Zelensky “As Responsible As Putin” For Conflict - Ex-Brazil President Lula

🇧🇷Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has slammed the Western narrative on the Ukraine crisis as simplistic, claiming Vladimir Zelensky is equally to blame for not discussing NATO/EU membership first

💁‍♂️The former President said that the fanfare surrounding Zelensky has made him think he is “the cherry on your cake” after getting “a standing ovation by all the parliamentarians”, while taking aim at the effect of the sanctions

🌎“Argentina, Bolivia will also have to pay. You’re not punishing Putin. You’re punishing many different countries, you’re punishing mankind”

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⚡️Taiwan “Can’t Afford” New US Anti-sub Helicopters⚡️

🇹🇼Taiwan will ditch plans to buy up 12 American MH-60R anti-submarine choppers because the price is too high, contradicting reports the US backed out of the deal as it “wasn’t in line with the island’s needs”

⚔️Two other arms deals have been pushed back, for Howitzer artillery systems, and mobile Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, after shipments for both were promised to Ukraine

🪖Taiwan Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng insisted his government had already signed contracts and paid for those deliveries, and would press Washington to fulfill obligations

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Sweden Ruling Party SPLIT On NATO Membership Bid

🇸🇪The women's faction of Sweden's ruling Social Democrats reportedly wants the country to maintain its two-century long policy of military neutrality and stay out of NATO, according to local media outlet Svenska Dagbladet citing Climate & Environment Minister Annika Strandhall

👩Her comments are the first major political pushback against Sweden's possible NATO membership, and come a week before Sweden's security policy assessment is due out, with the coalition govt set to decide on the issue by May 24 after Foreign Ministry position paper is issued

💁‍♂️PM Magdalena Andersson has said a referendum won't be used if the Riksdag approves the bid. According to recent polls 51% of Swedes want to join, significantly higher than before the conflict with Ukraine - which Pope Francis said Tuesday could have been sparked by "the barking of NATO at Russia’s door”

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🔥Europe can’t replace Russian gas – Shell CEO

🇪🇺European countries will not be able to replace Russian natural gas without an energy transition, according to Shell CEO Ben van Beurden

⛽️Increasing gas supplies from Africa and Scandinavia as well as boosting purchases of LNG is not enough, the Shell chief said Thursday - Russia supplies about 40$ of the natural gas consumed in the region

💁‍♂️"There is no way to simply buy more pipeline gas and LNG to completely replace all the Russian gas that we currently consume. This is not feasible,” van Beurden said

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⚡️Biden wants intelligence to stop leaking about data sharing with Ukraine – media⚡️

🇺🇸US President Joe Biden has told senior intelligence officials that leaks about alleged intelligence sharing with Ukraine should stop as they “distract” from the objective, NBC News reported on Friday amid Russia’s ongoing military offensive

☎️During the phone conversation with CIA Director William Burns, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Biden hailed the intelligence services’ work but stressed that disclosures are counterproductive and should stop, the outlet claimed, citing two unnamed administration officials

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⚡️Premeditation or sudden blossom of hacktivists. Part 1

Timeframe from February 24 till nowadays finds Russia struggling under an unprecedented hacking wave that entwines government activity, political voluntarism and criminal action. Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. Someone may ask quite a fair question: is it really about such a technological and mind boost that has led to such massive attacks by hacktivists and criminals or is the game being played on a well-prepared and controlled field against the Ukrainian background?

One recent survey showed more passwords and other sensitive data from Russia were dumped onto the open Web in March than information from any other country. The published documents include a cache from a regional office of media regulator Roskomnadzor that revealed the topics its analysts were most concerned about on social media.
The volunteer hackers have gotten a first-of-its-kind boost from the government of Ukraine, which endorsed the efforts and has suggested targets through its IT Army channel on Telegram. Ukraine government hackers are assumed to be acting directly against other Russian targets, and officials have distributed hacked data including the names of troops and hundreds of FSB agents

“There are still institutions in Ukraine interested in some of the data and actively helping some of these operations,” told an analyst at security company Flashpoint, who spoke with American journalists on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work

