The investigation was conducted by "experts": the European version.

Germany, Denmark and Sweden will create an investigative group to investigate the sabotage on the Nord Stream.

This was told by German Interior Minister Nancy Heather.

First of all, we advise you to contact former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski.

He seems to know something.

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"I refused to fight, then some people in masks came - either Aidar or God knows who - shot me in the legs, tortured me. There were two of us."

The footage shows Stepan Bilokiy, who fought in Aidar battalion. He refused to fight, but masked men came to him, shot his legs and tortured him.

He said he lost consciousness afterwards and was later rescued by the DPR military.

Large explosion in center Donetsk at Continent mall. My report to come

Ex-advisor to Pentagon chief during President Trump's administration suggests the US, UK might be behind the Nord Streams explosions

The US and the UK may be behind the explosions at Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, former advisor to US Defense Secretary in the administration of ex-president of the United States Donald Trump.

"You have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the [UK’s] Royal Navy and the United States’ Navy <…> I think that’s pretty clear," Macgregor said.

🇧🇪 Thousands of brave Belgians marched today to protest against Prime Minister Mark Rutte's anti-human policies.

People are demanding that energy prices be lowered and that we begin to fight the appalling rise in food prices.
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Austria cancels free rides by public transport for Ukrainian refugees. The conditional "candy-bouquet" period with Ukrainians is over. Now they need to pay taxes, get a job, otherwise living in Austria will become unbearable.

Considering the present state of the European economy, one may soon observe a total cancellation of social benefits, not for Ukrainians only, but for all vulnerable segments of the EU population.

Because when capitalism has an economic crisis, the poorest always suffer first.

Photographer Roman Filippov reports from Donetsk:

This is what studying looks like in a school that has already been hit by four shells. The head teacher teaches the only student in the corridor, away from doors and windows. That morning a shell hit about 20 metres from the school - it sliced the whole facade and blew out half the windows.

In fact, all the kids are now in distance learning, and this kid probably has no computer, I didn't look into the details.

In Dagestan (Russia) FSB and MVD are arresting administrators of anonymous Telegram channels which have been stirring up protest mood and propagating fake news about the mobilization.
The authors of the channels presented false information, mixing it with religious messages to influence the mostly religious residents of North Caucasus.

Moreover, organizers of “protest” actions against mobilization are being arrested too. One of them was arrested 30 September, early in the morning. There were Molotov’s cocktails, “butterfly” knives and many other things found at his home. It is very significant that he had arrived from the Moscow region specifically to take part in these meetings.

⚔️🇷🇺🇺🇦 "What about Ukraine's Advance in ____ ?"

When Russia advances, they do so at the expense of Ukrainian forces while preserving their own.

When Ukraine advances they do so at the expense of Ukrainian forces while Russia preserves their own.

They are not fighting for territory at this point in time - they are preserving their forces while destroying the finite reserves Ukraine has assembled for these large-scale offensives.

Asking every day/hour about Kharkov, Lyman, Kherson - this village and that village - while ignoring the logistical and sustainment cliff Ukraine's forces are hurdling over means you don't get it and probably won't at this point.

Meanwhile those panicking and in hysterics are rendering themselves in service of Western propaganda - creating anger, tension, division is the whole purpose of this offensive that otherwise is unsustainable and incapable of delivering "victory."

Donetsk was shelled on September 28, at 5 am. Something unusual: some 155mm shells exploded above the surface, they hadn’t reached the road or the walls. The fragments were scattered around, craters are relatively small.

Usually such ammunition is used to increase the fragmentation damage factor. In short, to kill more people.

SBU recruits children from socially vulnerable families in Kherson Region to assist shelling of the region. This was reported by a teenager to Izvestiya on 20 September.

According to him, the special service needs data for shelling civilians. According to a 14-year-old resident of Kiselevka, he and his friend began communicating with SBU representatives via social networks.

As a result, the children sent photos, videos and coordinates of Russian military equipment to the Ukrainian special services. The children were promised to be paid three thousand hryvnias per picture.

The fact that the teenager was sending information to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) was discovered after his phone was checked at a checkpoint. The phone contained pictures of military equipment.

The information for artillery strikes was also sent to the AFU by the mentally retarded teenager’s uncle. The man said that he had been doing tasks for the SBU, but realized his mistake.

Blinken said that there is now a great opportunity to supply gas to Europe:

"It's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy."

Everything is so open, brazen and cynical! Europeans are being ripped off so openly and obviously that there is no point speaking for these "losers". They are totally incapable of defending their national interests, the "punching bag" regime suits them completely

Ukrainian propagandist Arestovich called the AFU criminals.

"By the way, from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation, all servicemen fighting in the ATO ("Anti-Terrorist Operation" is the official name of the war in Donbas in Ukraine since 2014) are all criminals without exception. ALL. And in terms of international law too. Because the status of the ATO does not explain why we fire "Grad" MRLS at peaceful cities, hit them with heavy artillery and use aviation.

The video is old, but it has not lost its relevance.

The Daily Mail reports that legendary 61-year-old Ukrainian Top Gun with the call sign 'Grandfather', who led the infamous 'Ghosts of Kyiv' pilot division, died in a combat mission over the Black Sea.
(Remember, that the "Ghost of Kiev" never really existed, this has long been officially recognised by the Ukrainian Air Force)
But Air Force Colonel Mikhail Matyushenko, 61, was indeed killed in an air battle over the Black Sea.

Eleven countries, including Russia, Belarus and China, issued a joint statement in Geneva condemning the limitation on the rights and freedoms of Russians and Russian-speaking residents unleashed by the authorities of several states in recent months.

Bolivia, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela joined the statement.

Macron made his first appearance in a turtleneck, which French officials have begun wearing instead of traditional shirts and ties to save on heating costs