Ukraine
Friday 3 February 2023
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“Ukraine formally proposed to Belarus a non-aggression pact while preparing for war near the Belarus-Ukraine border, seeming to repeat the scene where they deceived Russia with the Minsk Agreements.”
The Minsk Agreements were negotiated to stop Russia’s undeclared war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists fought Ukrainian government forces. -
“[A] nuclear power's defeat in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends."
Nuclear powers have more than once been defeated in conventional wars that have affected their fate, and that has not led to a nuclear war. -
From Syria to Ukraine and beyond, the Wagner Group has been credibly accused of crimes against humanity.
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"[T]he United States has created a coalition of nearly all European member states of NATO and the EU and is using Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia with the old aim of finally solving the ‘Russian question,’ like Hitler, who sought a final solution to the ‘Jewish question.’ "
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a global coalition, is helping Ukraine fight Russian military aggression and never planned or discussed exterminating the Russian people. -
“Massive protests in Paris against the shipment of weapons to Ukraine.”
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“The only thing that connects him with Ukraine is his place of birth.”
Sergei Korolev, the engineer behind Sputnik and the first human orbital flight, was born in Soviet Ukraine and considered himself Ukrainian. -
“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. -
“This is one nation that came out of the Kyiv Baptismal font, but a very large nation.”
The religious leader, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, echoes Kremlin claims that Ukraine is not really a separate country from Russia. -
“Comrade Zhao has assumed a post in exchange in accordance with needs.”
Zhao’s legacy is a record of spreading disinformation about COVID-19, treatment of Uyghurs, press freedom and more. -
"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. -
"Russian-Chinese cooperation is experiencing the best period in its history, bilateral relations ... are built on a solid foundation ... of mutual support in matters affecting each other's fundamental interests. First of all, we are talking about the protection of sovereignty and territorial integrity."
China does not recognize or support Russia's illegal attempts to annex five regions of Ukraine and has been forced to participate in Western sanctions. -
“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.