'There Can't Be Any Just Peace': Zelensky Urges Biden to Up Ukraine Aid in First Joint Presser

At a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claimed “there can’t be any just peace” in Ukraine, pressuring the US government to provide even more weapons and cash to his notoriously-corrupt regime in Kiev.

Zelensky offered “all my appreciations [sic]” to Biden for his efforts in NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia at an earlier address on the White House South Lawn, the first of his inaugural trip, but added in the joint conference several hours later that “we would like to get more Patriot missiles.”

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💬 “Anything that helps make the case for their candidates or their policy, all they have to do is scream out the word Russia, and that's supposed to end any conversation. So Russiagate is going, unfortunately, I think it will be haunting us forever because of that. That's the collusion that everyone should be concerned about. But I hope people learn a lesson about what happens when liberals don't behave in the way they claim and in the way the things they claim to believe in they don't act on,” says Margaret Kimberley, an editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report.

🎧 Listen to more of Kimberley’s analysis in our podcast: Jan 6 Criminal Referrals for Trump, Fed Budget Agreement Reached

The role of US and British political and business interests in financing the Nazi Party and later bankrolling the Third Reich has been well documented by Soviet, American and British historians and documentary filmmakers.

This week, newly declassified and digitized Russian archival documents shed new light on what Moscow knew about these activities at the time.

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💬 “This is all about this futile attack on China, on China's economic prowess. You're not going to end it by banning Tik Tok. And people need to understand where this is coming from. This is nothing but an attack or an attempted attack on China. And that's all it is. But it's the latest in a long list of dangerous and stupid acts,” says Margaret Kimberley, an editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report.

🎧 Listen to more of Kimberley’s analysis in our podcast: Jan 6 Criminal Referrals for Trump, Fed Budget Agreement Reached

📹 Russian Su-35S and Su-30SM fighters in action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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US lawmakers have given up on efforts to label Russia a "state sponsor of terrorism" over its military operation in Ukraine. Instead, they're now looking to slap an "aggressor state" label on Moscow.

That's rich coming from a country that has launched nearly 470 military interventions across the globe since the late 1700s.

👉 Read up on which country, if any, truly deserves the "aggressor state" brand

A pipeline belonging to state company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) exploded on Wednesday in the state of Hidalgo. According to local media, emergency units are working at the scene

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Ukrainian "Right Sector" neo-Nazi movement tortured people in the LPR by drowning them alive in gasoline storage tanks

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39 aircraft from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and three PLA Navy vessels have approached Taiwan in the past 24 hours, Taiwan's defense ministry said. Taiwan sent an air patrol to monitor the situation, issued radio warnings, and deployed anti-aircraft missile systems, the ministry added

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🗣 Muneo Suzuki, a member of the upper house of Japan and leader of the New Daichi Party, has called on the US to declare honestly that the atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War was a mistake. The politician was speaking on his personal website and commenting on Japanese media reports about a possible visit by US President Joe Biden to Nagasaki in May 2023

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📹 A Ukrainian mother begs on her knees to be allowed to enter the Orthodox church so that she can read a service for her dead son

⚡️France's CNIL privacy watchdog fines Microsoft 60Mln euros ($63.88Mln)

It looks like Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN dreams about a new flag for his country ...

President Biden meets the governor of his 51st state 😏

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⚡️ Zelensky's Washington visit has confirmed US plans to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian: Kremlin

📌 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Arms supplies to Ukraine will prolong suffering of Ukrainian people for longer than it could be

▪️Peskov on Zelensky's visit to US: There were no real calls for peace, no warnings against the barbaric shelling of civilians in Donbass

▪️The United States and other countries are following a path of expanding the range of arms they are supplying to Ukraine, which is not consistent with an early settlement

▪️Moscow notes with regret that Biden and Zelensky said nothing about potential readiness to listen to Russia's concerns

▪️Peskov on the use of Russian oil by the West for Ukraine's needs: Difficult to trace buyer and it will need to be analyzed

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🇮🇳 Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, the 23-year-old Maths wizard, is known as the ‘World's Fastest Human Calculator’.

Back in 2005, a tragic accident left Bhanu bedridden for a year. In a bid to boost his brain, his parents encouraged him to solve puzzles, and that's how his passion for Maths started. Ten years later, he went on to break the World Record held by Scott Flansburg to become the world’s fastest human calculator.

On the eve of National Mathematics Day, Sputnik approached Prakash and asked to perform his skills on camera.

Prepared to be amazed as you see for yourself his jaw-dropping talent!

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen in the South Donetsk direction;

▪️Russian troops eliminated two Ukrainian sabotage groups in the Kransy Liman direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed an M777 howitzer repair point in the DPR, and three Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR and Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions;

▪️The Russian Air Force shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft and an Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed tree ammunition depots in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted two HIMARS rockets in the LPR.

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