fewer civilian casualties” - parroting the official government line. The idea that the Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks on civilian targets are just a series of well- meaning errors, is one that, to put it as gently as possible, lacks credibility.
And if decades of training provided by the British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented these supposed errors by now --- it seems rather unlikely that it will in the near future.
In any case, this misrepresents the true nature of the UK's role. When the intervention began, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed to “support the Saudis in every practical way short of engaging in combat”, including “spare parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply” and “logistical support”. The reality is that the Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and half US-supplied jets, could barely function, without this ongoing assistance from Washington and London.
If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.
The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air forces are providing active, material support. And British and American politicians can only collude in these outrages, because the political cost on them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the gift of their constituents – you, the reader – to change that equation.
(source - The Guardian)
This could be defeated --- with a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!
But unfortunately, there are "entryist" MPs who, for decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda... and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.
129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The vote was defeated by a majority of 90.
The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn from the Saudi government until a United Nations investigation could determine whether the Saudi bombing had breached international law.
The motion didn't explicitly include a suspension of UK arms sales.
100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion. If all of them had voted to support it, the government would have been defeated.
The following, are the Labour MPs who abstained, or weren't present to vote.
Adrian Bailey Andy Burnham Angela Eagle Angela Smith Ann Clwyd Ann Coffey Anna Turley Barry Sheerman Ben Bradshaw Bridgit Phillipson Caroline Flint Catherine McKinnell Chris Bryant Chris Elmore (Teller) Chris Evans Chris Leslie Clive Lewis (ill) Connor McGinn Dan Jarvis David Crausby David Lammy Diana Johnson Fiona MacTaggart Frank Field Gareth Thomas Gavin Shuker Geoffrey Robinson George Howarth Gerald Kaufman Gill Furniss Gisela Stuart Gloria De Piero Graeme Jones Graham Allen Graham Stringer Heidi Alexander Helen Jones Ian Austin Ian Murray Ivan Lewis Jamie Reed Jim Fitzpatrick Joan Ryan John Mann John Spellar John Woodcock Judith Cummins (Teller) Julie Elliott Kate Hoey Keith Vaz Kevan Jones Kevin Barron Liz Kendall Luciana Berger Lucy Powell Madeleine Moon Margaret Beckett Margaret Hodge Maria Eagle Mark Hendrick Mary Creagh Meg Hillier (Paired) Melanie Onn Michael Dugher Mike Gapes Natascha Engel Neil Coyle Nia Griffith Pat McFadden Paul Flynn Peter Kyle Phil Wilson Rachel Reeves Rob Flello Rob Marris Roberta Blackman-Woods Rosie Cooper Rushanara Ali Ruth Smeeth Shabana Mahmood Siobhain McDonagh Stephen Kinnock Susan Jones Toby Perkins Tom Blenkinsopp Tom Watson Tracy Brabin Tristram Hunt Vernon Coaker Wayne David Wes Streeting Yasmin Qureshi Yvonne Fovargue
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Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He also wrote the chapters on “Obama at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive (Lol) Leader.
In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of other African countries, jeopardizing the future of an international court, which has prosecuted 39 officials from 8 African countries, but has failed to indict a single person who is not African.
Ironically, African countries were among the first to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround that they are now the first to give up on it.
But it is the United States that has played the leading role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war crimes - not least, international aggression, which the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme international crime”, from which, all other war crimes follow.
As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011: “You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize that if you want to deter a crime, you must persuade potential criminals that, if they commit crimes, they will be hauled into court and be held accountable. It is the policy of the US to do just the opposite as far as the crime of aggression is concerned.
"Our government has gone to great pains --- to be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any international criminal court, for the supreme crime of illegal war-making.”
The US has not only refused to accept the jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens. It's gone further, pressuring other countries to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA), in which they renounce the right to refer US citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed on their territory.
The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs violate those countries’ own commitments under the ICC statute, and US pressure to sign them, has been rightly condemned: as an outrageous effort to ensure impunity for US war crimes.
Resistance to US Impunity
To the credit of our international neighbours, this US strategy has met with substantial resistance. The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible with EU membership, and urging EU- member states and countries seeking EU membership not to sign them.
Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those countries are on record as having ratified the BIAs in their own parliaments.
Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament- ary ratification, but this has been challenged by their own country’s legal experts in many cases.
The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part of a much broader effort by the US government to evade all forms of accountability under the laws that are supposed to govern international behaviour in the modern world --- even as it continues to masquerade as a global champion of the rule of law.
The treaties US policy systematically violates today, were crafted by US statespersons and diplomats, working with foreign colleagues, to build a world where all people will enjoy some basic protections... from the worst atrocities, instead of being subject only to the law of the jungle or “might makes right.”
