Forwarded from Battlefield Insights
Syria is ready to provide assistance to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR), Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad told TASS during a working trip to the city of Yekaterinburg on Saturday.
"For over eight years, the people of the DPR and LPR have been facing bombings, regular damages and an unfair blockade by Western-backed neo-Nazis. As a result, thousands of people were killed or had to leave their homes. This is why Syria is working to provide comprehensive support to the republics," he said, when asked if Syria was providing humanitarian assistance to the Donbass republics.
"For over eight years, the people of the DPR and LPR have been facing bombings, regular damages and an unfair blockade by Western-backed neo-Nazis. As a result, thousands of people were killed or had to leave their homes. This is why Syria is working to provide comprehensive support to the republics," he said, when asked if Syria was providing humanitarian assistance to the Donbass republics.
Forwarded from Battlefield Insights
Twenty-three years ago, on May 7, 1999, #NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of #Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese journalists and wounding more than 20 Chinese diplomats. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said, "The Chinese people will never forget such barbaric atrocities of NATO and will never allow the historical tragedy to be repeated."
⭕️ FOLLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS OF THE ‘COVID SAFE’ WEST - MASK UP, IT’S THE NEW NORMAL! 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇳🇿🇦🇺🇪🇸
LATEST: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issues a decree ordering adult women to wear all-covering #burqa in public as "per sharia directives."
LATEST: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issues a decree ordering adult women to wear all-covering #burqa in public as "per sharia directives."
Forwarded from Xoaquin Flores - New Resistance
💢 A group of Ukrainian soldiers went out of the Azovstal area with a white flag onto the road, where Russians are receiving evacuated civilians.
This was announced by Vostok battalion commander Alexander Khodakovsky.
The Russian soldiers moved forward to meet the Ukrainian soldiers. This is the first personal contact of the parties for the entire time of the fighting in Mariupol.
@NewResistance
This was announced by Vostok battalion commander Alexander Khodakovsky.
The Russian soldiers moved forward to meet the Ukrainian soldiers. This is the first personal contact of the parties for the entire time of the fighting in Mariupol.
@NewResistance
Forwarded from Disclose.tv
NEW - Peer-reviewed study covering 35 European countries indicates that "countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage."
Moreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-mask-compliance-and-covid-19-outcomes-in-europe
@disclosetv
Moreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-mask-compliance-and-covid-19-outcomes-in-europe
@disclosetv
Cureus
Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe
Masking was the single most common non-pharmaceutical intervention in the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Most countries have implemented recommendations or mandates ...
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💢Here's me still trying out to be a Reuters/AP writer:
""The Kremlin is struggling to maintain the appearance of normalcy in this year's Victory Day Parade - a long held symbol of Russian racial supremacy.
The parade which celebrates violence and war will only feature some 11,000 soldiers. According to several intelligence sources we spoke to very familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity, these eleven thousand are all that remain of Russia's military still in Russia.
This is because Russia's war of conquest has faced stiff resistance from Ukrainian democratic freedom forces.
One of our sources relayed to our Reuters desk that when Putin was finally informed of this by Shoigu, who had held the information back out of concern for the reaction, Putin looked up from a list he was making of journalists to 'silence', and said 'Why am I surrounded by such incompetent fools!'. ""
""The Kremlin is struggling to maintain the appearance of normalcy in this year's Victory Day Parade - a long held symbol of Russian racial supremacy.
The parade which celebrates violence and war will only feature some 11,000 soldiers. According to several intelligence sources we spoke to very familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity, these eleven thousand are all that remain of Russia's military still in Russia.
This is because Russia's war of conquest has faced stiff resistance from Ukrainian democratic freedom forces.
One of our sources relayed to our Reuters desk that when Putin was finally informed of this by Shoigu, who had held the information back out of concern for the reaction, Putin looked up from a list he was making of journalists to 'silence', and said 'Why am I surrounded by such incompetent fools!'. ""
Forwarded from Xoaquin Flores - New Resistance
💢 Some LGBTQ Ukrainians are fleeing Russian occupation. Others are signing up to fight
LVIV OBLAST, Ukraine — A few weeks ago, Vlad Shast was sashaying in a slinky pink gown and thigh-high boots. Shast was working as a stylist, and performing on the drag queen circuit in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
That was before the Russian invasion.
Now, Shast is pushing a grocery cart from shop to shop in Kyiv, filling it with supplies for soldiers on the front lines.