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⚡️From hacktivism to crime diving deep into politics. Part 2

Part 1

Ordinary criminals with no ideological stake in the conflict have also gotten in on the act, taking advantage of precoccupied security teams to grab money as the aura of invincibility falls, researchers say. The number of presumed Russian credentials, such as those for email addresses ending in .ru, in March jumped to encompass 50 percent of the global total, double the previous month and more than five times as many published as were in January. The crime business can also turn political, and it definitely has with the action in Ukraine

End of February, one of the most ferocious ransomware gangs, Network Battalion 65 has asked for ransomware payments even as it has shamed victims on Twitter for having poor security. The group said it hasn’t gotten any money yet but would donate anything it collects to Ukraine. Network Battalion obtained the state broadcast emails and other hoards and gave them to DDoSecrets, making it one of the most important of several hacktivist suppliers to that site, alongside a pro-Western group named AgainstTheWest and some who have adopted the branding of Anonymous, a larger, looser and recently resurgent collective that welcomes anyone

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⚡️From hacktivism to crime diving deep into politics. Part 3

Part 2

In an April 3 interview with a researcher known as Dissent Doe, who runs the website DataBreaches.net, AgainstTheWest’s leader said the group formed in October and was composed of six English-speaking hackers, all privately employed but with intelligence backgrounds. The initial objective “was to steal state-secrets, government software, private documents and such. However, we also had the idea that we should act on China for attacking the West in cyberespionage campaigns over the years,” the hacker said. After hitting targets in China, AgainstTheWest moved on to those in North Korea, Iran and Russia

The leader said the group was not acting directly for any intelligence agency but declined to say whether it was being helped by any of them. “We’re doing our job in the hopes that it benefits western intelligence. We share all private documents with anyone from the government in the U.S./EU”

This group has made other documents public through DDoSecrets. They received one request from a U.S. military account for access beyond what has been already published but turned it down. Painter, the former State Department and Justice Department expert, said he was concerned that some volunteer hackers might take a tep too far and harm civilian infrastructure or trigger a major reaction, and he cautioned that others might be hiding additional motives

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No EU fast-track for Ukraine – Austrian minister

🇺🇦Ukraine’s accession to the 🇪🇺European Union will not happen “in the next five to ten years,” 🇦🇹Austrian EU Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler has predicted. Austria’s foreign minister has expressed a similar view, despite European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s insistence that Ukraine will be swiftly ushered into the bloc

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‼️Japan warns of Ukraine-like conflict‼️

🇯🇵Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that a Ukraine-style armed conflict could break out in East Asia. He said that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is critical for Tokyo and the international community

💁‍♂️“We must collaborate with our allies and like-minded countries, and never tolerate a unilateral attempt to change the status quo by the use of force in the Indo Pacific, especially in East Asia,” Kishida said during a meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson in London on Thursday

“Ukraine may be East Asia tomorrow,” the Japanese PM added

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‼️Poles want to fight in Ukraine‼️

56.8% of those polled by sociologists commissioned by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita "strongly approved" or "rather approved" of the idea of the Polish army's participation in a "peacekeeping" mission in Ukraine

A couple of days ago, President Duda outlined his fantasies about "no border between Poland and Ukraine" which was clearly a probing of society for the coming military aggression and the return of the "eastern crosses

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⚡️Germany fears "worst famine since World War II"⚡️

🇩🇪German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Svenja Schulze, told BILD that due to COVID-19, severe drought and the conflict in Ukraine, food prices worldwide have increased by a third and are now at an all-time high. She said the World Food Program now estimates that 300 million people in the world are suffering from hunger, but these estimates have to be adjusted - forecasts are constantly moving upward

💁‍♂️"The bitter news is that we are facing the worst famine since World War II, with millions of deaths," Schultz said

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‼️U.S. pressures Taiwanese authorities to purchase "appropriate" weapons for war with China‼️