So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of the work and wisdom of past generations of US citizens, as well as of countless victims over the world to whom we are effectively denying the protections of the UN Charter & Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and many other multilateral treaties our country ignores, violates or refuses to ratify.
Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts is only one of the ways that the US evades international accountability for its criminal behaviour. Another involves an elaborate, well-disguised, public relations campaign that exploits the powerful position of US corporations in the world of commercial media.
Major Propaganda Funding
The US government spends a billion dollars per year on public relations or, more bluntly, propaganda, including $600 million from the Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams and contractors is laundered by US news- papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving TV networks.
These profitable corporate operations monopolize the public airwaves in the US, and also use their financial clout, slick marketing, and the support of the US State Department to maintain a power- ful presence in foreign and international media markets.
Foreign media in allied countries provide further legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points and narratives as they echo around the world. Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV screens across the world with an idealized, glamorized, inspirational version of the US that still mesmerizes many people.
This whole elaborate “information warfare” machine presents the US as a global leader for democracy, human rights and the rule of law, even as it systematically and catastroph- ically undermines those same principles. It enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively, demonize other countries and their leaders as dangerous violators of international law, even as the US and its allies commit far worse crimes.
Double Standards
The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in the Western media - when the US government launches wars, across international borders. In the past 20 years, the US has violated the UN Charter to attack at least eight countries (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the resulting wars, have killed about two million people.
A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages on in all the countries where the US and its allies have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and the Western media are quick to accuse Russia or other countries of “aggression” --- even in legally murky situations, such as after the US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the elected president of Ukraine.)
Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions are an integral part of US war-making. Most are shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine spins the atrocities that slip through into the public record, as a disconnected series of aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,” instead of as the result of illegal rules of engagement and unlawful orders from higher-ups.
The senior officers and civilian officials who are criminally responsible for these crimes in US & international law -- systematically abuse their powerful positions to subvert investigations, cover up their crimes, & avoid any accountability whatsoever.
Pinter’s Complaint
When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak about the real role the US plays in the world, and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter recounted a meeting at the US Embassy in London in the 1980s in which a senior embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ---- for which the US was in fact, convicted of aggression by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the UK, and then Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.
As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no means restricted to Central America. It was conducted throughout the world. It was never-ending. And it is --- as if it never happened.
“The United States supported - and in many cases engendered every rightwing military dictatorship in the world, after the end of the Second World War. I refer to:- Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.
“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did... they take place? & are they in all cases, attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes', they did take place, and are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ- ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to the US. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power, worldwide, while masquerading... as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant - even witty - highly successful, act of hypnosis.”
If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US lacks the will to use force or project power, as both major party candidates for President, & their military advisers appear to believe, but because our leaders have placed too much stock in the illegal threat and use of force, and have lost faith in the rule of law, any international cooperation and diplomacy.
After a century of commercial dominance, & 75 years of investing disproportionately in weapons, military forces & geopolitical schemes, perhaps it is understandable that US leaders have forgotten how to deal fairly and respectfully with our international neighbours. But it's no longer an option, to muddle along, leaving a trail of death, ruin and chaos in our wake, counting on an elaborate propaganda mach- ine, to minimize the blowback on our country and our lives.
Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our leaders must knuckle down and master the very different attitudes & skills that we will need to become law-abiding global citizens in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.
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Russia ends treaty limiting plutonium production in response to recent US escalation of hostility Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - translated by J. Arnoldski
TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending compliance with the agreement with the US on disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main reason for this decision was pointed out as the “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”
Sources from the State Duma have reported that Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus, Russia demands that the US reduce its military contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes compliance with the protocols. The State Duma’s statement reads:
“Acting according to the agreement and the protocols of the agreement can be resumed after the US eliminates the reasons which led to this radical change in circumstances: after the US reduces its military infrastructure and the number of its troop contingents deployed on the territory of the NATO countries having joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down to the level at which they were on the day that the agreement and its protocols entered force.
"Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”
In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call- ed Magnitsky Act.
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US/UK elite bankrolled A. Hitler
Germans were paid in company shares for loans that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus US capital began to actively integrate into the German economy.
The total amount of foreign investment in German industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.
As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.
"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main supplier of the German war machine, financed 45% of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".
Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG were owned by "General Electric") and through the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone network in Germany.
In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air- craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".
"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont family, established control over "Opel".
Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co, the second largest industrial monopoly in Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke" (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick, Wolff, Feglera etc.
US co-operation with Germany's military- industrial complex, was so intense and pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors of German industry, & large banks such as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Donat Bank, etc, were all under the control of US financial capital.
