9 Apr, 2022 15:47

EU leader asked for evidence Bucha massacre wasn’t staged – Zelensky

The Ukrainian president has refused to divulge who exactly the politician was

This little shit Zelensky is destroying countries in EU, they have a right to evidence!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that an EU member state’s leader called into question Kiev’s version of events surrounding the Bucha killings, asking for proof that the atrocities were not staged.

Speaking to German newspaper Bild on Friday, Zelensky described how a leading EU politician asked him for evidence proving that the Bucha massacre had not been staged. The remark came after the Bild journalist asked what the worst thing he had heard in recent days was. When the interviewer probed further, asking whether it was the head of state of an EU nation, Zelensky replied in the affirmative, though he refused to name the official.

Ukraine claims Russian troops committed atrocities against civilians in the town of Bucha northwest of Kiev before retreating last week. Russia has rejected the accusations, and claims Kiev manipulated evidence in what it calls a “provocation.”

Commenting on Berlin’s support for Kiev, the Ukrainian president lamented Germany’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for tougher sanctions against Russia.

“Some countries, and Germany is among them, are against an oil and gas embargo,” Zelensky said, adding, however, that he was content that the EU’s fifth round of sanctions “contains the coal and timber embargo.” He also accused Berlin of being overly cautious in its support for Kiev, refusing to provide the country with weapons for some time, and stressing that Ukraine would not become a NATO member state. But, according to Zelensky, “Germany’s rhetoric has changed” over time, despite the country being “conservative and cold.”

Asked if he was prepared to sit down with Russian President

Vladimir Putin and talk, Zelensky said, “today Ukraine has no way out other than to sit down at the negotiating table.” He added that “no one else in Russia has the power to stop this war,” as Putin is the only one who “decides when this war will end.”

The Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams have been engaged in talks for weeks now, in both face-to-face and virtual meetings. While the two nations have apparently come close to an agreement on certain topics, such as Ukraine’s future neutral status, they still have not been able to find common ground on others. Last week, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin was ready to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, but only after the negotiators had finalized a document.

https://www.rt.com/russia/553599-zelensky-eu-leader-wants-proof-bucha-killings/

9 Apr, 2022 16:00

Two EU states may end cooperation over Ukraine

Warsaw wants Hungary’s Orban to back its anti-Russia position before partnership can continue

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, one of the top politicians of the Eastern European nation, said on Friday that cooperation with Hungary would not be possible unless Prime Minister Viktor Orban aligns himself with Kiev. Prior to the conflict in Ukraine, Poland and Hungary were staunch allies.

Kaczynski said in a radio interview that he has an “unequivocally negative” opinion of Orban’s refusal to take a harder stance on Russia following the latter’s military offensive on Ukraine.

“When Orban says that he cannot see what happened in Bucha, he must be advised to see an eye doctor,” Kaczynski said, referring to Orban’s refusal to blame Russia for the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Russia has strongly rejected the allegations, claiming Ukrainian forces staged a “crude and cynical provocation,” and has demanded a UN investigation into the incident.

Orban’s Fidesz party won a resounding victory in the election last weekend, and Orban declared afterwards that his country’s “alliance with Poland must be solidified as we cannot remain standing alone in this storm.”

This would be a “good thing, on the condition that Viktor Orban changes,” Kaczynski said, before cautioning that “we cannot cooperate as we had in the past if this continues.”

Poland and Hungary are normally staunch allies. Both are led by conservative governments, and the EU has threatened to withhold funds from both over their policies, including Poland’s Law and Justice Party’s open criticism of “LGBT ideology,” and Orban’s hardline stance on immigration and crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs.

However, the outbreak of war in Ukraine has exposed fundamental differences between both countries’ governments.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has declared diplomacy with Russia to be a waste of time. Warsaw has sent weapons and attempted to transfer fighter jets to Kiev, while Kaczynski has gone even further, demanding more NATO troops in Eastern Europe and declaring his country’s willingness to host American nuclear weapons. The latter proposal has been met with “deep concern” by Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Hungary, on the other hand, has refused to send arms to Kiev, and forbidden the transfer of weapons across its border with Ukraine. While Orban has asked Moscow to cease military operations in Ukraine, the Hungarian leader opposed further EU sanctions and vowed to continue buying Russian gas – and decided to pay for it in rubles, as Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded.

https://www.rt.com/news/553601-poland-hungary-partners-ukraine/

9 Apr, 2022 14:35

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Captured Russian sailors freed in Ukraine – Moscow

A cargo vessel crew trapped in the port of Mariupolhas been rescued by Russian troops, an official has confirmed

Fourteen Russian sailors seized by Ukrainians on a cargo vessel in February have now been rescued, according to Tatyana Moskalkova, Russia’s top human rights official.