"My life is like before and after," Shast tells NPR. "My life has changed completely."
Even before getting called up for mandatory conscription in Ukraine's military, 26-year-old Shast volunteered this month for Ukraine's territorial defense force, a civilian corps that reports to the military.
Shast is a prominent member of Ukraine's queer scene, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as nonbinary. They fear what might happen under Russian occupation. Inside Russia, LGBTQ people have faced persecution, even torture.
For some LGBTQ Ukrainians, it's an added reason to flee the war. But for others including Shast, it's a reason to stay and fight.
In the lead-up to the war, U.S. intelligence officials warned that Russian forces might target gay Ukrainians specifically. They've done it before, in parts of eastern Ukraine that Russia has occupied since 2014.
That's where Kyrylo Samozdra grew up, and joined a pride group online, when he was in college. One day in the summer of 2018, he was walking down his street in Russian-occupied Luhansk, when he says Russian security agents accosted him.
"I was interrogated. They took my phone, took passwords," Samozdra tells NPR.
Samozdra says Russian forces tried to get him to inform on fellow LGBTQ activists. Homosexuality is a criminal offense in Russian-occupied Luhansk. Samozdra refused to cooperate, went into hiding — and eventually fled to Kyiv, where homosexuality is legal, and where gay life has thrived, especially in recent years.
When a homophobic heckler interrupted a news conference by Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019, the president told the man to shut up and leave gay people alone.
But when Zelenskyy announced wartime conscription, some LGBTQ Ukrainians fled the country.
"I knew that if I stayed, then the border would be closed to me, and they would obligate me to serve in the military," says Bohdan Moroz, 23, a gay designer from Kyiv whose company evacuated him to Berlin before conscription took effect.
Moroz wasn't breaking the law by fleeing Ukraine. But he still feels conflicted. He believes the war is important for people like him.
"I believe that Ukraine is a European country, that has equal rights for everybody," Moroz says. "So fighting for freedom now means fighting for LGBT people as well."
That's why that drag performer Vlad Shast joined the territorial defense.
"I am a legend in the Ukrainian queer scene! And you know, now I'm living with straight, hetero men, and they don't even care about my homosexuality, about my queerness — because now we are united."
Olena Lysenko contributed to this report.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/12/1086274340/ukraine-lgbtq
LVIV OBLAST, Ukraine — A few weeks ago, Vlad Shast was sashaying in a slinky pink gown and thigh-high boots. Shast was working as a stylist, and performing on the drag queen circuit in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
That was before the Russian invasion.
Now, Shast is pushing a grocery cart from shop to shop in Kyiv, filling it with supplies for soldiers on the front lines.
"My life is like before and after," Shast tells NPR. "My life has changed completely."
Even before getting called up for mandatory conscription in Ukraine's military, 26-year-old Shast volunteered this month for Ukraine's territorial defense force, a civilian corps that reports to the military.
Shast is a prominent member of Ukraine's queer scene, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as nonbinary. They fear what might happen under Russian occupation. Inside Russia, LGBTQ people have faced persecution, even torture.
For some LGBTQ Ukrainians, it's an added reason to flee the war. But for others including Shast, it's a reason to stay and fight.
In the lead-up to the war, U.S. intelligence officials warned that Russian forces might target gay Ukrainians specifically. They've done it before, in parts of eastern Ukraine that Russia has occupied since 2014.
That's where Kyrylo Samozdra grew up, and joined a pride group online, when he was in college. One day in the summer of 2018, he was walking down his street in Russian-occupied Luhansk, when he says Russian security agents accosted him.
"I was interrogated. They took my phone, took passwords," Samozdra tells NPR.
Samozdra says Russian forces tried to get him to inform on fellow LGBTQ activists. Homosexuality is a criminal offense in Russian-occupied Luhansk. Samozdra refused to cooperate, went into hiding — and eventually fled to Kyiv, where homosexuality is legal, and where gay life has thrived, especially in recent years.
When a homophobic heckler interrupted a news conference by Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019, the president told the man to shut up and leave gay people alone.
But when Zelenskyy announced wartime conscription, some LGBTQ Ukrainians fled the country.
"I knew that if I stayed, then the border would be closed to me, and they would obligate me to serve in the military," says Bohdan Moroz, 23, a gay designer from Kyiv whose company evacuated him to Berlin before conscription took effect.
