🇱🇻The head of Latvijas gāze, Aigars Kalvitis, said that Latvia is buying Russian gas again, "but not from Gazprom and for euros"

And for sure — much more expensive. To make it even more painful for Putin.🤦‍♀️

The Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass are using “petal” anti-personnel mines in densely populated areas, which is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. Such a small mine can kill a child and tear off part of the leg of an adult. In the video, the guys showed how the "petal" explodes.
DIY demining Donbass style.

“So that this scum on our land is no more”: Saudi prince banned Biden from entering the country.

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia announced personal sanctions against the President of the United States.

"This man smiles in my face, and behind my back accuses me of the most terrible crimes. I swear that I will never again shake hands with Biden and will not do business with him. Moreover, I will order that this scum on our land will never be again,” Al-Jazeera reports the words of the prince.

As a result of a night strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a barrack with prisoners of war (Ukrainian) in the Yelenovka prison (DPR), 40 people were killed.

According to the First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov, the shelling was carried out with HIMARS shells. Another 130 people were injured.

Loading of export grain into the first cargo ships began in Odessa.

Updated:
Ukrainian forces struck and killed their own POWs intentionally with a US made HIMARS missiles.

The Ukrainian military struck a temporary penitential facility in Yelenovka, whith captured Nazis of the Azov regiment.

“Tonight, Ukrainian security forces fired HIMARS rockets at the pre-trial detention center near Yelenovka in the Donbass, where Ukrainian military prisoners of war, including militants of the Azov formation, are being held, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded, and 8 employees of the detention center were also wounded.”

The detention center is well known to the public.

It looks like Nancy Pelosi, who is provoking an international crisis by her still expected visit to Taiwan, is a serial provocateur.
The footage appeared from 1991, that was 2 years after the Tiananmen Square events involving Shanghai Clique's Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Liberal Protesters.
CNN archive video emerged on the American social networks showing then Representative Nancy Pelosi (Congresswoman for D-CA) unfurling a Pro-democracy banner in Tiananmen Square alongside with Rep. Ben Jones (D-GA) and John Miller (R-WA) before Chinese Security officials interrupt them.
#China

In continuation of the topic on international provocations (or how to spread chaos and confusion without any evidence):
The Ukrainian ambassador to Lebanon met Lebanese president Aoun and informed him that the Russian-operated ship that arrived in Tripoli, Lebanon is carrying stolen Ukrainian wheat.

Ukraine claimed the ship has travelled from Crimea with 5,000 tons of barley and 5,000 tons of flour “that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores”.

A customs representative who boarded the vessel in Tripoli told "The Cradle" there was no barley among the cargo, “only flour”. The cargo is reportedly bound for Syria.

A senior customs official tells off the record: “The prime minister contacted the customs leadership and demanded we hold the ship for investigation, while the office of the president of the Republic asked us to let the ship depart to its destination to avoid trouble with the Syrians and the Russians”.
“This is a complete conflict in decision making, we don’t know how to act right now”, even though “by law [Ukraine] is not allowed to make this request. They must bring us evidence first, and if it is compelling, only then can we undertake an investigation,” quoted by "The Cradle".

Russian economy and logistics turns East

Russia plans to allocate $30 billion for railways to China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

The investment project of the Ministry of Transport provides for the construction of 369 km of railway tracks in the Russian Federation, "Vedomosti" writes.

Another 3 thousand km of the track will be laid on Chinese, Kazakh and Mongolian territory.

To increase freight traffic on the railway tracks, new border crossings will be rebuilt and old ones will be put back into operation.

The proposal of the Ministry of Transport will form the basis of the government's model of Russia's development in new geopolitical conditions.
#China

The American reporter published a lengthy article about his personal trip to Ukraine in order to find out the truth about the "International Legion" of mercenaries from around the world advertised by the Ukrainian side.

In the course of communication with the military and representatives of Ukrainian officials, it turned out that Ukraine was not ready for such a large flow of volunteers. A third of the volunteers were weeded out due to lack of combat experience, a third of the volunteers left after a missile attack on the Yavorsky training ground, and the rest were never able to form a combat unit. At the same time, only a few were given weapons and ammunition.

“The International Legion does not exist. All this was propaganda to gain international support, secure media attention and support the idea that the whole world is at war against Russia,” the journalist quotes a message from one of the volunteers.

Videos emerged in Chinese social media showing military equipment belonging to People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Command moving via a high-speed railway in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (171 km Southwest of Shanghai) towards the South of the Mainland China, reportedly Fujian Province.
#China

Just an atmospheric photo...

That is the location of the "unexpected" military drills of the Chinese Army. Yes, you have recognised it right, the island is Taiwan.
#China #Pelosi

Republicans ready bill to lease Taiwan weapons in stand off with China

Do you remember, that the similar law on American "lend-leas" to Ukraine was introduced to the Congress more than a month before the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine (on the 19 of January). Coincidence?

The bill, which is the brainchild of House GOP Rep. Michelle Steel and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, is modeled after an early 1940s program that allowed the U.S. government to bolster European Allies without having to directly enter World War II itself. 

"Taiwan is our greatest partner in the Indo-Pacific region, and their continued sovereignty is essential to challenging the New Axis of Evil," said Blackburn, R-TN. "Taiwan should know that the United States will support them with defense supplies – including weapons and machinery – regardless of what the Chinese Communist Party says."

#China

Arestovich (Ukrainian presidential advisor):
"Therefore, the happy liberation of Kherson seems to be slightly pushed back and instead we will have a glorious fight - the last Russian operational reserves with the accumulated Ukrainian ones."
[bla-bla-bla... ]
"Our counteroffensive seems to be slightly delayed, but then it has every chance of becoming even more successful than planned."

We should not take those lamentations ⬆️ from Arestovich for its face value. The whole business of announcing the counter-offensive well before with clear indication that its objective is Kherson was very suspicious to me. That was an information that any military commander would keep top secret. It was obvious, that its media component was more important than military. Right now it could be, that Arestovich is performing a classical deception claiming that it is postponed... Anyway, it is better to be prepared for an offensive than would not happen, than not to be prepared to the one that could happen.
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US Navy warplanes fly near Taiwan.

Before Pelosi's visit, tension in the region has reached its highest level.‌‌

Currently her plane is refuelling in Honolulu.
#China #Pelosi

Iran declares its support for the People's Republic of China as tensions around the Taiwan Strait begin to escalate

Iran fully supports "one China" policy against "destructive" US unilateralism

“Don’t play with fire, you are likely to burn yourself” - President Xi Jinping to geriatric puppet ‘president’ Joseph Biden.

The Chinese idiom: 玩火自焚 is very similar in translation to the English ‘If you play with fire, you will get burnt’ idiom. The message is very clear.

In other news, Pelosi - who has set off on her World-Ending trip, has stated that the visit to Taiwan island is “still on the itinerary”
#China #Pelosi

China closed the airspace above the Taiwan Strait as part of a live-fire exercise in Fujian province.
The maneuvers began today ahead of a possible visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.