⚡️ Zelensky requested a phone conversation with Biden after the incident of a missile hit in Poland, but the conversation did not take place, US media says.

⚡️Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko have been sentenced to life in Dutch MH17 trial

A Dutch-led Joint Investigative Team (JIT) formed in August 2014 to investigate the crash immediately accused Moscow of being behind the downing. Russia was not allowed to take part in the criminal probe, and any evidence provided by the country was ignored by the JIT.

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🗣“The verdict of the Dutch tribunal [in the MH17 case] is what was expected - the conclusion of a farce masquerading as a trial,” Christopher C. Black, international criminal lawyer with 20 years of experience in war crimes and international relations, and a commentator on international affairs, tells Sputnik

“The investigating body never followed up the data provided by the Russian government as
well as other technical information establishing that neither Donbass nor Russian forces were involved either deliberately or accidentally. Since the plane was downed in the Donbass territory of Donetsk, it would seem logical that the Donetsk Republic would have charge of the investigation… But the Donetsk Republic was denied that role by the Kiev regime which claimed it took place in Ukraine territory and so assumed the role of investigator and then, under NATO, and especially American pressure, delegated the investigation to NATO, in the guise of the Dutch Safety Board, on the justification that the majority of the passengers were Dutch,” Black says. “Since then, what should have been an open, international and objective investigation has descended into a burlesque of deception, fraud, and cover up of mass murder by the NATO powers.”

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❗️House Republicans have announced a formal probe into the activities of Hunter Biden, citing possible criminal activities.

💬 "Today we're going to provide you with something that you all aren't used to with respect to congressional investigations, and that's evidence," James Comer said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday alongside Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans.

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💬 “…what Iran is going to end up doing is they are going to have to coordinate now their efforts with Russia to build some nuclear power plant inside Iran. And there is a conversation going on right now between Iran and China regarding some nuclear technology as well. I'm not talking about the transfer of the nuclear weapons technology. That is not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is the beginning of the establishment of a nuclear power plants that are being supported by Russia and China. What led me to this is the recent development that's taking place. Basically, when it comes down to this trio - Russia, China and Iran, because they are now coordinating their efforts on both sides on this strategic side of the geopolitical areas and also on the energy aspect of it. That's what led me to believe for the Iranians now JCPOA doesn't matter,” says Dr. David Oualaalou, a geopolitical consultant and former international security analyst.

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❗️The course and results of the MH17 trial in the Netherlands show that the proceedings were based on a political order to reinforce the version about Russia’s alleged involvement, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

Moscow regrets that the court in The Hague neglected the principles of impartial justice for the sake of political expediency and ignored the fact that all the conclusions of the prosecution are built upon anonymous testimonies, the ministry added.

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❗️What is the evidence that was ignored by the Dutch court?

▪️Buk missile maker Almaz-Antey was unable to verify the Dutch and Belgian experts' opinion that the missile was launched from Snezhnoye and Pervomaysky, which were controlled by Donbass militia;

▪️Almaz-Antey carried out a complex recreation of the events leading to the plane’s destruction involving ballistics, flight trajectory, and other pertinent information. This confirmed that the plane could've been downed only by a 9M38 missile from Zaroschenskoye, which was under Ukrainian forces' control. The Buk missile used to destroy the Malaysian airliner was an older variant built in the 1980s, and which had been phased out of Russia’s arsenals in a modernization campaign, but was still employed by the Ukrainian military. Dutch experts refused to attend the reconstruction of the scene;

▪️Russia handed over data from its radars in the area where the launch took place, while the Ukrainian side refused to do the same, nor did it provide recordings of communication between air traffic controllers and the plane crew;

▪️Investigators ignored the testimony of two witnesses, who said that they'd seen that the missile was launched from the Amvrosievka, near Donetsk, where Ukrainian forces were deployed at the time. They also ignored the testimony of other witnesses whose accounts differed from the prosecution's version;

▪️The US claimed that they had satellite images of the missile launch, but rejected the Dutch prosecution's request to provide the imagery to the investigation team;

▪️The defense said that a group of American experts who had examined Almaz-Antey's reports concluded that the company's calculations in the MH17 case had the best correspondence to the nature of the damage of all available plane debris;

▪️In 2018, the Russian MoD declassified documents which showed the missile had been made in 1986 and transported to the Ukrainian SSR. The missile never made it back to Russia.

