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Thursday 26 May 2022
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“Of course, this slows down the pace of the offensive, but it is being done deliberately to avoid civilian casualties.”
Russia’s attack in Donbas is slowing for a lot of reasons, but civilians are still caught in the middle. -
“Over 14,000 civilians of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass were killed by US trained Ukrainian forces and the @PentagonPresSec openly boasts that they have armed and trained the Ukrainians for 8 YEARS.”
The 14,000 dead actually includes thousands of Ukraine and pro-Kremlin fighters. Only 3,400 were civilians, and not all were ethnic Russians. -
“U.S. plans a Holodomor in Ukraine … Russia’s actions have no impact on the world’s food problem.”
Source: Russian state sources, May 11, 2022Russia’s invasion has disrupted farms and walled off Ukrainian exports that are critical for many countries. -
“You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one would forget the lessons of the Second World War, so that there is no place in the world for executioners, butchers and Nazis.”Russian troops and bombardments have killed thousands of civilians in Ukraine, where Russia’s brutal war mimics the Nazis in WWII. -
“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn’t a war.”
Belarus was an eager partner in Russia’s invasion, transiting troops and tanks and providing staging for hundreds of missile launches. -
“A good friend will always have your back (U.S. backstabbing its European allies over Ukraine.)”
Parroting Russia, the Chinese never fail to falsely blame the U.S. for the death and destruction of the war in Ukraine. -
“Russia is the only country that delivers direct humanitarian aid to people … Sometimes Russian humanitarian caravans are bombed with weapons that NATO supplies to Ukraine.”
Many countries, and chiefly the United States, are trying to help millions displaced and trapped by Russia’s war. -
“…[W]hen he (the 14th Dalai Lama) was abroad, he took the liberty of declaring a child as the reincarnation of the Panchen Erdeni … to carry out anti-China separatist political hype to the detriment of religious rituals…”
The Dalai Lama has the authority to choose the reincarnated Panchen Lama. Beijing has repeatedly violated and manipulated the rituals of Tibetan Buddhism. -
“Thanks to President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin’s initiative, 80 civilians, including women and children, held by the Ukrainian nationalists have been rescued from the territory of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol.”
The evacuation was initiated by the United Nations. The Ukrainian troops did not hold the civilians against their will but sheltered them from the Russians. -
“Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish Poland’s tight military-political control over ‘its historical possessions’ in Ukraine.”
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“There is no country in the world that treats journalists more cruelly than Ukraine, the regime simply cannot stand freedom of speech …”
It’s Russia that blocks independent news and lies about the Ukraine war on state and social media. Russia's world press freedom ratings are near the bottom. -
“The work of the armed forces to liberate Mariupol has been a success. Congratulations.”
Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, though surrounded, continue to resist and hope to free trapped civilians.