U.K.
Monday 4 December 2023
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“We noticed what was said… by… D. G. Arakhamia, that it was former British Prime Minister B. Johnson who forbade Kyiv from signing a peace agreement with Russia... These revelations by D.G. Arakhamia convincingly indicate that the staging in Bucha was organized by Kyiv...”
David Arakhamia denied that Western officials in 2022 forced Ukraine not to sign a peace treaty with Russia. The March 2022 Bucha massacre, in which Russian troops killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, has been well-documented. -
“To say they [Chinese press outlets and social media users] ‘made up or spread disinformation’ is completely unfounded. If anyone was ‘making up or spreading disinformation’, it would be The New York Times, not them.”
At least five organizations that are authoritative in cybersecurity have independently verified that the Chinese government has created a massive network of social media users tasked with sowing discord in the United States. -
“Zinaida Vasilievna Ermolyeva … who was called Madame Penicillin… invented penicillin."
Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, for which they received a Nobel Prize. -
“According to estimates by international arms control experts, the weapons-grade nuclear materials the U.S. and the U.K. plan to transfer to Australia would be sufficient to build as many as 64 to 80 nuclear weapons.”
China’s estimate is based on two assumptions: first, that Australia will receive eight submarines under the AUKUS deal; second, that their reactors contain between 1.6 and 2 tons of highly enriched uranium. Neither of those assumptions can be verified. -
“Twitter users ridiculed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's European tour.”
Russian news outlets based their reports about Twitter users ridiculing Zelenskyy’s European visit on six tweets, two of which are non-existing, while the other four came from shadowy accounts. -
“History also demonstrates something else: any collapsed empire buries half the world, or even more, under its rubble.”
Most empires disintegrated through political turbulence and localized armed clashes and did not have catastrophic consequences for the world. -
"[A]fter the Second World War, Germany was, as you know, divided into four occupation zones: American, British, French, and Soviet. So, the Soviet Union legally ended the occupation, but the United States did not.”
The United States, United Kingdom and France ended their military occupation of West Germany on May 5, 1955. -
“In order to achieve the stated goals of the Special Military Operation to liberate the Donbas, it has been decided to regroup the Russian troops stationed in the districts of Balakliia and Izium."
Russia suffered an extensive military defeat around Kharkiv, with troops fleeing positions and abandoning equipment, ammunition and even fellow soldiers. -
“The special military operation continues, it continues methodically, it continues in accordance with the existing plans. All goals will be achieved.”
Russia failed to seize Kyiv as planned. After costly losses, it’s short on tanks and troops, while Ukraine has armed up. -
“The regular strikes on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by the Ukrainian military create the danger of a major nuclear disaster that could lead to radiation contamination of vast territories.”
Russia has reportedly mined the plant, stationed troops there, fired artillery from the site, stored ammunition there and parked military vehicles next to reactor buildings. -
“I'll tell you why Canada did it: because it produces oil and gas itself and plans to enter the European market."
Canada is merely fixing equipment used to move natural gas in Europe, and Western sanctions don’t apply. -
“Telegraph: The West will cut aid to Ukraine because of the futility of supporting Kyiv.”
Russian media misquoted and distorted The Telegraph report to fit Kremlin propaganda narratives.