The crew of the cargo ship Azov Concord “has been freed and is being evacuated to safety by our troops,” Moskalkova wrote on social media on Saturday.

She said that the sailors were captured by the Ukrainians in the Azov Sea port of Mariupol on February 24, the day Russia launched its military campaign in Ukraine. The ship could not leave the port due to naval mines, she added.

Moskalkova said the sailors had their cell phones and other belongings seized and had not been properly fed in captivity.

https://www.rt.com/russia/553598-captive-russian-sailors-rescued/

9 Apr, 2022 13:53

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North Korea names culprit in worsening Ukraine crisis

Pyongyang condemned Washington's sanctions and questioned the US president’s “intellectual faculty”

He’s the only one that speaks the truth!

North Korean state media issued a scathing condemnation of US President Joe Biden on Saturday, decrying his “senility” and diagnosing a “problem in his intellectual faculty.” US sanctions on Russia will backfire, the article by the official KCNA news agency claimed, with Washington being the “final loser” on the world stage.

By accusing Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, the US is attempting to defame Russia and “achieve the collapse of its regime,” the article read. “This reminds one of ‘a guilty party filing the suit first’,” it continued, before accusing the US of the “merciless” killing of “millions of innocent civilians” in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yugoslavia.

Recently, Kiev and its Western backers floated ‘war crimes’ accusations against Russia, when they accused its troops of having killed scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Moscow has vehemently denied the allegations, claiming instead that the evidence was manipulated by Ukraine as part of a propaganda campaign. The Kremlin has requested a UN inquiry into the incident.

President Biden had referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” who “cannot remain in power” even prior to the incident at Bucha.

“Calling the head of a sovereign state a ‘war criminal’ and a ‘murderous dictator’ for no justifiable and confirmed reason…is an insult to the other nation and clear infringement of sovereignty,” the article continued. “Such reckless remarks can be made only by the descendants of Yankees, master hand at aggression and plot-breeding.”

“Perhaps, the trouble was caused by him reading a script which his aides prepared beforehand,” it continued. “If not, the conclusion could be that there is a problem in his intellectual faculty and that his reckless remarks are just a show of imprudence of an old man in his senility.”

Such arguments have long been made by Biden’s opponents in the US, who point to the 79-year-old president’s history of verbal slip-ups and apparent confusion as evidence of cognitive decline. “Gloomy, it seems, is the future of the US with such a feeble man in power,” the article continued.

The article went on to claim that US sanctions on Russia will only hurt the US. Commentators in the US and Europe have raised similar concerns, amid record high energy prices and multi-decade high levels of inflation in both regions.

North Korean officials and writers have a long history of attacking US presidents before Biden, with Donald Trump previously called a “dotard,” Barack Obama a “wicked black monkey,” and George W. Bush “a half-baked man and a philistine.”

The US’ policy of sanctioning its foreign enemies has always been a target of criticism from Pyongyang. North Korea itself has been extensively sanctioned by the US, EU and UN, especially over its nuclear program.

https://www.rt.com/news/553595-north-korea-biden-sanctions/

9 Apr, 2022 13:00

US intel community killed its own credibility by revealing its Ukraine policies

Using disinformation to thwart an enemy is one thing. Spreading it to your own public and policymakers is another

The recent acknowledgement to NBC News by unnamed sources that the US government was declassifying intelligence to share with allies and the public to pre-empt and disrupt Russian planning, “undermine Moscow’s propaganda and prevent Russia from defining how the war is perceived in the world,” on the surface appears to avoid the pitfalls of politicization laid out by Gates 30 years ago. After all, according to these unnamed officials, this process of public disclosure was “underpinned by a rigorous review process by the National Security Council and the Intelligence Community to validate the quality of the information and protect sources and methods.” They added that “we only approve the release of intelligence if we are confident those two requirements are met.”

Not so fast.

According to the same NBC News report: “Multiple US officials acknowledged that the US has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes,” the report noted, “it has used low-confidence intelligence.” The purpose for using intelligence which, to quote NBC News, “wasn’t rock solid”, was to deter Russian actions by keeping Russian President Vladimir Putin “off balance.”

So much for the intelligence community’s commitment to the “incontrovertible truth.”

