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  • Senate Democrat Says U.S. Needs to Discuss Sending Troops to Ukraine: ‘Putin Will Only Stop When We Stop Him’

    04/17/2022 11:31:26 AM PDT · by RandFan · 159 replies
    mediaite ^ | Apr 17th, | By Joe DePaolo
    A Senate Democrat said that the U.S. needs to discuss sending American troops to Ukraine — arguing that Vladimir Putin “will only stop when we stop him.” Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) was confronted by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about comments he made earlier in the week in which he argued the U.S. needs to figure out when it would be willing to send armed forces to Ukraine. “We are in a very dangerous moment where it is important that on a bipartisan and measured way we in Congress and the administration come to a common...
  • Russian State TV: After Ship Sinking, 'World War 3 Has Begun'

    04/16/2022 6:08:30 PM PDT · by blam · 154 replies
    Newsmax ^ | 4-16-2022
    Russian state television declared Friday night that its conflict in Ukraine can now "safely be called World War III." "What it's escalated into can safely be called World War III – that's entirely for sure," Russia 1 television host Olga Skabeyeva said, according to a translation of Friday night’s broadcast by Britain's Metro News. "Now we're definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure, if not NATO itself. We need to recognize that."The remarks on the Russian state sponsored station come a day after Russia's flagship, the Moskva, sank in the Black Sea on Thursday. While the Russians claim the sinking was the...
  • SAS troops are now training Ukrainians in how to use British-supplied anti-tank missiles after Russia warned that Western involvement means World War Three has already started

    04/16/2022 5:36:41 PM PDT · by Mount Athos · 35 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 15 April 2022 | CHRIS JEWERS
    British SAS troops have been training Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv in how to use British-supplied NLAW anti-tank missile launchers, it has been reported. The training marks the first time British forces have been instructing their Ukrainian counterparts since Russia's Vladimir Putin launched his invasion on February 24. Two officers from separate battalions stationed both in and around the country's capital told The Times that British Special Forces had trained their troops on two occasions over the last fortnight. Reports of the British training came after Russian TV warned that Western involvement in the war - such as supplying weapons to...
  • Putin is behind coordinated pro-Moscow demonstrations across Europe, experts suggest, as hundreds take to the streets of Belgrade with Russian flags and 'Z' symbol t-shirts

    04/16/2022 2:13:13 PM PDT · by libh8er · 27 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4.16.2022 | Chris Jewers
    Moscow may be co-ordinating pro-Russian demonstrations across Europe to amplify pockets of support for its war in Ukraine, it has been reported. In recent weeks cities including Berlin, Dublin, Hanover, Frankfurt and Athens have seen people take to the streets with Russian flags and vehicles emblazoned with the pro-war Z symbol that has become synonymous with the Kremlin's forces in Ukraine. Many of the marches have taken place at the same time, despite being hundreds of miles away from each other, prompting Russian experts to suggest they might be being coordinated by Moscow, according to The Times. The experts told...
  • Russian air defense shot down plane with Western arms for Ukraine near Odessa - top brass

    04/16/2022 2:13:02 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 65 replies
    TASS ^ | 4-16-22 | TASS
    MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. Russian air defense units have brought down a military transport plane carrying Western arms outside Odessa, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday. "Near Odessa Russian anti-aircraft defense forces have shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane, which was delivering a large shipment of arms supplied to Ukraine by Western counties," he said. In addition, according to Konashenkov, operational and tactical aviation destroyed 67 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military personnel and hardware in the past 24 hours.
  • 'Why Bother Talking To Liars?': Estonia's Former President Says No Point Negotiating With Russia

    04/16/2022 10:52:10 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 8 replies
    https://www.rferl.org ^ | April 15, 2022 | Vazha Tavberidze
    Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (file photo) Serving as president of Estonia between 2006 and 2016, and foreign minister before that, Toomas Hendrik Ilves has always been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Speaking by Zoom from Estonia, Ilves pours water on the idea of negotiating with Russia and says that Georgia's position on the war in Ukraine is "absolutely despicable." RFE/RL: There are many people who think that the roots of what is going on now in Ukraine, and what happened in Georgia in 2008, go back to the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest and the refusal...
  • Russian Navy is a real-life ‘Bad News Bears’