▪️The conclusion that the Buk was brought from Russia and then taken back is based on Ukrainian photos and videos. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has said numerous times that the Dutch-led investigation ignored the irrefutable evidence from the Russian side and is based on unverified sources;

▪️According to a judge, the investigation looked at “over 500 images found on the Internet”;

▪️As stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense in 2018, the investigation was drawing conclusions based on images from social media that were skillfully manipulated with “graphic editing tools.” So, a video about the movement of the alleged Russian Buk that shot down MH17 was an animation based on one photo;

▪️At the same time, neither photo nor video materials of the alleged investigation have a scene of the missile launch.

▪️The Dutch court did not allow further investigation of the version that that the airliner was shot down by a military aircraft. On June 2020, lawyer Sabine Ten Dusshate stated that the Ukrainian military could have shot down the Boeing by mistake. As with the Russian Tu-154 aircraft in 2001, the defense requested to continue the investigation based on radar data, but the prosecution disagreed, stating that the evidence found was inconsistent with other evidence, thus disallowing the further investigation.

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⚡️House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won't run for leadership in next Congress

📹 Nancy Pelosi: "I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress."

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🇦🇺 Floods have forced Australia to ask for help from other countries.

▪️In response, 200 flood specialists from New Zealand and Singapore have arrived in Australia and will work throughout the interior state
of New South Wales.

▪️Senator for Queensland and
Minister for Emergency Management, Murray Watt, said that a budget allocation of $3Bln may not be enough to cover flooding costs.

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‼️US House Republicans have introduced legislation to audit Ukraine spending appropriated by Congress

🇺🇸 "Committee Republicans have uncovered evidence of federal crimes committed by and to the benefit of members of the president's family. These include: conspiracy or defrauding the United States, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, tax evasion, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering," said Congressman James Comer as the House Oversight Committee launched a formal probe into the activities of the Biden family.

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Arizona Gov Candidate Kari Lake Challenges Race Outcome, Calls for Legal Team to 'Correct' Wrongs

Kari Lake, the Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona, declined to concede and accept the election results in the governor's race on Thursday, a move that came months after she refused to say on the campaign trail if she would accept a losing outcome.

The Trump-backed candidate trails Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs by 17,200 votes. She said in a video statement released Thursday that she is currently “collecting evidence and data” about the electoral process and has recruited “the best and brightest legal team to correct the many wrongs that have been done this past week.”

🤔 Western support for the Zelensky government is showing signs of strain, with Kiev’s stubborn insistence that the S-300 air defense missile which fell on the village of Przewodow, southeastern Poland was Russian despite evidence to the contrary adding insult to injury.

💬 “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile,” an unnamed diplomat from a NATO country told British media after Ukraine’s president reiterated that Moscow was responsible for the incident.

🇺🇦 “I have no doubt from the evening report to me personally – from the commander of the air force to commander-in-chief [Valerii] Zaluzhny – that it was not our missile or our missile strike,” Zelensky said Wednesday night. “It makes no sense for me not to trust them,” he stressed.

▪️Zelensky also demanded that Poland give Ukrainian investigators access to the crash site, saying he couldn’t simply take Warsaw’s word for its conclusions. “If, God forbid, some debris killed these people, we have to apologize. But, sorry, first an investigation, access, the data you have – we want to have this.”

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📹 “If it rains, it will also rain inside our apartment”: The house of a pensioner from Donetsk was damaged by a Ukrainian strike on a neighboring building of the railway administration

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📞 Infamous Russian pranksters Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov pranked former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

▪️He revealed to the pranksters, who posed as former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, that the Minsk Peace Accords were just a ploy for time, designed to give Ukraine’s Army a breather and allow it to be built up with NATO assistance following a series of defeats against the Donbass militias.

💬 “I needed these Minsk Accords to get at least four years to form the Ukrainian Armed Forces, build up the Ukrainian economy and train the Ukrainian military together with NATO to create the best armed forces in Eastern Europe, created according to NATO standards,” Poroshenko said.

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