Penrhys, Rhondda Page
A page telling the story of a unique magical village - Penrhys, in the Rhondda !
Poet's Page
music and opinion from Wales' wandering poet.
Peace Page
(only on youtube)
'come and see'
- a partisan film
Watch this film --- and you
will - finally - understand.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w
Some in the West are fond
of a loose use of words...
''stunning'', for example, to describe
a work of art... but believe me
when I say - this film about a
lad of 14 - made me laugh
and cry and - by the end
- I was left stunned.
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 the 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-
thing, 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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If you want the truth about the massacre of civilans in Bucha - paste the web address below into your browser
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZHPL2pTuadJ/
REQUIEM
Efran and Poet's tribute to all those killed by wars
regret -- over the lack of decisiveness of countries
speaking in support of Kyiv without the approval
of the USA. This is reported by mk.ru.
According to the Ukrainian leader, the existing coalition
of countries that previously expressed their readiness
to send troops to Ukraine is now “slowing down.”
"Do you know why there's a slowdown? It's not because
they're tired or turning away, no. This situation has
shown that Europe hasn't yet decided what it will
do with Ukraine..... if America doesn't come,"
Zelensky said.
He also stressed that the situation will become more
complicated for Ukraine if the US President Donald
Trump does not exert sanctions pressure on the
Russian Federation.
Prior to that, the Prime Minister of Great Britain
Kier Starmerer said that the sending of British
troops to Ukraine, would depend on support
.......from the United States.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost
more than 1,200 soldiers
and a tank in one day
June 14th, 12:11pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) lost about
1,295 soldiers and a tank - over the past
24 hours.
In the area of action units of the "Northern" group
of troops, the Ukrainian army lost 125 personnel,
three armoured combat vehicles, two vehicles
and three field artillery guns.
Units of the Zapad group of Forces improved their
tactical position - destroying over 220 Ukrainian
militants, nine vehicles, two electronic warfare
stations and three ammunition depots.
It is noted that units of the "South" group destroyed
a US-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, 3 pickup
trucks, and two field artillery pieces. The
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than
175 soldiers in the "South" area.
According to the Defense Ministry, the troops of the
"Central" group continued to drive deeper, into the
enemy's defenses. As a result of the coordinated
actions of the Russian soldiers, Ukrainian units
lost up to 520 personnel, six armoured combat
vehicles, including three US-made HMMWV
armoured vehicles, eight pickup trucks,
and four field artillery pieces.
The report also states - that units of the Eastern Group
of Forces, destroyed more than 195 Ukrainian Armed
Forces fighters, 1 tank, an armoured combat vehicle
--- eight vehicles, and two artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnipro military group have destroyed four
vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, a counter-
battery station, and 2 ammunition and fuel depots.
According to the report, the Ukrainian army has
lost up to 60 soldiers in this area.
On June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported
that the Russian military had shot down 110 drones
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the
special military operation over the course of a
day. The military department specified that
two JDAM guided aerial bombs... were
also destroyed.
At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed
ammunition depots, temporary bases for the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, & armed groups of nationalists
and foreign mercenaries ---- in 148 areas.
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Russian troops have liberated
the village of Zeleny Kut
in the DPR
June 14th, 11:05am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Armed Forces soldiers have liberated the village
of Zeleny Kut in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR),
according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Soldiers from the Center military group
took part in the combat operations.
"As a result of the decisive actions of the troops of the
Center military group, the settlement of Zeleny Kut, in the Donetsk People's Republic, was liberated,"
the report says.
In addition, the Central Group has defeated 14 brigades
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the areas of
five settlements in the DPR --- and one in the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian servicemen destroyed up to 520 militants, six
combat armoured vehicles, including three US-made
HMMWV armoured vehicles, eight pickups, and
four enemy field artillery pieces.
On June 11, the Russian Defense Ministry announced
that the Center and East groups of troops - were
advancing in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Russian soldiers have (almost) completely liberated Chasov Yar... in the DPR
June 14th, 2:28am
(Vesti.ru)
Only one area of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's
Republic (DPR), remains under the control of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF).
This was reported by TASS with reference to the
commander of the Akhmat special forces,
Deputy Head.. of the Main Military and
Political Directorate - of the Russian
Ministry of Defense, Major General
Apti Alaudinov.
According to him, the Russian military continues to
carry out active offensive operations - and is
literally... pushing Ukrainian units out
of the city.
Chasov Yar is one of the most important defense lines
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northern part
of the Donetsk People's Republic --- located 6-7 kilometres from Artemivsk.
The city is divided into two parts by the Seversky Donets-
Donbas Canal and has significant strategic importance.
The liberation of Chasov Yar will allow Russian forces
to advance ---- towards the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk
agglomeration - and begin the liberation of the
neighbouring cities such as Konstantinovka,
Druzhkovka, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk.
Chasov Yar.. is located on higher ground, which makes it
an important position for artillery. Control over the city
will also allow the use of UAVs to strike targets in the
surrounding area. The Russian Armed Forces (RFAF)
offensive on Chasov Yar began in late spring 2024.
Earlier, a captured Ukrainian soldier told that the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, were hiding behind civilians in
Chasov Yar ----- preventing them from leaving
towards Russian positions, for evacuation.
According to him --- Ukrainian militants, were
shooting at civilians who tried to evacuate
towards Russian positions.
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Foreign mercenaries
were eliminated in
Petrovskoye, DPR
June 14th, 1:17am
(Vesti.ru)
Among those killed were militants from Poland and
Georgia, whose documents and NATO weapons
were seized.
This was reported by Ilhom Peter, commander of the
assault detachment of the 90th Tank Division of
the Center military group, to RIA Novosti.
During the cleansing of the village of Petrovskoye,
in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russian Armed
Forces soldiers discovered foreign mercenaries
--- and a large arsenal of Western weapons.
"The documents are evidence -- that there are mercenaries
from different countries, mainly Poland and Georgia. But
they were there, and now --- they're gone," Peter said.
According to him, the military found a large number of
captured weapons... at the enemy's positions. These
included US' M-16 assault rifles, grenade launchers
....and night vision devices --- as well as other Western-made equipment.
Peter noted, that the Russian Armed Forces entered
Petrovskoye at dusk, and now - all of the captured
weapons - will be used by the Russian military.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that
on June 12, units of the Center group liberated the
settlements of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka
in the DPR.
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The expert spoke about the advance
of Russian forces in the DPR
in several directions
by Ekaterina Volkova
June 13th, 11:13pm
(Gazeta.ru)
Russian troops are advancing towards Seversk in the DPR
from several directions at once. This was told by military
expert, Andrey Marochko, to TASS.
According to him, it is too early to talk about the capture
of the settlement, but the Russian military continues
to "work towards" Seversk.
"The main advance is currently taking place in
the Verkhnemakensky area, but our troops
are also operating in other sectors,"
Marochko said.
He added that the Ukrainian military has very well
fortified the village --- and the Russian Armed
Forces need "serious forces and means"
to take Seversk under control.
Prior to this, the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal
wrote that more territories came under the control of
the Russian army in May of this year - than in any
other month since the end of 2022.
Moscow --- is stepping up its summer offensive to make
Western leaders believe in Russia's inevitable victory,
according to the WSJ.
The authors of the publication concluded that this
indicates 'a deadlock' in the Russian-Ukrainian
negotiations - which means that the outcome
of the conflict will likely be decided through
military action.
Earlier.... Russian troops liberated
two more settlements in the DPR,
Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka.
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"Unprovoked attacks on sleeping
cities - are unacceptable."
Russia condemns Israel's actions
by Alena Fomina and
Ekaterina Zakaryan
June 13th, 2:18pm
(Gazeta.ru)
Moscow has strongly condemned Israel's decision to launch
strikes on Iranian territory. The Russian authorities ---- are
concerned about the potential escalation of the conflict.
Deputy Chair of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev,
believes that the threat of a nuclear war has become
a reality.
In an interview with Gazeta.Ru, Deputy Speaker Zhuravlev
noted that the West has taken a "positive" stance on the
situation. Deputy Speaker Belik called for sanctions
against Israel, while Deputy Speaker Chepa has
suggested.... that Russia may attempt to help
the parties resolve the conflict peacefully.
Russia condemned the massive strikes by Israel on the territory
of Iran and expressed concern over the possible escalation of
the conflict. The statement was posted by the press service
of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the agency's website.
The Foreign Ministry explained that Israel's actions
violate the UN Charter and international law.
"Unprovoked military strikes against a sovereign UN member
state, its citizens, sleeping peaceful cities, and nuclear
energy infrastructure facilities are categorically
unacceptable. The international community
cannot allow itself to remain indifferent to
such atrocities that destroy peace and
harm regional and international
security," the statement said.
The ministry added that Israel struck Iran on the eve of
negotiations between Tehran and Washington and in
the midst of an IAEA Board of Governors session.
"Thus, the multilateral efforts initiated with great difficulty to
reduce confrontation and find solutions that eliminate any
suspicions or prejudices against Iran's peaceful nuclear
program have been undermined and set back,"
the ministry concluded.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also indicated during
the briefing... that Russia is concerned about what is
happening and condemns the sharp escalation
of tensions.
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
said on his Telegram channel that the threat of a nuclear
war has become clear --- after what happened:
"I'm often accused of spreading nuclear hysteria. Well, here
you go! When I write about a nuclear conflict, it's not just a
theory. It's real. And it happens quickly. No one wants that!"
The West reacted positively
Western countries have taken the Israeli aggression
positively, according to the deputy chairman of
the State Duma Committee on Defense,
Alexey Zhuravlev.
"Of course, this is an unprovoked Israeli aggression, to which
the Western world is reacting very positively for some reason.
By designating certain countries as enemies... they believe
that they can do whatever they want to them, bomb them,
carry out terrorist attacks --- and kill civilians. This is
another example.. of the flawed nature of such an
ideology and the unfairness of the world order,
where it seems.. that all countries are equal,
but some, such as the Western countries,
are slightly more equal than others,"
he said -- in an interview with
Gazeta.Ru.
Zhuravlev is confident that Israel's actions should be
condemned, and that the country should be asked
for an explanation. In addition, he believes that
international norms should be reconsidered,
as "global injustice" also affects Russia.
The deputy also noted that Russia and Iran are strategic
partners, but Moscow should not immediately send
soldiers to its ally --- as the fate of the conflict is
currently being decided in the air, and Tehran
needs air defense systems rather than
military personnel.
"We are also supplying Iran with the latest air defense systems,
which, believe me, are much more important to Iran than our
soldiers. Iran already has a very impressive army of almost
a million soldiers, as well as advanced military technology,
many of which are being developed with Russia's help.
Therefore, I am confident that Israel will regret the
war it has started, and our ties with Iran may
become even closer ------- including in the
military sphere," Zhuravlev concluded.
We need sanctions
Member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs
Dmitry Belik said to Gazeta.Ru that the international
community should condemn Israel and
impose sanctions:
"If all of this does not happen, it will once again demonstrate
an unobjective view... of what is happening in geopolitics.
However, it is worth noting that there is also no public
support for Israel. I would also like to point out that
this could shift the focus away.... from the
Ukrainian conflict."
Belik clarified that Iran is a strong state that can stand up for
itself. However, he believes that the escalation should
be stopped. Neither Russia nor other countries are
interested in the development of a conflict
in the Middle East.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on
International Affairs Alexey Chepa in an interview with
Gazeta.Ru, stressed that Russia will try to smooth
out the conflict.
"Of course, we condemn any actions... that could lead to a serious conflict in the region. We understand -- this conflict is inevitable - and the US warned us about the possibility of such a conflict for several days. However Israel has launched this attack, and it is dangerous. I believe --- that we will take all possible diplomatic measures -- to resolve this conflict. I do not know what Iran's military response will be... but it is likely ---- that they will attempt to strike back,"said Chepa.
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During the liberation of Komar,
the Russian Armed Forces
--- cleared more than a
thousand buildings
by Maria Krylova
June 13th, 1:59pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Russian military personnel have cleared more than 1,100
buildings and structures during the liberation of Komar
in the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported
by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On Friday, the military announced the liberation of Komar.
The Ministry of Defense noted that this settlement
was an important logistics hub and a long-term
enemy defense point. It was also protected
by a natural water barrier, and dense
urban development.
During the battle for the village, units of the 336th Separate
Marine Brigade ---- and the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle
Brigade - broke through the echeloned defense system.
Dozens of Ukrainian military vehicles were destroyed.
After the buildings and basements were
cleared, the Russian flags were raised.
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video
showing the destruction of various Ukrainian
military vehicles.
The footage shows a Russian Armed Forces soldier
holding a national flag, first in front of a house
and then... on its roof.
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Alaudinov calls for mobilization
to prevent a repeat of the
situation with Iran
by Alexander Barabanov
June 13th, 1:15pm
(Gazeta.ru)
The commander of the Akhmat special forces, Lt General Apti
Alaudinov, called for the mobilization of 500,000 to 1 million
citizens in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, so
that "no one would dare to play with us as they did with
Iran." The corresponding publication appeared on
his Telegram channel.
"Of course, this is my personal opinion, but I believe that we need
---- to declare a mobilization. We need to prepare at least 500,000
people, but ideally, a million people, in advance. We need to call
them up and start preparing them. We need to prepare them for
the fact that the war, which we already know is happening, the
Third World War, has already begun. However, it has taken
on new dimensions and momentum," Alaudinov said.
In addition, according to him, such a development is necessary
so that no one tries to “play” with Russia in the same way that
is happening with Iran, referring to Israel’s attack on the
republic. The mobilization measures, will also help to
unite and prepare in advance -- for a potential “big
war,” the commander of Akhmat emphasized.
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Russian Defense Ministry: The Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost more than 9,000
soldiers over the past week
June 13th, 10:48am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU) lost about 9,570 soldiers over the
past week.
According to the department's report, the enemy lost more than
1,135 soldiers, two tanks, and other military equipment in the
area of operations of the Northern Group of Forces.
The Northern Group of Forces also destroyed
five enemy electronic warfare stations
and 10 ammunition depots.
At the same time, the military personnel of the "Western" group
of troops took advantageous positions, as a result of which the
enemy lost over 1,555 military personnel, three tanks, 13
armoured combat vehicles, including two US-made
M113 armoured personnel carriers, as well as
87 vehicles. In addition, 19 field artillery
pieces were destroyed, including five
produced by NATO countries.
In the area of operation of the South Military Group,
the Ukrainian army lost more than 1,175 soldiers,
a tank, and other military equipment, as well
as six electronic warfare stations and
11 ammunition depots.
Units of the Center group of troops continue to develop offensive
in the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the agency noted.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 3,660 military
personnel, 38 armoured combat vehicles, 41
vehicles and 40 field artillery guns.
The Defense Ministry also reported on the actions of the
fighters of the Vostok group of troops. Over the past
week, they destroyed more than 1,435 military
personnel, two tanks, 17 armoured combat
vehicles, 39 vehicles, 28 field artillery
pieces and five electronic
warfare stations.
Russian Dnipro fighters eliminated about 610 military personnel,
as well as an armored combat vehicle, 47 vehicles, and 15
field artillery pieces. In their area of operations, the
enemy also lost 26 electronic and counter-
battery warfare stations and nine
ammunition depots.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
since the beginning of the special operation, the
Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 63,100
drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Russian troops liberated
Yablonovka in the
Sumy region
June 13th, 10:33am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, servicemen
from the Northern Military Group, have liberated the
village of Yablonovka in the Sumy region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense's report on the progress of the special military operation was published on the
Russian Defense Ministry's Telegram channel.
"During the week, the North military group's units liberated
the village of Yablonovka in the Sumy region during
offensive operations," the publication notes.
From June 7 to 13, the Northern Forces destroyed more than
1,135 militants, two tanks, 14 armoured vehicles, 29 cars,
and 39 field artillery pieces of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces (AFU).
In addition ----- the enemy lost five electronic
warfare stations and 10 ammunition depots.
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The Russian Armed Forces liberated
the settlements of Koptevo and
Komar in the DPR
June 13th, 10:25am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces (RF) have liberated the settlements
of Koptevo and Komar in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR),
according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Russian Defense Ministry published a report on the
progress of the special military operation --- from June 7 to June 13 on its Telegram channel.
It is noted: that Koptevo was liberated by the forces
of units of the Center group of troops, and Komar
– by Vostok.
Over the past week, the "Central" troops -- have destroyed more
than 3,660 militants, 38 armoured vehicles, 41 cars, and 40 field
artillery pieces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AF).
The "Vostok" troops have also inflicted significant losses on
the enemy, with over 1,435 soldiers, two tanks, 17 armoured
vehicles, 39 cars, 28 field artillery pieces, and 5 electronic
warfare stations.
On June 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the
Russian army had liberated the settlements of Petrovskoye
and Alekseyevka, in the DPR.
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Zelenskyrefuses to admit
THAT THE WAR IS LOST
June 13th, 7am
(Vesti.ru)
The scandal over the refusal to accept the bodies of fallen
Ukrainian soldiers, has shown that the head of the Kiev
regime, Vladimir Zelensky, and his gang are living in
a parallel reality, and they are not prepared to
respond to the current situation, or plan
their next steps.
The illegitimate regime continues to pretend that it controls
the entire world, but - in reality - it is unable to control even
its own behaviour, let alone the situation on the front lines.
The exchange of bodies showed the world what huge losses
the Ukrainian people are suffering in the war for someone
else's interests. Polish publication Mysl Polska believes
that the losses of the Ukrainian army over three years
of war, could be about a million military personnel.
In its assessment, the publication refers to the
statement of the Secretary of the National
Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,
Oleksandr Lytvynenko, who said that
since the beginning of the conflict -
1 million 650 thousand Ukrainians
have passed through the front.
Forbes, in turn, estimated that, by the end of 2023, there
were about 850,000 Ukrainian troops on the front lines.
Based on this estimate the number of non-recoverable
losses (killed, wounded, captured, and missing) by
the end of 2024, is approximately 800,000.
It is also mentioned that the monthly losses of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine are at least 30,000 people (1,000 per
day, and this is the minimum!).
This figure -- was obtained from a statement by the former
commander of Aidar battalion* (a terrorist organization
banned in the Russian Federation) -- Yevgeny Dikoy,
who said that Ukrainian losses --- are one and a
half times higher than the rate of mobilization.
However, this is not the full picture. According to statistics
published by the Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Boyko,
90,590 Ukrainian soldiers went AWOL -- in the first five months of 2025.
