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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost the best Military Propaganda Blogger. I will not cry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu65lVIJZsU
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 402 – Summary April 1, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-402-summary/
Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost the best Military Propaganda Blogger. I will not cry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu65lVIJZsU
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 402 – Summary April 1, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-402-summary/
VIDEOS
1. IT’S PAYBACK TIME - SABOTEURS HAVE SET FIRE TO RELAY BOXES ACROSS RUSSIA’S SARATOV REGION || 2023
Warthog Defense
487K subscribers
Apr 2, 2023 5:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jrJQL_sUHg
2. Ukraine War Map Update: Cards Are Being Redistributed In Ukraine!
The Pioneer
315K subscribers
Apr 1, 2023 9:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKbl4kZteFA
War is like playing chess. The outcome of a chess match is determined not by the pawns destroyed, but by the strategies and their feasibility.
The one who builds his strategy and keeps his moves secret until the last move draws checkmate and wins the match! In the war between Russia and Ukraine, as we watch the Ukrainian leader Zelensky’s chess skills, we are witnessing Putin gambling by rolling the dice.
As a result of the Ukrainian army’s clever moves, the Russian army’s room for maneuver has shrunk considerably. Therefore, Russia is trying to gain the upper hand by launching random attacks. But this makes Russia’s job even more difficult. Let’s take a look at the latest moves on the front line.
ARTICLE
Ukraine war: Where are Russia’s opposition leaders now?
Jail, poison or exile? The price of opposing Putin
BBC News
4-1-2023 8:57 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65113186
Russian critics and opponents of President Putin are often punished - or worse
By Vitaly Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring
President Vladimir Putin now rules Russia virtually unchallenged. Many of the critical voices that once spoke out have since been forced into exile, while other opponents have been jailed - or in some cases killed.
By the time he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, more than two decades of stamping out dissent had all but annihilated opposition in Russia.
At the very start of President Putin’s rule, he brought to heel Russia’s powerful oligarchs - immensely rich people with political ambitions.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once head of the Russian oil giant Yukos, was arrested in 2003 and spent 10 years in prison for tax evasion and theft after funding opposition parties. Upon his release, he left Russia.
Boris Berezovsky, another oligarch who even helped bring Putin to power - fell out with him later and died in exile in the UK in 2013, reportedly by suicide.
All key media in Russia gradually fell under the control of the state or toed the official Kremlin line.
Alexei Navalny
By far the most prominent opposition figure in Russia is now Alexei Navalny, who has accused Putin from jail of aiming to smear hundreds of thousands of people in his “criminal, aggressive” war.
In August 2020, Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent, while on a trip to Siberia. The attack nearly killed him, and he had to be flown to Germany for treatment. In May 2022, Alexei Navalny unsuccessfully appealed against a nine-year prison sentence
His return to Russia in January 2021 briefly galvanised opposition protesters, but he was immediately arrested for fraud and contempt of court. He is now serving nine years in prison, and was the focus of an Oscar-winning documentary.
In the 2010s Navalny was actively involved in mass anti-government rallies and the many exposes by Navalny’s main political vehicle, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), have attracted millions of views online. In 2021 the foundation was outlawed as extremist and Navalny has repeatedly dismissed allegations of corruption as politically motivated.
Many of his associates have come under pressure from security services, and some have fled abroad, including former FBK head Ivan Zhdanov, former top FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol and most, if not all, of the heads of the extended network of Navalny’s offices across Russia.
Navalny’s right-hand man Leonid Volkov left Russia when a money laundering case was launched against him in 2019.
Opposition to the war
Another key Putin critic behind Russian bars is Ilya Yashin, who has been sharply critical of Russia’s war. In a live stream on YouTube in April 2022, he urged an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russian forces and called President Putin “the worst butcher in this war”.
That live stream led to eight-and-a-half years in jail for violating a law against spreading “deliberately false information” about the Russian army. The law was rushed through parliament shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Ilya Yashin was arrested in June 2022 after he condemned suspected Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha
Yashin became involved in politics in 2000 at the age of 17, the year Putin came to power.
In 2017, after years of opposition activism, he was elected head of the Krasnoselsky district council in Moscow, where he continued to voice views critical of the Kremlin.
In 2019, he spent more than a month behind bars for his active role in protests against the authorities’ refusal to register independent and opposition-minded candidates for elections to the Moscow city council.
Cambridge-educated journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has twice been the victim of a mysterious poisoning that left him in a coma, in 2015 and then in 2017. He was arrested in April 2022 following his criticism of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and charged with sharing “fake news” about the Russian military, organising the activities of an “undesirable organisation” and high treason. His lawyer says he is facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
He has authored numerous articles critical of Putin in prominent Russian and Western media and in 2011 led opposition efforts to secure the adoption of Western sanctions targeting human rights abusers in Russia.
These sanctions imposed by many Western countries are known as Magnitsky acts after whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail in 2009 after alleging fraud by officials.
Fighting for democracy
Kara-Murza was deputy chairman of Open Russia, a leading pro-democracy group set up by fugitive ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It was officially designated as “undesirable” in Russia and finally closed in 2021. Open Russia’s head, Andrei Pivovarov, is serving a four-year jail sentence imposed for his involvement in an “undesirable organisation”.
Kara-Murza may be facing a long prison sentence but at least he is alive, unlike close friend and key Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead. Before the Putin era, Nemtsov served as governor of Nizhny Novgorod region, energy minister and then deputy prime minister, and he was also elected to Russia’s parliament. Then he became increasingly vocal in his opposition to the Kremlin, and published a number of reports critical of Vladimir Putin and led numerous marches opposing him.
