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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that any direct confrontation with NATO troops would result in “global catastrophe,” as he claimed that his divisive mobilization was nearly complete. The Russian leader warned Kyiv’s allies against any military presence in Ukraine while speaking with reporters from the Kazakh capital of Astana. “The introduction of troops into a direct confrontation with the Russian army is a very dangerous step that could lead to a global catastrophe,” he said when asked if the conflict could eventually involve NATO and Russian troops in direct combat.

Quote: "In attempts to find out what really has happened on the Crimean bridge, Moscow drowned in fakes, uts, tampering with facts, and official denials by various countries." Details: The Russians claim that the bomb that led to the bridge’s explosion was "camouflaged" in rolls of construction polyethylene wrap and sent from the port of Odesa to Bulgaria in early August, then transported to the Georgian port of Poti and then on to Armenia. Then the cargo crossed the Georgian-Russian border and was unloaded at the wholesale base of Armavir [a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia]. However, this version does...

APU shot 16 civilians in the north of the Kherson region: https://tinyurl.com/2fjx874p 'We're hunting them down and shooting them like pigs': How the Ukrainians are taking brutal revenge on the collaborators who've betrayed their neighbours - and country - to the Russians: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11284819/How-Ukrainian-intelligence-chiefs-tracking-collaborators-worked-Russians.html

BILD met the village dentist – he disagrees One photo showed a box full of dental crowns, next to it a gas mask. The ministry wrote: "A torture chamber in Pisky-Radkivski. 2 photos. A gas mask placed on the head of a victim who was covered with a smoldering rag and buried alive. And a box of golden dental crowns. A mini-Auschwitz." International media such as the British "Telegraph" took up the untested assumption that the teeth came from Russian torture chambers. "These teeth look like the one from my collection that was looted here," said Sergey (60), whom BILD...

The Ukraine war is now essentially a stalemate. Yes, Ukrainian forces have had some recent success near Kharkiv, but at a high price. The brutal reality is that Russia has approximately 150M people, Ukraine has 40M. Ukraine is a border region of the Russian Federation, and very important to the Kremlin. Now that he has committed forces, Putin cannot let control of the Donbass region go, no matter the casualties. If he allowed that to happen, he would lose power. So, he will follow the old Russian tactic of throwing bodies at the conflict in a long war of attrition....

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is only just over a week old, but, by every indication, Ukrainian forces have already been able to inflict significant losses on the invaders in terms of personnel and material. Shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, also known as man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, have been a key factor in preventing Russian forces from gaining critically important air superiority. Infantry anti-armor weapons, both guided and unguided, have been equally valuable for Ukrainian troops, who are facing a heavily mechanized foe on the ground. The Grom family of missiles, the first versions of which entered service in the 1990s,...