Footage of the failed Trident missile launch by the British Royal Navy.

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Boris Johnson wanted $1 million for interview - Tucker Carlson

The former Fox host accused Britain’s ex-prime minister of attempting a “shakedown”.

American journalist Tucker Carlson has said former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson would only agree to an interview if he received a $1 million fee. He made the claim following his high-profile interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Speaking to Blaze TV founder Glenn Beck for an interview that aired on Tuesday, Carlson contrasted his experience interviewing Putin with attempts to sit down with Johnson, who has slammed the former Fox host as a “tool of the Kremlin” after Carlson’s lengthy discussion with the Russian president earlier this month.

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West ‘only making things worse’ for Ukraine - Russian ambassador

Moscow is ready for dialogue, but has only received unacceptable proposals from Ukraine and its backers, Anatoly Antonov said.

By refusing to understand Moscow’s demands and continuing to arm Ukraine, the US and its allies are only aggravating the conflict, the Russian ambassador to Washington has said.

Moscow is “adamant” that at some point it will achieve a peace deal with Kiev, despite resistance from the West, which “did everything to deprive Ukraine of its independence and turn it into an anti-Russian bridgehead,” Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek on Tuesday.

”Instead of hearing and understanding Russia's key demands – the denazification and demilitarization of Ukrainian thugs as well as rejection of Russophobia and NATO plans of Kiev, Washington and its satellites are only making things worse,” he stressed.

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The two-day High Court trial of Julian Assange has concluded. Assange had two judges, one of whom, Justice Jeremy Johnson, ruled over my recent case, and has been called out as effectively a UK Government operative.

Justice Johnson's judgment against me contained not only a series of fairly absurd spelling errors (i.e. 'solider'), but a cut-and-paste repetition of the case of the UK Government against me, with his signature added.

So, hopes are all on the second judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, for whatever those hopes are worth... 'British justice'....

#freeAssangeNOW

Test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed for a second time.

https://youtu.be/ZcZmBN7irmw?si=TY5otwTN7RHk7D7a

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'To a dog, a dog's death,' Medvedev said about murder of defector Kuzminov

The politician refrained from elaborating or commenting on how exactly Kuzminov died.

The press service of the provincial Civil Guard has told TASS that the authorities were investigating the alleged murder of a 33-year-old Ukrainian citizen in the Valencian Community. His body bearing gunshot wounds was reportedly found in a garage in the Province of Alicante. The guards did not rule out that the documents found on the body might turn out to be forgeries.

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Lavrov offers inviting structures of Global South regions to participate in G20

"We reiterate our support of the candidacies of Brazil and India with the interests of African states concurrently ensured," the Russian foreign minister noted.

"Last year at the summit of leaders in New Delhi we agreed that global institutions should strengthen through the growing voice of developing countries of the world majority. The African Union joined the ranks. I believe that we should not rest on oars and attract leading integration structures of other regions of the Global South to full-fledged participation in our work," he said at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

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Putin reveals truth kept back by Western elites in interview with Carlson - Lavrov

The Russian foreign minister noted that the West often employs double standards, hypocrisy and outright lies, sacrificing diplomatic methods of peaceful settlement of disputes to power struggle.

"Remember how aggressively Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson, which revealed the truth that Western elites keep back from their voters, was met in the West," the minister said at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro.

In this context he noted that the West often employs double standards, hypocrisy and outright lies, sacrificing diplomatic methods of peaceful settlement of disputes to power struggle, 'hybrid wars,' total confrontation, the strive to inflict a strategic defeat to the opponent.

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Almost every cellar in Avdeyevka turned into imported ammunition depot - top brass

One of the most violent battles took place near the town’s railway station where the most effective units of the Ukrainian armed forces were deployed, Russian Defense Ministry noted.

"Forcing its way and moving to the center of the town was the task of the 55th guards brigade," the ministry noted. The assault groups pressed forward along multiple axes. The main forces made their way along Sobornaya Street.

"There were the enemy’s fire units in almost every house, with chains of dug-out and cover positions nearby and military equipment sheltered among houses. Almost every cellar was turned into an ammunition depot [containing] mortar bombs, hand-held grenade launchers, tins with ammo, grenades to grenade launchers, with most weapons and supplies revealed being of foreign production," according to the statement.