    04/16/2022 8:43:36 AM PDT · by fugazi · 35 replies
    Unto the Breach ^ | April 16, 2022 | Chris Carter
    While we cannot say with total certainty whether the Russian cruiser Moskva was sunk due to a Ukrainian anti-ship missile or just a fire that crews were unable to control, we know that it is lost. Soon we will find out what happened, but regardless of if it was an unfortunate series of events or enemy action, what we do know is the Russian navy is about as big of a joke as the Bad News Bears baseball team from the 1970s movie. The Russians have admitted that the flagship of their Black Sea Fleet — the ship that was...
  • Putin’s Inaccurate Historical Propaganda : The History of the Russian and Ukrainian Relations

    04/16/2022 7:42:46 AM PDT · by dennisw · 7 replies
    M. Laser History 150K subscribers ^ | Mar 10, 2022 | M. Laser History 150K subscribers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzxBKcTpRe4&t=843s
  • Blasts Heard Across Ukraine As Russian Follows Through On Pledge To Step Up Strikes

    04/16/2022 2:58:01 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 73 replies
    RFE/ RL ^ | 16-4-2022 | Staff
    A Ukrainian policeman and municipal workers carry a body bag as they exhume two bodies from graves dug in the yard of a house in the village of Vabliya, near Kyiv, on April 14. A Ukrainian policeman and municipal workers carry a body bag as they exhume two bodies from graves dug in the yard of a house in the village of Vabliya, near Kyiv, on April 14. Blasts were heard early on April 16 in the cities of Kyiv and Lviv after warnings from Russia that it would intensify attacks on the Ukrainian capital after accusing Ukraine of targeting...
  • Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Shelling Its Bryansk Region, Kyiv Rejects Claim

    04/16/2022 1:10:53 AM PDT · by Cronos · 13 replies
    Radio free Europe ^ | 15 March 2022
    Authorities in Russia's Bryansk region bordering Ukraine have accused Kyiv of shelling the Russian town of Klimovo and allegedly causing casualties, while the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (RNBO) rejected the accusations, calling them "an attempt to ignite anti-Ukraine hysteria in Russia." The Bryansk region's governor, Aleksandr Bogomaz, said on April 14 that two buildings were damaged in the attack, which he said was conducted by the armed forces of Ukraine. Medical personnel at Klimovo's central hospital told the Russian news agency TASS that seven people, including a pregnant woman and a child, were wounded. Russia's Investigative Committee...
  • Senior Church Official: Russia Now Defends "Western" Christian Values that Liberal West Is Destroying

    04/15/2022 7:10:48 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 32 replies
    Russian Faith ^ | 4/15/22
    "Curiously enough, today the West and Russia have switched roles. Russia supports the values that had been considered 'western' — the role of the Christian Church, autonomy of the traditional family, and cultural diversity. All these have become secondary in the West. They are only valued as long as they do not contradict liberal dogmas.”In his recent essay, Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Russian Orthodox Church's Relations with Society and Mass Media, deliberates on the drastic change in the system of traditional Western values. We are publishing excerpts from the piece. “In his sermon on...
  • LAVROV SAYS RUSSIA AT WAR WITH U.S.

    04/15/2022 4:03:23 PM PDT · by cuz1961 · 40 replies
    President Joe Biden, 79, his 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan have deliberately camouflaged the Ukraine War as a war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. While 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky and his 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba publicly admit the U.S. is funding and supplying weapons to Ukraine, they all deny the obvious: That the U.S. is at war with the Russian Federation.
  • Should We Commit to Fight Russia — for Finland?