On 27 February 2015, Nemtsov was shot four times as he crossed a bridge outside the Kremlin, hours after appealing for support for a march against Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
Five men of Chechen origin were convicted of Nemtsov’s murder, but there is still no clarity as to who ordered it or why. Seven years after his death, an investigation revealed evidence that in the months running up to the killing, Nemtsov was being followed across Russia by a government agent linked to a secret assassination squad.
These leading opposition figures are just a few of the Russians targeted for showing dissent.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, independent media in Russia have had to move abroad, such as news sites Meduza and Novaya Gazeta, and the channel TV Rain. Others like talk radio station Ekho Moskvy have simply shut down.
Countless commentators have gone into exile, like veteran journalist Alexander Nevzorov, branded a “foreign agent” in Russia and sentenced to eight years in jail in absentia for spreading “fakes” against the Russian army.
But you do not have to have an audience of millions to be targeted. In March 2023, Dmitry Ivanov, a mathematics student who ran an anti-war Telegram channel, received an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence - also for spreading “fakes” about the army.
Meanwhile, single parent Alexei Moskalev was given a two year jail term for dissent on social media following an investigation sparked by an anti-war picture sketched by his 13-year-old daughter at school.
It took Vladimir Putin more than two decades to ensure no formidable opponents were free to challenge his power. If that was his plan, it’s worked.
🇷🇺 Bakhmut has been captured! The flags of Russia and PMC Wagner have been hoisted on the administration building of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/tI6MHbBdRa— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) April 3, 2023
VIDEOS
1. Russia Advances in Bakhmut! 2 Apr 23 Ukraine Daily Update
Combat Veteran Reacts
251K subscribers
Apr 2, 2023 10:30 a.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NxGHh7JrCQ
2. “This is Bakhmut, let Russians be ready” - Ukrainian fighters in central Bakhmut
Kanal13
1.51M subscribers
Apr 2, 2023 2:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Uflx4IzfA
“Bakhmut has been captured!”
Unhuh.
Putin’s chef oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner private military company, claimed the capture of the east Ukraine town of Bakhmut “in a legal sense,” saying his units had taken the main city administration building Bakhmut so has been captured.
We need to get rid of all Bush/Obama/Biden neocon/neoliberalism, never again invade or occupy Iraq’s, Syria’s, or attack Yemen’s. We have to stop with being world cop as the majority of the world’s is turning against us and the next 3 are the tip of the iceberg as at least 5 European countries are now done helping Ukraine and no doubt it’s gonna grow:
1/3 Fox News
4/1/23
Growing alliances between countries attempt to weaken US economy
‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-hosts Will Cain and Pete Hegseth explain how alliances between five emerging global economies, BRICS, could make the U.S. dollar ‘worthless.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6323781051112
Trump just publicly confirmed the Obama State Dept was behind the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Ta5gCw1xA&feature=share
2/3 *Nasdaq*
Petrodollar Dusk, Petroyuan Dawn: What Investors Need To Know
4/2/23
“During a three-day state visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping held friendly talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a show of unity, as both countries increasingly seek to position themselves as leaders of what they call a “multipolar world order,” one that challenges U.S.-centric alliances and agreements.
Among those agreements is the petrodollar, which has been in place for over 50 years.
In case you’re wondering, “petrodollars” are not a real currency. They’re simply dollars being used to trade oil. Early in the 1970s, the U.S. government provided economic aid to Saudi Arabia, its chief oil-producing rival, in exchange for assurances that Riyadh would price its crude exports exclusively in the U.S. dollar. In 1975, other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) followed suit, and the petrodollar was born.
This had the immediate effect of strengthening the U.S. dollar. Since countries around the world had to have dollars on hand in order to buy oil (and other key commodities such as gold, also priced in dollars), the greenback became the world’s reserve currency, a status formerly enjoyed by the British pound, French franc and Dutch guilder.
All things must come to an end, however. We may be witnessing the end of the petrodollar as more and more countries, including China and Russia, are agreeing to make settlements in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. ...”
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/petrodollar-dusk-petroyuan-dawn:-what-investors-need-to-know
3/3 Over the last two decades, the United States dollar has lost 12 percentage points of market share falling from 71% to 59%, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The India-based Megh Updates platform, one of the world’s largest online informational platforms in terms of views, has stated that BRICS countries have officially overtaken G7 in share of world PPP GDP, and that this trend can be expected to continue.
The BRICS is also expanding – Bangladesh, Egypt and the UAE have all just joined the BRICS New Development Bank, with numerous other countries poised to do the same.
The current BRICS five now contribute 31.5% of global GDP, while the G7 share has fallen to 30%. The BRICS is expected to contribute over 50% of global GDP by 2030...
It’s about to accelerate.
Gold, silver, platinum, oil, lithium, rare-earth minerals- backed BRICS currency may weather the storm if anything can.
Says the bloodthirsty, warmongering, cabal-loving, propaganda pushing sycophant.
“Says the bloodthirsty, warmongering, cabal-loving, propaganda pushing sycophant.”
Distorted name-calling. Do you feel better now?
VIDEOS
1. RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE FORCED TO RETREAT FROM “SEVERAL POSITIONS” IN DONETSK REGION || 2023
Warthog Defense
487K subscribers
Apr 2, 2023 7:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3493jiZ0i6c
2. Murders and mayhem: victims of the Russian occupation in the Kyiv region recall
UATV English
385K subscribers
Apr 2, 2023 9:00 a.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMCjLw9l3Q
February 2022. Russia has launched the largest ground military operation since WW2. The crime of aggression was followed by total impunity and the perpetration of war crimes against the civilian population. The horrors lived through are comparable to Nazi war crimes committed on the occupied territories. Hear the stories of the survivors in our special report from the Kyiv region.
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