What I wanna emphasize is source of financing for these loans, this is not American taxpayer. What’s happening here is that Russia is paying for $50 BILLION of support that we intend to go to #Ukraine by end of this year - Yellen blatantly admitting West is pilfering another country’s cash (00:31 in vid above).

If North Korea would be sending troops to #Ukraine, that would mark a significant escalation, that would really be important, a significant escalation - Rutte just about manages to spit out sentence (00:21 in vid above).

Far from being shunned as an international pariah, Putin is chairing a meeting of the so-called BRICS, nations representing around half the world’s population and around 30 per cent of its economy. The fact that it is taking place in #Russia, which is supposed to be in the international dog house, is deeply worrying to #Ukraine. Most extraordinary of all is the invitation to Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations to attend, something his office was unprepared to deny even as the summit was getting under way - article author Johnston moans in article.

Ankara in recent weeks adjusted its customs systems to block exports of more than four dozen categories of US-origin goods that Washington and its western allies view as vital to Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine - article claims, citing "3 people with direct knowledge of the matter".