Russia should not respond in a mirror manner to the EU countries restricting the issuance of visas to Russians, the reaction should be targeted against the organizers of the sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes.
“We have not discussed this yet, but I believe that in response to these Schengen walls that they are now trying to build, we do not need to reciprocate and collectively punish citizens of European countries. We have “favourite” characters who are already marked on our sanctions lists,” Lavrov said, speaking to MGIMO students on Thursday.
He stressed that Europe "is aimed at punishing all citizens of the Russian Federation."
“We should not, I think, follow the same path, respond with stupidity for stupidity.
But, of course, no one cancelled reciprocity, reciprocity must be purposefully used against the organizers, organizers, and executors of such anti-Russian sanctions,” the minister added.
Lavrov stressed that the West "will close, will spend nights and days discussing who to give a Schengen visa, how many times at the entrance to the Schengen zone to ask who he is for the Reds or for the Whites, whose Crimea."
“It's ridiculous, these people are pathetic, by and large. But we will not self-isolate," the Russian Foreign Minister added.
Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1662024321
“We have not discussed this yet, but I believe that in response to these Schengen walls that they are now trying to build, we do not need to reciprocate and collectively punish citizens of European countries. We have “favourite” characters who are already marked on our sanctions lists,” Lavrov said, speaking to MGIMO students on Thursday.
He stressed that Europe "is aimed at punishing all citizens of the Russian Federation."
“We should not, I think, follow the same path, respond with stupidity for stupidity.
But, of course, no one cancelled reciprocity, reciprocity must be purposefully used against the organizers, organizers, and executors of such anti-Russian sanctions,” the minister added.
Lavrov stressed that the West "will close, will spend nights and days discussing who to give a Schengen visa, how many times at the entrance to the Schengen zone to ask who he is for the Reds or for the Whites, whose Crimea."
“It's ridiculous, these people are pathetic, by and large. But we will not self-isolate," the Russian Foreign Minister added.
Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1662024321
Русская весна
Россия не будет отвечать глупостью на глупость, — Лавров
Глава МИД России назвал смешными и жалкими попытки властей стран ЕС ограничить выдачу шенгенских виз гражданам РФ.
"The West can provide all the aid in the world, but cannot create more Ukrainians."
BY JOSHUA C. HUMINSKI in "The Hill"
Another Western "expert" has noticed, that Ukraine may run out of Ukrainians if continue the present modus operandi.
BY JOSHUA C. HUMINSKI in "The Hill"
Another Western "expert" has noticed, that Ukraine may run out of Ukrainians if continue the present modus operandi.
The Hill
How a long, cold winter could dampen Western support for Ukraine
An open-ended conflict will assuredly lead to the erosion of Western support for the war, especially as other pressures emerge.
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“Poland stands for the decision to seek war reparations and compensation for what the Germans did in Poland in 1939-1945”: The leader of the Polish ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, announced the demand from Germany for reparations of 1.3 trillion euros
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Video from military correspondent Andrey Filatov.
We have not shown you such close combat yet. In the video filmed from a drone, the rarest footage of a shootout between the assault battalion of the 11th regiment of the People's Militia of the DPR and a separate branch of the Ukrainian troops - SSO (Special Operations Forces) is shown.
The battle takes place on the territory of the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pervomaisky, on the Donetsk ring road. After the retreat, the Ukrainian fighters dispersed, so our fighters have to literally pick out the Veseushniks from the "fox holes" dug under the asphalt.
Bullets fly not even a few meters, but a dozen centimeters - so that they can be heard. And all that can be seen separates the embankment. Automatic bursts and grenade explosions. Now that's close combat!
Translated from Milchronicles
We have not shown you such close combat yet. In the video filmed from a drone, the rarest footage of a shootout between the assault battalion of the 11th regiment of the People's Militia of the DPR and a separate branch of the Ukrainian troops - SSO (Special Operations Forces) is shown.
The battle takes place on the territory of the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pervomaisky, on the Donetsk ring road. After the retreat, the Ukrainian fighters dispersed, so our fighters have to literally pick out the Veseushniks from the "fox holes" dug under the asphalt.
Bullets fly not even a few meters, but a dozen centimeters - so that they can be heard. And all that can be seen separates the embankment. Automatic bursts and grenade explosions. Now that's close combat!
Translated from Milchronicles
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Translated from Militarist:
On September 1, the Ambition cruise liner arrived in the Scottish port of Glasgow, which, together with Victoria, will be used for the temporary resettlement of Ukrainian refugees.
The Ambition liner is capable of accommodating 1,750 people in 714 cabins. It will be at anchor for six months, so the settlers can leave it at any time.
On September 1, the Ambition cruise liner arrived in the Scottish port of Glasgow, which, together with Victoria, will be used for the temporary resettlement of Ukrainian refugees.