The political force that was intended to play a crucial role in the Anglo-American plans was being simultaneously prepared.
We are talking about the funding of the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.
As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large sums from abroad. Where they went, is not known, but they were received through Swiss and Swedish banks.
It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a meeting took place between A. Hitler and the military attache of the US to Germany -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled a detailed report for his Washington superiors (in the office of military intelligence), in which he spoke highly of Hitler.
Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A. Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard University who played an important role in the formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered him significant financial support, and secured for him, acquaintance & communication with, senior British figures.
Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the periphery of public life... The situation changed dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.
In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US stock exchange was triggered by the Federal Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US financial circles' strategy, had started.
The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.
In September 1931, England abandoned the gold standard, deliberately destroying international payments systems and completely cutting off "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.
But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi party: in September 1930 as a result of large donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous investments from abroad were activated.
The main link between the major German industrialists and foreign financiers, became H. Schacht.
On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held with the largest English financier, a Mr M. Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which concluded a secret agreement on the financing of the NSDAP.
This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers, the Dulles brothers --- something their biographers do not like to mention.
On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place, where Hitler's program was fully approved. It was here that they finally resolved the issue of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.
The implementation of the next stage of the strategy thus began.
The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles to the new government was very sympathetic. When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which naturally called into question the payment of war debts, neither the UK or France pressed their payment claims.
Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933, H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with the President and the biggest bankers on Wall Street, the US allocated Germany new loans --- totalling $1 billion.
In June, during a trip to London & a meeting with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then the cessation of payments, on old loans.
Thus, the Nazis got what they could not achieve with the previous government.
In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo- German transfer agreement, which became one of the foundations of British policy towards the Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany became the main trading partner of England.
Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder, Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome "economic propagandist axis".
As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4- year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans, so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.
In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then built large oil refineries which supplied the Nazis with oil.
At the same time, Germany secretly took delivery of the most modern equipment for aircraft factories, from the US, which would begin producing German planes.
Germany gained large numbers of military patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney, Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was US technology, building the Junkers-87.
In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging --- US investments in Germany's economy amounted to $475 million. Standard oil invested - 120 million, General motors - $35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford - $17.5 million.
The close financial & economic co-operation of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles, was the backdrop against which, in the 30's, a policy of appeasement led to world war II.
Today, as the world's financial elite begins to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan with its subsequent transition to the "new world order", identifying its key role in the organization of crimes against humanity, becomes a priority.
Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical sciences, academician of the Academy of military sciences, & a member of the International Association of historians of world war II.
Image: Leonard Peltier
FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!
Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier,
in prison in the US for 38 years, received the first international human rights prize of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.
At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the winner was announced, the human rights group calls Peltier the longest-serving political prisoner in the Americas, AFP reports.
Peltier, a Native American activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the alleged murder of two US FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.
He was sentenced to 2 consecutive terms of life imprisonment.
"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014, turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison. He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state policies by the US, where there are people in jail for ethnic, racial, religious & ideological reasons," the foundation's statement says.
Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one that is repeated over and over: violation (of rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and expropriation of indigenous people, from the time it was 'discovered', until now.
"It doesn't just happen in the United States; it is happening in southern South America, with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and with indigenous people in North America," he states.
Elena says the United States "likes to think it's the seat of democracy, but it has political prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."
The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded to support human rights and cultural causes in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer after whom it was named, who died in 2009.
Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit group that helps Native Americans fight racial discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier as a political prisoner whose case needs to be reviewed by an independent body.
"What we want people to realize is that this is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.
Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in '77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.
Peltier asserts that he is innocent and the FBI framed him for political reasons, especially for his activities as a member of the Native American Movement. He has lodged numerous appeals against the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.
He's been denied parole again and again, and will not be eligible for it again until 2024, when he turns 79.
Peltier's relatives say he suffers a number of health problems such as diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of vision in an eye after a minor stroke.
Many activists say Leonard Peltier is the most important political prisoner in the US.
In a review of the US' human rights record, at a United Nations Human Rights Council UPR conference in Geneva, a group called for a new trial for him.
The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page submission to the Geneva meeting about him.
One item, entitled “Political Repression - Political Prisoners,” about 1970's cases, indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of “maiming, murdering, false prosecutions and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem throughout the country.”
It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican Independence Front, the Black Panther Party, the Weather Underground, the American Indian Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well as “peace activists and everyone in between,” and says “many of today's political prisoners” in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.
Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.
The political repression paper demands an “immediate criminal investigation into the conspiracy,” and also new trials for two aged activists jailed on murder charges, Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.