Moroz wasn't breaking the law by fleeing Ukraine. But he still feels conflicted. He believes the war is important for people like him.
"I believe that Ukraine is a European country, that has equal rights for everybody," Moroz says. "So fighting for freedom now means fighting for LGBT people as well."
That's why that drag performer Vlad Shast joined the territorial defense.
"I am a legend in the Ukrainian queer scene! And you know, now I'm living with straight, hetero men, and they don't even care about my homosexuality, about my queerness — because now we are united."
Olena Lysenko contributed to this report.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/12/1086274340/ukraine-lgbtq
Forwarded from Xoaquin Flores - New Resistance
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Sniper Wali's squire describes the eastern front as hell. Most of the day is spent collecting dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers.
This Canadian mercenary fighting for the Kyiv junta describes the hell he is in.
A miraculously surviving militant says that many foreigners involved in the conflict are simply shocked by the horrors they face.
“There was an explosion nearby. I was knocked out for a while. When I came to, I realized that I was lying on the ground. Bullets whistle around me. It was very scary from the understanding that this is the first fight.”
In addition, the mercenary complains about the insufficient supply of weapons: “There was a tank regiment behind the landing. My friend and I only had one Javelin. We were in position when a Russian tank hit us. I was concussed for a while. When I came to, my friend was lying next to me. He had no legs, he was bleeding."
@NewResistance
This Canadian mercenary fighting for the Kyiv junta describes the hell he is in.
A miraculously surviving militant says that many foreigners involved in the conflict are simply shocked by the horrors they face.
“There was an explosion nearby. I was knocked out for a while. When I came to, I realized that I was lying on the ground. Bullets whistle around me. It was very scary from the understanding that this is the first fight.”
In addition, the mercenary complains about the insufficient supply of weapons: “There was a tank regiment behind the landing. My friend and I only had one Javelin. We were in position when a Russian tank hit us. I was concussed for a while. When I came to, my friend was lying next to me. He had no legs, he was bleeding."
@NewResistance
⭕️ By Daniel Davis, Responsible Statecraft:
“If we pushed beyond the limits of supplying Kyiv with weapons and into direct confrontation with Russia, and then an American city was subsequently scorched with a Russian nuclear blast, I can assure you that no American would believe the cost was worth trying to help Ukraine. It wouldn’t even matter if we flattened Russian cities in response, once the nuclear genie is let out, most of both countries could be turned into a nuclear wasteland.”
“There is absolutely nothing related to Ukraine that could, in any way, justify the risk to American citizens and cities of a nuclear explosion resulting from a war between our two countries. It is time to stop any consideration, at all, of an intentional military action that could spawn a direct clash between Washington and Moscow. It bears repeating once more: there is nothing, at all, at stake in the Ukraine-Russia war that justifies risking actions which could eventually result in the nuclear devastation of America.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/03/why-does-washington-want-to-risk-nuclear-war-with-russia/
“If we pushed beyond the limits of supplying Kyiv with weapons and into direct confrontation with Russia, and then an American city was subsequently scorched with a Russian nuclear blast, I can assure you that no American would believe the cost was worth trying to help Ukraine. It wouldn’t even matter if we flattened Russian cities in response, once the nuclear genie is let out, most of both countries could be turned into a nuclear wasteland.”
“There is absolutely nothing related to Ukraine that could, in any way, justify the risk to American citizens and cities of a nuclear explosion resulting from a war between our two countries. It is time to stop any consideration, at all, of an intentional military action that could spawn a direct clash between Washington and Moscow. It bears repeating once more: there is nothing, at all, at stake in the Ukraine-Russia war that justifies risking actions which could eventually result in the nuclear devastation of America.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/03/why-does-washington-want-to-risk-nuclear-war-with-russia/
Responsible Statecraft
Why does Washington want to risk nuclear war with Russia? - Responsible Statecraft
Rep. Adam Kinzinger's proposed AUMF is the latest salvo from DC's elite pushing the US in the wrong direction to do more in Ukraine.
⭕ Potentially more bad news here for the Euro-Maidan/green hair crowd...