The Ambition liner is capable of accommodating 1,750 people in 714 cabins. It will be at anchor for six months, so the settlers can leave it at any time.
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The Russian military has provided new details on the botched Ukrainian raid on the Zaporozhye nuclear plant
Kiev forces wanted to seize the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in a daring military raid and use the personnel of the UN nuclear watchdog as “human shields” to maintain control over the facility, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday.
The botched raid came shortly before a team of experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – including the organization’s head, Rafael Grossi – arrived at the plant for an inspection. According to the Russian military, multiple Ukrainian “saboteur groups” crossed the Kakhovka Reservoir in speedboats and barges near the plant early in the morning, but were intercepted and destroyed by Russian troops and National Guard forces.
“Obviously, if the operation of the Kiev regime to seize the station was a success, the head of the IAEA, [Rafael] Grossi, and the experts of the mission would become a ‘human shield’ for Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any attempts to destroy them by the Russian armed forces,” the Russian MoD said in a statement.
The operation aimed at capturing the nuclear power plant appears to have been “planned in advance by Zelensky’s regime,” the Russian military suggested. Moreover, the delay in Grossi’s visit to the installation, originally planned for August 31, stemmed from the Ukrainians’ need for more time to get ready for that “military provocation,” it alleged.
The ultimate goal of the operation was seizing control of the plant, while the presence of the IAEA team would have allowed the “saboteurs” to not only take cover from any potential Russian actions, but also to cement the new “status quo,” the military said. The success of the operation would have likely been reinforced by a “new wave of loud statements from Washington and European capitals, calling upon Russia to establish a ‘demilitarized zone’ around the nuclear plant, with IAEA observers guarded by Ukrainian troops,” it asserted.
“In this regard, we fully understand the complete silence of all Western sponsors of the Zelensky regime, which de-facto confirms their tacit participation in the preparation of today’s provocation at the Zaporozhye plant,” the military concluded.
Kiev forces wanted to seize the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in a daring military raid and use the personnel of the UN nuclear watchdog as “human shields” to maintain control over the facility, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday.
The botched raid came shortly before a team of experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – including the organization’s head, Rafael Grossi – arrived at the plant for an inspection. According to the Russian military, multiple Ukrainian “saboteur groups” crossed the Kakhovka Reservoir in speedboats and barges near the plant early in the morning, but were intercepted and destroyed by Russian troops and National Guard forces.
“Obviously, if the operation of the Kiev regime to seize the station was a success, the head of the IAEA, [Rafael] Grossi, and the experts of the mission would become a ‘human shield’ for Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any attempts to destroy them by the Russian armed forces,” the Russian MoD said in a statement.
The operation aimed at capturing the nuclear power plant appears to have been “planned in advance by Zelensky’s regime,” the Russian military suggested. Moreover, the delay in Grossi’s visit to the installation, originally planned for August 31, stemmed from the Ukrainians’ need for more time to get ready for that “military provocation,” it alleged.
The ultimate goal of the operation was seizing control of the plant, while the presence of the IAEA team would have allowed the “saboteurs” to not only take cover from any potential Russian actions, but also to cement the new “status quo,” the military said. The success of the operation would have likely been reinforced by a “new wave of loud statements from Washington and European capitals, calling upon Russia to establish a ‘demilitarized zone’ around the nuclear plant, with IAEA observers guarded by Ukrainian troops,” it asserted.
“In this regard, we fully understand the complete silence of all Western sponsors of the Zelensky regime, which de-facto confirms their tacit participation in the preparation of today’s provocation at the Zaporozhye plant,” the military concluded.
RT
Ukraine planned to use IAEA team as ‘human shields’ – Russia
Ukraine was plotting to take the IAEA expert team hostage at the Zaporozhye nuclear plant, the Russian military claims
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Watch "Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & "West's False Narrative" Stoking Tensions with Russia, China" on YouTube
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Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & "West's False Narrative" Stoking Tensions with Russia, China
We discuss Western hegemony and U.S. policy in Russia, Ukraine and China with Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, whose new article is headlined "The West's False Narrative About Russia and China." Sachs says the bipartisan U.S. approach to foreign…
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From Peter Hitchens blog in Daily Mail:
I ask you to think very hard about what the Prime Minister said in Kiev a few days ago: ‘If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood.’
Mr Johnson added: ‘We must keep going. We must show as friends of Ukraine that we have the same strategic endurance as the leaders of Ukraine.’
Must we? Till when? Is this either a conservative or a patriotic thing to say? Is it even sensible? Pause before you answer. War is often popular to begin with. But it has a nasty way of ruining the lives of those who once cheered for it.
By the middle of the First World War, Britain had bankrupted itself and the flower of our young manhood had been churned into the Flanders mud. Millions had paid, both in blood and wealth, a savage price for a war that almost all would one day agree was a mistake.
