Probably because the western diplomats ARE a bunch of nincompoops.Russia truly has some outstanding diplomats and makes the western diplomats look like a bunch of nincompoops.
Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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Tyomodachi
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Fewer casualties
Tyomodachi
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Just as in Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog" Professor Preobrazhensky urged Dr. Bormental: "do not read Soviet newspapers before dinner," so I urge: do not listen to the Ukrainian authorities, the truth in their statements can only be by accident, by oversight.
Как в "Собачьем сердце" Булгакова профессор Преображенский призывал доктора Борменталя: "перед обедом не читайте советские газеты", так и я призываю: не слушайте украинские власти, правда в их заявлениях может быть только случайно, по недосмотру.
The first day of trading after the above and the Ruble is roaring against most currencies, increasing over 4% to the US dollar, the Euro, the Japanese Yen, the Swiss Franc to mention a few, in morning trade. Gold, crude, crypto currencies are also all falling as of writing, yet the Ruble powers on, making it more expensive for the West to buy Russian oil and gas.
A number of False Flag events were considered possible over the Orthodox Easter weekend. That didn't happen and likely because Russian security forces were aware of it and managed to disrupt it.
There was a mention of sabotage events in Russia which were thwarted as mentioned on Telegram channel Intel Slava Z:
Putin also mentioned it according to the Telegram channel NEWS: Ukraine, Russia, Donbass
There was a mention of sabotage events in Russia which were thwarted as mentioned on Telegram channel Intel Slava Z:
️FSB officers detained a group of members of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, who were planning the assassination of Vladimir Solovyov on the instructions of the SBU.
During the searches, a home-made explosive device, 8 home-made Molotov cocktails, 6 PM pistols, a sawn-off hunting rifle, an RGD-5 grenade, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, drugs, fake Ukrainian passports, nationalist literature and paraphernalia were seized.
Members of the criminal group give confessions about the preparation of the murder of Solovyov, after which they planned to hide abroad.
Putin also mentioned it according to the Telegram channel NEWS: Ukraine, Russia, Donbass
SOTTREADER
The Living Force
May Day parade in Moscow and / or other parts of Russia is another one to watch out for.
unkl brws
Dagobah Resident
This reminds me of what I saw in the news here in Canada recently:
Ukraine crisis reflected in string of Toronto hate crime investigations
“Anytime we see this sort of conflict, especially at this level or one that’s highly publicized, then we do see these kinds of reactions,” said Barbara Perry, director of Ontario Tech University’s Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.
Ukrainian Canadian Congress calls on police to investigate Victoria arson attack as hate crime
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says an arson attack on the home of a Ukrainian family in Victoria should be investigated as a hate crime.
I can't help but think that these incidents are just to sow discord and create division in the population.
https://rusvesna.su/news/1650887679
https://rusvesna.su/news/1650892371
Bucha Investigation Contradicts Itself, Confirms AFU's Atrocities
Forensic doctors discover fléchettes – rarely used in modern warfare – in bodies found in mass graves in Bucha, “The...
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BUCHA INVESTIGATION CONTRADICTS ITSELF, CONFIRMS AFU’S ATROCITIES
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A small metal dart, called fléchette, found embedded in the body of man killed in Bucha.
Forensic doctors discover fléchettes – rarely used in modern warfare – in bodies found in mass graves in Bucha, “The Guardian” reported.
Dozens of civilians who allegedly died during presence of the Russian army at the Ukrainian city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells of a type fired by artillery, forensic doctors claimed. Despite the anti-Russian point of view presented in the research, the results show that these were the AFU who shelled civilians in Bucha.
Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv, where Russian forces have been accused of atrocities, said they had found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s heads and chests.
Experts from the forensic department of France’s national gendarmerie and Ukrainian doctors carrying bodies of civilians killed in Bucha.
Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the first world war.
These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground.
Fléchettes, typically between 3cm and 4cm in length, release from the shell and disperse in a conical arch about 300m wide and 100m long. On impact with a victim’s body, the dart can lose rigidity, bending into a hook, while the arrow’s rear, made of four fins, often breaks away causing a second wound.
Although human rights groups have long sought a ban on fléchette shells, the munitions are not prohibited under international law. However, the use of imprecise lethal weapons in densely populated civilian areas is a violation of humanitarian law.