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Venezuela, Russia achieve impressing results in cooperation - Maduro

"A group of Russian businessmen plan to come to Venezuela and invest in output of agriculture equipment and agriculture production," the president of the South American country added.

Lavrov announced readiness to purchase in Venezuela agriculture products, the supplies of which have been blocked by Western countries, the president noted. "This is going to serve as an additional incentive for export of agriculture products by Venezuela," he stressed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Venezuela strengthened the strategic cooperation and friendly ties between the two countries, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto wrote on his page on X.

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Denmark to donate first F-16 jets to Ukraine in summer, says defense chief

According to the statement, the final timeframe will depend on when Ukrainian pilots complete training to fly the planes.

"We are working to make sure that everything goes smoothly this summer when we expect to be able to donate the first F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, provided preparations go as planned," Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen stressed.

According to the statement, the final timeframe will depend on when Ukrainian pilots complete training to fly the planes. The international coalition seeking to support Ukraine in terms of air forces, which, apart from Denmark, is led by the US and the Netherlands, "is making every effort to create" the necessary conditions, the statement says.

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IMF close to unlocking funds for Ukraine – Bloomberg

Plans to release the tranche come as the US aid package for Kiev remains stalled in Congress.

The International Monetary Fund could agree to unlock $900 million for Ukraine as soon as Thursday, Bloomberg has reported, citing officials with knowledge of the talks.

The disbursement would be part of a four-year $15.6 billion loan that the Washington-based institution approved for Ukraine last year, and would come as a $60 billion US aid package remains stalled in Congress.

Staff at the IMF have assessed whether Ukraine has met the conditions for the payment, and are expected to wrap up their work and make a statement in Washington on Thursday, Bloomberg wrote, citing the officials.

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🇷🇺 Dmitry Peskov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation – Press Secretary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive interview with the International Reporters news agency, spoke about his work and impressions from his visit to Lugansk, and shared his views on the problems of modern journalism and the information field. He was interviewed by Faina Savenkova.

https://www.ir-press.ru/2024/02/22/dmitry-peskov-we-are-dealing-and-waging-information-war-against-a-huge-monster/

Polish farmers want to ‘humiliate’ Ukraine – Zelensky aide

Mikhail Podoliak has dismissed protests against cheap grain imports as an attempt to hit his country’s “most painful point”.

Polish farmers protesting near the border with Ukraine are trying to “humiliate” their neighbor and inflict as much pain as possible, President Vladimir Zelensky’s most senior adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, claimed on Wednesday.

His comments came after hundreds of tractors gathered on the Polish-Ukrainian border this week, with farmers calling for the closure of checkpoints and a ban on importing cheap Ukrainian grain. Similar protests have regularly taken place in Poland since October 2023, when Brussels decided to allow Ukrainian haulers to enter the EU without having to obtain permits. 

Speaking to the Ukrainian TSN news channel, Podoliak dismissed the protests, insisting that the demonstrators were actually seeking to humiliate his country.

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Seize frozen Russian assets in Navalny’s name – German MP

Legislation allowing such a move should be called “Navalny Laws,” Norbert Rottgen said.

Russia’s assets that remain frozen in the West should be confiscated in response to the death of opposition activist and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny, German parliament member Norbert Rottgen has said.

This money should be used to provide more arms to the Ukrainian military for use in the conflict with Russia, Rottgen suggested in his speech to the Bundestag on Wednesday.

Legislation that would allow the confiscation of an estimated $300 billion in assets owned by the Russian central bank, which were blocked by the US and the EU after the outbreak of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, should be named “Navalny Laws,” he added.

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Kremlin reacts to Biden calling Putin a ‘crazy S.O.B.’

The US president has disgraced his country, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Americans should be ashamed of their leader after their president reportedly called Russia’s Vladimir Putin a “crazy S.O.B.” during a public event, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Joe Biden’s alleged name-calling occurred during a fundraiser on Wednesday.

According to US media, Biden singled out the Russian president while arguing that climate change was a worse threat for humanity than a nuclear conflict.

Officials in Washington have claimed that Putin resorted to “nuclear blackmail” when discussing the Ukraine conflict. Moscow has denied this characterization.

“This is a great disgrace for [the US],” Peskov said on Thursday, when asked about the reported incident. “If the president of that nation uses that kind of language, that is shameful.”

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