Posted by A follow on from yesterday’s suggestion to watch — Putin’s Revenge. Part 1 and Part 2. Full documenatries.
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This is “Meddling”. Fred suggests Mick Wallace is over-estimating his position as an Irish representative.
It was an honour to meet the #Chinese Ambassador to Ireland He Xiangdong yesterday. We discussed the need for all countries to work for Peace, to respect the UN Charter, for all Governments to trust the rule of Law rather than use Military force to achieve their goals…
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23rd April 2023
A Russian court in Crimea has sentenced the young Crimean Tatar Appaz Kurtamet to 7 years in prison for sending $12,5 to his friend who serves in the Ukrainian army The Russians claimed he “financed an illegal armed formation.”
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky
From the press event after
conference #RussiaandtheWest, discussing what the breaking points of Putin’s regime are, the post-Putin scenarios for Russia & how the West should prepare for them, and what is needed for Ukraine to push back the Putin’s aggression
Center for Countering Disinformation
22nd April 2023
Russian media has been promoting messages about the “Nazi nature” of Ukraine, which is why it must be “denazified” by russia. Watch a video by the Center for Countering Disinformation, where we explain why such claims are groundless, as they are not supported by any real facts.
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So much for sanctions! Oligarchs’ UK mansions have never looked better
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Amazing scoop by
, the journalist who was sued by 4 different Russian oligarchs for exposing Putin’s corrupt relationships now has discovered Kremlin attempts to build antiwar coalition of extremsists in Germany – The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany, documents show Russian documents obtained by The Post show that the Kremlin has attempted to united the far right and far left in Germany in an antiwar
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The future of democracy used to be seen as foreign policy, but now it’s a primary domestic concern in the US. My friend
& I discuss in person at the
in NYC on May 14. Info: https://92ny.org/event/newmark/future-of-democracy
The Kyiv City Council terminated the land lease agreement with the Russian Embassy. They also appealed to the government to return the property of the Russian Embassy to the state.
23rd April 2023
Nikolay Peskov, the son of Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian president, has claimed that he participated in the Ukraine War with PMC Wagner.
novayagazeta.eu Son of Putin’s spokesman claims he fought with PMC Wagner in Ukraine, received Medal for Valour Nikolay Peskov, the son of Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian president, has claimed that he participated in the Ukraine War with PMC Wagner as he gave an interview to Komsomolskaya
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23rd April 2023
Ilya Yashin was convicted in December for spreading “false” information about the Russian military’s killing of civilians in the Kyiv suburb town of Bucha last spring.
Ukrainian Community in Ireland Retweeted
National Famine Museum | Strokestown Park
Meet our new #ArtistInResidence Olena Kovalevych who has begun her residency in Strokestown Park. Olena is a practitioner of a style of Ukrainian folk art called #Petrykivka To learn more about Olena and #PetrykivkaPainting visit
https://strokestownpark.ie/artist-in-residence-olena-kovalevych/
22nd April 2023
Distance is not an issue, when true friends come together to fight for freedom and democracy. New Zealand made a lot for #UAarmy and our people. Thank you
for the discussion at #Ramstein.
23rd April 2023
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of April 23, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“According to the notorious Wagner head Evgeniy Prigozhin, more than 5,000 former criminals have already been freed.”
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22nd April 2023
My story on Soslan Valiyev and Yulia Buiskich, two innocent people reportedly murdered by Wagner convicts who returned to their hometowns after Ukraine. “The state and personally Putin and Prigozhin are to blame for Yulia’s death,” one relative told me
https://theguardian.com/world/2023/apr
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: War is at the core of Putin’s regime. Chechya, Georgia, annexation of Crimea, destabilzation of Donbas, Syria, use of proxies in countries like Mali. For more than a decade Russia doing pretty well in limited war.
Watch: http://brook.gs/38lfgEP #AronLecture
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Wagner fighters during the 2017 Palmyra offensive, which ended with the liberation of the city from ISIS forces on this day six years ago.
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Please everybody try to watch Remember to retweet so other can watch What Putin have to say about Saddam Hussein
22nd April 2023
Russia’s Wagner Group “has leveraged political instability in Sudan, like elsewhere in Africa, to secure access to resources that…are used to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine.”
polygraph.info
Wagner Group’s Sudan Footprints Undercut Prigozhin’s Denial of Involvement in Conflict
On April 15, fighting erupted between Sudan’s de facto military ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the leader of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo. The two were…
22nd April 2023
Revolts erupt among Ukrainian troops in Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka. According to founder of the PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, they are dropping their arms and walking out:
KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine
The Ukrainian armed forces eliminated at least 2 085 Russian officers as of 21 April 2023. Based on publicly available data from Russia. Confirmations are made via funeral notices, obituaries and news sites. Names, photos and sources:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1InyFVmu1LoSjqcWTHe4iD9cR8CNiL-5Ke5Jiz_Mlvwc
Who Watches the Watchers? 