    04/15/2022 2:07:44 PM PDT · by algore · 42 replies
    The prime ministers of Sweden and Finland, Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin, both signaled Wednesday that they will likely be applying for membership in NATO. The “prospect” is most “welcome,” says The Washington Post: “Finland and Sweden Should Join NATO.” The editorial was titled “A Way to Punish Putin.” Before joining the rejoicing in NATO capitals, we might inspect what NATO membership for these two Nordic nations would mean for the United States. Finland is a nation the size of Germany, but with a population only 4% of that of Russia and a border with Russia that is 830 miles...
  • Local Russian activists call for demolition of Polish Katyn memorial

    04/15/2022 1:48:26 PM PDT · by lodi90 · 56 replies
    The First News ^ | 4/15/2022 | ERJ
    Activists from the western Russian city of Smolensk have petitioned the country's parliament, the Duma, to demolish a symbolic memorial site to the Katyn massacre and a cemetery for its victims, Russian daily Kommersant has reported. Images posted online showed heavy machinery, bearing the pro-war 'Z' and 'V' symbols, approaching the Katyn monument in an apparent bid to destroy it. The memorial site and monument commemorate the Katyn Forest Massacre in western Russia, a series of mass executions of Polish POWs, mainly military officers and policemen, carried out by the Soviet NKVD security agency in April and May 1940. The...
  • Putin Accuses Western Banks Of Failing To Pay For Russian Gas In Rubles

    04/15/2022 11:54:03 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 26 replies
    Radio Free Europe ^ | 4/14/2022 | Radio Free Europe
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Western banks of failing to pay for Russian gas supplies after he demanded that European Union member states and other countries pay for Russian gas in rubles. Speaking at a meeting on the current situation in the country's oil and gas sector on April 14, Putin blamed Western partners for what he called "defaults on export deliveries of Russian energy resources." "Banks from these extremely unfriendly states are withholding the transfer of payments," Putin said. Last month, Putin demanded that EU nations pay for gas supplies in rubles as crippling international sanctions slapped on...
  • Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers

    04/15/2022 10:22:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 107 replies
    Ukrainian officials have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow’s invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of their families in what may be one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date. The country’s IT Army, a volunteer force of hackers and activists that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses. The Ukrainians champion the use...
  • Russia Blocks The Moscow Times Website

    04/15/2022 8:52:59 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 23 replies
    Newsmax ^ | April 15, 2022
    Russia's communications watchdog has blocked access to the Russian language website of The Moscow Times, a newspaper that has covered Russia for three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Moscow Times said Russian internet providers had already started to block its Russian-language site. It published a notice from Russia's communications watchdog which said its site was now blocked. Russia's communications watchdog did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  • Russia Warns Sweden, Finland Of Consequences If They Join NATO

    04/15/2022 5:50:50 AM PDT · by Cronos · 65 replies
    NDTV ^ | 15th April 2022 | AFP
    Russia's foreign ministry on Friday warned of unspecified "consequences" should Finland and Sweden join the US-led NATO defence alliance, after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. Moscow's military actions in Ukraine have sparked a dramatic U-turn in public and political opinion in both Finland and Sweden over long-held policies of military non-alignment. ..."The choice is up to the authorities of Sweden and Finland. But they should understand the consequences of such a step for our bilateral relations and for the architecture of European security as a whole," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement. She added that...
  • Should We Commit to Fight Russia -- for Finland?

    04/15/2022 5:24:57 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 157 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 15, 2022 | Pat Buchanan
    The prime ministers of Sweden and Finland, Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin, both signaled Wednesday that they will likely be applying for membership in NATO. The "prospect" is most "welcome," says The Washington Post: "Finland and Sweden Should Join NATO." The editorial was titled "A Way to Punish Putin." Before joining the rejoicing in NATO capitals, we might inspect what NATO membership for these two Nordic nations would mean for the United States. Finland is a nation the size of Germany, but with a population only 4% of that of Russia and a border with Russia that is 830 miles...
  • Russia says it strikes Kyiv missile factory after flagship sinks

    04/15/2022 4:04:20 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 26 replies
    Kyiv was hit on Friday by some of the most powerful explosions heard since Russian forces withdrew from the area two weeks ago. Moscow said it had struck a plant in capital that made and repaired Ukrainian missiles, including anti-ship missiles.