At least this many criminal cases... were opened under
Articles 407 and 408 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine
------ which deal with unauthorized desertion.
By month, it looks like this:
January — 18,145;
February — 17,809;
March — 16,349;
April — 18,331;
May — 19,956.
Of the 90.5 thousand people who went AWOL, only 1,375 people
voluntarily returned to their units. And... if we count from the
very beginning of the SVO, then 213,722 people deserted.
This is about a quarter of the active Ukrainian army,
based on the figures that Zelensky announced.
In reality, the situation is much worse, and this figure of deserters
is clearly underestimated, because it only includes cases where
criminal charges have been filed. Moreover, the commanders of
the units are not interested in reporting on the desertion of
soldiers from the active army.
Firstly, they will be questioned about how they allowed such a
widespread phenomenon, and secondly, they can receive
combat pay, and take all the benefits for themselves.
Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers say that there is
not enough weapons in their units, so, many soldiers are
simply living targets on the front lines --- which they
do not want to accept.
The main question is, why should a Ukrainian soldier die? They
are being rounded up on the streets without any law and sent
to die in order to protect a corrupt government. They are
fighting and shedding their blood so that their children
and grandchildren can pay off the debts of these
criminals, corrupt officials, and thieves.
On June 3, 2025, the Ukrainian government refused to make
payments on \$2.6 billion in Eurobonds. The IMF called this
a risk to further financing. S&P Global reported a default
---- and downgraded Ukraine's rating on GDP-linked
securities to "junk." Analysts state: this -- is no
longer just a technical default, but an actual
sovereign default. With such a rating, what
kind of post-war recovery for Zelensky's
Ukraine can we talk about?
The illegitimate one turned the entire
country's economy..... into garbage.
Zelensky simply doesn't know how to count, even on his
fingers. After all these years, he hasn't bothered to
compare the economic and military capabilities
of Ukraine and Russia. The illegitimate one..
continues to naively hope that Russia will
collapse from within, and therefore
boasts about the sabotage and
terrorism that he organizes,
with the help of Western
intelligence agencies.
Zelensky's primitive mind doesn't understand that he's
being set up as a zitz-chairman in this operation,
which has been orchestrated by all the
Western intelligence agencies, and
the consequences will be felt
in Ukraine.
The drug-addicted leader is being flattered, and he's happy
about it because it's not his children who are dying, and
the Western intelligence agencies -- are delighted to
have found.... a limited, overconfident upstart.
American economist Jeffrey Sachs has stated that Zelensky
is not involved in organizing the terrorist attack on Russian
military airfields.
"This --- is an operation by Western intelligence agencies. Regardless of whether the White House was aware of
it -- the operation is completely irresponsible, and
alarming, as it involves a strike on an element
of the nuclear triad. This is a step towards
nuclear Armageddon," he said, in an
interview with journalist
Tucker Carlson.
Sachs says directly that they are fighting Russia with the
help of Ukraine --- which has irreversible consequences
for the Ukrainian people.
"The so-called "friends of Ukraine", completely destroy it,
urging it to fight on. It's like a coach at a boxing match,
who sends a beaten fighter back into battle - until he
is finally finished," the economist said.
So the director of the Centre for Sustainable Development
at Columbia University, the author of internationally
recognized scientific papers, and books, on
economics and political economy, sees
the abyss that the so-called “allies”
have pushed Ukraine into, but
Zelensky - declares this fall
to be another victory and
cynically... encourages
the Ukrainian people
to die for it.
Ukraine has become a punching bag for Russia's response
to the collective West's provocations. Zelensky.. is now
pleading with Trump to pressure Russia, but he has
no idea how Washington will do so. Meanwhile,
the United States is quietly washing its hands
of the situation. In a speech to reporters...
Trump expressed ''disappointment'' that
the progress made in the negotiations
had been derailed.
"We were moving forward, and suddenly they're bombing
something they shouldn't be bombing. This is the end
of progress," the US president said.
The illegitimate one doesn't understand that it's impossible to be both a peacemaker -- and a puppet of Western
intelligence agencies, or to try to stop a war ---- while constantly provoking it.
All of the drug-addicted leader's attempts to strengthen
Ukraine's position... have resulted in its significant
weakening. It's one thing to play the role of the
President of Ukraine, but it's another -- to
actually be the President of Ukraine.
Zelensky has not been the President of Ukraine, for a single day;
he's simply been playing a role based on someone else's script,
and he hopes that the scriptwriters will be replaced, but the
main character will remain in power. As ''the president'' he
doesn't care about the country's interests or the people's
suffering, but as an actor, he's clinging to his iconic role and refuses..... to let it go.
Now the question is, should Ukrainians die for this bloody circus,
for this one-man show that has brought so much grief to the
country? And the answer: is provided by the hundreds of
thousands of Ukrainian Armed Forces deserters, whom
this political clown has sold for his own sick and
criminal ambitions.
For a mentally healthy person, it is completely unacceptable
to go to death under the leadership of a mad clown.
Therefore, the wave of desertions in the
Ukrainian army --- will only continue
to grow.
Chairman of the Council of the
Other Ukraine Movement,
Viktor Medvedchuk.
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The commander of a Ukrainian battalion
called for repression as a means
of mobilization
by Igor Ryabov
June 12th, 4:12pm
(Gazeta.ru)
In Ukraine, the means of mobilization should be propaganda
and repression. This was stated by the commander of the
over the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and
Pacific Ocean.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry informed that
two Tu-22M3 strategic bombers from Russia's Aerospace
Forces flew over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea.
This marked Russia’s first air patrol mission since Ukraine’s
drone attack on June 1, known as Operation Spiderweb.
The bombers were escorted by Su-30SM and Su-27
fighter jets during the patrol, which lasted more
than four hours.
“On certain segments of the route, the strategic bombers
were followed by fighter jets.... from foreign states,”
the Russian authorities said.
“All flights by aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces,
are conducted in strict accordance with international
rules governing the use of airspace,” they added.
Russia’s strategic aviation fleet — including Tu-160, Tu-95MS
and Tu-22M3 bombers — regularly conducts patrols over the
neutral waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black Sea,
Baltic Sea, Pacific Ocean and other regions.
While these flights have not been halted by the conflict
with Ukraine, this is the first one carried out since
Operation Spiderweb.
In that operation, Ukraine launched drones from truck
trailers near five military airfields, including two in
Siberia, destroying 7 Russian strategic aircraft.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Infantry and
Tanks.... Reach the Western Border of the DPR
by Alexey Komolov
June 11th, 1:21pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Units of the Vostok group of troops of the Russian Armed
Forces have reached the western border of the DPR on a broad front - and are developing an offensive in the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The military department noted that units of the 55th Motorized
Rifle Brigade of the Center group of troops also reached the
western border of the DPR and, together with the assault
units of the 90th Tank Division, are advancing through
the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
According to the estimates of military correspondents -- the
offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in this direction will
contribute to the final liberation of the south of the DPR.
Also, the Russian army thus threatens the group of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine at the junction of the DPR
and the Zaporozhye region.
The Kremlin noted that the Russian Armed Forces' offensive in
the Dnipropetrovsk region is necessary, among other things,
to create a buffer zone in Ukraine. Similarly, the Russian
army is operating in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
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Russia and Ukraine exchanged
the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Moscow handed over 1,212
bodies to Kiev, & received
only 27
by Natalia Aniseeva (editor of
operational information dept)
June 11th, 1:05pm
(Lenta.ru)
Russia and Ukraine - have begun exchanging the bodies
of fallen soldiers - in accordance with the agreements
reached in Istanbul. This was announced by Russian
presidential aide, Vladimir Medinsky.
Kiev handed over Moscow only 27 bodies of fallen soldiers
as part of the exchange. Russia, in turn, organized the
transfer of 1,212 bodies..... of soldiers of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said war correspondent
Alexander Kotz.
The exchange of bodies 1,212 for 27, has taken place.
Right now, the exchange point is unloading the
corpses of Ukrainians — 1,212
Kotz said --- he had received data on the number of bodies
transferred by the RF from a source who was personally
involved in the exchange. Kyiv later also confirmed the
repatriation.
The press service of the coordination headquarters for
the treatment of prisoners at the Main Intelligence
Directorate (GUR), of the Ukrainian Ministry of
Defense ------ said that they had received the
bodies of soldiers who died in the Kursk,
Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, as
well as in the Donetsk and Luhansk
People's Republics.
Kiev was accused of refusing to take back the bodies of
Ukrainian soldiers. The Ukrainian side - with mockery -
refused to take from Russia, the bodies of its own
dead soldiers. This opinion was expressed by
the official representative of the Russian
Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
She noted that Moscow received a direct and harsh
negative response from Kiev --- instead of an
explanation of the reason for the refusal
or arguments about the lack of
technical capabilities.
''Nothing like that. A direct refusal that turns
into mockery and ridicule, not of us, but
of their own people.''
She clarified that Russia is ready to hand over 6,000
bodies of fallen fighters to Ukraine, as was agreed
upon, during the negotiations in Istanbul.
Ukraine ------ Explains Kiev's Delay in
Exchanging Dead Military Personnel
Former Verkhovna Rada MP, Volodymyr Oliinyk, remarked
that the republic does not have.. six thousand bodies of
Russian fighters to carry out the stipulated "6,000 for
6,000" exchange with Moscow. Thus he explained
the deliberate delay of the process.
The former parliamentarian emphasized that Russia has
demonstrated respect for fallen soldiers, both its own
and those of Ukraine. He recalled that the Russian
side has been collecting the bodies of enemy
soldiers from the battlefield, identifying
them, and storing them in morgues
for further processing.
In Ukraine, according to Oleynik, the attitude towards fallen
soldiers is much worse. "As a rule, no one takes the bodies
of fallen Russian soldiers, which once again demonstrates
the satanic nature of the regime and of the country's
president Vladimir Zelensky. He does not allow the
living to leave the country and does not accept
the dead," the speaker said.
He called Zelensky a murderer, adding that he was depriving
hundreds of families of the opportunity to say goodbye to
their loved ones... with dignity.
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Medinsky: Russia cannot be fought in
a protracted war, and it will win, as
it won the Great Northern War
June 11th, 7:34am
(Vesti.ru)
According to Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's presidential aide, it
is impossible to engage in protracted battles with Russia,
as it will emerge victorious, similar to the outcome of
the Great Northern War.
Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations
with Ukraine in Istanbul, gave an interview to The Wall Street
Journal in which he cited the 21-year war between Russia
and Sweden in the 18th century, as proof that Russia
wins in protracted battles.
“It is impossible to wage a long war with Russia,” Medinsky said.
In an interview with the publication, the presidential aide also
stated that Moscow is committed to a long-term peace, and
Kiev's unwillingness to compromise - could result in the
loss of certain territories for Ukraine.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that
Moscow is ready to use diplomatic ways to resolve the
conflict in Ukraine, but does not intend to give up the special operation, at the moment.
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KIIS:52% of Ukrainians are not ready
for territorial concessions and want
to continue fighting
by Roman Otradnov
June 10th, 10:40pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Almost 40 percent of Ukrainians agree to give up their territory
------ in order to end the fighting as soon as possible. This was
reported by RIA Novosti, citing the results of a survey.
"We are ready to accept certain territorial losses - 38 percent,"
the report prepared by the Kiev International Institute of
Sociology says.
It is noted that this figure has quadrupled
over the past two years.
In 2023, only ten percent of Ukrainians surveyed
were willing to make territorial concessions.
The number of people who oppose the cessation
of hostilities ------ has decreased by 32 percent
(84% vs. 52%).
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A Russian intelligence officer -- spoke about
the advance in the Sumy region of Ukraine
by Anatoly Kazantsev
June 10th, 9:52pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Soldiers of the 83rd separate Guards Airborne Assault
Brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces have already
advanced beyond the village of Belovody, in the
Sumy region of Ukraine. This was reported
to RIA Novosti --- by a scout with the
call sign "Tsypa".
"We are conducting offensive actions. They have
already gone further than Belovodye," he said.
According to "Chicken", the 83rd Brigade is tasked
with creating a buffer zone on the border with
Russia -- in order to protect civilians from
constant attacks by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
As a reminder, over the past few weeks, Russian troops have made significant progress ---- in the Sumy region.
The military is liberating settlements, in order to establish a buffer zone.
The Kiev authorities, have already acknowledged the rapid
advance of Russian troops, and former spokesperson for
the Ukrainian General Staff, Vladislav Seleznev, urged
everyone - to evacuate from Sumy, which is about
20 kilometres away ------ from the Russian
Armed Forces.
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In seven settlements of Kharkiv region,
a forced evacuation was announced
June 10th, 5:06pm
(RT.ru)
In seven settlements of the Kupyansky district
in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, a forced
evacuation was announced.
This was announced by the head of the regional
military administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
"We have made a decision on the mandatory
evacuation of the population from seven
settlements of the Shevchenko
community," he wrote on
social networks.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Russia and
Ukraine Conducted the Second Stage
of Prisoner of War Exchange
June 10th, 3:18pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia and Ukraine --- have completed the second stage of
the prisoner exchange, according to the Russian Ministry
of Defense. Our military personnel are currently
stationed in Belarus.
The exchange was carried out in accordance
with the agreements reached in Istanbul.
Currently, Russian military personnel are stationed in Belarus,
where they are receiving the necessary psychological and
medical assistance.
The first stage took place on June 9. The first group
of Russian fighters under the age of 25, was
returned to Russia.
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Pyatnashka Brigade Commander
Avidzba:we train versatile fighters
June 10th, 1:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are training versatile fighters
who will feel confident in any part of the front. The
commander of the Pyatnashka international
brigade, Ahra Avidzba, spoke about this
on the air of the 60 Minutes program
on the Rossiya TV channel.
He stressed that in a special operation, you
never know what lies ahead, so you need
to be prepared for anything.
"We train universal fighters, starting from artillery, motorcycles,
hand-to-hand combat. Because you don't know which front line
[you'll end up on], because every front line is different. But in
the forest there is more shooting combat, so where there is
no longer just planting, but a denser forest, you have to
engage in shooting combat," said Avidzba.
The commander added that the soldiers of the Russian
Federation are ready for urban, steppe and any other
battle. He also said that one Russian soldier, is
worth ten Ukrainian militants.
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Israel --------- has distanced itself.. from
supplying Patriot missiles to Ukraine
by Victoria Kondratyeva (Editor
of the "World" Department)
June 10th, 11:27am
(Lenta.ru)
Israel has not transferred Ukraine the Patriot air defense
systems. This was stated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry
to the Ynet publication.
"Israel has not transferred such systems to Ukraine,"
the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier, the Israeli ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Brodsky
said that the country had transferred US Patriot air
defense systems to Ukraine. He specified that the
transferred systems were in Israel's arsenal in
the early '90s.
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on
International Affairs, Alexey Chepa, after this
statement emphasized: that if Israel really
gave the Patriot to Ukraine --- then this
gives Russia the right.... to also give
weapons to “some other countries”.
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Russian troops have restricted the
logistics of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces in Krasnoarmeysk
June 10th, 7:04am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the
Krasnoarmeysk-Pavlograd highway. According to
Russian security agencies, this has limited the
Ukrainian army's logistics in Krasnoarmeysk.
It is noted that now the militants of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) ....will have to make a long detour
to supply everything they need to the front lines.
"The Krasnoarmeysk-Pavlograd highway - is under fire
control [of the Russian Armed Forces]. The enemy's
logistics are disrupted, as they now have to make
a large detour, to transport ammunition,
personnel, provisions, and so on,"
TASS quoted the statement
as saying.
The road ----- is currently being fired upon by heavy
weapons. It is also within the range of FPV drones.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
operators of fibre-optic strike unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) of the Center group of troops
disrupted the rotation of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine units in the Krasnoarmeysk
direction. As noted.. by the defense
ministry -- interruptions in supply
force the Ukrainian militants, to
remain in positions longer than
planned -- reduce the combat
capability of units, & create
favorable conditions for
the advance of the
Russian troops.
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Hero-Assaulter Shah told about the battle
for which he received the Badge of
Special Merit
June 10th, 6:58am
(Vesti.ru)
In the Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian Armed Forces soldier
with the call sign Shah defeated a superior enemy force
during an assault. For his heroism, the soldier was
awarded a rare badge of honour. He shared his
story on the Russia 24 TV channel.
In Kamenskoye, Shah's group drove the numerically
superior Ukrainian militants ----- out of their homes.
"There was fire, and close combat was taking place. We
fought back, put pressure on them with fire, and they
came out of the houses. They continued to fire,
but we also wounded them," Shah said.
A Russian soldier also added that
one of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces fighters had been
captured.
For his heroism, Sergei Medvedev, commander of the
58th Army, ordered that the soldier be awarded one
of the rarest decorations, a special cross awarded
to stormtroopers.
Shah, a stormtrooper and marksman, signed a contract
with the Ministry of Defense in 2024. During one of the
assaults, he was seriously wounded, but completed
the mission - and returned to his unit.
"The main thing is not to rush, to look at the sky, at the
ground, and around you, so as not to get caught by
trip wires. And kamikaze drones.... are flying,"
he said, about the challenges he faces
during combat missions.
At home, a large family is waiting for the hero:
a wife, three children, a sister, and a mother.
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FSB: Large cache of mined
ammunition discovered in
the DPR
June 10th, 5:42am
(Vesti.ru)
In the basement of a private house in the village of
Bogoyavlenka in the Donetsk People's Republic,
mobile groups from the regional FSB dept...
working in the liberated territories
discovered a large cache of
mined ammunition.
According to the ministry, they were
prepared by Ukrainian militants,
during their retreat.
First, the sappers disarmed the booby traps,
and then the cache was removed.
There were about 50 mines, including NATO-
made ones, almost 350 shaped charges,
and 670 rounds of ammunition,
according to a TASS report
----- citing the Federal
Security Service.
The discovered weapons and ammunition were
transferred for use - by the Russian Ministry
of Defense.
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Marochko: Russia's Army Has Advanced
Near Figolevka in the Kharkiv Region
June 10th, 5:32am
(Vesti.ru)
According to military expert Andrey Marochko, the
Russian Armed Forces - have advanced near the
village of Figolevka in the Kupyansk direction
in the Kharkiv region.
He noted that, during the active combat operations,
Russian military personnel expanded the control
zone in the south-west and north-east of the
village of Figolevka.
"The penetration of the enemy's defenses --- was about
300 metres - on a front line about 5 kilometres wide.
Two forest belts were occupied, and three enemy
strongholds were destroyed," Marochko told
RIA Novosti, citing his sources.