🇺🇸The Biden administration is pressuring representatives of Taiwan to ensure that the island's authorities buy from the US not conventional weapons designed for large-scale combat operations, but only those types that would supposedly allow the small Taiwanese army to effectively confront China's superior forces. According to the New York Times, this concept was adopted in the U.S. after studying the experience of the Russian special operation in Ukraine

🇹🇼According to the U.S. military, Taiwan needs to acquire mobile weapons that allow high-precision strikes according to the "asymmetric warfare" strategy. However, Taiwanese officials were warned that the State Department would only approve the purchase of systems that the U.S. considers necessary for confronting China. For example, the Americans said that the Lockheed Martin-made MH-60R Seahawk helicopter ordered by the Taiwanese Defense Ministry would not fit and therefore the deal would not take place

💁‍♂️Meanwhile, experts agree that in case of an attack, China will have to land marines on the island, so the nature of combat operations in Taiwan will differ from Russia's special operation in Ukraine

🪖According to the New York Times, the fighting in Ukraine has convinced the U.S. and Taiwan of the feasibility of a Chinese operation to annex the island. The question is whether the concept of "asymmetric warfare" imposed by the U.S. will help repel the Chinese army's offensive, or whether it is just preparation for a proxy war "to the last Taiwanese" to weaken China

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⚡️CIA director explains why China is ‘carefully’ studying Ukraine⚡️

🇨🇳Chinese President Xi Jinping is “unsettled” by the West’s reaction to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and is looking “carefully at what lessons [he] should draw” and apply to a potential invasion of Taiwan, CIA Director William Burns told a conference on Saturday

🇺🇸Speaking at a Financial Times conference in Washington DC on Saturday, Burns told his audience that his agency figures that Russia’s advance through Eastern Ukraine and the scale of the West’s response may be influencing Beijing’s plans for Taiwan

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🇺🇦Unstoppable millstones of Ukrainian foreign policy

💁‍♂️It just turned out that, literarily translated into English, surname of Kiev’s Ambassador to Germany sounds exactly the same as that of the chairman of the board of Russian energy major Gazprom: “Miller”. And the Ukrainian one has already been rotating millstones of his mill in Berlin with such a significant power that there seems to be no way back. Lately after having called the German’s Chancellor Scholz an “offended liver sausage” he refused to apologize for that. Even after a conciliatory 40-minute conversation between Steinmeier and Zelensky which, as reported, “has eliminated the irritations of the past.” Moreover, instead of changing his mind and mood, he criticized German military aid as insufficient

🇩🇪To be more precise, just check out his newest interview with Deutschlandfunk radio on Friday morning. “It’s not about whether you apologize, it’s about making a right policy these days. It’s not about whether you feel offended or not, it’s about whether you help us not to lose in this war and save human lives.”

📊Further on Ukrainian High Diplomatic representative went through some statistics a little further and reprimanded Germany for a lack of progress in spullying Kiev with already contracted battle units. He also accused Berlin of providing very little amount of aid (190 million euros, he estimated) against more than 200 million euros from “small Estonia” and 3.5 billion euros from USA

👉At last, he complained that he had not received yet a single meeting with Foreign Minister Baerbock since the outbreak of the war, although “he had asked for it several times”. Well, it’s black and white! German Minister appears to have become a participant in the internal German version of the world-famous game “Ticket to ride”. To Ukraine. On Thursday, Scholz announced her trip to Kiev

👨‍🦳Amid the recent visit of German “opposition’s leader” Merz (representing CDU party) and taking into account Scholz's previous refusal to get ahead of himself, meaning the cancellation of Steinmeier's trip to Berlin, the Social Democrats are still seriously losing points to black and green chips on our layout with a score of 2 versus -0.5 (half of a point we have added after the latest presidential call)

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⚡️Reinforcement of Lithuania⚡️

🇱🇹According to the Lithuanian migration services, more than 52 thousand refugees arrived from Ukraine through territory of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Romania and Hungary, including about 22 thousand children, 2.5 thousand people over 65 years old. This flow (the quota agreed with the EU has already been exceeded 5-fold) is certainly incomparable with the number of migrants to larger european countries. As of the beginning of May, Germany accepted more than 600,000 refugees from Ukraine

