22 Aug, 2022 14:41

Russia releases video of suspected Moscow car bomber

Footage shows the Ukrainian citizen entering the country and leaving it after assassinating Darya Dugina

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has made public a video of Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspected in Saturday’s car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow. The footage published Monday shows Vovk and her teenage daughter entering Russia, inside the building where Dugina lived, and leaving the country in haste.

Vovk, 43, was named by the FSB on Monday as the prime suspect in the assassination of Dugina. The Ukrainian national arrived in Russia on July 23, using Donetsk People’s Republic license plates to avoid scrutiny. While in Moscow, she swapped the plates on her Mini Cooper to those of Kazakhstan, a friendly former Soviet republic. On Sunday, after the bombing, Vovk drove to Estonia with Ukrainian plates, the FSB said.

Photos of the different license plates were included as part of the video presentation.

Authorities also said Vovk may have used her teenage daughter as cover, to move around Russia more easily. She rented an apartment in the same building where Dugina lived, and was captured on the doorway camera.

A photo ID of Vovk in the uniform of the Ukraine’s National Guard was published in April on the Russian internet, as part of a doxx of neo-Nazi “Azov” regiment members. It lists her surname as Shaban – the surname her daughter used when entering Russia, according to the FSB.

Dugina, 30, was killed on Saturday evening after attending a conservative family festival near Moscow with her father, philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. Vovk allegedly planted an improvised explosive device under the Toyota SUV that belonged to Dugin, who may have been her intended target.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561318-dugina-suspect-vovk-video/

22 Aug, 2022 07:15

Zelensky warns against putting neo-Nazis on trial

Russia will “cut itself off” from talks if Azov fighters are prosecuted in Donbass, Ukrainian president insists

There will be no more peace talks with Russia if captured Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are subjected to a “show trial,” the country's President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed.

The authorities of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have previously said that they are planning tribunals for suspected war crimes committed by Ukrainian troops, including members of the Azov Battalion, whose ranks include fighters with openly nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

“If this despicable show trial takes place… This will be the line beyond which any negotiations are impossible. Russia will cut itself off from any negotiations,” Zelensky said in a video address early Monday, adding that such a trial would be a violation of international law.

Zelensky’s statement comes after photos appeared on social media allegedly showing large cages being installed on the stage of the Mariupol Philharmonic. Ukraine’s military intelligence service, the GUR, said that the cells will be used to house Ukrainian troops captured by Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. They were largely drawn from the Azov Battalion.

DPR head Denis Pushilin told TASS this month that “active preparations” for the proceedings were underway. “The first tribunal will most likely be held in Mariupol. It will be organized by the end of summer,” he said.

The peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been stalled since spring.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561277-zelensky-talks-pow-trial/

22 Aug, 2022 13:16

North Korea plans to ‘deal a blow’ to Biden – Seoul’s ex-spy chief

Pyongyang wants to carry out a nuclear missile test in the run-up to the US midterm elections, South Korea’s former top spy has claimed

Pyongyang will time its next nuclear missile test to come ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, Park Jie-won, the former head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), has claimed.

“They are going to do it in order to demonstrate a threat that [their] missile can fly to the US, carrying a miniaturized and lighter warhead, and to deal a blow to the Joe Biden administration ahead of the midterm election,”Park, who led the NIS between 2020 and May 2022, told KBS Radio on Monday.

Park added that “there will be some kind of North Korean provocations during the US-South Korea military exercises that start today.”

“Kim Jong-un is not going to overlook it as if nothing happened,” he said.

The US and South Korea kicked off the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield field exercise on Monday. Pyongyang routinely protests such joint drills, which it considers a security threat.

Moscow also warned about a possible escalation. “Washington is prepared to deploy strategic forces near the Korean Peninsula if the North Koreans conduct a new nuclear weapons test,” Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said, adding that it would “lead to a further degradation of the situation in the region.”

The South Korean Defense Ministry reported that Pyongyang launched two cruise missiles off the west coast of North Korea last Wednesday, which was the first such weapons test in more than two months. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un said late last month that the country was ready to “mobilize” its nuclear arsenal for any potential clash with the US and South Korea.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Wednesday that Washington would continue to work with South Korea and Japan to ensure that Pyongyang is “held accountable for its continued provocations.”

Talks between the US and North Korea on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula effectively stalled in 2019.

https://www.rt.com/news/561308-north-korea-missile-modterms/

Biden Regime Targets Red States, Religious Voters In Latest Push To Normalize Unpopular Abortion Radicalism

Jordan Boyd @jordanboydtx

August 22, 2022

While the Associated Press demands Republicans defend why they are pro-life, the Biden administration is plotting to target states that have implemented common-sense abortion restrictions that a majority of U.S. voters and at least half of Democrats support.

Despite voters’ deeply negative feelings about taxpayer-funded abortion until birth, the Biden-Harris White House is partnering with radical abortion groups such as NARAL to weaponize executive agencies against pro-life states and double down on its pro-abortion propaganda.

As Reuters reported, these frequent strategy meetings often attract thousands of participantswho want to advance President Joe Biden’s goal to make abortion a selling point in the upcoming midterm elections.

The idea, according to sources quoted in the Reuters report, is “to be much more disciplined and consistent in messaging to break through to the everyday American.” But the lengths to which the Biden administration is going to prevent states and voters from exercising their right to restrict the killing of life in the womb is not on par with how “the everyday American” feels.

Mere weeks after issuing an executive order that would force taxpayers to fund abortion on demand until birth in states that cater to abortion tourists, the White House wants to twist existing federal laws such as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to force unlimited abortions — even mail-order ones — in all 50 states.

To execute that agenda, the Biden administration plans to sic the Department of Justice on red, pro-life states such as Idaho, which is already under scrutiny by Attorney General Merrick Garland for allowing the prosecution of doctors who perform abortions without first establishing that they were “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman” or the result of an “act of rape or incest.”

The White House also plans to partner with Democrats and activists to ensure that out-of-state activism and deceptive advertising, like the kind used to prevent Kansans from amending the state constitution to clarify that it does not guarantee “a right to abortion,” is implemented in all of the upcoming abortion-themed ballot-measure battles.

“The White House plans to replicate the success in Kansas, said the sources. It is closely tracking similar ballot initiatives in California, Kentucky, Michigan, and Vermont and gubernatorial races like Michigan’s, where abortion has become a central issue, sources said,” according to the Reuters report.

In addition to trying to sway the outcomes of key abortion votes, the White House is scheming to brainwash men, women, and people of faith with “research” detailing the “physical and mental harms women face if they’re denied access to abortion.” That includes claiming that the medical costs associated with pregnancy and birth alone are enough to justify the barbaric practice.

Manipulating the facts about abortion and promoting it as a normalized practice even in the third trimester far exceeds what the majority of Americans support when it comes to ending unborn life, and by all measures, it is not a winning talking point with voters. Yet Biden, whose approval ratings are abysmal, and vulnerable Senate Democrats have shifted their focus away from inflation and voters’ top priorities to abortion.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/22/biden-regime-targets-red-states-religious-voters-in-latest-push-to-normalize-unpopular-abortion-radicalism/

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