According to the military expert, the Krasnoye Pervoye-
Figolevka section of the highway has almost entirely
entered the so-called gray zone.
Earlier, Marochko reported that the Armed Forces of
Ukraine are actively planting mines in Chasov Yar
and its surroundings - to prevent the advance of
Russian forces and prevent their soldiers from
retreating, condemning them to death.
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Lance Corporal Borzykin single-handedly
confronted a sabotage group of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 9th, 10:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Junior Sergeant Artur Urazaev was commanding an automatic
grenade launcher crew and providing fire support to Russian
assault troops when he discovered a fortified firing point of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during reconnaissance.
The calculation - suppressed the machine-gun point with one
precise blow, then the stormtroopers were able to approach
the enemy stronghold without hindrance and begin
cleaning up.
However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced their own
reserves — two groups of infantry in cars. Urazaev quickly
calculated the coordinates of the location of the new
targets and gave the order to the firing squad. Both
vehicles, together with the enemy's personnel,
were eliminated. The APU began to retreat.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the high
professionalism and determination - of Lance
Corporal Yevgeny Borzykin, who discovered
a sabotage and reconnaissance group of
the enemy in the forest belt, which was
heading towards the Russian positions.
Borzykin promptly contacted the command and informed
about the impending attack, and then opened fire on the
AFU group from a favorable position. Despite retaliatory
mortar fire, the lance corporal managed to first force
the enemy into the open, and then single-handedly
eliminate most of the sabotage group.
Earlier on June 9th, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
that Guards private Zaur Abbasov, despite the incessant
artillery fire from the enemy -- restored the damaged
connection between the Russian units, repairing
the damaged cable.
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A Russian soldier called his return
from captivitythe best day of
his life
June 9th, 4:45pm
(RT.ru)
"This is the best day of my life. It's perfect.
I'm home in Russia," TASS quoted the
military officer as saying.
The Ministry of Defense reported that, on June 9th,
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war,
as part of the agreements reached in Istanbul.
Russian Armed Forces soldiers who
returned from Ukrainian captivity
called their families.
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Medinsky: Ukrainians showed their
unwillingness to fight... at the
meeting in Istanbul
June 9th, 4:34pm
(RT.ru)
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation
at the negotiations in Istanbul, said, on a new show
by the US journalist Rick Sanchez on RT, that the
Ukrainian military personnel who attended
the meeting.... showed a reluctance to continue fighting.
The conversation was published by the
RT Telegram channel, in Russian.
".....they have two-thirds of their
delegation in military uniforms.
These, are the military.. I saw
in their eyes, the reluctance
to fight. They do not want
to fight and do not want
...to send their soldiers
to die," said Medinsky.
Earlier, Medinsky noted: that
Ukrainian negotiators... are
no different from Russians.
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MP Chepa allowed the end
of the conflict in Ukraine
in 2025
June 9th, 2:48pm
(RT.ru)
Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
Committee on International Affairs, suggested that the
Ukrainian conflict may end in 2025.
According to him, many people hope that the crisis will be
resolved in 2025, but it is difficult to predict the end of
the conflict ...under the current conditions.
"Personally, I expected that the configuration of the peace
agreement would be implemented in May - and that the
further implementation of this agreement would take
place during this year, and.. by the end of the year,
I believed that the agreement would be signed,"
Chepa told Lenta.ru.
He clarified - that the peace agreement could not be signed
immediately. The process should be gradual, Chepa added.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
that the special operation would continue, but
Moscow is ready for negotiations.
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Ukrainian collectors contacted the security
forces of the Russian Federation because
of the captive debtor
June 9th, 1:45pm
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian debt collectors requested information from the
Russian Armed Forces about a captured debtor from the
Lviv Territorial Defense brigade of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine. This was reported by the Telegram
channel "North Wind", associated with the group of troops "North".
We are talking about a 20-year-old drug addict Andrey Karpiyets.
Due to problems with the law, his relatives.. arranged for him to
join the 103rd territorial Defense brigade, from the Lviv region, which, at that time, was in the rear. They took his documents there.
Lawlessness reigned in the brigade: the commander delayed the
process of declaring the militants missing in order to embezzle
their money, and the soldiers were drunk, and used drugs.
"None of the family members of Andrey, as well as people close to
him, bothered to contact us and send him greetings. But for the
first time in the history of our project, we were contacted by
Ukrainian debt collectors," the publication says.
According to Severny Vetr, the collectors were "genuinely
interested" -- in what the young man's chances of being
included in the lists for the exchange of prisoners of
war were -- and what the chances were -- that he
would pay off his debts.
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The first group of Russian military personnel
under the age of 25 was returned from the
territory controlled by Kiev
June 9th, 12:51pm
(Vesti.ru)
The first group of Russian prisoners of war under
the age of 25 has been returned from territories
controlled by the Kiev regime, according to the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
In return, Russia transferred a similar number of fighters
...from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The exact
number of prisoners of war has not been specified.
"In accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements
reached in Istanbul on June the 2nd, the first group of
Russian military personnel under the age of 25 has
been returned from the territory controlled by the
Kiev regime," the statement said.
Currently, Russian military personnel are stationed in
Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary
medical and psychological assistance.
According to the ministry ------- all of the
soldiers, will be transported to Russia
for treatment.
On June 4, Russian presidential aide and head of the Russian
delegation to the Istanbul talks Vladimir Medinsky, said that
the exchange of prisoners of war under the "1200 for 1200"
formula is ready to begin, from June 7-9.
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Centre soldiers expand
liberated territories: in
Dnipropetrovsk region
June 9th, 12:47pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, military
personnel from the Center military group have
increased the area of liberated territories
in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The soldiers continue to advance deep into
the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses.
"Units of the Center military group continued to advance
into the depths of the enemy's defenses and increased
the area of liberated territories in the Dnipropetrovsk
region," the report said.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
that the Russian offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk
region is necessary, to create a buffer zone.
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation: The Ukrainian Armed
Forces lost about 1,350 soldiers
and two tanks during the day
June 9th, 11:55am
(Vesti.ru)
Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) lost
about 1,350 personnel, as well as two tanks, according
to the daily summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
According to the military department, the enemy lost more
than 145 servicemen, three armoured combat vehicles,
six vehicles and three field artillery pieces in the area
of operations of the North group of forces. Two
ammunition depots were also destroyed.
Fighters of the Zapad group of forces eliminated more than
220 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four
armoured combat vehicles and 12 vehicles, as well
as two artillery pieces, the Piranha electronic
warfare station and four ammunition depots.
The soldiers of the "Southern" group of troops managed
to improve their position on the front line. In their area
of operations, the enemy lost.. up to 155 soldiers, an
armoured combat vehicle, two vehicles, plus three
artillery pieces, including a US-made 155 mm
Paladin howitzer, and an ammunition depot.
Units of the Center group of troops increased the area of
liberated territories in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and
also destroyed more than 525 military personnel.
In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost seven armoured
combat vehicles, including a Swedish-made Viking armoured
personnel carrier, nine pickups and six field artillery guns.
Fighters of units of the Vostok group of troops advanced into
the depth of the defense. The Ukrainian army lost up to 205
servicemen, two tanks, three armoured combat vehicles,
six vehicles and three artillery pieces.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported on the success
of the soldiers of the Dnepr group of troops. They said that
the Russian Armed Forces eliminated up to 100 Ukrainian
militants, four vehicles, two field artillery pieces, an
electronic warfare station and three enemy
ammunition depots.
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Military commander Razin ----- the entry of the
Russian Armed Forces into Dnipropetrovsk
region threatens the APU with a strong blow
June 9th, 11:18am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military will continue to advance in the
Dnipropetrovsk region, said military commander
Vladimir Razin on the air of the program
"60 minutes" on "Russia 1".
According to him, the prospect of the further advance
of the Russian Armed Forces is clear. By itself, the
entry of the Russian military into the territory of
the region threatens the Armed Forces of
Ukraine --- with a strong blow.
"So far, this -------- is more of a symbolic crossing of borders.
The incursions occurred in the direction of Novopavlovka,
Orekhovo, Novonikolaevka, and Novosergiyevka. The
enemy's strongholds, are located in the forest belts
surrounding these settlements. Consequently, our
military personnel, while carrying out operations
to destroy the enemy's strongholds, are directly
approaching -- the administrative borders. The
prospect of expanding, and further incursions
into the Dnipropetrovsk region is quite clear.
''Our advance --- on the border of the
Dnipropetrovsk region --- will be a very serious blow to the
"The brigade commander says specifically -- how to help you.
My God, what's there to ask for? This is a very good sign.
Not that I need this, this, this.. but --- something like
everything, is already there. That's the question.
Of course, something else is needed, at least
in terms of security, I will say frankly:
security - has become an order of
magnitude higher, right on the
order of magnitude,"
adds Veter.
"We have traps. I won't show them all. I'll show the ones I
think are worth showing. We've already disarmed them.
We've unscrewed everything. The shot, the opening of
the door, all of it triggers, and accordingly, there are
three MON mines. MON-50 is no joke... These are
standard traps. They're specifically placed - at
the main entrance. If you come here, there's
a door. It's a good door.
"This is a false floor, and if you step on it, you'll fall through.
It's seven metres down. Hello! Even if we were to storm
these rooms, it would be very difficult," explains the
squad leader.
"The most interesting thing is that I don't hear any moves there,
it's purely normal Russian speech, and when they are already
wedged into close combat, shooting starts -- there is a
checkmate on the other side -- and they understand
that they need to roll back, but, as often happens,
they are not even allowed to roll back. In what
way? They have their own..... let's say --
nationalists, who set the task. Guys
roll back, it means that everything
will not be quite right for you,"
says Veter.
In the neighbouring Ukrainian region of Sumy, enemy positions
are being stormed by paratroopers of the 83rd brigade of the
Russian Airborne Forces. They advance with success,
take prisoners.
"I'm lying down further. Boom-bam! I'm lying... the machine gun is
not near me, I put the machine gun, everything... I'm lying. They
shot over the top and threw the grenade back into the dugout.
"Come out unarmed, you'll be alive!" I raised my hands and
walked out. Many thanks for the humanity that I got from
people, not from animals", - thanks the prisoner of
war Nikolay.
The slightest danger --- and the underground
city of stormtroopers goes on the defensive.
"FPV. It's hovering over us, now it's going to fly, and it's going to
fly away. They've fallen here a couple of times. What's the use?
They fell. Two, three, ten more will arrive. They'll have to work
hard to find us. As soon as the FPV arrives, I have coffee time.
I drink coffee from closed positions!.. The city! Really…
I learned quickly where," says Veter.
The assault troops go on combat missions for a day or two, and
then they come back here, as they say, home, underground.
"I can accommodate 550 people here. We have no problems with
this here. You can stay here for years. Here all the infrastructure
is raised, everything is generally good here... We work in the
underground city. Despite the fact that we are performing
combat missions. There is time – we still spend them...
The work is hard.... We look like miners in some
places. Nothing is impossible. Right? I'll
explain it in simple language and here's
how it works for us. They made a city
under the enemy's nose. Buried.
''The enemy -- doesn't know about us. Chaotically just throws
shells everywhere, birds arrive. Anything is circling us and
-- they don't even know we're here. And this is the key to
survival. That is, my fighters are alive, the whole unit.
And I can perform combat missions… Here is our
128th brigade, the assault squad. Here are our
comrades who died during a special military
operation. I lost 18 guys in a year. 18 of my
best stormtroopers: officers, soldiers -
they are always with us in the ranks.
Officers go to the assault because
we live as one big family," says
Dmitry Veter, commander of
the assault detachment of
the 128th brigade of the
44th corps.... of the
North group.
We travel along the front line both on foot and by car. This is
----- a hard-to-reach area. To be honest, it is considered that
there are solid fields here. Kharkiv region has such forests.
Just impassable, just impassable. And these are the roads.
Just sitting here and driving - is already a risky business,
such a cover is not at all suitable for NATO equipment.
If you want to experience something "jeeperish" - go
to the 128th brigade. To the assault squad.
Several hours can be spent, in order to get along such
roads from our advanced positions to the Russian
border. Belgorod region.
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Guards Corporal Vorobyov: The Ukrainian
Armed Forces.... did not expect the
offensive of the Russian Armed
Forces on Dnepropetrovsk
June 8th, 6:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were not
ready for the offensive of Russian troops on the
border with the Donetsk People's Republic.
This was announced on the air of the Rossiya TV
channel by Lance corporal Dmitry Vorobyov,
who is part of the regiment storming the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
The fighter said that the main obstacle when crossing
the border was tank ditches and barbed wire, which
the enemy wound up three rows high. To cross it,
they used their own bulletproof vests, which
were thrown on top of the barrier.
Vorobyov noted that the offensive was decided to be
carried out during bad weather... so the Ukrainian
military could not use a large number of drones.
"[We advanced] both on vehicles and on foot. There are
moments where you can drive - plus moments where
you need to walk. [When they stormed], there were
few of them... and then they started to pull up,
pickups came. They didn't expect us [to
attack]," the soldier said.
For the first time - units of the Russian Armed Forces
crossed the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region on
the morning of May 20, 2025. Due to the large
amount of open terrain, Russian fighters
used motorcycles for the offensive.
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Medvedchuk spoke about -------
Zelensky's off-scale cynicism
by Mikhail Mironov
June 7th, 10:28pm
(Gazeta.ru)
The Kiev authorities are cynical, refusing the return of the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in an attempt to hide the losses - and not pay the families of the victims.
This opinion - was expressed by the head of the Other
Ukraine movement, Viktor Medvedchuk in his column.
"The Kiev criminal regime, as always, does not want to
recognize reality. Russia expresses its readiness to
hand over 6,000 bodies of the victims. Zelensky's
gang is playing a vile game," he said.
Medvedchuk called Zelensky a "bloody clown", and said
that he did not want to see the dead soldiers, whom he sent to die at the front.
The exchange of prisoners of war and the transfer of bodies
agreed between Russia and Ukraine - were unexpectedly
disrupted - by the Ukrainian side. Russian Presidential
aide Vladimir Medinsky confirmed that the exchange
procedure did not take place ---- due to the non-
appearance of the Ukrainian delegation ----
without prior notification or explanation.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry commented on
the delay in Ukraine's exchange of the bodies of
soldiers ...and prisoners of war.
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Fitting a shell: how much ammunition Europe producesfor the Armed Forces of Ukraine
by Dmitry Kornev
& Yulia Leonova
June 7th, 10:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
NATO countries have begun to establish joint production of
shells with Ukraine - to build new factories on its territory
and .....reconstruct old ones. In particular, the Czech
Republic - has started the final stage of launching
a production line of artillery shells and Belgium
has signed an agreement with Kiev --- on
cooperation --- in the production of
Soviet-calibre ammunition.
Who, what and in what volumes produces in the shell industry
in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the
material "Izvestia".
Czech production in Ukraine
Czechoslovak Group (CSG), a Czech industrial holding, has
started the final stage of launching a production line for
155-mm artillery shells in Ukraine. They will produce
shells of all major calibres ---------- several types of
155-mm, 105-mm high-explosive fragmentation,
120-mm tank shells. This year it is planned to
produce 100 thousand shells and from 2026
...to produce 300 thousand a year.
It is stated that the company is located "in a zone
with a low risk of missile strikes." However,
for Russian missiles and drones, this is an
absolutely legitimate target, so ------- it is
unclear how long it will remain intact.
In other words: how realistic are the
West's recent defense initiatives?
It was decided to treat chronic problems with money
Not only the Czech Republic decided to start restoring
its own and building a new Ukrainian shell industry,
but also the UK, Slovakia, Poland, France and
other countries. According to data for 2025,
NATO and its members ---- are actively
increasing production, focusing on
key calibres, such as 155 mm, to
meet... the growing needs of
Ukraine and prepare shells
for their own needs.
NATO's main calibre
155 mm is the calibre of all major NATO howitzers, in
particular the French CAESAR and the German
PzH2000. They are now used by Ukraine to
shoot at a distance of up to 40 km, so
these shells are needed, most of all.
Other calibres, such as 105 mm or 120 mm, are less
common. They are needed for artillery and tanks.
These shells are mostly high-explosive, which
makes them relatively inexpensive products
for destroying manpower and equipment
with the help of an explosion
and fragments.
The cost of tank shells — cumulative and subcalibre -
is noticeably higher. The most expensive ones are
homing projectiles, but it is extremely difficult
and almost impossible to increase their
production due to their cost and
high technology.
How many shells does Ukraine need per year
Ukraine claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine need up to
7,000 shells per day to conduct effective defensive battles.
This means that their demand is 2.5 million shells a year.
At the same time, Ukraine itself does not produce such
a large number of shells -- even close. After all, this
The Russian Armed Forces eliminated 25-year-old sniper of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine Tatyana Lyubich during the
operation in the Pokrovsky direction. This is reported
by "Argumenty I Fakty" --- with reference to the
Ukrainian media.
Lubitsch signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in
2021. Since the beginning of the SVO, the girl took part in the
26th brigade. During the special operation, Tatiana changed
her qualification ...from a medic ------ to a sniper.
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The group "North" destroyed a group
of female UAV operators of the
Ukrainian army
June 2nd, 2:15pm
(Vesti.ru)
A group of women operating drones as part of the 47th
mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was eliminated in the Sumy region by the forces of
the Russian military group "North". This --- is
reported by the Telegram channel
"North Wind".
As specified, the company commander with the
call sign "Valkyrie" was also destroyed.
In addition, according to the report, in the area of the
settlements of Krolevets and Voronezh, located in the region, the servicemen of the "North"
launched missile strikes --- on two more
UAV control points. According to the
channel, the Ukrainian Armed
Forces carried out strikes
on the Kursk region.
In addition, over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces
also advanced more than 120 metres in Volchansk,
where they cleaned out eight households.
Yesterday it became known that after the liberation of
the Kursk region, the Russian army is actively
working on creating a buffer security zone.
The need for its creation was emphasized
by the Russian President, last week.
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Military commander Dolgachev: The Ukrainian
Armed Forces... are trying to restrain the
advance of the Russian Armed Forces
...by drones
June 2nd, 11:23am
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian militants are using a large number of drones to
somehow contain the advance of the Russian army,
VGTRK military correspondent Nikolai Dolgachev
said on the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya
1 TV channel.
The journalist stressed that the Armed Forces of
Ukraine lose hundreds of servicemen every day.
