Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 4:44 a.m. No.18381006   🗄️.is 🔗kun

20 Feb, 2023 09:41

Russian spy agency reports on NATO arms deliveries to Ukraine

More than 400 tanks and 1,500 infantry fighting vehicles have been transferred from the West, the SVR claims

 

NATO member states have provided Kiev with scores of heavy weapons since December 2021, including 440 tanks and 1,510 infantry fighting vehicles, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday.

 

According to officials, Ukraine has also received 1,170 anti-air and 655 artillery systems, as well as 9,800 rockets for mobile multiple rocket launchers. “Most of the military equipment supplied by the West has been destroyed by the Russian forces,” the SVR claimed.

 

The statement comes a month after Ukraine’s top backers, including the US, Britain and Germany, pledged for the first time to transfer modern main battle tanks, such as Leopard 2. While Washington stated in the past that it had no plans to deliver F-16 fighter jets, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters last week that the US “would welcome” other countries transfering their Soviet-era aircraft to Kiev.

 

According to the Pentagon, the US provided Ukraine with more than $27.4 billion in security aid between February 24, 2022 and January 20, 2023.

 

Josep Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, said on Sunday that the bloc was in “urgent war mode.” He added that he would propose using the $3.6 billion from the European Peace Facility to buy more ammunition for Ukraine.

 

Moscow launched a military operation in Ukraine nearly a year ago, citing the need to protect the people of Donbass and Kiev’s failure to implement the 2014-2015 peace accords. Russia has since warned that tanks and other Western weapons would not change the course of the conflict but would be treated as legitimate targets.

 

Russian officials have also repeatedly accused Ukraine of using Western-supplied weapons, including HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and M777 howitzers to attack civilians in Donbass.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/571764-russian-spy-nato-weapons/

Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 4:48 a.m. No.18381017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1024

20 Feb, 2023 09:55

Joe Biden arrives in Ukraine

 

The US president has previously ruled out such a visit, saying he will travel to Poland but would not go further

 

US President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine on Monday, making his first visit since Moscow launched its military operation in the neighboring state nearly a year ago.

 

Biden has met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the Mikhailovsky Cathedral in Kiev. Ukrainian news organizations published photos and video showing Biden and Zelensky walking towards the church flanked by armed security.

 

Biden said he was meeting with Zelensky to “reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity,” according to the statement released by the White House.

 

The US president added that he would announce a new delivery of “critical equipment” for the Ukrainian army, including artillery rounds, anti-tank systems, and radars. “Later this week, we will announce additional sanctions against elites and companies that are trying to evade or backfill Russia’s war machine,” Biden said.

 

According to Reuters, air raid sirens were heard in Kiev during Biden’s trip, but there were no reports of Russian strikes.

 

The trip takes place as the US and other NATO members are ramping up military aid to Ukraine, having recently pledged the transfer of modern main battle tanks and other additional heavy weapons.

 

Biden ruled out traveling to Ukraine earlier this month, saying that he only had plans to go to Poland.

 

Russia sent troops to Ukraine last February, citing the need to protect the people of Donbass and Kiev’s failure to implement the 2014-2015 peace accords. The US has since then been one of Ukraine’s primary backers in the conflict.

 

According to the Pentagon, Washington provided Kiev with more than $27.4 billion in security aid between February 24, 2022 and January 20, 2023. The delivered weapons include HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, M777 howitzers, shoulder-fired anti-tank systems, and combat drones. The US has also pledged to transfer Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M1 Abrams tanks, and has been training Ukrainian soldiers.

Russia maintains that the “flooding” of Ukraine with weapons will not change the course of the conflict and only leads to more casualties. The Kremlin has warned that the Western-supplied equipment would be treated as legitimate targets for Russian troops.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the past that sanctions have failed to bring down the country’s economy and that Moscow has managed to adapt to restrictions.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/571765-biden-arrives-ukraine-trip/

Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 4:50 a.m. No.18381031   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1044

20 Feb, 2023 12:01

No strikes reported in Kiev despite sirens during Biden’s visit – Reuters

Aerial attack alarm was heard in the Ukrainian capital, news agencies reported on Monday

 

Air raid sirens rang out in Kiev during US President Joe Biden’s unannounced visit on Monday, but there were no reports of Russian strikes, Reuters said.