It is well known that Ukraine maintains an expansive and capable information warfare capability. Units such as the Ukrainian Intelligence Service’s 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO) have been carrying out a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to enhance the perception of Ukrainian strength and resolve while denigrating the Russian special military operation underway in Ukraine. Indeed, the 72nd PSO was considered by Russia to be such a threat that the Russian military singled out its headquarters for destruction early on in the conflict.

Moreover, it has been reported that, in the aftermath of the February 2014 “Maidan Revolution” in Ukraine, the US intelligence community has initiated and maintained in-depth contacts with their Ukrainian intelligence and security counterparts, a relationship which has only expanded in scope and scale over the course of the preceding eight years. Logic dictates that information operations targeting Russia would be an area of joint interest, and that the US would be assisting Ukraine in this effort following the initiation of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict on February 24, 2022.

Providing declassified intelligence to Ukraine for it to be repackaged and disseminated as anti-Russian propaganda is very much a legitimate use of intelligence information. Moreover, under certain conditions relating to covert political action, US intelligence organizations may use manufactured information to help breathe life and credibility into a false narrative designed to undermine the operations of a designated enemy. Under such conditions, however, the information must not be able to be sourced back to the US and, most importantly, this information should not be disseminated in a manner which would misinform US policymakers.

The admission on the part of unnamed US national security officials, however, that the US is releasing sub-standard (i.e., potentially false and misleading) intelligence for the purpose of shaping a public narrative designed to be absorbed and believed by civilian consumers at home and abroad, thereby creating genuine political pressure on the Russian leadership, is a massive deviation from the normal precepts of covert information warfare. In fact, it is the perfect example of the deliberate distortion of analysis or judgments to achieve an objective irrespective of evidence that Robert Gates warned about in 1992.

Not anymore.

The US intelligence community has, today, perverted that logic, eliminating any notion of actual truth while elevating the “bodyguard of lies” to mimic truth, not for the purpose of defending it, but rather to promulgate the lie itself.

The US intelligence community has been walking on thin ice since its use of politicized intelligence to manufacture a case for war against Iraq in 2003. Now, the revelations that the US intelligence community is releasing sub-standard intelligence, knowing that it might be false and misleading, to shape US and global public opinion against Russia, should drive a stake through the heart of US credibility – or at the very least make the American public, and the world community, ask themselves whether they can ever again take US intelligence assertions at face value.

https://www.rt.com/news/553561-us-intelligence-community-ukraine-policies/

>>16042660

Really good article, thx for posting all of it

>>16042647

What a stupid explanation “contrail”, they really think everyone is that stupid

>>16042647

A picture like this was posted on twitter months ago, it looked very similar

Why isnt every conservative governor doing this?

.@JackPosobiec on corporate media defending "grooming" kids. "They are losing their minds" https://t.co/84JQV…

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1512418818584424451?s=20&t=W_af7C-HzSGZjBXU9jiHSQ

>>16042790

It just tells me they are comped by multinational corporations and many still in Chinas pocket. How TX still has abbot if beyond belief and many texans dont believe he won the last election

You’re right he is a maverick, so the country needs a lot more that will do what hes doing

I’m not saying he’s perfect, I’m saying hes taking on major issues that none other take on

>>16042825

You dont speak for anyone but yourself, if you dont lile it dont watch it or comment

>>16042846

Threres a lot of those people here today,

>>16042569

Good, i’m grabbing

>>16042569

I meant to say I like that

>Remote and ineffectual shill

>That dared attack my president

>With that poor weapon, half-impelled,

>Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held,

>Unworthy for a tilt with men—

>Your quavering and corroded pen;

>Shill poor at Bed and worse at Table,

>Shill pinched, shill starved, shill miserable;

>Shill stuttering, shill with roving eyes,

>Shill nervous, shill of crudities;

>Shill clerical, shill ordinary,

>Shill self-absorbed and solitary;

>Shill here-and-there, shill epileptic;

>Shill puffed and empty, shill dyspeptic;

>Shill middle-class, shill sycophantic,

>Shill dull, shill brutish, shill pedantic;

>Shill hypocritical, shill bad,

>Shill furtive, shill three-quarters mad;

>Shill (since a man must make an end),

>Shill that shall never be my friend.

>>16042675

This has to happen

>>16042726

Yeah that true, i cant believe this little monkey is allowed to whine daily and is biting the hand that feeds him. Trying to shame Germany wont work anc why should the entire EU and US suffer because Ukraine would not abide by the Minsk agreement

>>16042784

I really wonder of POTUS ordered him to kneel in front of leaders and military. Now that would be kek

>>16042968

Ok so theres no war there except some outlying areas

>>16042988

Holy shit