According to Neil Gibson, a weapons expert at the UK-based Fenix Insight group, who has reviewed the photos of the fléchettes found in Bucha, the metal darts came from a 122mm ZSh1 artillery round. It fits the D-30 howitzers, which is in service with both Russia and Ukraine.
The same fléchettes were used by the AFU in 2014 in the LPR:
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Fléchettes have been used as ballistic weapons since the first world war. Dropped by the then-novel airplanes to attack infantry, the lethal metal darts were able to pierce helmets. They were not widely used during the second world war, but re-emerged in the Vietnam war, when the US employed a version of fléchette loads, packed into plastic cups.
A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France’s national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Bucha.
Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the majority of countries worldwide.
Bucha after demining by Ukrainian troops
Talking about artillery shelling, this rules out any version that interprets the events in Bucha as “premeditated genocide of peaceful Ukrainians”. A lot of evidences, such as the “scattered” position of the corpses, confirmed the contradiction.
As soon as the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed the decision to withdraw from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions, the AFU heavily shelled Russian positions in the towns in the Kiev region with artillery. The investigation confirmed that civilians were killed as a result of artillery shelling. The flechettes could be used both by the Russian and Ukrainian artillery. Russian forces deployed in Bucha could not shell on their own positions. Thus, the civilians were killed during the clashes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
ApotheosisMMC.
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I found this youtube channel whose content is complemented with the information from SouthFront, in which daily maps of the battles and advances that take place in Ukraine are shown, for example this last video is from April 24 (my apologies if they had already brought it to the forum thread):Bucha Investigation Contradicts Itself, Confirms AFU's Atrocities
Forensic doctors discover fléchettes – rarely used in modern warfare – in bodies found in mass graves in Bucha, “The...
Tyomodachi
Jedi
Good optimism, but I find it hard to believe. Ever since the psychopathic Jewish elites of the Platonic project created Judaism all these ~2000 years, society has been steadily moving toward entropic fragmentation. Where has it been seen in the world in the last 400 years that people have chosen a larger identity over a more individualized smaller identity (in this case national identity)? I don't know of such historical precedents, but if they exist they have been extremely rare and invisible. Although okay there is a similar precedent but on a smaller scale it is nationalism. Before the formation of nation-states as we know people in any country had a local identity *resident of XX city* *resident of XX province* (in the Russian Empire including, even during WWI peasants making the bulk of the population perceived themselves as part of their rural community and not the Russian state/people) and these small identities were destroyed by nation-states. But this has never happened before for a large national identity to be abandoned.
However, the fact that the map of Ukraine will be redrawn is something we can thank (or curse; to whom it may please) Mr. Dzhugashvili (Stalin), because all these maps with Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine would not exist without him, not for nothing Lenin called him "Великорусский держиморда". After all, according to the census of the Russian Empire in 1897 (here is a good interactive map based on the census data Мови та релігії у повітах Російської імперії ) in the "Ukraine" there were only two districts (not even provinces) where the dominant language was Russian (Great Russian) in all other provinces Ukrainian (Little Russian) was either dominant or equal (and even more dominant in the Kuban and Voronezh province of present Russia). Yes I understand that it's just a Ukrainian language and they didn't identify themselves as Ukrainians because like I said most were peasants who are basically alien to such concepts. Stalin stopped the Ukrainization and introduced in 1933 the compulsory teaching of Russian language in the schools, and because of that and the fact that Russian was recognized as the language of international communication between the peoples of the USSR, it became so widespread, Stalin did in the USSR what the nationalist intellectuals in European countries did in the 18-20 centuries, he used the administrative resources - the educational system, because the population was mostly illiterate, and everyone was teaching Russian language.
