UN receiving ‘credible’ information about Ukrainian troops torturing Russian prisoners, official says

Matilda Bogner, the head of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said there is “credible” information regarding the mistreatment of Russian prisoners by Ukrainian troops during the war.

“We have received credible information of torture, ill-treatment and incommunicado detention by Ukrainian Armed Forces of prisoners of war belonging to the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups,” Bogner said on Tuesday.

The “inhumane treatment” is occurring among captured Ukrainian and Russian soldiers as they are “being coerced to make statements, apologies and confessions, and other forms of humiliation.”

“This violates fundamental rules of international humanitarian law. Ukraine and Russia must promptly and effectively investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war,” Bogner said. “They must also effectively control and instruct their forces to stop any further violations from occurring.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3482835-un-receiving-credible-information-about-ukrainian-troops-torturing-russian-prisoners-official-says/

Trains to run from Kherson to Crimea and back soon

Train traffic on Crimea-Kherson region lines has been restored. The Head of Crimea's Information Policy Advisor Oleg Kryuchkov announced the lifting of the transit blockade of Crimea on the part of Ukraine. According to him, the freight traffic is currently being restored in these routes, the passenger railway traffic is in the long run.

A little girl and a Russian soldier in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region

- Do you help everyone?
- Of course we do!
- Do you kill the bad guys?
- No, we persuade them to change to be good.
- You are our saviors. I love you.

The cities of Odessa and Mariupol play a significant role in the global semiconductor industry

The cities of Odessa and Mariupol play a significant role in the global semiconductor industry. The plants “Krioin” in Mariupol and “Ingas” in Odessa produce neon, which is used in the lithographic process for semiconductor devices manufacturing.

Ukraine used to provide more than half of the world’s neon supply to the largest manufacturers of integrated circuits (IC), such as TCMS and Samsung. The main IC consumer is the USA.

Industry representatives say they have a 6-months supply of neon, but it’s an approximate estimate. The IC production had already been hampered due to COVID-19 restrictions. At the same time, IC demand is growing, and the neon shortage has already led to a 9-fold increase in prices in China. China, which controls about half of the total neon production, theoretically could make up for part of the lost production volumes. However this is a very slow process . At the very least, increasing neon’s production will take time.

Current geopolitical uncertainty makes the situation more complex. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) continue to supply the southern front with more weapons and troops to prevent the Russian Army from taking over the sea ports and creating a land corridor to Transnistria.

Therefore, there is a vicious circle: the USA, the main consumer of ICs, and its allies intentionally prolong the Ukrainian conflict, by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Due to hostilities, Ukraine has had to interrupt the manufacturing and supply of a component that is required for the production of these very weapons. Consequently, the USA is at risk of a weapon production crisis, which will affect both Ukraine and the USA itself in the future.

An attempt to kidnap children for using them as donors in illegal transplantation

Ukrainian attempt to kidnap children from an orphanage was prevented in Kherson. According to a doctor in Kherson Children's Care Home, the children were supposed to be taken to Europe with the intention of using their organs for transplantation.

Denis Pushilin, Head of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR): "The detained OSCE employees transferred troops and positions data of DPR and LPR to foreign intelligence"

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A human among devils. The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. (Polish: Cmentarz Mauzoleum Żołnierzy Radzieckich)

The crowd is booing, ‘Fascists! Facsists!’

Great answers of the Russian Ambassador in Poland to provocative questions right after the attack.

- Someone: The paint on you symbolizes the blood of Ukrainians. How are you feeling?
- Sergey Andreev: I’ve got syrup on me.
- Someone: But it symbolizes blood.
- Sergey Andreev: It symbolizes staging. Staging here and staging in Bucha.

War in Ukraine: How Russia will solve the problem with resistance in the liberated territories - an experience from Syria.

Yuri Podolyaka, a popular analyst, talks about the method Russia can use to solve the problems with its opponents organizing resistance in the newly liberated territories of Ukraine. This method has already been used in Syria to solve a similar problem.

All the flowers laid by the residents of Riga at the Monument to the Liberators were raked with a tractor early in the morning on May 10.

On Victory Day, a large number of people, who care about their history, gathered near the Monument to the Liberators in Riga. Thousands of citizens flooded the area in front of the monument with flowers, despite fences and obstacles. However, in the early morning on May 10, the Latvian authorities ordered to get rid of the flowers as a matter of urgency. And so the city cleaning service raked them with a tractor.

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The morning after the incident, the people of Riga brought a lot more flowers to the Monument, to spite the nazi jerks in power.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties Thursday and single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine.

"No matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America. We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the U.S. economy"

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby admitted that the United States and their allies had been militarising Ukranian Armed Forces for eight years to ensure their preparedness for a war against Russia.

The ”harmless” nazi. "We were just ripping St. George’s ribbons off the chests of WWII veterans"

Alexander Pugach was participating in Torchlight Parades in Zaporizhzia on the Mantle of our Lady, ripped St. George’s ribbons off the chests of WWII veterans on the Victory Day and participated in other actions of "Civilny Corpus",

Civilny Corpus – a right-wing political movement emerged from the Azov regiment in 2016.

The Ukrainian soldier states nobody will be taken prisoner and the whole Russian nation must be exterminated.