"The enemy is actively using unmanned systems. This - is
now, actually, an opportunity for Ukrainian militants to
somehow contain the advance of Russian troops, to
use a significantly large number of unmanned
systems -- in relatively important areas,"
Dolgachev stressed.
According to the military commander --- the Armed Forces
of Ukraine still have a lot of drones, but their resources
are not infinite.
Nikolai Dolgachev also noted that the Russian army is now
advancing in several sectors of the front, including in the
Kharkiv region ...in the Kupyansk direction.
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
losses of Ukraine's Armed Forces - for a day
exceeded 1,4 thousand military personnel
June 2nd, 10:51am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) have lost up to 1,430
servicemen in the special operation zone over the past
day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
In the area of operation of the "Northern" group of Russian
troops, more than 245 military personnel were killed,
"Western" – more than 205 military personnel of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "Southern" –
more than 275 military personnel,
"Central" – up to 475 Ukrainian
military personnel, "Eastern"
– more than 150 military
personnel, and over 80
Ukrainian militants, in
the zone of operation
of the Dnipro group
of troops.
The daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- also include
four tanks, eight ammunition depots and a number of military equipment and weapons -- including a UK- made Braveheart self-propelled artillery system and 3 US' M113 armoured personnel carriers.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost
more than 200,000 servicemen in January-May 2025.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces hit
workshops for the production of Ukrainian
attack UAVs
June 2nd, 10:47am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) have carried out strikes on
the production sites of attack drones of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) over the past day, the Russian Defense
Ministry said, in a summary of the special operation.
In addition - the forces of operational-tactical aviation, attack
UAVs, missile troops and artillery of the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation hit the storage and launch sites of
Ukrainian drones, ammunition depots and temporary
locations of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and foreign mercenaries --- in 152 districts.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
over the past day, the Russian air defense system
destroyed 2 UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles
and 316 Ukrainian UAVs.
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In the Bryansk region, a bridge was blown up,
a passenger train crashed. There are victims and injured
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 31st, 11:25pm
(Lenta.ru)
In Bryansk Region the bridge under which the train
passed -- collapsed. According to unconfirmed
information, an explosion occurred,
dozens of people were injured,
there are victims.
The train derailed after a section of the bridge collapsed
on it. A number of channels published footage from the
scene, passengers helped other people get out of the
cars, screams - were heard at the scene. Rescuers
had to cut the car open for those trapped inside.
Official information about the accident is being clarified,
and rescue operations are continuing at the site. The
main task -- remains the search for and release of
passengers, the Ministry of Emergency
Situations said.
A number of channels reported that the cause of the collapse
could be an explosion, Shot noted that 4 explosive devices
were laid on supports and sleepers. Officially, the story
of the explosion has not yet been confirmed.
An improvised explosive device (IED) could have been planted
in the bridge structure, Mash channel specified. According to
him, an IED could have been laid under the bridge span in
the Bryansk region.
The collapse of the bridge occurred due to
"illegal interference in the activities of
transport," the press service of the
Moscow Railway reported.
Recovery trains were sent to the site to eliminate the
consequences of the derailment. Information
about the victims is being clarified.
The MZhD clarified that the situation does not affect
the movement of other trains. An operational head
quarters has been set up to coordinate the work.
The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office
organized an inspection, after an emergency with a
passenger train.
The Governor of the Bryansk Region, Alexander
Bogomaz confirmed reports of an incident.
According to him, as a result of the incident, there
are victims. No casualties.. were reported. Now
representatives of emergency services and
authorities --- are working on the site.
Bogomaz added -- that specialists
are doing everything necessary
to help the victims.
Additional forces were sent to the area, as well as emergency
rescue equipment and lighting devices for carrying out work
in the dark.
The victims of the incident were four people,
more than 40 were injured.
The number of victims of the bridge collapse in
the Bryansk region could exceed 40 people,
reports RT with reference to a source.
According to RIA Novosti, the Centre for Medical Disasters
of the Bryansk region, a five-to six-month-old infant was
seriously injured. 11 ambulance crews went to the
scene of the accident.
It is also known that the driver was a victim of the emergency,
according to Mash, and the driver's assistant also did not
survive. Similar information was confirmed by an RT
source in law enforcement agencies.
The number of victims may increase, as some victims are in
an extremely serious condition. 14 people were admitted to
the Vygonich Central City Hospital, while other wounded
people are being sent to Bryansk.
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Bad smell: Klitschko said that Ukraine -------- "reeks of authoritarianism" because of Zelensky's policies
May 31st, 10:46pm
by Roman Shimaev, and
Anastasia Belousova
(Izvestia.ru)
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has criticized Volodymyr Zelensky
and his office, accusing them of uprooting democratic
institutions under the guise of a conflict
with Russia.
According to him, the mayor's office of the capital is actually
paralyzed by searches and threats, and in Ukraine it no
longer "smells, but stinks of authoritarianism."
Klitschko also said that his fame in the international arena
helps him keep the post of mayor of Kiev. According to
experts, the aggravation of the conflict between
Zelensky and Klitschko may indicate the
secret start of the presidential
campaign in Ukraine.
At the same time, public showdowns among the elites, may
indicate a political crisis and the weakening of Zelensky's
power, analysts believe.
Klitschko accused the office of Vladimir Zelensky that the
work of the City Council of the Ukrainian capital is
paralyzed by searches, interrogations ----- and
threats to open "fabricated criminal cases".
"This is the eradication of democratic principles, and
institutions. I once said that our country smacks of
authoritarianism. Now they stink," Klitschko said.
The Times notes, that the head of the Kiev regime and
the mayor of the capital "are actually at war after the
smoldering dispute between them became public."
Zelensky used martial law to appoint a military administration
in Kiev (headed by Timur Tkachenko) - the structure
duplicates the duties of the mayor's office of
the Ukrainian capital.
In addition, seven of Klitschko's subordinates were detained,
and three more are under investigation for corruption,
including for issuing building permits,
The Times writes.
"Many mayors are intimidated, but my celebrity status is a
protection. You can dismiss the mayor of Chernihiv, but
it is very difficult, to dismiss the mayor of the capital,
who is known all over the world," Klitschko added.
As the Ukrainian edition of Сountry.na notes "The latest
statements of the Kiev mayor indicate a growing
conflict --- with Zelensky.
''According to the information provided.... Bankova plans to introduce Tkachenko - to the Kiev City Council, where he should become a secretary. After that his goal will be "under any pretext" - to cut Klitschko - from the post of mayor of Kiev.''
If the plan with the appointment of Tkachenko to the
post of secretary of the City Council fails to be
implemented, a different development of
events is possible.
"If there are no local elections this fall, the central government
will most likely try to dissolve the City Council of Kiev, saying
that its powers have expired. Then it will be possible
to completely replace the KSCA with a military
administration headed by the appointed one
---- an official," the source said.
Note that the confrontation between Vladimir Zelensky and
Vitali Klitschko has been going on for a long time. Back in
the summer of 2021, the former world boxing champion
said that they want to appoint a "stray protege" in
his place.
Already after the start of the special military operation — in
the summer of 2023 - Zelensky's office held meetings on
the possible dismissal of Klitschko from the post of
mayor of Kiev. This happened.. against the back-
ground of the fact that about half of the tested
bomb shelters in the city were closed or
unusable. As a result - the mayor was
reprimanded, and -- he reproached
Zelensky for never meeting with
him since the beginning of
the SVO.
In December 2023, Klitschko, in an interview with the
German Der Spiegel, said.. that Ukraine is moving
towards authoritarianism and will soon become
a country "where everything depends on the
mood of 1 person." At the same time, in a
conversation with a Swiss publication 20
Minuten, he said that Zelensky made a
number of mistakes in the Ukrainian
conflict, for which he is paying
the price.
In January 2024, Klitschko, in an interview with the Canadian
edition of The Globe and Mail, said that Ukraine is moving
in the wrong direction: "There is a smell..... of vertical
authoritarianism here." In July, the mayor of Kiev
reproached Zelensky for concentrating too
much power in his office.
Earlier this year, he accused Timur Tkachenko, appointed by
Zelensky as head of the Kiev city military administration, of
trying to take over the powers of the mayor, city Council
and Kiev city state administration ----- in violation of
the law.
In addition, Klitschko has previously stated his ambitions for
the post of President of Ukraine. At the same time, the
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that
the United States had established contact with
the mayor of Kiev, as well as with other
possible Zelensky successors.
In March 2025, the Ukrainian media, citing sources,
reported that representatives of Donald Trump
were in contact with Klitschko.
Experts interviewed by RT stated that the struggle for
power in Ukraine, is escalating. In this regard, Vitali
Klitschko as a possible candidate for the post of
president of Ukraine, is trying to score
political points.
"Speaking of authoritarianism, we can note that the regime
of personal uncontrolled power operates on the territory
of Ukraine. So - this is no longer authoritarianism. This
is a much more serious regime," said Dmitry Yezhov,
a political scientist and associate professor at the
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In turn, political analyst, Dmytro Solonnikov, noted that the
current Kiev regime is a product of the 2014 coup d'etat,
so there can be no democracy there -- by definition.
"Everyone knows perfectly well that decisions in Ukraine are
made in an authoritarian way, and they are put into effect
with the strong support of the Nazis, representatives of
various organizations banned in Russia," he said, in a conversation with RT.
Director of the Institute of Peace Initiatives and Conflictology
Denis Denisov expressed the opinion that Zelensky has been
perceiving Klitschko as one of his key competitors in the
elections... for several years.
"Klitschko is one of the most prominent representatives of
the political elite, who may well compete very seriously
with Zelensky in future elections if he also runs. This
is quite realistic but here everything depends on the
fact that, so far, in the current conditions, no one
wants to think or talk about any elections in
Ukraine," he said in an interview with RT.
Another round of conflict between Zelensky and Klitschko
may be connected with the secret start of the election
campaign for the presidential election of Ukraine.
This opinion was expressed by the director of
the Institute for Research on Contemporary
Politics, Anton Orlov.
"The fact that the Ukrainian elites have started public political
showdowns best shows that the supreme power in Ukraine is
experiencing a deep political crisis: other players feel the
weakness of its leader and the imminent fall. This is due
both to the ongoing retreat of Ukrainian troops, and,
apparently, to the upcoming US withdrawal from
the negotiation process and the subsequent
refusal of military & financial support for
Kiev, or rather, directly for Zelensky,"
the source told RT.
The expert also noted that Klitschko could be the "first
swallow" and Zelensky will soon be criticized by other
well-known political figures in Ukraine.
"But it is Klitschko ---- who can become a figure who will be
supported by European leaders in the elections, because,
first of all, the population of Ukraine still sees him not
only as the capital's mayor, but also -- as a world
boxing champion who can win both in sports
and in the political arena. And, probably,
it is not by chance - that rumours are
circulating about Vitali Klitschko's
German citizenship. In this case,
he becomes an ideal candidate
for Germany, and therefore for
the entire European Union,"
Orlov concluded.
According to political analyst Ivan Mezyukho, Zelensky is
really curtailing democratic institutions in Ukraine,
doing everything --- to ensure that local self-
government works to his tune.
"Therefore, Zelensky is increasing pressure on the mayor of
the Ukrainian capital, on members of his team, to knock
this boxer in politics -- out of the political arena. The
situation is interesting, because both Klitschko
and Zelensky have a large anti-rating," he
said, in a conversation with RT.
The expert added that Klitschko still has contacts
in Europe, which allow him to publicly criticize
Zelensky there.
"I think that today, of course, in this confrontation -- a great
force is on the side of Zelensky. He has great powers and
levers, but based on today's positions, we can say that
Zelensky is not yet able to "digest" Klitschko.
Therefore, he is unlikely to be arrested in
the foreseeable future, but, the process
of curtailing the powers of the mayor
of the Ukrainian capital --- will continue," Mezyukho concluded.
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Guards Junior Sergeant Poroshin shot
down a Ukrainian Baba Yaga UAV
May 31st, 10:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Private Serhiy Kleshnin was driving a truck and performing
the task... of delivering Russian servicemen to the front-
lines when he noticed a kamikaze drone of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) approaching the car.
Kleshnin quickly changed the trajectory of movement, moving
away from the impact of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The drone hit the ground and exploded. Following it,
another Ukrainian drone tried to attack the car,
but Kleshnin made another skillful maneuver,
avoiding a collision. As a result, the private
successfully delivered the servicemen to
the specified point.
The Russian Defense Ministry ---- also noted the professional
actions and courage of the Guard of junior Sergeant Nikolai
Poroshin, who patrolled the area with the help of a drone
& opened masked clusters of personnel & equipment of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the inspection of
the area, Poroshin noticed an enemy UAV of the Baba
Yaga type, which was moving in the direction of the
Russian evacuation group with a wounded
serviceman.
Poroshin decided to prevent an attack on the group and hit
the APU drone, damaging its propeller. The enemy UAV
lost control and crashed to the ground, detonating
at a safe distance from the group of the Russian
Armed Forces.
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Fico: Slovakia is ready
to resume cooperation
with the Czech Republic on Ukraine
May 31st, 9:41pm
(RT.ru)
The Slovak government is ready to return to cooperation
with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Czech Republic,
and both republics ..should start a dialogue on a
peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
This statement was made on Saturday, May 31, by the Prime
Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico. His words are quoted by
the publication Echo24.
"The Slovak government is ready to resume cooperation with
the Czech Cabinet of Ministers, both countries are ready
to focus on discussing the peaceful settlement of the
war in Ukraine," Fico said.
He added that Slovakia and the Czech Republic should
also discuss cooperation within the Visegrad Four.
In early March, the Slovak Prime Minister said that
Bratislava does not intend to participate in
providing assistance to Ukraine.
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
announced the connection of
aircraft to the military Wi-Fi
of NATO
May 31st, 3:43pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will be
connected to the so-called NATO military Wi-Fi.
This was announced on May 31 by Ukrainian
Deputy Defense Minister Yekaterina
Chernogorenko.
"I have signed a license agreement ------ for the use of non-
commercial software of NATO; the system interface of
the Control and Notification Centre (CRC System
Interface, CSI)," she wrote on the social net-
work Facebook (owned by the extremist
company Meta recognized in Russia,
its activities are prohibited in the
Russian Federation).
According to Chernogorenko, such a connection will be used
for US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as F-16
fighters from the US and Mirage-2000 from France.
She added that we are talking about a non-commercial
interface of the control and notification centre, which
will allow coordinating the actions of various units
and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in real time.
On the same day, a communications officer of the Dnipro group
said that NATO is probably supplying Ukraine with prototypes
of communications equipment operating using the Starlink
satellite system. According to him, the enemy is also
actively using radio stations such as Harris and
wireless broadband access systems
(BSHPD).
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A man was injured during the shelling
of Pervomaisk by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces
May 31st, 3pm
(RT.ru)
A man was injured during the shelling of Pervomaisk by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces in the LPR, said the head of the
gorokrug, Sergey Kolyagin.
"An ambulance crew promptly delivered a man born in 1955
to the emergency department of the Pervomaisk hospital -
who received a penetrating shrapnel wound to the chest,"
he said.
A regular bus was also damaged. None
of the passengers were injured.
Earlier, 14 people were injured in an attack by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces on Rylsk, Kursk region.
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Dnipro officer reported on the supply of NATO
prototypes of communications equipment
to Ukraine
May 31st, 2:39pm
(Izvestia.ru)
NATO is likely to supply Ukraine with prototypes of
communications equipment.. operating using the
Starlink satellite system. This was announced
on May 31 by a communications officer of
the Dnipro group.
According to him, the enemy is also actively using
radio stations such as Harris and wireless broad
band access systems (BSHPD). However, as
the serviceman noted, these means of
communication mostly function
without identification.
"That is, some sets, maybe prototypes are delivered
to our enemy," the officer told RIA Novosti.
At the same time, the interlocutor of the agency
stressed that the Ukrainian military -- has
completely switched to modern means
of communication provided by NATO.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense
Committee Alexey Zhuravlev --- told Izvestia on
January 23 that NATO is indeed implementing
its plans.. to supply weapons to the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (APU). He stressed --
that all the countries of the alliance
are taking part in the conflict
against Russia.
Earlier, on January 10, Polish Defense Minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the situation in Ukraine upset
his colleagues from NATO countries - and called it very
difficult for the Ukrainian army. In turn --- the Reuters
news agency wrote on January 9 that the transfer
of US weapons did not change the situation on
the battlefield... in favour of Kiev.
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DEPUTY Sheremet advised Zelensky
to buy a book by Dostoevsky
May 31st, 2:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
State Duma deputy from the Crimean region --- Mikhail Sheremet,
advised the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky to buy a
book by the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
in order to understand the reason for his moral decline.
Earlier, Zelensky in his Telegram channel said that he visited
the literary festival "Book Arsenal" in Kiev, where he bought
the book "Kill the tyrant. The history of tyrannoclasm from
Caesar to Gaddafi" by Aldo Andrea Cassi.
"I would recommend him to buy a useful book -- the universally
recognized Russian classic by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and
Punishment, which would open his unscrupulous eyes.... to
such problems as murder for the sake of a 'higher' goal,"
Sheremet told RIA Novosti.
According to the MP, reading this work would help the head of
the Kiev regime -- to realize the reason for his moral decline,
as well as find the courage to plead guilty to the poverty
and hopelessness of ordinary Ukrainian citizens.
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More than a thousand residents of the
Kursk region who disappeared after
the invasion of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine ---- were found
May 31st, 2:26pm
(Izvestia.ru)
1,290 residents of the Kursk border region who lost contact
with their relatives due to the invasion of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) have been found. This was announced on
May 31 by the acting governor of the region Alexander
Khinshtein in his Telegram channel.
It is specified that the approximate location of 421 people has
also been established. According to the acting governor, the
fate of 576 people, including four minors, remains unknown.
Work on their search is carried out continuously.
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Russian Defense Ministry: daily losses of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded
1.4 thousand militants
May 31st, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in
the special military operation zone over the past day
amounted to 1,425 people, the Russian Defense
Ministry said.
According to the ministry, in the Belgorod direction, the defeat
of the units of the Ukrainian army was inflicted by fighters of
the group of troops "North". The enemy lost --------- over 225
servicemen, two tanks, four armoured combat vehicles,
six vehicles and four field artillery pieces.
Units of the Zapad group of forces --- improved their tactical
position, destroying more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers, five
armoured combat vehicles, including two US-made M113
armoured personnel carriers, and 12 vehicles, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost two ammunition
depots," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
It is noted --- that the units of the "Southern" group of troops destroyed two armoured combat vehicles, 3 pickup trucks,
an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 275 soldiers.
