Posted by US: Airlines… and the parts. Diplomacy awaited in an explanation that US are not sending parts to the Russia!
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Emperor’s New Clothes. Just sale of oil to India where it is refined and guess what sold back to EU.
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Note: A step back in time to August 2022 … perspective
Financial Times: #Sanctions make ‘limited impact’ on #Russian oil output and revenue. Rerouting crude to China, Turkey and India offsets hit. #oilprice #petrolPrice #Russia #energycrisis #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Sky News hears from
who says new sanctions against Russia, which include a ban on diamond exports, are like “moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic” and that the “major issue here is not diamonds”, but Russia’s oil and gas exports. https://trib.al/tZrTtVy
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21st May 2023
Getting Trump elected is definitely Putin’s only real plan to win the war at this point
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21st May 2023
Striking how Putin is adopting Trump’s perceived enemies as his own. The new Russian sanctions list includes people Trump considers adversaries like Letitia James, Brad Raffensperger and the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt even though none has anything to do with Russia policy.
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21st May 2023
Russia won something today. Little Lavrov has claimed the lifetime IRONY award – after saying the #G7 is undermining global stability. Come back later to hear whether he also won the saddest Russian award.
At the #G7, president Zelensky confirmed Bakhmut ‘is not occupied’ & #Ukraine‘s troops remain in city. Said he’d secured “high quality” weapons from everyone at G7 summit & was confident would receive F-16 fighter jets from the west, but unsure how many
21st May 2023
COVERT INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS UNCOVERED Using open source (OSINT) intelligence collection, a group was able to uncover the identities of over a hundred officers of the Foreign Intelligence Service in , , & . My latest for
kyivpost.com EXCLUSIVE: Clandestine Russian Intelligence Ring in Europe Uncovered The cover of 167 Russian intelligence officers across Europe has been blown. The best part? It was accomplished by using open-source
21st May 2023
BOYCOTT RUSSIA Russia has illegally occupied 20% of Georgia since 2008. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili announced a boycott of Georgian Airways, which operated the first flight to Moscow after the resumption of air traffic between Georgia and the Russian… Show more
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Striking how Putin is adopting Trump’s perceived enemies as his own. The new Russian sanctions list includes people Trump considers adversaries like Letitia James, Brad Raffensperger and the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt even though none has anything to do with Russia policy.
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Sanctions against Russia are working. “Russia’s oil revenues in March were down 43 percent from a year earlier… The government’s tax receipts from the oil and gas sectors were down by nearly two-thirds from a year ago.”
21st May 2023
Russian exports of coal and natural gas to Asia have grown significantly this year – Bloomberg, citing data from the analytical company Kpler Coal export volumes jumped sharply in April to 7.46 million tons, about a third higher than a year earlier. Liquefied natural gas… Show more
UK PM Rishi Sunak said he wants to ensure “Russia pays a price” for the war in #Ukraine. Russian diamond imports to UK will be banned. 2012, Russia’s diamond industry was worth $4bn in exports. -origin copper, aluminium & nickel imports also 2b blocked.
bbc.co.uk G7: UK to ban Russian diamonds in Ukraine war sanctions Exports of Russian diamonds to the UK were worth $4bn (£3.2bn) in 2021, according to the government.
21st May 2023
Joe Biden says President Zelenskyy has assured him that Ukraine will not use F-16 fighter jets to strike the Russian territory “But wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine, they
[the
Ukrainians]
will be able to do that,” Joe Biden said.
euromaidanpress.com Ukraine will not use F-16s to strike Russian territory, Biden says Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured him Ukraine would not use Western-provided F-16 fighter jets to strike the territory of
Tens of thousands of Moldovan patriots have taken to the streets of Chisinau today for a “European Moldova” rally. They are chanting “Moldova, Ukraine Europe”! European Parliament President
is speaking. Moldova will never be Russian again!
21st May 2023
It’s May 21st, and despite reports to the contrary, BAKHMUT HOLDS!
Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires
“An informed source reveals that the employees of Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ have not been paid in a year. Anyone complaining is threatened to be sent to PMC Wagner or be treated with a sledgehammer. ‘We have a real sledgehammer hanging on a wall: ‘if you don’t want to work in
G7, partners, Ukraine. A busy day of diplomacy to bring victory closer. During the day, I met with Prime Minister
, President
, President
, President
and Prime Minister
I participated in the G7+Ukraine Summit and “Towards a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous World” working session involving #G7 countries, Ukraine and partners. I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and addressed the people of . The topic of Ukraine is principal. It is necessary. I am grateful to all partners of . I am grateful to the Prime Minister of Japan for the invitation to participate in the Summit. Glory to Ukraine!
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21st May 2023
Yet another railroad accident has occurred in Russia, as a result of which 11 cars of a freight train derailed in the Trans-Baikal region of Russia on May 21, local media report.
Trans-Baikal freight train derailment, latest Russian railroad incident, caught on video
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In 2022 a prominent human rights defender and journalist Maksym #Butkevych was captured by the military in #Luhansk Oblast. propaganda slanders him as a “Nazi” and “propagandist or a “war criminal. But Maksym has been pacifist and anti-fascist throughout his life.
Who Watches the Watchers? 