And if you look at the different filters on this map, you can understand that the Ukrainian language was spoken in the villages, where was the bulk of the population, but it was poorly spread in the cities (the same trend is eg. in Lviv under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and urbanization was also a factor stimulating the Russification of the industrial regions. By the way this trend is still alive today I have Ukrainian-speaking acquaintances from Kharkiv and Kyiv (the same in my region) who speak Ukrainian only at home because they will be perceived as "ukrainian collective farm language" "language of hillbillies / redneck" and this arrogant attitude exists for all 30 years of independence and I emphasize that it exists in modern post-Maidan Ukraine too (although this is also the fault of The Ukrainian oligarchic power elites - "the Kuchma elites from Dnipropetrovsk" - "the Yanukovych elites from Donetsk" - "the current Western elites" have alternately elitization the Russian and Ukrainian languages (( Although one can also say that "the current Western elites" of Zelensky to a large extent are the Yanukovych people who back then were for Russian as the second official language and now are for Ukrainianization, Corruptionists do not care about what they use for populism))). So I would say that those who watch events about Ukraine on the news but do not live here overestimate the influence of the puppet regime, I mean if you go into any cafe nothing prevents the staff to serve in Russian in spite of the threat of language fines for one simple reason - as I said you overestimate the Ukrainian state. The 30 years of mega-corruption and then the Maidan did a huge damage to the state institutions. An example, when all the power structures were held not by the institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but by one particular person Avakov. The state was governed not by institutions but more in feudal manner in a manual mode that is extremely inefficient. So what am I driving at? The fact that the state can stamp out as many Russophobic laws as it wants, it does not matter if the state does not have the administrative resources to implement these laws. By the way, now they have appeared - it is a wartime state of emergency to effectively pursue such a policy in wartime it is easy to polarize public sentiment. Although these are interesting historical events, it is interesting to see what the situation will be like in a few years (if the cataclysms don't wipe out civilization by then).
Benjamin
The Living Force
RT:
The 'expanded meeting' that still needs to be transcribed, that I mentioned, gets quoted here.
The 'expanded meeting' that still needs to be transcribed, that I mentioned, gets quoted here.
Ukraine apologizes to Japan for ‘fascism’ video
In a video condemning Russians as fascists, Ukraine’s Twitter account showed wartime emperor Hirohito alongside Mussolini and Hitler
Apr. 25, 2022
The Ukrainian government apologized to Japan after it released an anti-Russian video ending with a shot of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito, describing the three as fascists. Japanese politicians insist that Hirohito was not responsible for Japan’s wartime actions.
The video, first posted nearly a month ago, condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin and describes the Russian political system as “ruscism.” It closes with images of Germany’s Hitler, Italy’s Mussolini, and Japan’s Hirohito, along with the text “Fascism and Nazism were defeated in 1945. We will fight ruscism, here and now.”
Japanese Twitter users were outraged, and Ukraine’s ambassador to Japan, Sergey Korsunsky complained that Hirohito “had nothing to do with the outbreak of war and fascist ideology.” Although an Axis power, Japan was led by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo during World War II, with Hirohito allowed to retain his title after the country’s defeat. However, many argue that the emperor should have been convicted as a war criminal.
Masahisa Sato, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s foreign policy panel, called on Sunday for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to “take immediate action,” and on Monday announced that the ministry “requested the video to be deleted,” and that Ukraine would apologize diplomatically for the blunder.
Ukraine’s official Twitter account publicly apologized on Monday too. “Our sincere apologies to Japan for this mistake,” read the post. “We had no intention to offend the friendly people of Japan.” An edited version of the video with Hirohito’s image removed was then posted.
"Our sincere apologies to @japan for this mistake. We had no intention to offend the friendly people of Japan.We have corrected it and posted the new video here: https://t.co/dvy7Pyptj3
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) April 24, 2022"
The diplomatic misstep comes amid a broader effort by Ukraine to appeal to Western powers for support by tying the country’s struggle to the events of the Second World War. When speaking to British politicians, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked Winston Churchill, and when approaching Israel for aid, the Ukrainian leader compared Russia’s offensive with the Holocaust.
Yet Ukraine, which has integrated openly neo-Nazi militias into its national military, has also compared its wartime struggles with those of Nazi Germany. In a Twitter post calling on Western powers to impose a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine, the country’s parliament compared the bombing of Kharkov in March with allied air raids on Hamburg in 1943, rather than the bombings of any allied cities.
Japan has condemned Russia over its military operation in Ukraine, and has imposed economic sanctions on Moscow. Tokyo has also broken with decades of pacifism and sent non-lethal military aid to Kiev.
Finally, we have taken up the logistics of Western arms supplies
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/99...dstancii?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/99...dstancii?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
Bucha Investigation Contradicts Itself, Confirms AFU's Atrocities
Forensic doctors discover fléchettes – rarely used in modern warfare – in bodies found in mass graves in Bucha, “The...
The flechette weapons described in this article remind me of weapons used by Israel back around 2006. They give me the creeps. They are absolutely revolting, basically like military nail bombs. Very appropriate for terrorist acts. I can't see any good reason why a modern military would use them. If this is really a finding of the investigation, will anyone hear about this outside the alternative media? Unlikely