Ukraine
Saturday 20 April 2024
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"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
“…American private military companies, under the guidance of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, have begun to recruit Mexican and Colombian drug cartels' members, who are serving their sentence in American prisons, to take part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of Kyiv’s degrading regime.”
Contrary to Russia’s well-documented state-backed campaign to enlist criminals and foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Russian foreign intelligence provided no evidence to support its allegations against the United States. -
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
“In #russia, a bridge near Smolensk falls on a strategically important railway. Sad. “#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing”
While a train did collapse in western Russia on April 8, footage being widely shared on X is from a 2018 incident. -
"The FSB had received certain information from US intelligence services that, unfortunately, such [an attack] was possible. But, as our Russian counterparts have said, that information was very vague and it did not allow us to identify those behind the deadly crime."
The U.S. warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a potential target of a terror attack weeks in advance, officials say. -
"Peskov, commenting on the U.N. report on the torture of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, said that this is not news to Moscow, all crimes of the Kyiv regime are documented."
RIA Novosti distorted the U.N. report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, covering only alleged violations by Kyiv while omitting the bulk of the report, which focused on violations by Moscow. -
“The oh-so 'peaceful' Iceland is thus trying to keep up with its senior allies in sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.”
Iceland, a nation with no military, is helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, not “sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.” -
“I am sure that the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet will laugh together today at the fact that their command is wanted by the International Criminal Court... this is just a nothingburger designed to stir up an information wave, nothing more.”
While Russia is a safe haven for suspected criminals, they will be arrested and brought to ICC if they travel to any of the 124 world nations that recognize the world court’s jurisdiction. Regime change in Russia can also end the impunity. -
"BREAKING – ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TUCKER CARLSON: A man has just been arrested in Moscow, accused of being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device on Tucker Carlson's vehicle and assassinate the prominent American journalist while he was there to interview Putin.”
The digitally manipulated origins and distribution patterns of the original report about this alleged assassination attempt display characteristics of the tactic known as disinformation laundering, which Russian state propaganda networks frequently employ. -
"Russia destroyed all stockpiles of its chemical weapons in September 2017, and this was done ahead of schedule. ...the United States was supposed to complete the destruction of declared stockpiles of chemical weapons in 2007, however… it did this only in 2023... During a special military operation, cases of the use of American chemical munitions by the Ukrainian armed forces were recorded.”
Russia’s declared destruction of all its chemical weapons remains an open question. Moscow presented no evidence to international bodies that Ukraine used chemical weapons. -
Ukraine started the war; Russia’s goal is to stop it. Ukrainians still consider themselves Russians, what is happening is an element of a civil war. The 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine was accomplished by the opposition with the help of CIA. “NATO has options to recognize Russia’s control over the new regions. Russia had to take Crimea under its protection in 2014. We have made so many gestures of goodwill, that we’ve exhausted all limits. Nobody responded to our goodwill gestures with similar gestures...
Putin replayed thoroughly debunked falsehoods and pedaled the Kremlin’s traditional propaganda narratives. -
"We noted the markedly heightened temperature of the rhetoric of official Seoul directed at Moscow that Russia … is allegedly carrying out ‘military-technical cooperation’ with Pyongyang. … [W]e strongly reject any attempts by the U.S. and its satellites to illegitimately accuse our country."
Multiple intelligences confirm Russia’s purchase and use of North Korean military equipment and ammunition. Experts identified the North Korean origin of missiles Russia used to strike Ukraine.