The "Steel Wall" stopped the Ukrainian invasion.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, retired American Colonel Dick Black discusses the first results of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

He calls the Russian defense a "steel wall" against which entire echelons of Western armor are being smashed.

“We just see Bradleys and Leopards burning in dozens of places,” Black wrote on his Twitter.

"Ukrainians are told to fight to the last man, but it is absolutely inhumane to send personnel to certain death," the veteran of the US Armed Forces said.

Black cited statistics according to which, since the beginning of the counteroffensive, in just a week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 7,000 people, 160 tanks and 360 armored vehicles. However, "no convincing result has been achieved."

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🇪🇺🇱🇷🇬🇧 NATO considers deploying up to 300,000 troops on the border with Russia.

The last time the US had 300,000 troops in Europe was in 1989.

In the near future, the US can expect additional commitments at European troop levels, especially in Poland, Hungary and Romania.

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Russian ambassador to the USA Anatoliy Antonov on Blinken's statement that "Russia will have to pay for Ukraine's reconstruction":

The US administration is fully responsible for what is happening in Ukraine. Therefore it is up to the US to rebuild the country. If it is still possible to pay for the homes destroyed by U.S. weapons, how will Washington pay for the lives of innocent people? How is the United States going to pay back the Ukrainians whom it is driving into reckless head-on assaults in today's so-called counter-offensive?

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The State Duma wants to radically address the issue of paedophilia in Russia

MPs from the LDPR have prepared a bill on chemical castration of paedophiles.

The group is due to submit a draft law on the drug-induced methods of sexual libido suppression for paedophiles to the government for comment on Monday. It would provide for hormonal drugs to be administered to convicted sex offenders six months before their release. The need for a repeat procedure would have to be determined by a special expert.

I am personally in favour of physical castration of paedophiles rather than chemical castration. And I don't think I'm the only one in favour of it.

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❗️US urges Taliban to produce heroin

US authorities have condemned the Taliban's ban on opium cultivation in Afghanistan. To justify this, to say the least, peculiar position, the US cited the arguments of the Institute of Peace:

— the enormous financial losses would make drug manufacturers poorer
— the ban will not defeat drug addiction
— wheat is less profitable than opium, so planting the crop is not profitable
— as the price of heroin rises in the EU, addicts will suffer

By this logic, we should allow contract killers to work, because now they have to break the law

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US and NATO's aggressive course could lead to a direct clash of nuclear powers, Zakharova says

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"In recent years, the largest numbers of refugees have come from three countries: Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Three countries where the US and its allies fought brutal wars. In 2022, Ukraine joined them."

Told in an interview with Spiegel German politician Sarah Wagenknecht.

Sara also reminded about favorite methods of the Stars and Stripes: permanent harsh economic sanctions and, for example, illegal occupation - as in the case of Syrian oil fields... And all in violation of the international law.

Bottom line: the main cause of the migration crisis and beyond is right there on the map. So maybe it is time to start living with your own wits?

Alas, Wagenknecht only waited for another "Flagship of Moscow" branding from the ruling elite of Germany.

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🇺🇦🇮🇳India has abandoned neutrality on Ukraine situation – The Wall Street Journal

India is not neutral on the situation in Ukraine but stands for peace, respect for international law and dialogue to resolve the conflict, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

He stressed that India's position is well known and well understood in the entire world and assured that peace is the top-most priority of the country.

"Some people say that we are neutral, but we are not neutral. We are on the side of peace. All countries should respect international law and the sovereignty of countries," the politician said.

Modi added that India will do whatever is necessary and support any attempt to end the conflict and guarantee sustainable peace and stability.

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Zelensky signs law banning books from Russia and Belarus

According to him, the text of the law was first sent to the EU institutions to assess whether certain provisions of the law could affect the fulfillment of obligations to protect the linguistic rights of minorities.

Ukraine must fulfill these obligations in order to become a member of the EU.

