Ireland will join South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over alleged genocide in the Gaza Strip

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🇷🇺 Putin said that Russia does not have unfriendly countries, but there are unfriendly elites of these countries

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UK talks big on nuclear industry but 'lacks capacity'

Policy decisions of successive Conservative governments have been “promoting deindustrialization” of Britain, with “a Gadarene rush to globalization,” Nick Griffin, British political analyst and former MEP, told Sputnik.

No wonder the UK “lacks the economic capacity to fight its way out of a paper bag, let alone confront foreign powers whose governments have worked to maintain and strengthen their industrial bases,” said the pundit.

Griffin was commenting on the £200-mln ($252m) package of investment into the future of the UK’s defense and civil nuclear industry announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on March 25.

Skeptical of the program’s prospects Griffin stated that “they should have thought of all this before flogging off Britain's once cutting edge nuclear industry to France.”

“What we see now is just another example of the Conservatives talking the talk, when they have neither the intention nor the ability to walk the walk,” he said.

According to the analyst, it was only “belatedly” dawning on Westminster that “selling off key technologies and shopping strategic industries abroad has left the UK extraordinarily vulnerable at times of international crisis.”

As Sunak unveiled the new public and private investment, he also stated that “nuclear delivers cheaper, cleaner home-grown energy for consumers.”

Promotion of nuclear energy as ‘clean’ by politicians like Sunak “only makes sense if you see that the reliance on nuclear energy is a gateway for development of nuclear arms,” argued a group of experts from the Global Humanitarian Crisis Prevention and Response Unit.

Noting that Britain has not invested enough in the defense industry, the group added that if Downing Street wants to change that, it “will need to significantly raise the agenda as to why the UK needs to increase military spending.”

“A crucial part of it would be convincing people. As matters stand, the British people do not want to be involved in war," said the group.

The number of victims of the terrorist attack in Moscow increased to 143, according to updated data.

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“The West must stop creating a new terrorist cell in the center of Europe; now Ukraine is being used for this,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

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From stealth to shrapnel: How a Soviet-made system downed US F-117 Nighthawk

In 1999, near Belgrade, a $45-million US F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter met its match with a Soviet-made air-defense system, shattering the myth of its invisibility to radar. The swift action of the Yugoslav military destroyed the Nighthawk in just 60 seconds, revealing the fallibility of US technology.

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It is at least strange that the US is already announcing one version of the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Moscow's Crocus City Hall, which means they want to shift attention from something, said Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov

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Former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard: Clinton and Obama continue to shape US government decisions

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson on TCN, Tulsi Gabbard emphasized, "Whether they're holding office or not, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are not in office right now, but they still continue to wield immense power in influencing the decisions that are being made."

Gabbard's remarks shed light on the ongoing impact of past administrations on the current political landscape, raising questions about the true power dynamics shaping US policy.

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Yugoslav shootdown of F-117 Nighthawk, US’ ‘premier stealth aircraft’ was ‘shock’ - Karen Kwiatkowski

Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the March 27, 1999 destruction by Yugoslav air defenses of a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber aircraft using a vintage Soviet S-125 Neva SAM. The incident was “shocking,” and demonstrates that technological supremacy alone doesn’t determine a conflict’s outcome, retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and former senior DoD analyst Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“I vaguely recall this as being a shock – it was the premier stealth aircraft of the day,” Kwiatkowski said. “The US and NATO Yugoslavia campaign was seen by us as to be ‘easy’ in that it was largely an air operation allied with one side of a civil war, a standoff effort against Soviet-era weapons in a post-Soviet era. Yet tactics and poor US/NATO operational security led to this surprise.”

But technology alone was not enough to break the spirits of Yugoslav air defense troops Colonel Dani and his men that day 25 years ago, Kwiatkowski said.

“Colonel Dani was a baker by trade, fighting for his country, his family, his people and his land. His opponent was simply doing a ‘fun’ job, as directed, and hoping for a good story to tell later. We have seen this kind of thing in any number of wars, past and present, where innovative use of whatever you have at hand – in terms of fighters, intelligence, networks, weapons and tools of every kind –can have major consequences on the battle landscape.”

“The US military downplayed the negative publicity, and the contractors had fresh cause to request more funding for years to come. I don’t have the impression that the overall US military leadership gained any respect for the ‘enemy’ and their Soviet-era air defense, but I do think F-117 pilots did,” Kwiatkowski said.

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Russian air defenses destroyed 16 Ukrainian Vampire MLRS missiles over the Belgorod region at about 8:30 p.m. Moscow time, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

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❗️ The Russian-speaking minority has been subjected to discriminatory treatment in Ukraine, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report.

Russian prisoners of war were tortured in Ukraine in December 2023 through February 2024 and such stories are trustworthy, according to the report.

Ukrainian authorities have not been sufficiently prosecuting those responsible for torture and violence against civilians and prisoners of war, the OHCHR stressed.

The Kiev regime continues to intimidate priests and members of the Ukrainian orthodox church, the United Nations Human Rights Office added.

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