As specified in the Defense Ministry, the troops of the "Central"
group --- continued to delve into the enemy's defenses. As a
result of the coordinated actions of Russian fighters,
Ukrainian units lost up to 440 personnel, five
armoured combat vehicles, 11 vehicles
and three field artillery pieces.
The report also says that units of the "Eastern" group of troops
----- destroyed up to 185 militants of the Kiev regime army, two
armoured combat vehicles, eight vehicles and an electronic
warfare station.
Units of the Dnipro group of forces --- hit nine vehicles, five field
artillery pieces and five electronic warfare stations. Also in
this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than
80 servicemen, according to the report.
Earlier it was reported ---- that the Russian military liberated the
village of Novopol in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also inflicted a defeat
on the APU's personnel and equipment in the areas of several
settlements in the Zaporozhye region.
On Friday, the defense Ministry reported that over the past
week, from May 24 to May 30, the Russian army liberated
13 settlements in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions,
as well as in the DPR.
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Guards Lieutenant Petrushevsky evacuated
two seriously wounded soldiers of
the Russian Armed Forces
May 30th, 10:58pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Radio telephone operator of the communications platoon
of the assault squad, Private Alexander Sumarokov, was
given the task of restoring a communications repeater
which was damaged as a result of artillery fire from
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Sumarokov quickly moved to the place of damage to the
repeater, despite the ongoing shelling from the enemy.
During the repair of equipment, he noticed that an enemy FPV
drone.. was approaching him. The radiotelephonist destroyed
the unmanned aerial vehicle -- with targeted fire from small
arms and managed to complete the repair work, restoring uninterrupted communication between Russian units.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the decisive and
selfless actions of the Guard Lt Alexey Petrushevsky,
who led the group, whose tasks include the timely
delivery of food and ammunition to the military,
as well as the evacuation of the wounded
from the line of contact for medical care.
During one of the trips, the group overcame a difficult
route, despite regular attacks by enemy artillery.
Arriving at the destination point and unloading ammunition
and food, Petrushevsky received information about two
wounded Russian servicemen who were injured as
a result of artillery shelling by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
Petrushevsky immediately moved to the wounded, who
could not move independently. Having provided first
aid to the servicemen, the guard lieutenant
ensured their evacuation and delivered
them to a medical facility.
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Davis: continuation of the conflict
will cost Ukraine more than
the world
May 30th, 9:53pm
(RT.ru)
Attempts by Western allies to provide the Kiev regime
with more weapons will lead to losses for Ukraine.
This was stated by retired US Army Colonel
Daniel Davis.
According to him, attempts to beg for more ammunition,
armoured vehicles or long-range missiles... will delay
the inevitable military defeat of Ukraine.
''...It will increase the price of the senseless sacrifice
of more Ukrainian men for the sake of a defeat that
cannot be avoided," he wrote on his X social
network account.
Davis added - that the advantage in the
Ukrainian conflict remains on the side of Russia.
Russia's permanent representative to the world
Organization, Vasily Nebenzia, said that the
supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine will
draw Germany .....deeper into the war with Russia.
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The Russian Armed Forces attacked
Ukrainian Armed Forces' positions
in Volnovakha district with
four FAB-500s
May 30th, 5:07pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops launched an air strike on the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
Volnovakha district, Donetsk People's Republic.
For this attack - the Russian Armed Forces used
FAB-500 bombs, Russia's Defense Ministry said.
According to the military department, the 141st
brigade of the Ukrainian army was located
near the village of Komar.
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Nebenzia: Russia is ready for dialogue
with those who are not motivated by Russophobia
May 30th, 4:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia is ready to conduct a dialogue and discuss
options for cooperation with those who are not
subject to Russophobia. This statement was
made by the Permanent Representative of
the Russian Federation to the United
Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzya.
During his speech... at the headquarters of the world
organization, he noted that against the background
of many loud statements about the protection of
human rights - not a single step was taken to
protect millions of people --- whose rights
are systematically violated in Ukraine.
"Political expediency... makes our Western colleagues deaf and
dumb when it comes to the rights of the Russian – speaking
population, the Russian language, canonical Orthodoxy,
the glorification of Hitler's henchmen and the spread
of neo-Nazism in Ukraine," Nebenzia said.
"Now.... it's up to those who were behind the anti-Russian project
in Ukraine. Have you realized your mistakes and the futility of
defeating and isolating Russia? If you are driven solely by
Russophobia -- then we probably have nothing to talk
about with you. If... you are still ready to discuss
some options for coexistence and, even more
so, cooperation, then we have something to discuss," Nebenzia added.
He recalled - that Russia has never abandoned
dialogue ...and is still open to discussions.
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Nebenzia: The Russian Armed Forces are
able to increase combat operations
as much as necessary
May 30th, 4:12pm
(Vesti.ru)
The goals of the special military operation of the Russian
Federation in Ukraine - can be achieved both peacefully
and militarily, and, in the second case, Russia is ready
to fight ---- for as long as necessary.
This was stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council by
the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation
to this international organization - Vasily Nebenzya.
His speech was broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 24".
The diplomat recalled -- that Russia has always emphasized its
commitment to the political and diplomatic regulation of the
Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, even the most biased
military reports show --------- that Russian troops are
successfully advancing along almost the entire
front line, Nebenzia noted.
"We have repeatedly said - and want to repeat - that the goals
of our special operation can be achieved both peacefully
and militarily. Our Armed Forces --- are capable of
continuing and escalating combat operations
for as long as necessary," Nebenzia said.
The diplomat recalled that..... in 2014, as a result of an
unconstitutional coup supported and sponsored by
the United States and the EU, a regime came to
power in Ukraine - determined to exterminate
everything Russian, which in all subsequent
years trampled on the rights of residents of the east and south of Ukraine ---- as well as other regions of the country.
"We cannot - and will not - stand idly by while millions of
Russian-speaking people remain under the rule of a
regime -- whose policies blatantly violate their
fundamental rights and freedoms. Leaving
everything as it is, means deliberately
ignoring the norm of international
law and the provisions of the
UN Charter.
''Let me remind you --- that the first article of the Charter
clearly states the need ----- to respect human rights,
regardless of language, race, gender or religion.
Today, in Ukraine, we see the opposite," the
Russian permanent representative said.
In 2022, Russia has made its choice and will not leave
its compatriots in the lurch, Nebenzia stressed.
"If --- necessary, we will fight for this as long as necessary.
And we will no longer allow any threats on our borders,
any anti-Russian, neo-Nazi formations.. in the area
of our neighbourhood," he said.
Vasily Nebenzya also stressed: that Russia --- will
not be satisfied with a situation that will allow
Ukraine ..to catch its breath.
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Nebenzia: Russia will consider all options
to respond to possible deliveries of
Taurus to Kiev
May 30th, 3:42pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia will consider "all options" for an adequate response
in case of delivery of German Taurus missiles to Kiev.
This was stated by the Permanent Representative of
the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya.
During his speech at the UN headquarters, he noted
that recently European countries have taken a
number of steps to escalate the Ukrainian
conflict in order to derail all efforts to
establish peace.
"Friedrich Merz recently announced the lifting of restrictions
on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine by Britain,
France, Germany and the US. He even specified: that
it happened... a few months ago. Experts directly
linked these words ---- to the supply of Taurus
missiles to the Kiev regime, which it begs
...for a special military operation," the
permanent representative said.
Nebenzia noted that Merz's attempts to "win back" everything
and convince everyone that Germany will only help Ukraine
establish independent missile production will not be able
to mislead anyone. He stressed - that the assembly of
Taurus --- as well as unmanned British boats ---
"does not make them Ukrainian."
So... the Russian permanent representative is convinced,
Germany will only be even more involved in the conflict
with the Russian Federation.
"This will give us the right to consider all options for an
adequate response to this unfriendly step," he added.
In conclusion, Nebenzia said that Russia is forced to recognize
Germany's actions --- as part of Europe's campaign to disrupt
the process of peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
According to him, Berlin is trying to provoke Moscow into
retaliatory actions, which could then be presented as
evidence of Russia's unwillingness to negotiate.
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Russian Defense Ministry:during the week,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more
than 9,420 militants
May 30th, 11:24am
(Vesti.ru)
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost
more than 9,420 militants. This follows from the weekly
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation. The enemy suffered the greatest
losses in the area of responsibility of
the Center group.
"Enemy losses totaled over 3,060 soldiers, a tank, and 39
armoured combat vehicles. 57 vehicles and nine field
artillery pieces were destroyed."
At the same time, the enemy lost at least 1,265 servicemen in
the Vostok area of responsibility. Thanks to the efforts of the
units of the "Southern" group of the Armed Forces of Russia
more than 1,615 militants were lost, and the forces of the
"West" eliminated more than 1,495 enemy soldiers.
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Russian Armed Forces liberated
13 settlements- in a week
May 30th, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces liberated 13 settlements in
the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, as well as the DPR,
in a special operation over the past week,
he Russian Defense Ministry said in
its summary. The summary... is
devoted to --- the course of
military operations from
May 24 to May 30.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, control over
the villages of Loknya, Vladimirovka, Belovody and
Konstantinovka was established in the Sumy
region during the week. This was done, by
the efforts of the group of troops "North".
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the
Zapad group of troops, the settlements of Stroevka
and Kondrashovka in the Kharkiv region were
liberated," the military department said.
In the DPR, the "Southern" group of troops -- liberated the
villages of Stupochki, Staraya Nikolaevka, Romanovka
and Gnatovka, and the "Center" group of troops
liberated the village of Shevchenko Pervoe.
Vostok troops liberated the villages of Zelenoe Pole
and Otradnoye, which are located in the DPR,
the Defense Ministry adds.
According to Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, the Russian
Armed Forces are currently solving the problem of creating
a buffer zone along the border with Ukraine.
Military expert Andrey Marochko noted that with the capture
of Konstantinovka in the Sumy region, Russian servicemen
cleared a section of the administrative border of the
Russian Federation .....and drove out the AFU
militants from it.
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Rogov announced the withdrawal of
Russian troops to the border with
the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 30th, 9:30am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have reached the junction of the borders of
the Donetsk People's Republic( DPR), Zaporizhia region
and Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
This was announced to RIA Novosti by Vladimir Rogov,
Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber
of the Russian Federation on sovereignty and co-
chairman of the Coordination Council for the
integration of new regions.
Vladimir Rogov noted that after the liberation of Green Field 1,
Russian troops "intensified offensive actions --- and actually
reached the junction of the borders of the DPR and
Zaporozhye region, with the Dnepropetrovsk
region of Ukraine."
According to him, control of Green Field 1, opens up the
possibility: for the Russian army to attack the northern
part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Ukrainian
forces, both from the south --- and from the east.
On May 28, the Russian Defense Ministry announced, that units
of the Vostok group had taken control of the village of Zelenoe
Pole in the DPR. This locality is near the administrative border
of the Zaporizhia region, in the direction of the village of
Temirovka, held by the Ukrainian military.
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Kellogg: Russia's concern about NATO
expansion to the east,is natural
May 29th, 10:43pm
(RT.ru)
From the point of view of Russia, its concern about the
expansion of NATO to the east is natural, said the
US Special Representative for Ukraine,
Keith Kellogg.
"This is a natural concern," he said on ABC News.
Kellogg also added, that the United States is not
currently considering Ukraine's entry into NATO.
"And - we are not the only country that thinks so.
I can name four more such countries from the
alliance. And joining NATO requires the
consent of all 32 countries,"
Kellogg said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that
the West's desire to draw Ukraine into NATO and
the alliance's expansion to the east ----
had caused the conflict.
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APU drones hit a church and
a hospital in a Russian city
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 29th, 10:39pm
(Lenta.ru)
The drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kursk crashed
into the city hospital No. 1 and the church of the Icon of the
Mother of God "Joy to All Who Grieve". This is reported
by the Telegram channel "Typical Kursk".
As a result of the hit of the drone debris in the building
of a medical institution, windows were broken -- there
are victims. The driver of a car near the church was
also injured.
Local residents claim that at least four enemy drones
were destroyed in total. At the site of the fall of one
of them, a fire started.
The first explosions in Kursk were heard on May 29 at
about 23: 20 Moscow time. They were followed, by
several more at different intervals. In the region,
the danger of a UAV attack ---- has not yet
been removed.
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In Khmelnitsky region,hundreds of people
blocked a shopping centre car and
cut its tires
May 29th, 10:10pm
(RT.ru)
In Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine,
hundreds of people blocked the car of the territorial
acquisition centre (TCCC) and cut its tires.
About it, writes "Country.na".
"About a hundred people have already gathered around the shopping centre car, into which the military commissars
forcibly dragged a man," the report says.
It is not specified whether he managed to escape
from the employees of the shopping centre.
It is noted that the car is surrounded
by a police cordon.
Earlier, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was attacked by a man armed with a knife in
the premises of a shopping centre in the
city of Pryluki, in Chernihiv region.
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Nebenzia: Ukraine faces a choice —
peaceor defeat on the battlefield
May 29th, 9:50pm
(RT.ru)
At the moment, the choice is up to Ukraine — peace
as a result of negotiations, or imminent defeat on
the battlefield --- with different conditions for
the end of the conflict.
The corresponding statement was made by the
Permanent Representative of Russia to the
United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya.
Earlier, Nebenzia said that the United States
administration has opened its eyes to the
regime of Vladimir Zelensky.... in
recent months.
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Military commander Kukushkin
on the offensive of the Russian
army: Sumy --- is 20 kms away
May 29th, 12:53pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military ---- is advancing on a broad front in the Sumy
region. To the outskirts of the regional centre remains about 20
kilometres, military commander Pavel Kukushkin said, on the
air of "Russia 1" .
According to him, the intensification of fighting is observed
in the vicinity of the main logistics point in the region – Yunakovka.
"The Sumy region was an absolutely calm region even before
last August. But, after the enemy's adventure in the Kursk
region -- we are now advancing in the Sumy region. To
be more specific ------ after the liberation of Lokni,
Belovodiv and Vladimirovka, we also liberated
the settlements of Konstantinovka -- and
Vodolagi - getting closer and closer to
the regional centre.
''This is north of Yunakovka, the main logistics
centre --- where fighting is already underway on the northern outskirts. Also our assault units are pressing to the south, in the Miropillia area",he said.... in the 60 Minutes program .
The military commander stressed that the regional
centre in the Sumy region, is still several tens of
kilometres away, for the Russian military.
"With a fairly wide coverage... we are approaching the
regional centre, Sumy, which is about 20 kilometres
away," he added.
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The Russian Armed Forces almost completely
destroyed, one of the amphibious battalions
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR
May 29th, 11:56am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops almost destroyed one of the battalions
of the 46th separate airmobile Brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. The attack was carried out
using a 500-kilogram high-explosive
aerial bomb.
The enemy brigade was located in the village of
Perestroika in the Southern Donets direction,
reports TASS.
"More than 60 people were killed plus wounded. Thus,
the battalion is almost destroyed," the law
enforcement agencies reported.
According to the state, the size of the battalion in peacetime
averages 400 people, however, TASS notes, now most of
the AFU units are staffed by a third, so losses lead to
complete paralysis of their combat capability.
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Liberated by the Russian Armed Forces, Gnatovka
was defended by captured shopping centres,
and behind them were the "Azovites"
May 29th, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
Liberated by the Russian army, Gnatovka in the DPR ---- was
defended by soldiers caught by employees of the territorial
recruitment centres (TCCs) of Ukraine, and - behind them -
were Azov militants (banned in the Russian Federation).
This was reported by the grenade launcher operator of the
10th Guards Tank Regiment of the Southern Group of
Troops, with the call sign Ryzhy.
He stressed ---- that the assault in the area of Gnatovka was
difficult because of the vast open terrain, which the enemy
was actively working on. Ukrainian militants are fighting
with artillery and FPV drones, while trying to avoid
close-range shooting combat. At the same time,
the frontline Ukrainian positions are occupied
by military personnel mobilized by the TCK -
who either flee or surrender when Russian
army units approach.
"Ahead of them are the poor fellows caught on the streets of
the shopping centre - shniki, who were forced to fight. They
either run or surrender if we approach. But behind them
are the Nazis from "Azov", - the words of the soldier
are quoted in the message of the Ministry of
Defense of the Russian Federation.
Ryzhy noted - that local residents met the Russian fighters very
well and complained about the bullying and murder committed
by the Azovites. The military assured - that Russian soldiers
are helping local residents with food, medicine and fuel.
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In Moscow, two agents of the Ukrainian special services were sentenced to 19 and 25 years in prison.
May 29th, 11:08am
(Vesti.ru)
A military court has sentenced two agents of the
Ukrainian special services to long prison terms
for spying and preparing a terrorist attack
in Russia.
The activities.... of Ukrainian citizen Zabolotnigo Oleg
Sergeyevich, born in 1995, and Russian citizen Volga
Maxim Aleksandrovich, born in 1977, were stopped
in August 2023. The defendants were found guilty
and sentenced to 25 and 19 years in a high-
security penal colony, respectively.
This was reported in the Centre for Public
Relations, of the FSB of Russia.
The court also fined Zabolotnigo 1 million rubles, and
Volga 900 thousand rubles, the department said.
According to the FSB, in 2022, Zabolotny completed a course
of sabotage and reconnaissance training in the Kharkiv
region and was sent to Russia in May 2023. Here he
collected information about military facilities and
military personnel of the Baltimor airfield in
Voronezh ..and transmitted it to Ukraine
via Telegram and Signal messengers.
Volga began cooperating with a representative
of the Kiev special services, in January 2023.
"In August 2023, on the instructions of the curator, he seized
firearms with ammunition, more than 10 kg of explosives
and electric detonators intended for Zabolotnim from a
cache in the Smolensk region and delivered them to
Voronezh, after which..... he was detained,"
the report says.
Later, from the received components, Zabolotny assembled
an improvised explosive device - with which. he planned to
eliminate a high-ranking serviceman of the Russian Armed
Forces by laying a self-propelled gun in the entrance of
the house. The person involved, could not implement
the plan and was detained on the way to the place
of the terrorist attack.
The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.
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Defense Ministry: during the day, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost up to 1,245 militants
in the free defense zone
May 29th, 10:49am
(Vesti.ru)
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost
up to 1,245 militants in the free zone. This follows
from the summary of the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation.
