Posted by The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbours of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.
George F. Kennan
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19th February 2023
Occupied Zaporizhzhia region Imagine she was your own daughter. Forcibly separated from you. Given to a ruzZian family or kept in an orphanage/institution under “custody” of Wagner mercs or Kadyrovites. With a new ruzZian identity & no chance of seeing you again. Genocide.
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4th March 2023
Wagner Group financier’s lies about “encircling” Bakhmut exposed
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news.yahoo.com Wagner Group financier’s lies about “encircling” Bakhmut exposed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group financier, has been caught lying about his mercenaries having supposedly “encircled” the city of
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Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings |
3rd March 2023
PUTIN’S CRIMINALS: Implicated in massacres in Africa, human and drug trafficking, and war crimes in Ukraine, Russia’s Wagner Group has been designated a Transnational Criminal Organization. Watch the Helsinki Commission’s
LIVE hearing on 9 MAR at 10:00 EST.
4th March 2023
Russia started an intense shelling of routes leading west out of Bakhmut, in an apparent attempt to block Ukrainian access in and out of the city. #Bakhmut | #UkraineRussiaWar
4th March 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the head of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Lviv.
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4th March 2023
The head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, arrived in #Ukraine with an unannounced visit. She met with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk.
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4th March 2023
Ukraine’s future is as a member of the European Union. We will walk all the way with you. Great seeing my friend @r_stefanchuk again. Cooperation between @Europarl_EN & @ua_parliament will only grow stronger.
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4th March 2023
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which has been accused of numerous atrocities in Ukraine and elsewhere, has launched a youth club aimed at fostering patriotism and preparing young Russians for military service.
4th March 2023
#Ukraine’s top prosecutor said it’s moving towards opening an office of the international criminal court. ICC is currently investigating war crimes committed by Russian troops. President Zelensky said “over 70,000 Russian war crimes” have been registered.
4th March 2023
Dnipro.. military cemetery. One of the biggest in Ukraine. Many young people in their 20s. Some still unidentified. Futures which will never be realized. An enormous price Ukraine is paying to stop the monster..
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Yes, Lavrov is laughed at by the Indian audience for saying #Ukraine started the war by attacking Russia. But, like some condescending colonial overlord, Lavrov blatantly lies to #India, African countries etc. as he thinks they’re too stupid to know any different. #G20Summit
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This is surely a new low for Russian “patriotic” culture At a festival in Krasnodar Territory, some cadets performed a song about flying home as Cargo 200 (Russian military code for the transport of troops killed in action)
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4th March 2023
Presenter Sergei Karnaukhov voices his horror at the thought of Russia’s leadership trying to reach a peace deal with Ukraine In response, state TV reporter Andrei Rudenko tells him not to worry: “We have no option other than to defeat them and prove that we’re a great power!”
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A Kazakh journalist is reporting that Ramzan Kadyrov is gravely ill with kidney problems. If Kadyrov kicks-the-bucket: It was Evgenii Prigozhin who killed him.
dialog.ua СМИ: Кадырову совсем плохо – из ОАЭ срочно вылетел известный нефролог Казахстанский журналист Азамат Майтанов сообщил, что у Кадырова серьезные проблемы с почками.
4th March 2023
Putin’s secret weapon on Energy: an Ex-Morgan Stanley Banker. Sounds like an appropriate target for Western sanctions.
wsj.com Putin’s Secret Weapon on Energy: an Ex-Morgan Stanley Banker Young Russian technocrats with deep knowledge of the West are vaulting to the Kremlin’s upper echelons of power.
Russian scientist who created Covid vaccine ‘strangled to death with a belt in his apartment’ | Daily Mail Online
Russian scientist who created Covid vaccine ‘strangled to death’
Andrey Botikov, found dead in his Moscow apartment, was one of 18 who worked on the Sputnik V vaccine during the pandemic. Sputnik
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17th February 2023
198,757 views Feb 17, 2023 #CNN #News
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference about supporting Kyiv in its war against Russia. #CNN #News
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4th March 2023
Russia’s defense minister has inspected the front line in eastern Ukraine, the defense ministry said Saturday, with the battle for Bakhmut raging and the US offering to pump more money into Kyiv’s survival.
Russia Defense Chief Inspects Front Line as Bakhmut Battle Rages
Russia’s defense minister has inspected the front line in eastern Ukraine, the defense ministry said Saturday, with the battle for
4th March 2023
#OpEd Wave after wave of war and repression is draining away Russia’s human resources. Moscow should start to focus on improving the lives of its citizens rather than spending billions on its military, writes
Russia’s Second, Silent War Against Its Human Capital
Opinion | At the end of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the government to draw up a package of measures to
Russia is losing its largest partner! Kazakhstan has announced a new strategic cooperation agreement with the United States ! A key member of the pro- military bloc is moving away from Moscow , which has become, globally, a toxic pariah. – The Moscow Times
Russia-Ukraine war: March 4 updates Russian artillery has bombarded the last routes out of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, aiming to complete the encirclement of the city and bring Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year. LIVE coverage:
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4th March 2023
Russia today, like the Soviet Union before it, is a successor of the Russian Empire. An enduring characteristic of Russian self-conception is a view of Russia as a profoundly benevolent power bringing development and modernity to the places it colonizes.
1/ Matters appear to have gone from bad to worse for the mobilised Russians of the 1439th regiment. Their wives say the men are now encircled by the Ukrainians, under constant fire and lack food or water. Transcript below.
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3rd March 2023
Ukraine government organization
The 28th Mechanized Brigade’s mortar team at work.
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4th March 2023
Special Operations Forces Commander visits Bakhmut
4th March 2023
Rescuers continue to clear away rubble after Zaporizhzhia missile strike: death toll rises to 10
pravda.com.ua Rescuers continue to clear away rubble after Zaporizhzhia missile strike: death toll rises to 10 Rescue workers have recovered another three bodies from underneath the rubble of the apartment block in Zaporizhzhia, which was hit by Russian missiles on 2 March. The death toll currently
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3rd March 2023
The Russian underwater gas pipelines “Nord Stream” will be mothballed, as there are no plans to repair or put them into operation in the near future.
Reuters: Russia will freeze the “Nord Streams” because it is not going to repair them after the…
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