Austria Minister: 'No EU fast-track for Ukraine' (or what's left of it by year's end, aka Gallecia/Southern Dutchy of Warsaw/New Hapsberg East/Zelenskystan/New Bidenstan, or whatever)....
https://www.rt.com/news/555121-austria-ukraine-eu-fast-track/
Austria Minister: 'No EU fast-track for Ukraine' (or what's left of it by year's end, aka Gallecia/Southern Dutchy of Warsaw/New Hapsberg East/Zelenskystan/New Bidenstan, or whatever)....
https://www.rt.com/news/555121-austria-ukraine-eu-fast-track/
⭕ When it comes to the big collapse, just know this: timing is everything. One of the most important articles you will read this week...
✅ Economic World War: Who Benefits? (And How Much Time is Left?)
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/07/economic-world-war-who-benefits-and-how-much-time-is-left/
✅ Economic World War: Who Benefits? (And How Much Time is Left?)
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/07/economic-world-war-who-benefits-and-how-much-time-is-left/
⭕ The issue of DU contamination in #Ukraine could be wide-ranging, and last for generations...
▶️ INTERVIEW: Freddie Ponton on NATO’s Depleted Uranium Weapons in Ukraine
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/07/interview-freddie-ponton-on-natos-depleted-uranium-weapons-in-ukraine/
▶️ INTERVIEW: Freddie Ponton on NATO’s Depleted Uranium Weapons in Ukraine
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/07/interview-freddie-ponton-on-natos-depleted-uranium-weapons-in-ukraine/
Forwarded from Russians With Attitude
A popular Ukrainian Telegram channel. Translation:
#rumors
Our source reports that our General Staff is being urged by our "partners" to create a big information victory before May 9.
Everyone understands that soon Azov will fall in Mariupol and the Russians will have a lot of prisoners, which will launch a big informational shitstorm against the government, so that this does not happen, we need to create a counterbalance.
That is why there were attempts to storm Snake Island. There is no result yet, the casualties aren't reported.
The Russian Navy ship wasn't sunk and safely departed to its home port.
Also the AFU is stepping up the offensive in the Kharkov direction, but the victories are too small, it looks more like the AFU is being lured into the depths of the Russian defense.
The situation at the Office of the President is difficult, they are being rushed.
There are options for creating a "tragedy", but the effectiveness must be several times higher than it was from the tragedy in Kramatorsk.
We're observing. https://t.me/legitimniy/12025
#rumors
Our source reports that our General Staff is being urged by our "partners" to create a big information victory before May 9.
Everyone understands that soon Azov will fall in Mariupol and the Russians will have a lot of prisoners, which will launch a big informational shitstorm against the government, so that this does not happen, we need to create a counterbalance.
That is why there were attempts to storm Snake Island. There is no result yet, the casualties aren't reported.
The Russian Navy ship wasn't sunk and safely departed to its home port.
Also the AFU is stepping up the offensive in the Kharkov direction, but the victories are too small, it looks more like the AFU is being lured into the depths of the Russian defense.
The situation at the Office of the President is difficult, they are being rushed.
There are options for creating a "tragedy", but the effectiveness must be several times higher than it was from the tragedy in Kramatorsk.
We're observing. https://t.me/legitimniy/12025
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#слухи
Наш источник сообщает, что наш Генштаб настоятельно торопят «партнеры» создать большую победу в информационном поле до 9 мая.
Все понимают, что скоро Азов падёт в Мариуполе и пленных будет у россиян много, что запустит большую информационную зраду…
Наш источник сообщает, что наш Генштаб настоятельно торопят «партнеры» создать большую победу в информационном поле до 9 мая.
Все понимают, что скоро Азов падёт в Мариуполе и пленных будет у россиян много, что запустит большую информационную зраду…
⭕️ It’s hard to know how to describe a screed such as this, and its author, Andrew Neil, a multimillionaire mouthpiece for the deep state establishment, attacking, threatening 5 million (in truth the number is much higher) of his fellow Britons. Incredibly dark, and equally sad that any editor would entertain such a pure fascistic tome. Far beyond the pale for any democratic society.
Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Fresh summary of Snake Island:
In the area of Snake Island, a Ukrainian Su-24 bomber, a Su-27 fighter, three Mi-8 helicopters with troops and two Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down. The Ukrainian assault boat "Stanislav" was also destroyed.
It looks like Kyiv decided to perform a mini-victory, but something went wrong.
In the area of Snake Island, a Ukrainian Su-24 bomber, a Su-27 fighter, three Mi-8 helicopters with troops and two Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down. The Ukrainian assault boat "Stanislav" was also destroyed.
It looks like Kyiv decided to perform a mini-victory, but something went wrong.