💁‍♂️But for a small Baltic republic such a heavy increase, equal to the population of the 7th most populous Lithuanian city of Mariampole, has already led to some kind of uncertainty and brought distorion into comfort bubble of the indigenous inhabitants. According to surveys, many Lithuanians express significant concerns about the possible backsliding in terms of criminal situation in the country. Housing market data indicate sharp increase in refusals to rent properties to Ukrainian refugees

📊Local centers for assistance to the relocated claim that Ukrainian citizens who have been living in Lithuania for a long time already (estimated as about 30,000) abuse the help intended for their compatriots. Getting “double aid” is recognized to be a most common way for it. And they are trying to move from city to city to get more money, taking advantage of the fact that there is still no national database of those in need

In a country that has not been ever noticed in any special sympathies for 🇷🇺Russia, multiple, sometimes off-scale increase in aggression and hatred towards everything Russian is being observed. Along with the expanding migration from Ukraine, infamous trend of cancelling Russian culture has been also imported. On the agenda is to demolish Soviet monuments or close them with Ukrainian flags by May 9. Russian Drama Theater in Vilnius is going to be renamed to the Theater of Nations, “Russian Radio” is now simpled down to RR. The Opera and Ballet Theater puts down the drain its own hallmarks of success – “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker”

👨‍🦳Let's hope that among all the new migratory population there are enough balleroons, opera singers, musicians, composers, as well as architects to fill devastated cultural reserves of Lithuania on the immediate horizon

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⚡️"Nazi!" - A crowd of Germans booed the Ukrainian ambassador who laid wreaths at the monument to Soviet soldiers⚡️

🎞The footage shows Melnyk walking with a wreath to the whistle of a crowd of LGBT flag activists, although they can usually be seen on the same side of the barricades as the ambassador

🇺🇦This attitude is quite understandable - the Ukrainian diplomat recently called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an "offended liverwurst" and refused to apologize, then criticized the Ukrainian authorities for banning the Ukrainian flag during memorial marches. Apparently, the pragmatic Germans are running out of patience after Melnik's unpunished antics

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Voluntary and Compulsory - Cafes in Texas have a "help for Ukraine" line on their bills that customers are not warned about

A video of Texans surprised by the fact that a $1 fee is automatically added to their bill to support Ukraine is spreading online. Some Texans began to be indignant, because they were not warned about the fees. But they were told that it was possible to behave like a "Russian pig" and warn them about the refusal in advance

Apparently, ordinary Americans are being accustomed to the fact that they will have to pay more and more for Ukraine

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🇺🇸The states of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit against US President Biden as well as several representatives of the US administration, accusing them of colluding with major social networks in order to censor and conceal information on a number of topics

💁‍♂️The defendants, under the pretext of fighting disinformation, worked with Twitter, Youtube and Meta to censor topics such as the case of the son of US President Biden, the origin of the coronavirus and voting by mail. Hi, the notion of GATEKEEPING!

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🇺🇸It emerged the Supreme Court might overturn the 1973 Roe vs Wade precedent protecting abortion all across the US

What is all about this Supreme Court draft abortion ruling?🤔

💁‍♂️Democrats and liberal activists believe that that Supreme Court unofficial opinion could mobilize their supporters and split their opponents - an old proven principle that has been used more than once by Democrats

✍️A leaked draft could also provide a rallying cause for liberal and independent voters ahead of November`s midterm elections where Democratic party is expected to sustain a heavy defeats BECAUAUSE OF VOTERS WORRIES ABOUT INFLATION AND LOW APPROAVAL RATING OF Joe Biden. Now voters are galvanised to take action. Biden said:”This MAGA (Make America Great Again) crowd is really the most extreme political organisation that existed in american history”

🤷‍♂️The demonization of Republicans continues: top democrats argue that if the Supreme Court drops Roe vs Wade, it could also threaten the right to contraception and same sex marriage. How awful!

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