#Russia officially withdrew from the Council of Europe today.

The corresponding document was sent to the management of the organization. No one drove Russia out, they left on their own.

Head of the Russian delegation to PACE Petr Tolstoy: "Russia is leaving the Council of Europe of its own free will, this is a balanced and deliberate decision."

When leaving the Council of Europe, Russia will be forced to denounce the European Convention on Human Rights, said the head of the international committee of the State Duma Slutsky


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Kremlin spells out what Russia’s withdrawal from Council of Europe means

According to Dmitry Peskov, the withdrawal from the Council of Europe clearly means a withdrawal from all of its mechanisms

https://tass.com/politics/1419743

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US mercenary who joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion complains about the huge losses among the British and Americans as a result of the strike on their base.

He claims losses suffered by foreign volunteers are being hidden by Ukrainian authorities.

He also cries as well about the attitude of the Ukrainians towards them: they wanted to send foreigers to Kyiv with only 10 rounds of ammunition for machine guns

As a result, he and his comrades deserted, and ran to Poland, although not without problems at the border.


“It’s a trap, they’re cutting up our passports and sending us to the front”.

From December 2021:

Russia says it may be forced to deploy intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe


Deputy FM says Moscow would have to take the step if NATO refused to engage with it on preventing such an escalation

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2333704/russia-says-it-may-be-forced-to-deploy-intermediate-nuclear-missiles-in-europe

🇺🇸 #USA 🇺🇸
🇸🇦 #Saudi 🇸🇦
🇨🇳 #China 🇨🇳

The #Dollar - A death of a thousand cuts?

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Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Chinese Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales

Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington


https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollars-for-chinese-oil-sales-11647351541

🇮🇹 #ITALY 🇮🇹

Weapons Disguised as “Humanitarian Aid” Secretly Heading to Ukraine from Italy

Workers at the Pisa International Airport are refusing to load “humanitarian aid” crates on planes headed to Poland, then Ukraine, as they reportedly contain weapons. (Unione Sindacale di Base)

The workers allege the crates are supposed to carry food, medicines and other supplies to the civilian population by convoy from Poland, but they're instead filled with, weapons, ammo and explosives.

The workers’ union in Pisa is apparently demanding air traffic control deny these flights take off and is asking citizens to protest the “flights of death” outside the airport on March 19.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/RTNews24/40

"Empire of Lies" speech - 24 Feb 2022

00:01 - NATO expansion, a changing world order
05:00 - Lawless interventions in Belgrade, Iraq, Libya & Syria
09:45 - Western support and funding of terrorism in the Chechen wars
10:30 - Imposition of unnatural pseudo-values and the degradation of society
12:00 - Unpreparedness and lessons of WWII, "We won't make the same mistake twice!"
15:30 - A red line was crossed with Ukraine
16:15 - Donbass Genocide: attempt to rectify the situation peacefully for 8 years
17:30 - Neo-Nazism and the threat to the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine
18:15 - Nuclear weapons for Ukraine are only a matter of time
20:00 - Announcement of Special Operation Z
21:15 - Victory in WWII is sacred and we will protect that freedom
22:30 - Address to the Ukrainian people
24:50 - Important words for anyone who seeks to intervene externally
25:30 - Our future is in reliable hands.

I would recommend you further substantiate your understanding with this lecture. ❗️

🇺🇦 #Ukraine 🇺🇦
🇷🇺 #Putler 🇷🇺
#BioLabs



You gotta Love it!

The mental gymnastics and moronic contortions required to go from:

"There are no Bio-Labs!
It's all just Russian propaganda!"

to:

"Well, there are BioLabs, but they're all 'good BioLabs', harmless activities for the good of all mankind, and anyone saying otherwise is just a "Putin Boot-licker!!!1111oNeOnE"


Now they finally morphed into: "Putler's Dangerous Biological Weapons labs!!"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-could-unleash-biological-26454674

This is what the Russians are claiming about Mariupol theatre, so take it however you want;

''Fake: The Russian army hit the Mariupol Drama Theater with a super-powerful bomb. There were about 1,000 civilians inside. The version of the Ukrainian TG channels was picked up (https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-16-22/index.html) by the US media.

Truth: According to Readovka (https://news.1rj.ru/str/readovkanews/28481) no shelling was carried out in the district of the city where the Drama Theater is located. Heavy street fighting is taking place in its vicinity, it is impossible to deliver such strikes without the risk of hitting friendly ones.

Earlier, Telegram channels reported that nationalists from Azov were preparing a provocation in the theater building. According to information (https://news.1rj.ru/str/neoficialniybezsonov/8939) of the captured Azov nationalist, the headquarters of Ukrainian militants is located in the basement of the Mariupol Drama Theater, and the theater hall is completely packed with civilians guarded by 12 militants of the Azov regiment, which you wouldn't run away. People are going to be blown up by issuing a picture for the Western media and accusing Russia of an airstrike. Eyewitnesses confirm the information that the Azov headquarters moved this afternoon (https://news.1rj.ru/str/voenacher/12275).

Apparently, this is already the second monstrous provocation of Azov in Mariupol — the first was in the maternity hospital (https://news.1rj.ru/str/warfakes/1012).''

🇺🇦 #Ukraine 🇺🇦

#Maruipol
Theater bombing fake?
Or carried out by Ukrainian forces /Azov


"Telegram channels reported that nationalists from Azov were preparing a provocation in the theater building.

According to information (https://news.1rj.ru/str/neoficialniybezsonov/8939) of the captured Azov nationalist, the headquarters of Ukrainian militants is located in the basement of the Mariupol Drama Theater, and the theater hall is completely packed with civilians guarded by 12 militants of the Azov regiment, preventing civilians from escaping

Civilians are going to be blown up and then propaganda will be released for the Western media, accusing Russia of an airstrike.