The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the area of
responsibility of the Center group, whose units
liberated the village of 'Shevchenko First' -
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"The enemy's losses amounted to more than 390 servicemen,
two Kazak armoured combat vehicles, seven vehicles and a
field artillery gun," the Defense Ministry said in a summary
of the success of the Center group.
Thanks to the actions of the "Southern" group of troops --- the
village of Gnatovka in the DPR, passed under Russian control,
the enemy lost 240 soldiers - as well as 2 electronic warfare
stations, 3 ammunition depots and a warehouse of materiel.
In the area of responsibility of the Zapad group, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost more than 200 servicemen, two armoured
vehicles and four ammunition depots. Soldiers of the group
liberated the village of Stroevka, Kharkiv region.
Earlier it became known - that Russian troops attacked the
location of the US' MLRS HIMARS. The Iskander-M missile
strike and the Geran-2 UAV destroyed the command post
of the special operations centre "South", of the MTR of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the Mykolaiv region.
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Ministry of Defense: The Russian Armed Forces
liberated Stroevka village, in the Kharkiv region
May 29th, 10:35am
(Vesti.ru)
Under the control of the Russian army, passed the village
Stroyevka, in the Kharkiv region. This is stated in the
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation.
The settlement was liberated by the forces
of the group of troops "West".
"As a result of active actions - units of the Zapad
group of troops liberated the village of Stroevka
in the Kharkiv region," the Defense Ministry
said, in a summary.
Two days ago, war correspondent Alexey Gavrish said that
the Russian Armed Forces had stepped up their offensive
in the Kharkiv direction. According to military expert
Andriy Marochko, AFU units... abandoned their
positions.. near Volchansk, in the Kharkiv
region - after a fire raid and an attack
by Russian troops.
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The Russian army liberated Hnatovka
and Shevchenko 1 ---- in the DPR
May 29th, 10:34am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops - liberated the localities of Gnatovka
and Shevchenko I in the DPR, the Russian Defense
Ministry said in a summary.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the village
of Gnatovka was liberated by the "Southern" group
of troops, and the village of Shevchenko 1 --- by
units of the "Center" group of troops.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 soldiers, three
armored fighting vehicles, an artillery piece and 6 pickup
trucks near Hnativka, the Defense Ministry said. Three
ammunition depots, a material storage facility and 2
electronic warfare stations, were also destroyed.
Near Shevchenko, the first loss of Ukrainian troops amounted
to more than 390 soldiers, the report says. Also, the
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two "Cossack"
armoured vehicles, field artillery guns,
and seven cars.
A day earlier, the Ministry of Defense informed
about the liberation of the village of
Zelenoe Pole, in the DPR.
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Prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Belyakov: tattoo with a swastika
became a brand -for life
May 29th, 7:31am
(RIA News)
Ukrainian prisoner Serhiy Belyakov said in a video published
by the Russian Defense Ministry that he went to fight from
prison, where he made a tattoo with a swastika.
According to him, the tattoo has become
a brand for life.
Belyakov .....was captured by fighters of the
Russian group "Center", RIA Novosti writes.
According to the prisoner, he served three terms
in prison and "stopped by" on the fourth.
"I was a janitor, cooked food, an errand boy.
I didn't like doing it, so I decided to sign a
contract," Belyakov said.
He said that during his first term in prison, he got a
swastika tattoo, even though his grandfather
fought for the USSR.
"If he had been alive, he would have strangled me
on the spot, or shot me. This tattoo, this eagle,
this swastika became a brand for me.
A brand for life," said the captured
soldier of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
Belyakov said that he ended up in the 72nd brigade of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, signing a contract in
the expectation... of a later amnesty.
According to him, the presence of a tattoo in the form
of a swastika was a plus, in the 72nd brigade they
began to "support and encourage" him.
The prisoner clarified that the brigade consisted mainly
of drug addicts, alcoholics and criminals, who were
sent "one way", to the assault, fraudulently.
Belyakov complained about Major Andrey Kasovsky, who, according to him, collected money from soldiers, played
certain games and took out his anger on subordinates,
when physical punishments were practiced.
As the prisoner noted, Kasovsky "swells constantly"
----- and forces soldiers to go out for runs - at night.
On Wednesday, TASS posted a video with another
captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, Yevgeny Bespartochny, who, after
a conversation with his relatives, asked
to be granted Russian citizenship.
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The expert --- declared readiness of the
Russian Federation to respond to the
Taurus strike with a"good product"
by Sergey Grekhov (Night Line Editor)
May 28th, 10:03pm
(Lenta.ru)
Russia - has a wide range of weapons as a response to a
potential strike by a German long-range Taurus missile,
military expert Alexey Leonkov told RIA Novosti.
He stressed: that it is possible to use options ranging
"from conventional weapons... and up to the most
extreme measures."
"We have a good product called
"Hazel", " the expert said.
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The State Duma commented on
threats to the Medinsky family
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 28th, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs,
Leonid Slutsky, commented on RIA Novosti -- information about
threats against the family of Russian presidential aide Vladimir
Medinsky, saying that attempts to put pressure on the Russian
side, by Ukrainian radicals --- cannot be ruled out.
"But I am sure - that our negotiators will stand firmly on the
position, of protecting Russia's national interests," the MP
stressed. He also noted that it is impossible to intimidate
the representatives of the Russian side.
In addition, Slutsky added -- all necessary measures will
be taken to ensure the safety of the Russian delegation.
Earlier it became known that the Medinsky family is being
threatened from Ukraine. In the State Duma - this was
considered an attempt to disrupt the negotiations,
but the head of the Ministry of Defense of
Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, said that
"Nazis" were involved in this,
which "do not influence".
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Zakharova:There were no agreements
on the participation of the US - in the
exchange of memoranda with Kiev
by Ivan Sysoev
May 28th, 5:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
The official representative of Russia's Foreign Ministry,
Maria Zakharova, pointed out ---- that there were no
agreements on the mediation of the US, or other
countries in the exchange of draft memoranda
with Kiev.
Earlier, the US President's special representative for
Ukraine... Keith Kellogg, said that Washington had
received a list of terms of the peace agreement
from Kiev and was waiting.......... for a similar
document from Moscow.
Commenting on this statement, Zakharova pointed out
that Russia "does not know what the Ukrainian side
handed over and to whom." She recalled that the
agreements reached in Istanbul, on May 16,
presuppose the preparation by Moscow
and Kiev of "their own vision of the
modalities of the settlement
and ceasefire."
"After that, the parties will exchange the relevant
documents, directly.... and discuss them at the
next round," Zakharova said.
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Medvedev announced the replenishment
of the Russian Armed Forces since the
beginning of the year by 175 thousand
contract soldiers
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 8th, 4:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, held a meeting on the
issues of the re-supply of the Armed Forces.
He said that since the beginning of the year, almost
175 thousand servicemen, have arrived in military
units under the contract. More than 14 thousand
people were accepted to volunteer units.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council noted that
the situation of Russia's opponent - in Ukraine - looks
fundamentally different, which shows the real state
of affairs.
Medvedev called on all these trends to consolidate, and
work further - on recruiting the Russian Armed Forces
Because of the provocation on the Kursk border... the Kiev
regime risks losing those regions that the Russian troops
- initially - did not consider to be priority areas of the
special operation. This was announced, by the
military correspondent of VGTRK Evgeny
Poddubny on the air of the program
"60 Minutes" on the TV
channel "Russia".
He noted that the Russian army is expanding control over
the territory of the Sumy region: the village of Belovody
was taken under full control by Russian paratroopers.
These territories were not considered priority areas of
a special military operation, before the Kiev regime
invaded the territory of the Kursk border area,
the military commander says.
"In fact, Kiev provoked such a reaction, and now risks losing several more regions --- that were not on the priority list --- to our own actions" Poddubny said.
He stressed that the Russian army enjoys an advantage
and has the initiative along the entire line of contact.
"There is an active offensive in the Pokrovsky direction. And
we can already say that the Konstantinovsky direction, has
appeared. The city of Konstantinovka -- is now the centre
of attention, because the fighting is going on around it,"
the military commander added.
Poddubny also expressed the opinion that the formation
of a security zone on the border area --- is a necessity
--- to protect local residents.
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It became known about the liquidation
of the leader of the "Right Sector"
by Anastasia Dubova (Editor
of the BSSR department)
May 26th, 3:56pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian nationalist, one of the leaders of the "Right Sector"
organization (recognized in Russia as an extremist and
terrorist organization and banned), Vladimir Sklyar,
was liquidated by the Armed Forces of Russia
near Kursk.
This is reported by Argumenty I Fakty with reference to
the military correspondent, Ruslan Tatarinov.
"On May 21, Sklyar was killed in the border area,
in the Kursk direction," the publication says.
Earlier, TASS, citing a source, announced the liquidation
of the Right Sector nationalists by the Russian army.
The head of the National Medical Research Centre for High
Medical Technologies – Alexander Esipov on the air of
"Russia 24" said that -- in 2022, wounded Ukrainian
soldiers were brought to the hospital, which our
doctors treated as their own. According to the
Major General, such cases occurred at the
beginning of the special operation.
"But a wounded enemy, when he is wounded, he is no longer an
enemy – he is sick. There are also not all Nazis there, they are
different. There, and on the streets, they are caught and some students are pushed there. But what does it have to do with them? Therefore, we provide assistance both to our own ....and not our own," Esipov explained.
He also spoke about how the level of complexity of operations
in the hospital and the rehabilitation of military personnel in
connection with the use of new types of weapons in the
free zone... has changed.
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Russian Defense Ministry: 46 Ukrainian soldiers
surrendered to Russian Armed Forces in a week
May 23rd, 12:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
46 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily surrendered
to the Russian military in the period from May
17 to May 23, 2025, the Ministry of Defense
of the Russian Federation reported.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forcesnarrow a semicircle around
Konstantinovsky garrison of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine
May 23rd, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are narrowing the semicircle formed
around the Konstantinovsky garrison of Ukrainian troops. This
was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes" on
the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Pavel Kukushkin.
Commenting on the situation in the Konstantinovsky direction,
the military commander noted that Russian troops are
pressing the APU from three sides. In the west, the
Russian Armed Forces... are very close to the
village of Yablonovka, and - in the east, the
Russian army is advancing.. in the area
of Chasova Yara -- as well as near the
village of Stupochki, Kukushkin said.
"From the south, our assault units are also pressing in the area
of the village of Kleban-Byk, from which about 8.5 kilometres
to Konstantinovka are located from the south. Thus, we
narrow this semi-ring around the Konstantinovsky
garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,"
he concluded.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian
Armed Forces violated the control system of the AFU units in
the area of Konstantinovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
deployed Polish mercenaries and an elite battalion of
Magyar Birds drone guides to Konstantinovka - to
patch up the holes in the defense caused by
Russian strikes.
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Russian Defense Ministry: during the week,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about
9 thousand militants
May 23rd, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian army lost about nine thousand soldiers in the
special military operation zone during a week of fighting.
This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation.
According to the Defense Ministry, the weekly losses of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of responsibility of the
group of troops "West" of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation amounted to more than 1,585 militants. In
addition, 13 armoured combat vehicles, three tanks,
11 field artillery pieces and 65 vehicles
were eliminated.
The group of forces "North" hit 13 Ukrainian formations and
five tanks, 34 field artillery pieces and other equipment
were also destroyed.
In the area of responsibility of the "South", the enemy lost
more than 1,665 militants, 24 armoured combat vehicles,
two tanks and three M113 armoured personnel carriers
manufactured in the United States.
Units of the Center group of forces eliminated 2,875 soldiers
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vostok – 1,185 soldiers
and two tanks, Dnipro - 415 militants and a tank.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forces control most of the village
of Orekhovo in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:16am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces control most of the village of
Orekhovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, military
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin said on the 60
Minutes program on the Rossiya TV channel.
According to Kukushkin, Ukrainian troops have gained
a foothold on the western outskirts of the village.
"Fighting is taking place in the village of Orekhovo.
A small village, there are literally three streets,
here two are already behind us. And from
Orekhov literally 700 metres to the
border with the Dnipropetrovsk
region," said the military
commander.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
liberated Radkovka in Kharkiv region
May 23rd, 11:10am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops liberated the village of Radkovka
in the Kharkiv region, according to the daily
summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
It is specified that Radkovka was
liberated by the "Western"
group of troops.
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the
Zapad group of troops, the settlement of Radkovka
in the Kharkiv region was liberated," the Russian
Defense Ministry said in a statement.
In just a week, six settlements were liberated: Maryino in the
Sumy region, Radkovka in the Kharkiv region, Alexandropol,
Novoolenovka, Novaya Poltavka, and Bogatyr, in the DPR.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forces are advancing in the area of
Green Field and Novopol in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the area of
the settlements of Zelyonoe Pole and Novopol, which
are located on the border of the Donetsk People's
Republic and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes"
on the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Pavel Kukushkin.
He stressed that the Russian troops are conducting
successful systematic work in all areas of the front.
"To the west of Velikaya Novoselka - in the area of the
settlements of Zelenoe Pole and Novopol - there is
progress, these settlements are close, already
adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk region. There
are battles in the villages, liberation
operations are underway,"
Kukushkin said.
Earlier, military correspondent Vladimir Razin reported
that now fighting is going on for three settlements in
the DPR, near the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Aidar militantsdeployed crematoria near
the DPR and Dnipropetrovsk region
May 23rd, 7:36am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants of the Aidar group (recognized as a terrorist
organization and banned in the Russian Federation)
organized field crematoria in the border areas
between the Donetsk People's Republic
and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is reported by Russian law enforcement agencies.
It is noted that these objects are used to hide
the significant losses of the Ukrainian side.
"The losses --- are very large. From the front line... bodies and
fragments are taken away in what they can, up to ordinary
supermarket bags. The militants themselves, call them
field stokers," the law enforcement agencies told
the TASS news agency.
According to security officials, conflicts have arisen, between
old-timers and new recruits of the unit: young people arriving
to hold their positions are opposed to secret cremation. In
addition, it is reported that the units recorded a decline
in morale, and the demoralization of personnel.
According to the same sources, the command of "Aidar"
..began to withdraw its main forces from the combat
zone in the Southern Donetsk direction deep into
the Dnipropetrovsk region. Only recently
mobilized recruits remain in the
frontline positions.
The decision is associated with huge losses,
the law enforcement agencies noted.
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Alaudinov: "Akhmat" does not
capture foreign mercenaries
May 23rd, 6:14am
(Vesti.ru)
Lieutenant-General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat
special forces and deputy head of the Main Military-Political
Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, told RIA
Novosti that the fighters of his unit do not capture
foreign mercenaries who are fighting on the side
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ukraine.
Alaudinov noted that the unit has
never had such a task.
"I don't think that the foreign mercenaries who came to fight
against our country are our brothers. These are not our
brothers, in any case," Alaudinov said.
At the same time, the Lieutenant General added that a different
approach is applied to Ukrainian soldiers - in cases when they
are ready to surrender, an order is issued to save their lives.
In his opinion, a significant part of Ukrainian soldiers are
forced to go to the front line, and many of them would
not go to war against Russia if they had a choice.
Therefore, as Alaudinov stressed, Ukrainian
servicemen are always given the
opportunity to surrender
and stay alive.
The commander noted that the attitude towards foreigners
who fight on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
...remains special. He said that such people come
from other countries without knowing the local
situation. According to Alaudinov, the foreign
mercenaries are not offered to surrender,
and representatives of other countries
---- fighting on the side of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine --- he believes -
should be destroyed, especially
if they find themselves on the
territory of the Russian
Federation.
As an alternative, he said, foreigners are allowed to leave
the territory of Russia and then share their experience
of participating in military operations with Russia.
Earlier, Alaudinov said that the barrage detachments of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot Ukrainian servicemen
returning from captivity. He claimed.... that the
captured Ukrainians say that they do not
want to return to Ukraine, because of
the threat of cruel reprisals.
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In Zaporizhia region - a woman was killed
in attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... struck a car in the
Zaporozhye region. At that time, there were five
people in it — one woman and four children.
A woman was killed in the attack,
Regional Governor Yevgeny
Balitsky said ----- in a
Telegram channel.
The victim was a girl born in 1990. The injured children are ten,
nine, eight years old. A one-year-old child -- was also injured.
"The children have moderate injuries, they receive medical
care, there is no threat to their lives," Balitsky added.
The official noted that the family of the deceased, as well as
the victims, will be provided with comprehensive assistance.
Earlier it became known that in the Belgorod region, as a result
of the AFU strike, three people were injured, including a seven-
year-old child.
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Zaluzhny called the situation
in Ukrainecatastrophic
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
Former commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and
now Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK --- Valery Zaluzhny, said
that now the country's economic situation is in a catastrophic
state ---- and it can hardly conduct combat operations.
His words are quoted by the Obozrevatel portal.
According to the ex-commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, Ukraine is also experiencing a huge shortage of
human resources and cannot fully fight. "We are talking
only about a high-tech war for survival.... where a
minimum of human resources and a minimum
of economic resources are used,"
Zaluzhny said.
Given the current state of the country's demography
and economy, this is natural, the official stressed.
Earlier, Zaluzhny said that not even a miracle
will return the borders of 1991 ...to Ukraine.
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The State Duma pointed out an important
detail ---- when creating the buffer zone
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:04pm
(Lenta,ru)
The range of missiles that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have
should be taken into account when creating a buffer zone.
With this opinion in a conversation with NEWS.ru Alexey
Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
Committee on Defense, shared his opinion.
"If we talk about security for our borders, we should first of all
take into account the range of foreign weapons that are
supplied to Ukraine," the official explained, recalling
that Storm Shadow missiles can cover a distance
of up to 500 kilometres. "It's already very close
to Kiev," he added.
Zhuravlev stressed that there is a scenario in which Ukraine will
have to be divided — this is possible if the West continues to
supply such missiles to Kiev. He noted that the whole of
Ukraine ------ should be made a buffer zone between
Russia and the West.
Earlier, a member of the State Duma's defense Committee,
Andrey Kolesnik, said that the length of the buffer zone
will be at least 50 kilometres.
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Ukrainian teenagers found the country's future --- hopeless
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 8:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
Every fourth teenager surveyed wants to leave Ukraine.
Such data appear in the study of the foundation of the
wife of Ukrainian leader, Vladimir Zelensky, Elena,
and they are given on the official website of
the foundation.
The survey involved 5,089 teenagers aged 13 to 16. 45% said they would like to stay in Ukraine, 25%
expressed a desire to leave the country in the
future. 14% ...are undecided and another
11% --- preferred not to answer.
