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BREAKING NEWS

Ukrainian plane crashes in Russian border region – FSB

The pilot of the light aircraft has been detained by the border guard service

A light Ukrainian plane has crashed in Russia’s Bryansk Region, bordering Ukraine, the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) border guard said on Wednesday.

The pilot of the aircraft survived the crash and was detained by the border guard. The service did not specify whether the crashed plane was a military or a civilian one.

Imagery circulating online purports to show the detained pilot. The man appears to be donning a military-style garb and a camouflaged baseball cap.

https://www.rt.com/russia/574248-ukrainian-plane-crash-russia/

5 Apr, 2023 16:09

US ally welcomes Russian Navy frigate

(Russia trolling the US)

The Admiral Gorshkov has dropped anchor in Saudi Arabia’s port of Jeddah for the first time in ten years, Moscow reports

Russian Navy ships have paid avisit to Saudi Arabiafor thefirst time in around a decade, the Russian military said on Wednesday. In late March, the detachment, which consists of the frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the medium sea tanker Kama, dropped anchor off the coast of the East African nation of Djibouti.

According to a statement released by Russia’s Western Military District, the two vessels “made a working visit to the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.”

During their stay, the ships will replenish their fuel, drinking water, and food supplies, Russian military officials added.

The frigate, which can carrystate-of-the-art Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, and the accompanying medium sea tanker began their voyage in January of this year, departing from the main base of Russia’s Northern Fleet, Severomorsk.

The detachment has since participated in two international naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, as well as the Arabian Sea, crossing the equator twice, the statement read.

From March 26 to 28, the two vessels were moored at the international seaport of Djibouti, with the aim of enhancing military cooperation between the two countries.

Djibouti and Moscow discussed, among other things, “issues related to ensuring safe navigation” off the coast of Africa and in the Red Sea region.

https://www.rt.com/russia/574243-russian-ship-saudi-port/

>>18645862

More info on the crashed plane,

The plane crashed for “unknown reasons” near the village of Butovsk, located some 25 km away from the border, the guard said. The pilot tried to escape back to the Ukrainian territory yet was intercepted by a border patrol.

Earlier in the day, the Bryansk Region was attacked by a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), according to local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz. The UAV dropped an explosive device in Suzemsky district of the region, which is directly bordering Ukraine, leaving at least one person injured.

Bryansk, as well as other Russian regions on the Ukrainian border, have repeatedly come under attacks by Kiev’s forces amid the ongoing hostilities between the two countries, which have been dragging on for over a year already. The attacks usually involve cross-border artillery and mortar shelling, as well as strikes with various UAVs.

https://www.rt.com/russia/574248-ukrainian-plane-crash-russia/

5 Apr, 2023 15:24

WHO reveals ‘staggering’ infertility statistics

An estimatedone in six people worldwide are unable to conceive, the organization says

Infertility affects one in six people worldwide, the World Health Organization has revealed in a new report. While the WHO could not determine if infertility has increased or decreased, the report comes amid warnings of declining sperm counts worldwide.

Published on Tuesday, the report stated that as of 2022, 17.5% of the global population experienced infertility at some point in their lives. To arrive at that figure, WHO researchers analyzed more than130 separate studies from 1990 to 2021, and found similar results across the world.

The average lifetime prevalence of infertility in high-income countries was 17.8%, compared to 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries.

“The report reveals an important truth: infertility does not discriminate,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “The sheer proportion of people affected shows the need to widen access to fertility care and ensure this issue is no longer sidelined in health research and policy.”

Dr. Pascale Allotey, director of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research Department at the WHO, described the findings as “staggering.”

Infertility is defined by the WHO as an inability to conceive a child after one year of regular unprotected sex.

The studydid not list any common factorsbehind the one-in-six figure. However, for both women and men, smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity have all been linked to lower fertility. Age plays a role too, with women becoming less fertile from their mid-30s onwards, and male fertility falling from around 40. (you know they are lyingwhen they have that timeline and it only showed up in late 2021 & 2022)

The report also did not identify whether infertility rates have increased or decreased in the time period studied. However, a landmark study published last November found that male sperm counts have fallen by 62% in the last 50 years. Average sperm counts have dropped from 104 to 49 million per milliliter, just above the threshold of 40, below which infertility is likely.

