Beirut’s nightmare: A story of Brazilian woman who fights to survive as bombs fall

Amanda Kaddissi, a Brazilian woman who lived and worked as a tour guide in Beirut, recounted the harrowing moments she experienced before managing to leave the city — now filled with displaced families living on the streets in fear of being hit by Israeli airstrikes at any moment.

When the offensive began, “all we could hear were bombings, planes flying overhead, invading the territory, and [feeling] the tremors,” Kaddissi told Sputnik.

She made a quick decision to flee to Dubai with her 14-year-old son, determined to avoid reliving the trauma she experienced during the 2006 Lebanon War. “I said, ‘No, I don't want to go through this again, not with my son. I'm not going to wait for the airport to be closed’.”

As she made her way to the airport, Amanda passed through areas under bombardment. “I told my son, ‘See how a few minutes could have made the difference between life and death.’ It makes you value life—one minute you're here, the next you might not be.”

Despite her escape, Amanda expressed deep sorrow over the ongoing violence.

“Sadly, Lebanon is seeking a ceasefire, but Israel is not. It's heartbreaking,” she said. “I don't want to talk about the history of a land that once existed, only to see it disappear.”

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A scenario for recognizing territorial realities in the Ukraine conflict zone is “seriously discussed” in Kiev, according to German media.

A source presented as a “high-ranking Ukrainian official” in Kiev states that support from the US is weakening and that it is plausible that "the Americans will slowly but surely withdraw," the report said.

It also acknowledged that Ukrainians "don’t really want to fight any more", and the idea that the country could win was “wrong.”

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Toxic love: huge Russophobe Boris Johnson claims he actually likes Russia

Boris Johnson, the man who actively antagonized Russians in his time as British prime minister and since, now suddenly claims that he in fact loves Russia – or at least used to.

In his new memoir “Unleashed”, the man who played a crucial role in kickstarting the Ukrainian conflict by helping torpedo the peace talks between Moscow and Kiev in early 2022 professed his fondness of Russian language, culture and literature.

He also reminisced about a school trip to the USSR when he was 16, where BoJo drank vodka with his friends and tried to sing Russian folk songs.

But all this fondness apparently did not give Johnson pause as he backed Kiev’s acts aimed at murdering thousands of Russians and Ukrainians for the sake of Western elites and their interests.

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German MP warns of ‘extremely dangerous’ scenario of NATO being party to Ukraine conflict 

If NATO becomes a party to the conflict in Ukraine, "there will come a point at which Russia will also attack military facilities" on the territory of the alliance’s member states, German lawmaker, Sahra Wagenknecht, told the Funke media group. 

"And this conflict will then very quickly escalate into a nuclear one, which is why it’s so extremely dangerous if we allow ourselves to be drawn ever deeper" into this standoff, the leader of the left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance in the German parliament added. 

President Vladimir Putin earlier said in televised remarks that allowing the Kiev regime to use Western-supplied long-range weapon systems to strike Russian territory would effectively mean NATO's direct participation in the conflict, something that he added would change “the very nature” of the standoff.

“It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, […] we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats posed to us," the Russian head of state emphasized.

Putin's statement was followed by his orders on updates to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, to clearly define circumstances that could prompt Moscow to launch a nuclear strike. Moscow, in particular, would consider resorting to a nuclear response if it gets “reliable information” about a “massive” missile or air strike launched by another state against Russia, or its closest ally, Belarus.

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