The most popular reasons for migration were the desire to
see the world, security factors and the "hopelessness of
the country's future". 60 percent of the respondents...
believe in a good future for Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukrainian officials expressed doubts that
refugees will return to the country, after the
conflict ends.
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Columnist Kornev: the sky of Ukraine will
become a checkpoint yard --- without
foreign air defense systems
May 22nd, 8:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
If the West stops supplying Kiev with anti-aircraft missile
systems( SAMs), the sky of Ukraine will become a
"checkpoint yard". This opinion was expressed
to the TV channel "Russia 24" by military
observer Dmitry Kornev.
He noted that a number of countries can stop the supply
of air defense systems to Ukraine if the United States
strictly stops military assistance to Kiev.
"If the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems from outside
to Ukraine stops, then, of course, the sky of Ukraine will
become a passing yard, and sometimes we see signs
of such a state," Kornev believes.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian
Armed Forces --- with an Iskander strike destroyed two enemy
Patriot air defense systems near the village of Ordzhonikidze
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Earlier, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said at a hearing
of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that none of
Washington's NATO allies..... wants to transfer Patriot
complexes to Kiev.
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Marochko: soldiers of the Russian Armed
Forces almost cut the AFU grouping
in Krasnoarmeysk
May 22nd, 6:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army practically cut off the AFU troops
stationed at Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and
Konstantinovka. This was announced by
military expert Andrey Marochko, in
a conversation with TASS.
It is specified that the advance of Russian troops occurred
due to the liberation of the settlement of Novaya Poltavka
in the DPR, by units of the Center group of troops.
"With the capture of Novaya Poltavka, the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation practically cut off the grouping of
Ukrainian militants who are located in Krasnoarmeysk
and in Konstantinovka," Marochko said.
In late April, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky,
said that the most difficult situation for Ukrainian militants
--- was in the Krasnoarmeysky direction. As previously
reported, the command transfers there detachments
of foreign mercenaries who are armed with NATO
weapons and are much better prepared than
Ukrainian servicemen.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also sending untrained
fighters to Krasnoarmeysk, in an attempt to contain
the advance of Russian troops.
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Professor Artamonov predicts a sharp change
in the situation at the front, in favour of
the Russian Federation
May 22nd, 6:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the next month and a half, there will be a sharp change in
the situation at the front in favor of Russia. This forecast
was made by Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of
the Russian Foreign Ministry, a specialist in NATO
armies, Alexander Artamonov.
He believes that the Ukrainian command, by its unprofessional
actions, provokes the AFU militants and the civilian population
to react negatively.
"There will definitely be a reaction from the population, from the
military, that is, those who put on a uniform --- and realized that
they were being killed, that they were sent to the front in order
to be killed there. And I think it will be right now, when they
see that America's aid is weakening, and that no one is
trying to support them abroad. Therefore, yes, indeed,
I foresee a sharp change in the situation at the front,
in the next month & a half. In our favour, of course,"
Artamonov said.
The professor noted that the accompanying factors may
also be an increase in the density of Russian fire and
the realization that the United States is no longer
on the side of Ukraine.
"All this, of course, should lead to panic moods against the
background of the constant, even, unhurried advance of
the Russian army. Accordingly... further, as they say,
when a person is cornered, he has only two ways
out. More precisely, maybe even three. Either
surrender, or run away, become a deserter,
or, as I said, turn your weapons against
your own commanders --- and those
who give thoughtless and insane
orders," Artamonov said.
Earlier, he suggested that the Ukrainian Armed Forces
would begin a panicked retreat, and Russian troops
would advance to the city of Dnepropetrovsk
within two months.
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Professor Artamonov suggested that
the Russian Armed Forces --- will
advance to Dnepropetrovsk
May 22nd, 6:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
Alexander Artamonov, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy
of the Russian Foreign Ministry and a specialist in NATO
armies, suggested that Russian troops will advance to
the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukrainian name-Dnipro)
within two months.
In his opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will start a panic
retreat and try to detain the Russian military, only at the
turn of Dnepropetrovsk.
"I fully foresee that the front will roll back, and, most likely, it is
primarily in the south, to the Dnieper. I think that within about
two months we will see a panicked retreat of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, who will really try to detain us further at
the turn of the Dnieper," Artamonov said.
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Putin: Russian Armed Forces -- solve
the problem .......of creating a buffer
zone along the border with Ukraine
May 22nd, 4pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces are working to create a
buffer zone along the border with Ukraine. This
was announced by the Russian President,
Vladimir Putin.
At a meeting with members of the government, the head
of state recalled the decision taken earlier... to create the necessary security buffer zone along the border.
"Our armed forces -- are now solving this problem, the
enemy's firing points are being actively suppressed,
and work is underway," Putin said.
Earlier, military correspondent Alexey Gavrish on the air of
the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia",
reported that the Russian armed forces continue to
create a buffer zone in the Sumy region. In his
opinion, its depth should be about 60 km.
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"The situation is disappointing." What the
Ukrainian Armed Forces say about the
breakthrough of Russian troops to
the Dnipropetrovsk region
by Yuri Leonov (senior editor of
the Former USSR department)
May 22nd, 1:59pm
(Lenta.ru)
The situation in the area of the breakthrough of the
Russian Armed Forces (AF) to the border of the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) --- and the
Dnipropetrovsk region, is disappointing,
said a lieutenant of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) with the call sign
Alex, in his Telegram channel.
Ukrainian military commander, Bohdan Miroshnikov, spoke about the collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the area of the village of Novopol - located at the junction of the DPR, Zaporozhye & Dnepropetrovsk regions' borders.
According to him -- high-intensity fighting is taking place in all areas of the Novopavlovsky direction.
Miroshnikov was also skeptical about the prospects of Ukrainian
defenses in Bogatyr village. According to him ----- the Russian Armed Forces, after taking the village, can pass along the
Volchya River to the rear of the APU..... to a depth of
15 kilometres to the village of Yalta -- and create
a threat of encirclement of the APU group in
the area of the settlements of Otradnoye
and Komar.
The military commander stressed that the Russian military's
access to the Filia-Hrushevske-Yalta triangle, will be key
for the entire Ukrainian defense in this direction.
''I don't think that [the Ukrainian Armed Forces]
will be able to stay in Bogatyr for a long time.''
The Ukrainian authorities - refused to recognize
the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military Administration,
Serhiy Lysak, said ---- that reports of the Russian Armed Forces
entering the territory of his region do not correspond to reality.
At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, has not officially commented on the situation.
The only official representative of the AFU command who
commented on the information... was Artem Mokhnach,
the Head of the Communications Department of the
Donetsk Operational and Tactical Department.
He also refused to admit the fact -- of the breakthrough of
the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Novonikolaevka.
In Lviv, a man in military service sprayed pepper gas
-- on employees of the shopping centre (territorial
recruitment centre, the Ukrainian equivalent of
the military enlistment office) while trying to
escape a check of military registration
documents. This.. was reported on
May 21, in the press service of
the regional shopping centre.
"Today, at about 10:00, military personnel of one of the Lviv
RTCC and SP, together with police representatives, were
alerting citizens liable for military service. A citizen
..upon request to provide military registration
documents for verification, began to run
away. Already - when he was almost
caught up, the man turned sharply
and sprayed pepper gas," the
Telegram channel says.
It is specified that the injured employee was hospitalized
with serious eye injuries. It is noted that the man was
detained. The attacker was a citizen of Ukraine,
who is wanted.
Currently, measures are being taken
to initiate a criminal case.
Earlier in the day, a citizen of Ukraine in Odessa ---- climbed
a tree, fleeing from the employees of the shopping centre.
He was removed from the tree........ six hours later. It is
specified that after the incident, the man was taken
to the military enlistment office.
Trenches --- and emptiness: what will the new
tightening of mobilization in Ukraine lead to?
They started looking for draft dodgers
in universities.
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Lavrov: there will no longer be a truce
in Ukraine....... with vague prospects
May 21st, 2:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has ruled out
the possibility of establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine
without working out further steps ------ to resolve
the conflict.
So the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the
words of European politicians who insist on the position
"first a truce – and then we'll see."
"No, guys, we've been in these stories before, we don't want to
do this anymore. And the Macrons, the Starmers, the von der
Leyens & other European figures who are now hysterically
demanding that the United States join the anti-Russian
actions ....give them away completely," Lavrov said,
speaking at the Russian-Armenian University.
He recalled the situation with the Istanbul talks in April 2022,
when the proposals proposed by the Ukrainian side were
initialed, but then the West forbade Kiev to sign the
agreement on the basis of these conditions.
Lavrov also stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and
US President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation
on May 19 agreed to prepare concrete steps that will lead
to a long-term settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
Earlier, the Axios portal reported that Trump, during a call to
European leaders, said that it was a bad idea to introduce
new sanctions against Russia. He also said that the
Kremlin is ready ---- to immediately start direct
negotiations on a cease-fire.
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Kilinkarov predicts an early change
of political elites --- in Ukraine
May 21st, 12:16pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the near future... Ukraine may see a change of political elites.
This forecast was made by the former deputy of the Verkhovna
Rada, Spiridon Kilinkarov, live on the program "60 Minutes"
on the TV channel "Russia".
In his opinion, after that - all the current
Ukrainian politicians will flee to Europe.
"Now there will be a change of the political elite in Ukraine,
and it will happen. And the Europeans will see how groups
of people ----- will run all over Europe, looking for these
officials -- who led this country for six years and
killed ---- hundreds of thousands of people.
They will be hunted all over Europe,"
he said.
Earlier, the director of the Institute for Research on
Contemporary Politics, Anton Orlov, expressed
the opinion that the head of the Kiev regime,
Vladimir Zelensky, may flee Ukraine --- to
Poland, Israel, Turkey ...and Australia.
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Military commander Gavrish:
fighting is taking place near
Volchansk - and in the
eastern part of the
Kharkiv region
May 21st, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighting in the Kharkiv region is currently continuing in
the eastern part of the region, as well as in the city of
Volchansk located in the north-east of the region.
This was reported on the air of the program "60 minutes" on
the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Alexey Gavrish.
Thus, he answered the question to what extent
Russian troops control the Kharkiv region.
"Fighting is taking place in the area of Volchansk, also in the
eastern part of the Kharkiv region. I would probably say
that we control it [the region] in depth -- due to our
unmanned aircraft. Our density of unmanned
vehicles is always increasing, and their range is increasing," Gavrish said.
Earlier, military expert Andrey Marochko said that
Russian troops occupied two strongholds of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces ----- near Volchansk
and Liptsov.
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Mayor Morgun: Mariupol will become one
of the most beautiful cities in the Southof Russia
May 20th, 11:53pm
(RT.ru)
The Mayor of Mariupol Oleg Morgun said in an interview
with RIA Novosti that..... in 5-10 years, Mariupol will
become one of the most beautiful cities in the
South of Russia.
He stressed that hardworking and loving people live here.
"We hope that, as soon as possible, if the industry is restored
and the housing stock is restored, people will live happily
ever after... I think it will soon be a demonstration city,
in the South of the Russian Federation," said Morgun.
Earlier, the mayor said that caches of weapons belonging
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still being discovered
in Mariupol.
He also noted that the Azovstal plant was badly damaged and
there is nothing to restore there. According to him, a post-
industrial park.... may appear on the territory.
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Medvedev accused European politicians - of seeking a global conflict
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 3:33pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry
Medvedev, revealed the true plans of the so-called
European "coalition of those willing" to send a contingent of their troops to Ukraine for peacekeeping purposes.
Behind the beautiful words - lies the desire to expand, establish
an occupation regime on the territory of the remaining Ukraine,
and ultimately draw all parties into a new, much larger military
conflict, the size of which --- can become global and the consequences fatal, the politician said, at the
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council recalled -- that the
mandate for maintaining peace and security is usually linked to
a UN decision. It has principles that presuppose the consent of
the parties to the conflict, the impartiality of the mission, and
the non-use of force, except in cases of self-defense. These
conditions exclude any presence in Ukraine of the armed
forces of those states -- that sent it money, weapons,
mercenaries and took one side in an undisguised
hybrid war against Russia, Medvedev said.
"The appearance of troops in the conflict zone ------ in violation of
these principles will be considered as a relapse into a military
threat ---- with all the ensuing consequences ------ up to their
recognition as a legitimate military target," he warned.
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Medvedev: Many in Russia like
Ukraine's capitulationmore
than negotiations
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 3:04pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
For the Kiev regime, there is a way to resolve the conflict through unconditional surrender.. Deputy Chairman of
the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said.
Such a formula of peace also exists in international law, he
recalled, speaking at the St. Petersburg International
Legal Forum. The politician noted, that many
people in Russia like it ...much more.
At the same time, today's Ukraine has one last opportunity to
preserve some kind of statehood under certain conditions,
after the end of military operations and gain a chance for
peaceful development, Medvedev believes. According
to him --- Russia is ready for negotiations without
preconditions --- but taking into account the
realities on the ground and the proposals
that were formed earlier --- and such
negotiations can make it possible
to find peace.
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Medvedev explained what is fraught with the preservation of Ukraine
within certain borders
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 2:54pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Any agreements with puppet regimes are always doomed to
failure, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council
Dmitry Medvedev said, at the St. Petersburg
International Legal Forum.
He calls --- for taking this into account
when resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
If the Ukrainian state remains within some borders, acts
committed by representatives of the current political
regime in Kiev, may be recognized as insignificant
by the new authorities, the deputy chairman of
the Security Council said. Then the war will
start again, he warned.
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Russian armoured vehicles
received 3-layer protection
by Daniel Irinin (Editor of the
Science & Technology Dept)
May 20th, 2:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
Specialists of the repair battalion in the rear area of the special
military operation zone (SVO) - equip armoured vehicles with a
3-layer protection against drones. The battalion commander,
Lt Colonel Yevgeny Chepanko, told Krasnaya Zvezda
about this.
He noted that specialists are restoring 2S7M "Malka" self-
propelled guns and 2S19 "Msta-S" howitzers at the site
for the repair of self-propelled artillery units (self-
propelled guns). Also in rembat, vehicles
receive anti-drone protection.
"The first layer is an anti-drone chain-link mesh reinforced with
rubber-technical products, the second is sand, and the third is armoured plates. All this... helps to save the life of the crew," the battalion commander explained.
In April, Izvestia reported that soldiers of the tank division of the
Russian army group Center, equipped the T-72B3M tank with
a design --- to protect the upper hemisphere from drones.
The "grill" with dynamic protection, was supplemented
with a "dome" made of fibreglass reinforcement. The
drone may become entangled in the nets -- or spring
back from them.
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"Warming up both body and soul"
Izvestia's report on the reconstruction of
Avdiivka ---- liberated by Russian troops
by Sergey Prudnikov
May 20th, 8am
(Izvestia.ru)
Renovated houses and nearby ruins after shelling. Freshly
painted monuments and mine-prone areas. A minibus
three times a day and attacking Ukrainian UAVs.
Avdiivka is recovering, but it is too early to talk about the return
of a full-fledged peaceful life. The main reasons for this are the
colossal destruction (up to 90%) and the proximity of the front
line — about 20 km. The locality itself remains closed — the
entrance inside is only with a local registration. About how
the city rises from the ashes, no matter what, — is in the
report of the special correspondent of Izvestia.
We enter Avdiivka.. by winding broken roads through the very
"promka" where Ukrainian militants have settled since 2014. The first thing we hear with the driver, crossing the city line,
is a loud bang. Immediately behind the trees grows a black
pole --------- probably the result of the arrival of a drone. As
representatives of the administration explained to me in
advance, a rare day goes by without a visit from enemy
UAVs. But -- in general, it became calmer. Suddenly ---
there are unexpected massive raids like a few weeks
ago when 20-25 kamikazes attacked Avdiivka at the
same time, and a civilian car also came under fire.
But this is an exception. The number of strikes
has decreased significantly ---- including,
presumably.. because the APU, as a
result of its withdrawal, chooses
higher priority targets - on
the line of contact.
The role of the administration - as a year ago - is performed by
the premises of one of the former shops, tightly covered with
sandbags ----- here the authorities, humanitarian aid, and any
questions and answers. The representative of Yasinovataya Marina Aseeva is in charge of civil affairs. The last time I
saw her was in the summer of 2024, so she gives me a
brief introduction.
''The number of residents today is almost 700 people,
100 more than last year (in 2023, Avdiivka had
1,600 people, until 2014 - 32,000 -Ed.).
Including nine children,"
the woman says.
''Almost everyone got their passports. The pension was issued
to 483 people. Ukrainian workbooks are being closed. 170
people are employed, of which 80 work in Avdiivka, the
rest mainly in Yasynuvata.''
According to Marina Aseeva -- the city has a Ministry of Internal Affairs' territorial department, a pharmacy receives customers 3 times a week, a paramedic team arrives twice, from Donetsk ----- and representatives of one of the banks - once a week.
15 retail outlets have been opened. Once every seven days -- each resident is given a free loaf of bread, once a month 36 litres of drinking water. There is no centralized power supply, but 49 private homes are powered by an industrial generator of "Electric Grids".
54 individual buildings --- have been
renovated. Multi-family residential
buildings --- are being restored.
Help from chefs
My guide around the city...... is a local activist, Pavel. He has 25 years of underground experience: he worked as an electrical mechanic in a mine. Twice he witnessed accidents - methane explosions, where his comrades died. In 2014 like other fellow countrymen he had to learn how to survive in new conditions: to stock up water for the future - save food, have solar panels, don't wait for manna from heaven (that someone will come and solve your problems), lend a shoulder to your neighbour.
In his four-story building there is no basement, ''all
the years... I had to hide between the floors, after
the start of a special military operation, I hung
the front door - taken out by the blast wave -
five times, on its hinges. I pulled bodies
out of the rubble. I was burying....
a friend.''
In February 2024, after Russian troops entered Avdiivka, he
spent three months with other children clearing shops for
administrative premises - and helping to distribute
humanitarian aid. He continues to work in
the volunteer team, even now.
"After the capture of Avdiivka, we finally exhaled"
The house in which he lives -- is in disrepair, with cracks, broken
windows and collapsed balconies. The entire four-story building
has four residents. On the first floor lives the same activist Rita,
today, she was just handing out bread and during the break she
ran to feed her cat. Instead of a front door.... Rita has plywood.
In the next abandoned apartment a woodcutter. In the kitchen
there is a stove with a pipe through the window. Immediately,
a red cat meows, to which she crumbles cucumbers into a
bowl — the tailed one immediately begins to crunch with
appetite. Rita gave 32 years to the Avdiivka coke plant,
and now she works part-time, at two retail outlets --- as a cleaner.