 

According to AFP, the alarm was heard when Biden and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, flanked by armed security, were exiting St Michael’s Cathedral where the leaders had a meeting. The siren did not cause any panic, the news agency said.

 

Biden's trip to Ukraine is his first since Russia launched a military operation in the neighboring state nearly a year ago.

 

He promised to announce more weapons deliveries to Kiev and additional sanctions against Moscow, according to the White House.

 

The visit comes as NATO members are ramping up military aid to Kiev. The US, Britain and Germany are among the countries that pledged last month to transfer modern main battle tanks to Ukraine.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/571771-biden-kiev-air-sirens/

Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 4:55 a.m. No.18381049   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1058

20 Feb, 2023 08:55

Russia details claims of ‘mutilations’ by Ukrainian forces

 

Troops beheaded slain Polish fighters to hide their identities, top investigator Aleksandr Bastrykin said

 

Ukraine is attempting to cover up its use of foreign mercenaries and in some cases the bodies of dead fighters have been mutilated to make them harder to identify, a top Russian investigator has claimed.

 

The gruesome allegations were described by Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, in an interview with TASS published on Monday. He said Ukrainian troops had even beheaded and cut off the hands of some foreign fighters who had already been slain.

 

“Several such bodies have been discovered in the zone of the special military operation,” Bastrykin stated. “Later, based on records on their mobile phones, it was established that the bodies belonged to Polish mercenaries.”

 

Claims of deliberately mutilated corpses were made in late January by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of private military company the Wagner Group. He reported that several bodies without heads and hands were found on the frontline near the city of Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine.

 

“Due to intensive fighting, the enemy could not recover the bodies and attempted to cover up their identities this way,” Prigozhin said, adding that electronic devices found on the fighters would be handed over to Russian investigators.

 

Kiev has urged foreign nationals with military experience to fight for its cause, and has claimed that thousands have volunteered to join its so-called International Legion. The Russian Defense Ministry has identified Poland as Kiev’s biggest source of foreign personnel.

 

Russia considers the fighters to be mercenaries who should be prosecuted. According to Bastrykin, Kiev typically pays foreign troops between $820 and $2,700 a month, and tries to legalize their presence in the Ukrainian military.

 

“It is known that foreign citizens who came [to Ukraine] as volunteers are often given a fast track to receive Ukrainian citizenship and then join the Ukrainian Army to take part in combat action,” Bastrykin said.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/571762-bastrykin-beheaded-polish-fighters/

Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 5:44 a.m. No.18381208   🗄️.is 🔗kun

19 Feb, 2023 09:13

Chinese tourists change travel destinations

A number of countries have imposed flight restrictions and entrance rules aimed exclusively at Beijing

 

The gradual reopening of China’s economy following the end of Covid-19 lockdowns has propelled tourism outside its borders, but lingering pandemic-induced problems have seen Chinese altering their travel preferences, CNBC reported this week, citing data from booking website Ctrip.

 

According to the report, travel bookings by Chinese touristsgoing abroad surged by 640% during the Lunar New Yearholidays compared with the same time last year, while overseas hotel bookings have quadrupled.

 

Last year Chinese travelers singled out Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea as their top travel spots, but this year the majority of travelers went instead to Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Bali.

 

The change is based partly on flight restrictions, visa issues and lingering pandemic-related entrance rules affecting Chinese passport holders.

 

Chinese citizens were unable to obtain visas to South Korea and Japan after both countries stopped processing them over concerns about China’s recent surge in Covid-19 infections.

 

In Europe, vacationers from China have to wait an extended period of time to obtain visas due to high demand. Prior to the pandemic, EU visa applications took only several days to be processed, while now applicants have to wait up to two months to get a Schengen stamp, according to the SchengenVisaInfo.com website.

 

Thailand is the top choice for Chinese group tours at the moment, according to Ctrip data, with Maldives and Egypt coming in as the second and third most popular choices. Group tours are now also allowed from China to Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Laos, as well as the UAE, South Africa, Hungary, Cuba and Russia. Meanwhile Japan, South Korea and Vietnam still prohibit group tours.

 

China’s borders were largely closed to tourist travel from 2019 due to the Covid pandemic. The reopening that kicked off in December last year saw the government scrapping mandatory quarantines for those visiting mainland China, restarting its visa-free policy and resuming group tour travel. Analysts expect Beijing’s move to help restore Asia’s pandemic-battered retail sector and hotel industry.