Like the WHO’s report, the sperm count study found similar results across different regions. Although it declined to speculate on what was causing the drop, other research has identified exposure to certain plastics and chemicals as the culprit, alongside the same dietary and lifestyle factors that cause infertility in both genders.

https://www.rt.com/news/574235-who-infertility-rate-study/

5 Apr, 2023 17:07

Putin names cause of tensions with US

Washington’s use of “color revolutions,” such as the coup in Kiev, has led to the current situation

The current standoff between Moscow and Washington came about because ofAmerican support for the 2014 coup in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

“Relations between Russia and the US, on which global security and stability directly depend, are unfortunately going through a deep crisis,”Putin told 17 ambassadorswho gathered at the Kremlin toformally present their credentials. This crisis is “rooted in fundamentally different approaches to the formation of the modern world order,” he added.

Addressing the US envoy Lynne Tracy, the Russian president apologized for somewhat disrupting the “gracious atmosphere” of the credentialing ceremony. (Kek, he held them hostage)

“I cannot but say today that the US use of suchforeign policy tools as ‘color revolutions’, and support in this regard for thecoup d’état in Kiev in 2014, ultimately led to the current Ukrainian crisis and made an additional contribution to the degradation of Russian-American relations,” Putin said.

Moscow has repeatedly pointed to the Maidan revolt as the root cause of turmoil in Ukraine, as it ultimately resulted in the need for a military intervention to ensure Russia’s security. Speaking at an event in November 2022, Putin said that “none of this would have happened” if not for the February 2014 coup.

Theviolent overthrow of a democratically elected government, ‘midwifed’ by US diplomat Victoria Nuland and then vice-president Joe Biden, brought to power anti-Russian nationalists and gave Washington “total control” of Ukraine, according to the Russian president.

Putin told Tracy on Wednesday thatMoscow remains committedto building relations with Washington “solely on the principles of equality, respect for each other’s sovereignty and interests, and non-interference in internal affairs.”

Addressing all ambassadors, the Russian president said Moscow did not intend to self-isolate and was open to constructive partnerships with everyone, without hidden or hostile intent, but expected them to be based on equality and mutual consideration. Russia’s actions will be guided by its internal priorities, but also the awareness of its “special responsibility for maintaining stability and security at the global and regional levels,” Putin said, citing the recently updated foreign policy platform.

https://www.rt.com/russia/574236-putin-us-kiev-coup/

Lynne M. Tracy:Career

Embarking on a career in Foreign Service Tracy served in a variety of international assignments, focused especially in Central and South Asia, including deputy chief of mission in the embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, principal officer in Peshawar, Pakistan from 1995 to 1997, and principal officer in Astana, Kazakhstan. Tracy served as political officer in Kabul from 2002 to 2003, consular officer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 1997 to 2000; and as political/consular officer in Peshawar, Pakistan. In domestic assignments she served as desk officer forKazakhstan from 2003 to 2004and for Georgia in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2001 to 2002, and staff assistant for the special envoy for the Newly-Independent States at the Department of State from 2000 to 2001.[4]

On August 26, 2008, while stationed as principal officer in Peshawar, she was attacked by gunmen who sprayed her automobile with bullets, shooting out the front tires. Tracy, her bodyguard and driver all escaped. The Secretary's Award for Heroism recognized her quick thinking, her return to the post on the day, and her dedication to complete her mission even in the face of repeated threats to her life.[5][4]

Tracy served as director for Central Asia at the National Security Council from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 she was deputy assistant secretary for Central Asia in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. From 2014 to 2017 Tracy served as the deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Moscow, Russia. In 2017 Tracy received a Distinguished Honor Award for her contribution as deputy chief of mission in Moscow.[6]

United States ambassador to Armenia

On September 28, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Tracy as United States ambassador to Armenia, and she was confirmed by the Senate on January 2, 2019.[7] Tracy's approval was preceded by intense questioning by Senators Bob Menendez and Ed Markey about U.S. policy with regard to Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide. She was sworn in as ambassador in February 2019.[8][5][1] Tracy presented her credentials on March 1.[9] She left office on December 20, 2022.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_M._Tracy

>>18645800

Holy Shit, what's coming up after June?

>>18646091

Kek, Michael Cohen lies about everything

>>18646026

excellent meme

>>18645935

You would think a judge would know the statute of limitation, but of course he's in NY

>>18645888

who fucking cares, these people are old, ugly and sick

>>18646245

so your psychic then, or is that psycho?

have a nice day

>>18646227

Merchan will be much better off transferring this case, the Trump Curse is real

>>18646199

I bet there is a lot more he exposes, he better have excellent protection.