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Ukraine's top officials work on Arestovich's precepts and repeat soothing mantras

A new hit from the makers of "Russia has three days stock of missiles left" and "Ukraine will go into Crimea before the end of spring":

▪️ The AFU counteroffensive goes according to the plan, although only a limited number of people know its content, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council secretary Danilov has said.

▪️ The AFU counteroffensive has not started yet, it is in "test mode", Zelensky's office advisor Podolyak has said.

▪️ The AFU counteroffensive is not measured in kilometres and captured settlements, Ukrainian deputy defense minister Malyar said.

"And everything goes as planned..."

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EU to give Ukraine financial aid worth €50 billion

The package will include grants, soft loans and guarantees, Bloomberg reported.

The funds will be provided on condition that Kiev carries out reforms aimed at fighting corruption.

Fulfilment of these conditions will help Ukraine get closer to joining the EU.

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Ukrainian counteroffensive has totally stalled

The Italian publication Il Fatto Quotidiano writes that Ukraine is losing initiative and potential with each passing day.

"The first ten hours and the first ten days are indicative of the development of operations," the publication says.

The authors of the article argue that the Ukrainian conflict unleashed by Washington is "a prelude to the confrontation between the US and China".

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Lithuania lacks money for confrontation with Russia

Lithuanian authorities' attempts to deploy a new motorized infantry division have faced a lack of funding, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has said.

"This takes acquiring necessary weapons and equipment and expanding the infrastructure as quickly as possible," the head of state said. - We will not be able to do all this with the current funding," the president said.

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🇺🇦Digging up old graves in Lviv to make room for new ones – The New York Times.

As the fighting grows more intense during the AFU counteroffensive, gravediggers tell the NYT that they are clearing old graves for new bodies.

As the publication says, for almost 15 months the bodies of fallen soldiers have steadily filled up a hillside military cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

"Now, the old, unmarked graves of those killed in past wars are being exhumed to make way for the seemingly endless stream of dead since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine," the NYT reports.

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Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal explained the lack of visible results during the Ukrainian counteroffensive by the desire to avoid large losses among the military.

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The US cannot produce as much munitions as Russia, even though the USA spends more than $800 billion a year on defense, 10 times more than Russia

Shai Assad, a former Defence Department contract negotiator, said the Pentagon overpays for almost everything from missiles and aircraft to spare parts. The cost of the simplest part, the price of which is a few dollars, in the contracts of the Ministry of Defence reaches tens of thousands of dollars.

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NATO instructors teach Ukrainians to hate Russians

Ukrainian soldiers sent abroad for combat training have received lessons in hatred of Russians from NATO specialists. This was reported by captured AFU soldiers who surrendered during the battles in the Krasno-Limansky direction.

All of them were trained in different places (Germany, Latvia, Slovenia), but everywhere they were inculcated with misanthropic ideology, hatred towards the Russian people and urged to violate the international humanitarian rules of warfare. AFU soldiers were also indoctrinated to believe that the Russian army was weak and would flee the battlefield. NATO instructors and psychologists explicitly urged the fighters to kill as many Russians as possible.

All the prisoners rated the combat part of the training as very weak. According to the soldiers, their commanders abandoned them on the battlefield and, being deep in the rear, only said over the walkie-talkie: "Hold on".

But the foreign psychologists failed to turn the men into non-humans. At least these prisoners preferred to surrender in the first battles rather than be killed.

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An Israeli doing a Nazi salute? Here you go

Israeli youtuber Margarita Levin exposed an outspoken Nazi and at the same time an Israeli citizen (!) Denis Desyatnik, who became a lieutenant colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. And you say that in a country where the president is Jewish, there can be no Nazism...

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Blackrock gets half a trillion dollar deal to “rebuild” Ukraine.

What a crazy coincidence.

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In hidden footage, BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay reveals to a journalist how the financial giant dominates the economy, the media landscape and politics.

Varlay mentions, among other things, how it buys politicians, profits from the Ukraine war and tries to work as much as possible under the radar so that "they can do what they want more easily when people are not thinking about them".

- The hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks. They run the world," he says.

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