 

(It was closed in 2020)

 

https://www.rt.com/business/571462-chinese-tourists-travel-destinations/

Anonymous ID: d4ff1b Feb. 20, 2023, 5:53 a.m. No.18381247   🗄️.is 🔗kun

PN>>18380115, >>18380129, >>18380133, >>18380299 WHO Urgent Marburg Meeting

Now we are to be afraid of the no-vaccine Marburg virus

After the Centers for Disease Control’s failed attempt to terrify the public on the horrors of Monkeypox or M-pox or whatever the mother ship WHO is calling it this week, the powers that be accepted the loss and adjusted fire, this time with the Marburg virus. If this is anything like the last manufactured pandemic, where Americans were conditioned to line up like sheep for an unnecessary, unproven, and experimental—and mandatory—Emergency Use Authorization mRNA vaccine, you can expect a lot of misinformation.

Right on cue, Stephanie Hogan leads all fear porn reportersin Canada with the warning: “There is no vaccine or drug treatment for the virus, which has killed at least 9 people in Equatorial Guinea.” Hogan states, “Without treatment, Marburg can be fatal in up to 88 per cent [sic] of people. A 2004-05 outbreak in Angola killed 90 per cent of the 252 confirmed cases.” While the current Marburg outbreak appears to be regional, Hogan is quick to point out that “infection on one part of the Earth can quickly land on another part in a very short time frame.”

The implication is clear: when Marburg comes to America and the president issues another health emergency, you need to be very afraid of the latest midterm virus. Get jabbed early with whatever Dr. Science’s replacement has to offer.

Every day we are learning just how corrupt the agents of the FDA and the CDC and their spokespeople have been on COVID-19. Which was a pandemic of the unvaccinated, didn’t you know?

Before the government breaks out another failed vaccine passport program, it might be a good time to review what the official published research conducted for the military indicated before today’s liars at the CDC and the FDA and their friends in the media get crazy again and mandate unwarranted experimental mRNA gene therapy, mandatory masks for infants ineffective masks, and another round of lockdowns for the Marburg virus.

From the U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-11.9, titled: POTENTIAL MILITARY CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND COMPOUNDS, and published in 2005, you can find a list of “potential” bioweapons agents (about halfway through the document on page IV-4). Right there on the page, above that “racist” Monkeypox, reads “Marburg virus”.

On page 150 (or IV-16), directly from the FM, the specifics for “Marburg Viral Disease” are listed.

There’s no cure for Marburg; the CDC doesn’t really know from where it came—sometimes it’s African fruit bats, sometimes it’s green monkeys—but “development of a vaccine was paused years ago.”

Nothing sounds like “opportunity” like developing an EUA “vaccine” for Marburg virus if it comes to America. It will probably be made from Malabo wet market sewer water, much like the “75-year secret sauce” recipe for the COVID-19 “gene therapy” which could be simply Wuhan wet market sewer water; a judge has since ordered the FDA release the docs, but of course the bureaucracy is taking its sweet time. It used to be that the conventional method to develop a vaccine took years and was expensive to produce, even when there was a small number of confirmed cases.

It’s always been a fascinating dichotomy, that the world’s craziest and deadliest viruses, like Ebola, Dengue fever, Lassa, Marburg, and Monkeypox =•are found in very meager numbers—if these viruses are so infectious, why hasn’t the whole continent been infected or died off?== It’s a bit curious that the mosquito and parasite belt of the tropics—the same place where COVID-19 infections are a flat line of about 8%, and they use of cheap, over-the-counter anti-malarials and anti-parasitics, like hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ivermectin (IVM)—don’t have higher infection rates.

This is a statistic the U.S. government ignores for fun and profitas billions pour into Big Pharma coffers. Prohibiting the use of HCQ and IVM in the U.S. proved to be very lucrative. Finding the source of the vector is important, but maybe the reason very small numbers of Africans come down with the endemic viruses or COVID-19 may be due to a lifelong use of HCQ and IVM while about 10% of the population avoids those drugs for whatever reason.

A health emergency centered on Marburg virus disease with the empty promise of “a safe and effective” EUA mRNA vaccine, like the COVID-19 “vaccine,” is the perfect Big Pharma biological weapon against Americans.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/now_we_are_to_be_afraid_of_the_novaccine_marburg_virus.html