Donbas
Tuesday 7 February 2023
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“This is such a monstrous shame that I will not even comment on the paranoia about our state’s nuclear plans.”
Using crass rhetoric, the former Russian president distorts WWII history to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine. -
"The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kyiv. It’s a military confrontation between NATO, above all the U.S. and Britain, and Russia.”
Western military aid provided to Ukraine for defense does not change the fact Russia launched the war. Russia is not the victim. -
“More than 130 foreign mercenaries were destroyed by high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces …" (Jan. 3)
"...more than 70 foreign mercenaries were killed, more than 100 wounded." (Jan. 2)
Source: TASS news agency, January 2-3, 2023.The Russian defense ministry’s numbers are not supported by evidence and are contested by military experts. -
"These attempts (to isolate Russia) are futile. These vain attempts by our Western colleagues have not found any material embodiment."
Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine and disregard of the world order increasingly make the country an international pariah. -
"The cold-blooded murderers, who opened fire on prisoners of war lying down unarmed, were so confident of their impunity that they videotaped their crimes."
As a surrender progressed, one Russian soldier suddenly opened fire on Ukrainian captors – something not mentioned in Russian accounts. -
"[Economic] development continues here ... Despite the difficult times, the country is developing and will continue to develop."
Western sanctions are punishing Russia’s economic output, which is projected to further shrink in 2023. -
“Washington has never hesitated to use force under fabricated pretexts … using false claims to justify its actions such as the need to protect the lives and well-being of U.S. citizens.”
To defend Russia’s war on Ukraine, Lavrov misrepresents why the United States overthrew Panama’s military dictator, Manuel Noriega, in 1989. -
“An illustration of the quality of @BBCWorld‘s ‘professional journalism’. Western Media is fighting at NATO’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine like a rank and file soldier instead of providing objective information to its readers!”
Here’s who’s actually spreading fake news: Russia. The BBC’s report was not only factual but courageous. -
“U.S. officials continue to escalate the situation, intimidating the American and international public with sham Russian ‘nuclear threats.’ ”
Russia’s nuclear doctrine appears to have shifted with a drumbeat of threats to strike first in Ukraine. -
“The contested publications contain false information that the plaintiff [Yevgeny Prigozhin] is affiliated with the Wagner Group, finances it, and that the Wagner Group belongs to him.”
Prigozhin has now confirmed control of the private military outfit known as Wagner. -
Western intelligence services and independent researchers estimate that Russia has lost far more troops in Ukraine than it claims.
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“It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force.”
Plans for sham referendums reveal that Putin in fact wants to absorb more of Ukraine – even if it means using the ultimate force.