5 Apr, 2023 17:02

Scholz faces tax fraud probe

The German chancellor will be investigated for allegedly helping a bank hold onto millions of ill-gotten euros

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be investigated by parliament forhis alleged rolein helping the Hamburg-basedWarburg Bank avoid repaying $48 million in illegal tax refunds. Scholz has already been probed for his possible links to the affair, and his party insists the latest investigation is politically-motivated.

“We will request a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Scholz-Warburg tax affair in the German Bundestag in the first parliamentary week after the Easter vacations,” lawmaker Mathias Middelberg of the CDU party said at a press conference on Tuesday. Together with leftist opponents of Scholz, the center-right party has the majority needed to initiate such an investigation.

Scholz has already been questioned by the Hamburg state parliament twice about the affair, and is expected to be summoned back before the regional legislature at some point this spring, Politico reported.

Opposition politicians claim that Scholz used his political influence to persuade Hamburg state authorities to abandon their attempts to claim back €47 million ($48.2 million) in taxes from Warburg Bank in 2016. Scholz was serving as the city’s mayor at the time, and met in private with Warburg officials on three separate occasions before the state stopped its pursuit of the money.

Scholz' ties to the scandal surfaced during his 2021 election campaign, but the Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor denied any involvement. He has already been questioned over these meetings, but Middelberg told reporters that the latest probe will examine whether his statements of non-involvement were “believable.”

According to a CDU letter seen by Politico, the party recently learned thatScholz readily recountedhis meetings with the bankin front of one investigative committee, before claiming tohave no recollectionin front of others.

“This comprehensive memory gap of the chancellor after an initial memory of a concrete meeting … raises a multitude of questions to be clarified,” the letter reportedly states.

The so-called ‘cum-ex’ scandal was a Europe-wide scheme involvingmore than a dozen banks and numerous tradersand companies who lent each other shares, then falsely reported paying tax on these transfers in order to claim back tax refunds from at least 11 European governments. The German government lost around $30 billion in the scheme, which it has worked to reclaim since the scandal came to light in 2017.

Scholz’s party views the probe as politically motivated. In a Twitter post on Tuesday, SPD chief whip Katja Mast declared that the CDU “is not interested in knowledge, but party tactics,” accusing the party of “making claims that have long since been refuted.”

https://www.rt.com/news/574245-olaf-scholz-fraud-investigation/

(I knew something like this was coming, because Germany is pissed he went along with Bidan to blow up Nord Stream)

5 Apr, 2023 15:00

US tech firm physically destroyed inventory in Russia

Cisco decided to liquidate its equipment following its withdrawal from the sanctioned country

US software and network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems destroyed its inventory in Russia, worth more than $20 million, this past January after exiting the sanctioned country last year, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing the company’s accounting statement.

According to the document, which was published on March 31, spare parts, “other property, including the IT equipment itself,” as well as vehicles, office furniture and appliances, and demonstration equipment were all destroyed.

“Inventories were physically destroyed in January 2023, and in connection with this, as of December 31, 2022, the entire cost of inventories – 1,864,002 thousand rubles[$23.4 million] – was accrued with a depreciation provision,” the document says.

Cisco terminated most of its contracts with its Russia-based employees, with the total amount of mandatory contributions and payments to staff reaching 190.6 million rubles ($2.3 million), according to the company’s financial report.

In June 2022, Cisco announced its withdrawal from Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. In August, the company made the decision to dispose of its stocks due to the termination of sales and suspension of licenses and services in the country, as well as owing to the inability to re-export, the company said.

Media reports later surfaced that the firm could resume deliveries to Russia through an intermediary, with the Russian IT services company IBS named as a possible distributor. However, IBS denied carrying out any negotiations about importing equipment for Cisco.

In light of Cisco’s exit from the country, Deputy Trade Minister Vasily Shpak said that Western companies that left Russia should not be given an easy path back to the market.

He said that Russia should generate demand for domestically manufactured tech products with Russian software to help underpin achieving technological independence.

https://www.rt.com/business/574219-cisco-russia-equipment-destruction/

(What was CISCO hiding?)

>>18646366

I bet he called the person that killed him "racist" before his last breath.

>>18646409

really, while carrying an alligator? did he give the alligator a magic mushroom and he picked it up after it got high?

I agree

>>18646420

I just shared that with some people that needed to see it. Kek Thx

>>18646287

CA will soon not have any police in dangerous cities, only NCA will have sheriffs.

>>18646451

I giggled about that, but then made the sign of the cross to erase the harm…kek

>>18646466

and your last two digits prove she is lying again!

>>18646472

so Massie's still mad at Trump for how he treated him. For such a smart man as Massie, how can he not see DeSantis is not smart and a snake. His feelings got deeply hurt I guess.