Lord Lansdowne, a veteran Tory and former Foreign Secretary, wrote to The Times newspaper to suggest it was time to make peace.
The Times refused to publish the letter. He was pretty much driven from public life. He was falsely derided as an unpatriotic defeatist, when he was the opposite.
If he had been listened to, we would have had no Russian Revolution, no Stalin, no Hitler, no Mussolini, and no Second World War.
Britain would have survived as a major power for many decades longer than she did. Almost all wars end in ugly compromise. We were only able to defeat Hitler because Stalin was on our side, and he exacted a huge price – including gobbling up Poland, the country whose independence we had gone to war to save.
I’m not going to argue at length about what the war in Ukraine really is, though I view it as a futile conflict.
I think it was brought about by long years of stupid goading of Russia by the USA – and by the even stupider decision by Putin to respond with a lawless, gory invasion. That’s my view, dismiss it if you like.
After all, what do I know? I’ve only lived in the region and been closely interested in it for decades. So I’m disqualified from the national debate – under the rule that it is now a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject under discussion.
Read more from Peter Hitchens blog in Daily Mail
I ask you to think very hard about what the Prime Minister said in Kiev a few days ago: ‘If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood.’
Mr Johnson added: ‘We must keep going. We must show as friends of Ukraine that we have the same strategic endurance as the leaders of Ukraine.’
Must we? Till when? Is this either a conservative or a patriotic thing to say? Is it even sensible? Pause before you answer. War is often popular to begin with. But it has a nasty way of ruining the lives of those who once cheered for it.
By the middle of the First World War, Britain had bankrupted itself and the flower of our young manhood had been churned into the Flanders mud. Millions had paid, both in blood and wealth, a savage price for a war that almost all would one day agree was a mistake.
Lord Lansdowne, a veteran Tory and former Foreign Secretary, wrote to The Times newspaper to suggest it was time to make peace.
The Times refused to publish the letter. He was pretty much driven from public life. He was falsely derided as an unpatriotic defeatist, when he was the opposite.
If he had been listened to, we would have had no Russian Revolution, no Stalin, no Hitler, no Mussolini, and no Second World War.
Britain would have survived as a major power for many decades longer than she did. Almost all wars end in ugly compromise. We were only able to defeat Hitler because Stalin was on our side, and he exacted a huge price – including gobbling up Poland, the country whose independence we had gone to war to save.
I’m not going to argue at length about what the war in Ukraine really is, though I view it as a futile conflict.
I think it was brought about by long years of stupid goading of Russia by the USA – and by the even stupider decision by Putin to respond with a lawless, gory invasion. That’s my view, dismiss it if you like.
After all, what do I know? I’ve only lived in the region and been closely interested in it for decades. So I’m disqualified from the national debate – under the rule that it is now a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject under discussion.
Read more from Peter Hitchens blog in Daily Mail
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PETER HITCHENS: A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It's time for peace
PETER HITCHENS: I ask you to think very hard about what the Prime Minister said in Kiev a few days ago.
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Putin laughs again....
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 The US, the EU and NATO have themselves fallen into an economic trap for Russia
The West launched all-out economic war on Russia. It failed. Russia's retaliation now threatens to cripple Europe. Only fools could be surprised-AC
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/putins-last-laugh/
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 The US, the EU and NATO have themselves fallen into an economic trap for Russia
The West launched all-out economic war on Russia. It failed. Russia's retaliation now threatens to cripple Europe. Only fools could be surprised-AC
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/putins-last-laugh/
The American Conservative
Putin’s Last Laugh
The West launched all-out economic war on Russia. It failed. Russia's retaliation now threatens to cripple Europe. Only fools could be surprised
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🎪🤡🇬🇧🇷🇺Boris Johnson called Vladimir Putin's actions a kamikaze attack on the world economy
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🤡🎪🇩🇪🇺🇦If we didn't support Ukraine, 'it would have terrible consequences' - Scholz
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G-7 Backs Price-Cap Plan for Russian Oil to Limit Revenue
EU would need to amend sanctions package to allow change
US says price cap would help ease pressure on oil markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/g-7-set-to-back-plan-to-introduce-cap-on-price-of-russian-oil?srnd=premium-europe&sref=cus85deZ#xj4y7vzkg
G-7 Backs Price-Cap Plan for Russian Oil to Limit Revenue
EU would need to amend sanctions package to allow change
US says price cap would help ease pressure on oil markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/g-7-set-to-back-plan-to-introduce-cap-on-price-of-russian-oil?srnd=premium-europe&sref=cus85deZ#xj4y7vzkg
Bloomberg.com
G-7 Backs Price-Cap Plan for Russian Oil to Limit Revenue
The Group of Seven most industrialized countries said they plan to implement a price cap for global purchases of Russian oil -- a measure the US hopes will slash Moscow’s overall revenues but has so far been treated with skepticism in the oil market.
