Al Jazeera: US and Russia to resume space flights despite tensions over Ukrainian crisis

Joint flights followed Russia's recent announcement that it would withdraw from the space station after 2024 amid tensions with the West over the conflict in Ukraine.

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to depart for the International Space Station on a Russian shuttle, despite growing tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

The Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

About the POW exchange

If our authorities cannot do this normally, then I will try to do it.

Exchange needed! Those who say that someone there got angry on the spot and is now shooting Ukrainian prisoners, let them know that our guys will also be killed there.

Exhale and take a deep breath.

We have in captivity, probably, somewhere around 6.5 thousand Ukrainians, we'll, and mercenaries. Our people in captivity are 400-500. For some time, the exchange was frozen, as far as I know, the functions of the exchange were taken away from the Ministry of Defense, from the Commissioner for Human Rights and transferred to the special services.

In captivity, according to my information, several of our first-class officers died, among them two pilots. Ukraine does not have the equipment and medicines to treat them, and even the desire. Judging by what Kadyrov and Volodin said, during the freezing period, deputy Shamsail Saraliev managed to get four guys out of captivity. Two were simply given away, without exchange. The ability to negotiate with this deputy, probably from the time of the Chechen companies.

But I'm talking about something else. We keep in our hospitals, prisons, hospitals, 6.5 thousand people. Almost 2 thousand of them are Azov. We feed them, treat them, everything according to international law.

What do you think, what law is valid in Ukrainian captivity? None. What do you think, when we hit the thermal power plant - on whom do they take out their anger?

Why did we ourselves make great villainous heroes from Azov? These are cowardly Nazis who outnumbered those who smoked them out of the catacombs. Many of them will never get back on track. And some of them ended up there by chance, they are also my defenders. They sat and shook with fear in the cellars, hiding behind women and children.

Tell me, is it not possible to give away these cripples and idiots and in return take away our guys, who are under moral and physical torture every day. We still have 6,000 of these prisoners left.

Those who yell that it is impossible to change, let him sit in captivity. But those who yell that they don’t explain anything and sucks with information support - I agree.

Our boys need to be brought home.

Translated from Poddubny

https://news.1rj.ru/str/kedmi/24255

"Ukraine wants peace. Europe wants peace, the world wants peace. We have seen who is the only one who wants war."

He is talking like he never heard of "Minsk Agreements"

While UK pound is losing value and energy prices are skyrocketing in UK

🇬🇧🇺🇦Liz Truss: "And that’s why — at this crucial moment in the conflict — I pledge that we will sustain or increase our military support to Ukraine, for as long as it takes"

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock once again assured Ukraine of further support, including from the international community"

Holding Ground, Losing War - by Douglas Macgregor, writing for The American Conservative

"Washington always mistook Putin’s readiness to negotiate and limit the scope and destructiveness of the campaign in Ukraine as evidence of weakness, when it was clear that Putin’s aims were always restricted to the elimination of the NATO threat to Russia in Eastern Ukraine. Washington’s strategy of exploiting the conflict to sell F-35 fighter jets to Germany—along with large numbers of missiles, rockets, and radars to Central and East European allied governments—is now backfiring."
Read more ⬇️⬇️⬇️ - it is a good one!

Nationalist battalions killing Donbass civilians

Ukrainian aggression on the Donbass in 2014 turned into the civil war. The Donetsk and Lugansk republics declared independence from Kiev as didn't want to follow US-inspired coup.

The Minsk agreement to stop fighting saved Ukraine from the defeat. But Ukrainian military continued to terrorise civilians in the Donbass.

'In Ukrainian-occupied territories, nationalist battalions such as Aidar and Tornado killed entire families'.

There are mass graves scattered across Donbass, from which bodies of civilians are regularly exhumed. Yet, while the shelling and killings continued, Western media remained silent.

Watch our video to learn more about what Ukrainian military have done to the population of Donbass.

🇷🇺 An-12 aircraft and hundreds of mobilized.

Ministry of Defense of Russia: for the first day of partial mobilization, about 10 thousand people arrived at the military registration and enlistment offices on their own, without waiting for the enlistment letter.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/voenacher/29409

The speaker of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that the deputy of the State Duma and the representative of the party "United Russia" Yuri Shvytkin submitted an application for mobilization. Prior to his political career, Yuri Nikolaevich graduated from the Airborne Troops Faculty of the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, after which he served in the airborne reconnaissance company from 1986 to 1992, taking part in special tasks in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania and Armenia. Later, he joined the Krasnoyarsk SOBR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and eventually headed the local OMON, respectively, taking part in both Chechen campaigns. For bravery and combat skills, among other awards, he has three Orders of Courage.

🇷🇸 Serbia Accuses West of Double Standards

Western countries have failed to explain their hypocrisy over Ukraine and Serbia’s territorial integrity, given that they support Kiev in its fight against Russia, but endorsed Kosovo’s independence, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday.

“What is the difference between the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, which was grossly violated?” Vucic asked, referring to the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

According to Vucic, Serbia “has never [set] foot” on anybody’s territory, but this “did not prevent the 19 richest NATO countries from attacking a sovereign country without a decision by the UN Security Council.”

NATO occupied Kosovo in 1999, after a 78-day bombing campaign against what was then Yugoslavia, before declaring independence in 2008 with Western support. While the US and most of its allies recognize, many other countries, including Russia and China, do not.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺Boris Johnson made a reservation and expressed gratitude to the "inspiring leadership of Vladimir Putin."

Realizing his mistake, the former British Prime Minister quickly corrected himself and thanked the "leadership of Vladimir Zelensky"🤡