But the neighbouring house has been restored. Plastic windows,
painted walls, fresh railings. In the apartments ---- linoleum,
plumbing, boilers, electric stoves, refrigerators, furniture,
mattresses, everything is free. Water comes from a well,
electricity from a generator in the yard. And the same
house is being prepared for commissioning nearby --
both objects are being repaired in the Chelyabinsk
region. And nearby apartment buildings ---- are
being restored by another chef ----- the
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
From basements to apartments
New residents of renovated houses — fire victims. Housing
was given to them for temporary use. Given the current
difficult realities, no deadlines have been set: live!
In one of the apartments, the couple Anatoly and Svetlana ...open
the door for me. He is a metallurgist - with more than 40 years of
experience, and she is a former nurse. They spent two years —
22 and 23 - in the basement. Last year a shell landed there, and
a fire started. ''We got out. For several days we spent the night
on a bench, covered with blankets. We were lost somewhere.''
And - last December, they were given the keys to a two-room
apartment. New Year's Eve was celebrated in a warm place,
with water, with electric light. "We are still warming up -----
both body and soul," says Svetlana.
Together with Pavel ------ we visit several other sites. On the
outskirts the Church of Mary Magdalene is being repaired.
The small belfry dome.... is being covered with gold leaf.
Next to it -- is a restored and painted memorial to the
soldiers of the Great Patriotic War with a MiG plane
soaring into the sky (after 2014, nationalists filled
this memorial place with paint). There is also a
bell installed in honour of the current heroes.
On a construction site close to the centre
...is the sheathed box of the future
administration. It will house, an
MFC, a pension fund, a bank,
and a civil registry office ---
under one roof. You don't
have to go to Donetsk.
The building is expected to open.., soon.
In the afternoon, on Gagarin Street, among the soldiers hurrying
in different directions, I notice a group of elderly women - they
are waiting for the same minibus -- the only channel of
communication with the "mainland", so far. The cost
to Donetsk is 60 rubles, the journey time is almost
two hours (you have to go by a roundabout route).
One resident goes to work --- she got a job as a concierge in a
high-rise building in the republican capital. The other goes to
a student-grandson. The third..... is to go to the pharmacy in Yasinovataya: not all drugs are available at the local point. The fourth one, wants to get to the market --- in time.
Please note that both civilians and military personnel --- are very similar, and seem to merge into one, on these streets. Because of the forced neighbourhood, everyone has long belonged.. to each other. Everyone has a work or field uniform. And... on the faces of indelible fatigue and concern - neither one nor the other can calmly exhale and rest, unfortunately, there is
Thus, he answered the question of which provisions of the
Istanbul agreements of 2022 ....remain relevant today.
"One key point remains relevant: the ceasefire regime should
not be used... for regrouping and re-escalating military operations -------- which, in fact, Ukraine insists on. The key issues are the supply of weapons and the movement of armed formations.
That is, all of these nuances... should be ---- excluded,"
Miroshnik stressed.
According to Rodion Miroshnik, if the Ukrainian side really wants
to establish a ceasefire, it will take a number of steps that will
be offered to it. If Kiev refuses the proposed solutions, the
Russian diplomat added, this will indicate - that Ukraine
has no desire to move towards a peaceful settlement
of the conflict.
Earlier, the Ambassador-at-large said that the Ukrainian
leadership, despite public statements, in fact.. did not
give orders to reduce the intensity of shelling in the
combat zone.
On May 19, at 17 hours Moscow time, a telephone conversation
is scheduled between the Presidents of Russia and the United
States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The key topics of
discussion ---- will be the settlement of the conflict in
Ukraine and the restoration of trade relations.
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TASS: Aidar militants are fleeing from positions
on the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 19th, 6:37am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants of the Aidar battalion (the organization is recognized
as a terrorist organization & banned in Russia) in Ukraine are
trying to leave their positions in the village of Novoukrainka
of the DPR, which is located on the border with the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is reported by the TASS news agency - with
reference to Russian law enforcement agencies.
The reason for the flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was panic ---- after a series of precise strikes on their
place of deployment.
"After a series of precise strikes on the locations of Aidar in
Novoukrainka, the surviving militants made an attempt to
escape en masse from the settlement. This attempt
turned out to be dead and wounded for them,"
the agency's sources said.
It is noted that those who remained on the ground
and survived --- refused to perform further tasks.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian military destroyed part
of the Aidar militants, who were transferred to the Donetsk
People's Republic. It is specified that - in Novoukrainka -
newly arrived members of the battalion were hit by
airstrikes of the FAB, as a result of which -- 15
people were killed, and about 20 militants
were injured.
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Fighter of the "East": on the outskirts
of Bogatyr village found a lot of
foreign equipment
May 19th, 4:46am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighters of the group of Russian troops "Vostok", found foreign
equipment near the village of Bogatyr in the DPR. This ---- was
reported by one of the military "East" on the air of "Russia 1".
Fighters of the Vostok group - liberated Bogatyr village. It was the most important fortified area of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. Now the Russian army has direct
access to the border with Dnipropetrovsk region.
Along with this, foreign weapons,
were left by Ukrainian militants.
"Closer to the village itself, there is a cemetery of foreign
equipment, foreign weapons," the Russian military said.
Also, in the "East", they said that they struck ---- at the
enemy's military rear during the liberation of Bogatyr.
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Deputy Commander of the unit, Markov:
soldiers should see officers
on the front line
May 19th, 4:40am
(Vesti.ru)
Senior Lieutenant, deputy commander of the detachment for
military and political work, Ivan Markov, in the program
"Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" spoke about how
to raise the morale of military personnel in the
free defense zone.
According to him, the fighters are constantly being
interviewed - about how to overcome panic. They
encourage them with a kind word, and also, by
personal example.
"I must also be present with the personnel on the front line, so
that they can see that the officers are not only in the rear, but
also on the front line. We constantly talk to people and say
that: the victory will be ours. There's no other way. We
must defeat this bastard. We are moving confidently
to the west. We know --- that we will win,"
said Markov.
Four Russian military men were able to resist a company
of Ukrainian militants, near Alexandropol, in the DPR.
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Australia....sends decommissioned
Abrams tanks.. to Ukraine
May 19th, 3:57am
(Vesti.ru)
Australia -- has sent decommissioned M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
has said. Australia will continue to provide military
assistance to Ukraine, Albanese said.
"We are ready to consider any proposal of the coalition of the
willing to send a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine, after
peace is established there," TASS quoted the Australian
Prime Minister as saying.
According to him, Australia has imposed
more than 1,400 sanctions, against
Russian citizens and companies.
"We are studying what else can be done to
put pressure on Russia," Albanese said.
Since March 2022, Australia has been supplying Ukraine with
weapons and ammunition, including Bushmaster armoured
The total amount of Australian aid to Kiev has exceeded
$1 billion, of which, $880 million was spent on the
purchase of weapons and ammunition.
Almost 90 military instructors from Australia are taking part in
the training of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
in the UK. From October 2023, an Australian Air Force E-7A
Wedgetail reconnaissance aircraft and up to 100 Australian
troops will be stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
The media reported, about 48 Australian citizens
who participated in the fighting against Russia
on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 58 UAV control points - and 10 Starlink stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
during the day
May 19th, 3:01am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops destroyed 58 control points for unmanned aerial
vehicles over the past day, of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
reports the Ministry of Defense.
In particular -- the Zapad group destroyed 46 UAV control points
and 10 Starlink satellite communication stations of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, the head of the group's press centre, Ivan
Bigma, told media representatives.
"12 UAV control points were destroyed in the area of operations
of the Vostok group," said the group's official representative,
Alexander Gordeev.
The head of the press centre of the Center group -- Alexander
Savchuk, clarified that an Israeli-made tactical radar system
designed to detect air targets, was destroyed.
In general, the Russian Armed Forces attacked a military airfield,
ammunition and fuel depots, UAV storage sites, radar stations
and other objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 139
districts of Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said, in a
Telegram channel.
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Sergeant Chernovalov restored the
operation of the repeater under
Ukrainian Armed Forces
artillery fire
May 17th, 10:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Sergeant Eduard Chernovalov organized communication
between the command post and the assault units of the
Russian Armed Forces (AF). The Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation reported on the exploits of
Russian servicemen in the zone of a special
military operation (SVO).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) conducted a mortar attack
on Russian positions, as a result of which ----- a repeater was
damaged. Chernovalov, realizing that communication needs
to be restored as soon as possible, moved to the place of
damage, despite the ongoing shelling from the enemy
and attacks by FPV drones. Having reached the
repeater, the serviceman successfully
repaired it and promptly restored
communication.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the bold and decisive
actions of Lance Corporal Vasily Vidishev, who was at the
observation post at the moment when the positions
of Russian troops ----- were attacked by enemy
kamikaze drones.
Vidishev ordered the servicemen to open fire on the drones.
The lance corporal himself eliminated several drones.
When one of them did not detonate in the air, but fell on
the territory of the Russian positions, Vidishev got to
the drone ---------- and personally defused the
explosive device.
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Stormtrooper with the call sign Cook:
my mother's prayer keeps and
protects me
May 17th, 8:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
In an exclusive interview with the Rossiya TV channel,
a stormtrooper with the call sign Cook said that his
mother's prayer protects him.
A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces shared that his
mother does not show her feelings, but constantly
thinks about her son and prays for him.
"My mother's prayer... preserves and protects.
She never shows it, but she experiences it,"
the stormtrooper said.
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Stormtrooper of the Russian Armed Forces
spoke about hand-to-hand combat with
an AFU militant - near Alexandropol
May 17th, 2:28pm
(Vesti.ru)
During the liberation of Alexandropol, in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) ---- a soldier of the 242nd regiment of the Center group of Troops had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with an Armed Forces of Ukraine militant.
Dmitry Borodavko --------- an attack fighter of the Russian Armed Forces, told reporters about the circumstances of the battle.
A soldier in the group was sent to storm the dugout of militants
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the evening, the fighters of
the Center group made small dashes, hiding from drones,
and reached the enemy's location.
"Flew in, it turns out, I'm the first, three friends behind,
dismantled the passage, went in, there is a carpet
hanging. I see a machine gun resting against it,
then a second one, and they [AFU fighters],
start working on us," Borodavko told the
TASS news agency.
Caught in the crossfire, the soldier found shelter in the corner
of the dugout, continuing to fight. A grenade exploded, and
Borodavko and his comrades --- were injured. The fighter
decided to continue the assault, even after he ran out
of ammunition.
"He[the AFU militant]jumped out, I grabbed him by the machine
gun, pulled his bulletproof vest and cut him down, because I
was doing judo. I hold him with my knee, I hold his hand,
he is trying to get up," Borodavko explained.
The assault -- was successful. After the main forces of the
Russian Armed Forces gained a foothold on the new line,
the Borodavko group - was assigned a new task. They
spent three days in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, coordinating artillery strikes.
_______________________________________
The Russian Armed Forces
liberated Alexandropol
in the DPR
May 17th, 10:13am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military liberated Alexandropol village
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
This is reported by the Russian
Defense Ministry.
"The settlement of Alexandropol of the Donetsk People's
Republic has been liberated by the decisive actions of
the Center group of forces units," the report says.
It is specified that the Russian Armed Forces defeated the
formations of the AFU brigades in the areas of a number
of settlements of the DPR. The enemy lost 490 soldiers,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
“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.)
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.
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)
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.
Peak hypocrisy: US is ''concerned'' aboutChina's nukes
by Daniel Patrick Welch
August 7th, 11:45am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of
China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own
country dropping the only one ever.
The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest
to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with
Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's
Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy,
is to attack others, for actions it has itself
performed on a regular basis.
Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign
interference in sacred elections by a country other
than the US —reigning and uncontested champion
of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,
the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to
warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?
If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod
et al) would track it down and strangle it with their
bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department
announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s
neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A
NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima.
I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just
can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that
back, with the reverse tape noise and all.
The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,
the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the first of those two genocidal crimes against humanity, to express grave concern about China’s nuclear
arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic
here — there really is so little left to say.
What comes after tragedy and farce?
Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention
a third, though I might venture
Cynicism Made Flesh?
Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like
DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman
from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of
rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational
head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless
assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and
political consciousness, has left a populace
with a Hollywood understanding of WWII
that has almost no relation to reality.
Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no
military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not
the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and
didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded
of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese
in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his
own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.
But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further
exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest
of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no
more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of
wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s
dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar
Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay
Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus
keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths
in charge make the real decisions.
The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other
than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just
wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish
need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.
Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and
beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity
are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth
and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of
the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than
instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the
predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to
wield when needed. Dark days ahead.
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and
analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes
in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together
they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled
widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian
History and Literature at Harvard University.
Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio
channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political
analysis--around his day job. He can be available for
interview requests as time and scheduling permit.
Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy
and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's
circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa
Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most
revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."
Welch wrote this commentary for the Press TV website.
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.
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.
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!
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)
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.)
BREAKING: Russia's State TV Advising Russian Citizens on how to survive a World War ! WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !
The Doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website now has the final singular moment that will bring civilization to final nuclear annihilation, at 90 seconds to midnight.
This is the closest it has ever been. Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds
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
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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)
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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[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.
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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‘How Can I Deselect My Labour MP?’ A Short Guideto Reselection and Democratic Accountability by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:
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.
We await a reaction from the US.
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Popov: Russia can and should withdraw from 1997 treaty with Ukraine By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ - translated by J. Arnoldski -
The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov, the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist Operation are preparing to transfer the building on Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather, the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre is explained by a different motive: once again, punishing anyone ideologically representative of an “enemy” Russian culture.
This centre’s building was leased to the Russian community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).
Let us quote one founding document signed by Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identities of national minorities on their territory and create conditions for the fostering of their identity….they will contribute to creating equal opportunities and conditions for studying the Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian language in the Russian Federation, training pedagogical staff for teaching these languages in educational establishments, and for these purposes, provide equal state support.”
Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the recognition of the friendly relations between the countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why the agreement is often called a border treaty. For Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some territories (including Galicia, which was part of the Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It is no coincidence that a number of patriotic politicians in Russia, demanded that this document not be signed.
Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian- cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014, Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide (ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.
Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.
In fact, this measure is already being implemented. The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined while Russian organizations are being prosecuted and their activities are under close surveillance by Kiev’s intelligence services.
In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire network of federal & regional organizations of Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example, in the Rostov region there is a city-level and regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.
The organization receives funding from the city and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile, Makarchuk is published on the website of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and frequently makes Russophobic statements.
Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in Ukraine are being massively violated. An example of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's authorities. But on the federal level as well, the state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts to defend the Russian population of Ukraine (nearly half of the country’s total population).
Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997 treaty. In a situation in which the second country (Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw from the treaty with all the legal and political implications. I see no reason for the Russian budget to support the activities of Ukrainian organizations in Russia, or recognize the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM
The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We have demonstrated that the White Helmets are an integral part of the propaganda van- guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact and propagation of Human Rights fiction that elicits the well-intentioned and self righteous response from a very cleverly duped public. A priority for these NGOs is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone scenario which has already been seen to have disastrous implications for innocent civilians in Libya, for example.”
What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone scenario” than arriving within “moments” of the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a propaganda scenario before any meaningful forensic investigation could even be started, since the trucks were still burning. And of course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian Defence Force”, were filming, rather than attempting to put out the fire and rescue those in the burning trucks.
[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as "the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group," quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian "constant bombing of civilians" and calls for a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]
The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently caused outrage by claiming that their Drone footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid convoy included a truck full of militant fighters carrying mortar guns.”
However: “The footage emerged as the United Nations rowed back from describing the attack on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did not have conclusive evidence about what had happened.”
It must be asked, why on earth, after long and protracted negotiations over the convoy would Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation of the country, by laying themselves open to accusations of bombing aid convoys?
The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing, however. Wiped from the headlines, is another atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others, just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept. - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes- woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that”, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?
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US prepares an Islamic army in Kosovo
Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given the total apathy of the authorities of Republika Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its implementation.
The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's discontent ousts US bases from Germany, after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo. It's no secret that the crime and terrorist mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the patronage of the US.
Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many Russian and Serbian state awards, commented to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.
Former Commander of the French foreign legion in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from confidential US sources -- that there are at least five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are preparing suicide bombers and an army of Islamists to conquer Europe.
Having found no evidence that proved Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal exonerated him. What do you think of it?
Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as the last communist in Europe -- who should be annihilated. His own country turned him over to the Hague; the so-called new government -- after the colour revolution of 2000.
However he was a leader who defended his country and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s, as they were charged with collective crimes.
No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic was very important, but they didn't manage to find any evidence.
His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly took some samples of food and water Slobodan had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it turned out that poison had been added. And it was difficult to breathe for him, which means that something was infiltrated into the air.
Then he stopped eating, but the process had been launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal admitted that he was not responsible for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in the UN group admits that they were ordered to stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians... Western troops openly supported separatists and participated in punitive actions against the Serbians. Do you have such data?
Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents and publish them. There occur more and more documents on the events since 1990, which confirm it.
It's absolutely clear that international organizations were biased. The Albanians approach their dream - to create a big country with an Albanian population only. The US has worked a lot to support this movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.
And they would have got independence long ago, unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they do not influence Russia, but try to govern the Serbian authorities. But I think the process hasn't been completed, & there's a chance to return Kosovo to Serbia.
As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the Western Europe and create a whole army to conquer it. How can you comment on this?
When huge flows of refugees were going across the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young men and almost no couples. They were well- dressed, were going by three, and had enough means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that there are those among them who should stay in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation of their leaders' aims.
As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU, they implemented all the terms. And they were told, to not only to let in these refugees, but also to build camps for them. Many stayed in the South, where the population is majority Muslim . A great quantity went to Kosovo and Metohija.
And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel there, where enormous resources are deployed. This territory is not controlled by anyone. And when questions of the US military camps in Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.
In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained, they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into submission and recognize the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are hampering these plans.
There is evidence that, as early as in the mid- 1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans when the agreement with Germany terminated if they had to leave. They need a territory in Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija, Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika Srpska hampers implementation of this plan today.
They need to annihilate the Republic and make the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims in other territories, may be fruitful.
These plans may come forward in the nearest future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia. As there is a plan to separate the Southern regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials regard these refugees calmly, as well as capable of possible terrorist acts. But it should be paid 'special attention'.
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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.
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.