Eyewitnesses confirm the information that the Azov headquarters moved this afternoon (https://news.1rj.ru/str/voenacher/12275).

Apparently, this is already the second monstrous provocation of Azov in Mariupol — the first was in the maternity hospital (https://news.1rj.ru/str/warfakes/1012).''

See also:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MIB_MessageInABottle/705

⚡️The Russian Defence Ministry denies accusations by the Kiev regime of allegedly delivering an air strike on the Drama Theater building in Mariupol, where civilians might have been held hostage.

On March 16, the Russian aviation did not carry out any tasks related to strikes on ground targets in the city limits of Mariupol.

According to reliable reports, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion committed a new bloody provocation by blowing up a theater building they had previously mined.

It was previously known from refugees who escaped from Mariupol that Nazis of the Azov battalion could hold civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as firing points.

Given the potential danger to the lives of civilians and the provocation with Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, which was already carried out by the nationalists on March 9, the theater building in the city center was never considered a target for attack.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
@mod_russia_en

I'm first generation Ukrainian. My parents were from Western Ukraine. The Reich helped form the UPA, and the mindset of Nazi's was pushed throughout the Nationalist organizations (Bandera/Shukhevych). They still exist in Ukraine today, and even more so since 2014, infiltrating the government and military. They wreak havoc in Eastern Ukraine against the Russians in Donbass and also against their own people. Now they use the civilian population and installations as shields, and many of the attacks are of their own doing then blaming the Russian Army. There are many video accounts leaked out from Ukrainian civilians stating that they see the attacks coming from the Ukrainian side, and the Russian Army is helping civilians, providing safety and humanitarian aid through this. As much as I've hated Putin over the years, I believe he is cleaning out the Kazarian/NWO funded "Nazis", bio-labs, military installations and human/child trafficking system to actually free Ukrainians finally from their own corrupt government.

🇷🇺 #Russia 🇷🇺
#sanctions

Putin: Sanctions Against Russia Hurting West - power is slipping away

President Putin has claimed the wide-reaching sanctions are actually hitting Europeans and Americans themselves as, “the whole planet has to pay for the ambitions of the West”.

Directing his message to residents of Western states, he called the allegations of Russia’s hostile actions a lie while accusing Western powers of trying to divide Russian society.

He added that the US and the EU actually defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its reserves.

Whenever you remind people of the fact that the armed conflict in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years, someone will say that "Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014" and that the existence of the Donbass Republics is a Russian aggression. Recently, military historian Yevgeny Norin got into such a discussion on Facebook and took a look at the facts (translation our own, reposted with his permission):

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0. Armed violence as such in Ukraine was triggered by the Euromaidan protests. This was an armed uprising and it led to the fall of the government. It is not immediately obvious that rebelling against the government is good in Kiev, but bad in Donetsk.

1. By the time the Russian army entered Donbass, the war was already in full swing - if we are talking specifically about the army, companies, and battalions made up of soldiers and officers on duty. By the time the Russian Federation started supplying weapons en masse, the war was, again, already going on. Yes, the moment when there were ill-supplied men at militia roadblocks was not very long, but it existed, and the Russian Federation brought weapons into an already ongoing conflict in which the opposing side was using firearms, including artillery and armored vehicles.

2. By the time of the first organized armed detachment, which can be called Russian (which is a stretch, by the way: Strelkov's personal status is vague, and 80% of the detachment were Ukrainian citizens, including Crimeans), the State Security Service building in Lugansk had already been captured & local armories had been opened, and in Kharkov there were already people killed in firefights. In addition, if we take for granted the thesis that Strelkov "started the war", a cartoonish picture emerges in which 50 people have taken Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Liman, Artemovsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and a number of smaller towns and cities, giving as many as 7-8 occupiers for each city. In reality, even the reason why Strelkov went to Slavyansk is known - a large local detachment was waiting for him there.

Local commanders dominated the whole first stage of the movement (the bright personality of Strelkov somehow overshadowed the less bright Zakharchenko, Khodakovsky, Mozgovoy, Bednov, Tsvyakh, Dremov, Plotnitsky, Bolotov, etc.) and locals until 2022 constituted 75-90% of the rebel groups at all phases of events, which can be easily proven by name lists of republic soldiers KIA. Even at the peak of Russian involvement until 2022, in August 2014, citizens of Russia and other countries were not more than a quarter of the dead, and soldiers and officers on duty were not more than a quarter of that quarter, the bulk of Russian citizens were just volunteers who went to fight at their own risk.

4. In those places where attempts at pro-Russian protests were suppressed, including violently, with murders, Russian direct influence was virtually undetectable. In Odessa, after the mass murder of pro-Russian activists, exactly one citizen of the Russian Federation was captured alive, who did not play any significant role there and was worthy of a separate mention only by the fact of citizenship; in Kharkov, after the defeat of the group trying to create the Kharkov People’s Republic, there were zero Russian citizens among the captured, as far as I know. Thus, the thesis that 2014 was an invasion by the Russian Federation is incorrect: both the key events, including the seizure of administrative buildings and the search for weapons, took place before the appearance of organized units from Russia, and the composition of the units opposing the government are mostly locals from start to finish. An invasion in which all the infantry are citizens of the invaded country is obviously nonsense: in Poznan or, I don't know, Székesfehérvár, Strelkov would have immediately become a General without an army.

🇺🇦 #UKRAINE 🇺🇦
#Odessa

BURNT ALIVE IN ODESSA
(Documentary 26 minutes long)

May 2, 2014 people of Ukrainian Odessa were murdered by extreme rightwing Pravi Sektor militants by being trapped in a building and set on fire.

All because they protested against new nationalist (neo-Nazi) government that came to power in Kiev