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The gates swing open, creaking ominously on their hinges. This is the first time Valery has been back to the prison where the Russians took him. As he walks through the gates he points out the cell on the second floor where he was locked up. And when he recounts what happened here it's clear that it is a painful experience. (snip) Each image is dated - it all happened in March shortly after the invasion when they captured Kherson city. On the walls of the prison graffiti reads "Zelenskyy we are coming". But surprisingly Valery considers himself lucky as,...

A demonstration in the streets of Moscow reportedly shows Russians calling for Vladimir Putin to launch a nuclear strike on Washington, D.C. "Meanwhile in Russia: a rally, demanding for Moscow to strike Washington," Russian state TV blogger Julia Davis tweeted with a video of the demonstration. "They cite Putin's words: "We will go to heaven as martyrs and they will simply croak." The video shows a man chanting to the sounds of drums beating. "Strike the decision-making centers!" a translation of his words read on the chyron. "On Washington!" the marchers replied, according to the translation.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an unannounced visit to the newly freed city of Kherson on Monday, reveling in perhaps the most significant success by his country’s forces since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February. “We are, step by step, coming to all of our country,” he said to a crowd of hundreds of people, some wrapped in Ukrainian flags. “I am happy we are in Kherson.” The president’s visit to Kherson just days after it was retaken was a tangible sign of Ukraine’s soaring morale and its growing boldness in the nearly nine-month war. Kherson, a vital Black...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited the liberated city of Kherson and promised the fresh victory would serve as the “beginning of the end” of the war against Russia. Zelensky walked the streets in the southern Ukrainian city and took selfies with soldiers and praised them for fighting against Russia. The Ukrainian leader also distributed medals to soldiers and told the liberated city that Ukraine would soon be “coming step by step to all the temporarily occupied territories of our country.” “Of course, it is difficult, it is a long and hard path,” Zelensky said in the address. “No...

FTX had some eye-opening connections to powerful entities and individuals around the world before it all came crashing down. The meteoric rise of FTX FTX made waves with early endorsements by NFL legend Tom Brady, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, and NBA superstar Stephen Curry. FTX spent big money on a Super Bowl commercial featuring "Seinfeld" creator Larry David. "In 2021, FTX inked a reported $135 million, 19-year deal with the NBA’s Miami Heat to rename the American Airlines Arena as FTX Arena," CNN reported. "Major League Baseball struck a five-year deal in 2021 to name FTX as its official cryptocurrency exchange,...

Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is vowing to push Russian forces from Ukraine after Kyiv retook the strategic city of Kherson. “We will see many more such greetings,” Zelensky said in his nightly address on Saturday. “In those cities and villages that are still under occupation. We don’t forget anyone, we won’t leave anyone. Thanks to our defense operations and diplomacy, we will definitely reach our state border — all sections of the internationally recognized border of Ukraine.”

Col. MacGregor has been informed by his military sources that Jake Sullivan in his back channel talks with Russia informed them that the U.S. is aware that Russia has a big offensive coming and discussed "red lines." He "threatened" Russia that the U.S. has 40,000 combat troops in Poland "training." And 50,000 Polish troops. When Russia was asked about the back channel communication with Sullivan they said, "We discussed "red lines."

Kherson strategy not a 'freeze'

Pentagon now appears to believe that time is severely on Russia's side.Pentagon chiefs might be coming around to my view of Joe Biden (mean-spirited demented/stupid old bum)....

Today, we discuss updates from across the war zone; analyse the latest diplomatic news from the U.S. and Europe; and we speak about the rise and development of Russian fascism with historian Dr Ian Garner.

In many places, searching the web is a gateway to a wider world of information, but in Russia, it is part of a system that helps trap people in an alternative reality. Shortly after 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in June, Lev Gershenzon - a former manager at Russian tech company Yandex - typed the city's name into its search engine to find out more. The results he got back shocked him. "The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure," he told the BBC....

Update from Ukraine | Drone Attack on Sevastopol, Crimea | Ruzzian ships are damaged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLMXGO6t3CM&list=PL07GENlkQ2ASL3mJmE5xL8nPzIBThcUAw&index=365 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ Military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://militaryland.net/maps/invasion-maps/ The summary of the 261st day on Kherson Front, as of 22:00 – 11th November 2022 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-261-kherson-front/

There are always reasons to doubt Russia is playing it straight. For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has bundled U-turns and lies together, making it hard to distinguish between evasion and fiction, and weaponizing the toxic mix to blackmail, divide and bewilder his foes. In recent days, Russia has pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal, then gone back into it, and issued bloodcurdling threats of nuclear attack before reversing course to endorse the language of non-proliferation. This week, Putin ordered his forces to retreat from Kherson only weeks after declaring that the city would-be part of Russia “forever.”...

Did you ever wonder where all those billions of dollars were going in Ukraine? Did you ever wonder why anyone was trusting the elites in US politics like the Bidens with billions in funds going to Ukraine? Today it turns out that these were excellent questions. We have information that the tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency. Now the money is gone and FTX is bankrupt. Earlier today we reported that the FTX cryptocurrency appeared to be used in a ponzi scheme involving...

Russian TV Presenter: “The decision of our MoD has become known that we are withdrawing troops from the right bank of Dnieper, that is, we are leaving Kherson… Now, if you are expecting I will explain my opinion on this, then I won’t tell you anything. But I’ll explain why. If I support this decision [to withdraw] then this turns out to be a public call for violation of the territorial integrity of Russia in our criminal code… This is several years of imprisonment. If I do not support this decision and believe that the MoD [is wrong], these are...

Day 261: November 11 Today the process of liberation of the Dnipro River’s western bank was completed, and the Ukrainians are celebrating their victory in the center of the city. Such rapid developments gave rise to many conspiracy theories that try to explain everything purely from the political point of view, ignoring half a year of the context of what has actually been happening on the ground. As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle and whatever political decisions may have been made, they were still based on the situation on the ground. So, in this video, I will...

Judicial Watch announced today it received 345 pages of records from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a component of the U.S. Department of Defense, revealing that the United States funded anthrax laboratory activities in a Ukrainian biolab in 2018. Dozens of pages are completely redacted, and many others are heavily redacted. The records show over $11 million in funding for the Ukraine biolabs program in 2019. The records were obtained in response to a February 28, 2022, Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for records regarding the funding of Black &...

The largest state program for the production of weapons in modern Russian history, for which 20 trillion rubles were allocated from the federal budget over the past 10 years, has been scrapped. In early November, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to rewrite the army supply standards and bring them into line with the real needs of the armed forces. According to Putin's list of instructions, the order must be implemented as soon as possible - before November 14. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu were appointed responsible. De facto, Putin has suspended the State Armaments Program (SAP),...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Liberated Kherson Next step is Crimea | Ruzzians are running https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJR3Wmp37Fo Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ Military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://militaryland.net/maps/invasion-maps/ Maps & Summary https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-260-summary/