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow would not supply oil to those states that would support the introduction of a limit on fuel prices from Russia.
According to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, with the introduction of price restrictions on Russian oil, fuel will be sent to countries operating on market conditions.
According to Vladimir Putin, the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for Western countries, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. He noted that the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.
According to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, with the introduction of price restrictions on Russian oil, fuel will be sent to countries operating on market conditions.
According to Vladimir Putin, the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for Western countries, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. He noted that the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.
РИА Новости
Главы Минфинов G7 согласились ввести потолок цены на российскую нефть
Главы министерств финансов G7 единогласно приняли решение ввести предельные цены на поставки нефти из России, сообщается на сайте Министерства финансов... РИА Новости, 03.09.2022
MOSCOW, September 2 - RIA Novosti. Gazprom received a warning from Rostekhnadzor about a malfunction of the only working engine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, the pipeline has been completely stopped until the faults are eliminated, the company said.
It will be clarified that during joint maintenance with Siemens representatives at the Trent 60 gas compressor unit (GPA No. 24) of the Portovaya compressor station, an oil leak was detected. It was found on equipment that is part of the engine.
“A warning from Rostekhnadzor has been received that the detected damage does not allow for the safe operation of the gas turbine engine. It is necessary to take appropriate measures and suspend the operation of the Trent 60 gas compressor unit due to the identified gross violations,” the statement says.
Gazprom has already sent a letter to the President and CEO of Siemens Energy AG, Christian Bruch, about the identified faults and the need to eliminate them.
As the Russian corporation said, similar leaks were previously found on gas compressor units with engines No. 075, No. 076 and No. 120, they underwent a factory overhaul and are now in a state of forced downtime. It is noted that, according to Siemens, the complete elimination of the problem is possible only in the conditions of a specialized repair company.
Since Wednesday, August 31, Gazprom has suspended supplies via Nord Stream for three days. The company explained that this was due to routine maintenance at the only working gas compressor unit (GCU) of the Portovaya compressor station (CS).
Nord Stream, the main route for gas supplies from Russia to Europe, has been operating with restrictions since mid-June, and has been operating at only 20 percent of its nearly 170 million cubic meters of capacity per day since the end of July. Moscow stressed that the decline in supplies was due solely to the sanctions, which caused problems with the maintenance and repair of Siemens gas pumping units. Now the line is provided by only one turbine.
On the eve of the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, called the situation around the pipeline a crisis, but noted that Gazprom was not to blame for this, since it had repeatedly expressed its readiness to continue fulfilling its obligations, but the European side itself was preventing this.
Could this be an answer to the "price cap"? Could be just a "coincidence"...
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It will be clarified that during joint maintenance with Siemens representatives at the Trent 60 gas compressor unit (GPA No. 24) of the Portovaya compressor station, an oil leak was detected. It was found on equipment that is part of the engine.
“A warning from Rostekhnadzor has been received that the detected damage does not allow for the safe operation of the gas turbine engine. It is necessary to take appropriate measures and suspend the operation of the Trent 60 gas compressor unit due to the identified gross violations,” the statement says.
Gazprom has already sent a letter to the President and CEO of Siemens Energy AG, Christian Bruch, about the identified faults and the need to eliminate them.
As the Russian corporation said, similar leaks were previously found on gas compressor units with engines No. 075, No. 076 and No. 120, they underwent a factory overhaul and are now in a state of forced downtime. It is noted that, according to Siemens, the complete elimination of the problem is possible only in the conditions of a specialized repair company.
Since Wednesday, August 31, Gazprom has suspended supplies via Nord Stream for three days. The company explained that this was due to routine maintenance at the only working gas compressor unit (GCU) of the Portovaya compressor station (CS).
Nord Stream, the main route for gas supplies from Russia to Europe, has been operating with restrictions since mid-June, and has been operating at only 20 percent of its nearly 170 million cubic meters of capacity per day since the end of July. Moscow stressed that the decline in supplies was due solely to the sanctions, which caused problems with the maintenance and repair of Siemens gas pumping units. Now the line is provided by only one turbine.
On the eve of the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, called the situation around the pipeline a crisis, but noted that Gazprom was not to blame for this, since it had repeatedly expressed its readiness to continue fulfilling its obligations, but the European side itself was preventing this.
Could this be an answer to the "price cap"? Could be just a "coincidence"...
#TransFormator
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"Газпром" полностью остановил "Северный поток" из-за неисправности турбины
Газпром" получил предупреждение Ростехнадзора о неисправности единственного рабочего двигателя для газопровода "Северный поток", до устранения замечаний... РИА Новости, 03.09.2022
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