26 Apr, 2023 23:09

Zelensky’s right-hand man contradicts US general

Kiev has not received 98% of vehicles it needs for the offensive, Mikhail Podoliak has stated

Ukraine still needs more weapons and equipment for the much-hyped spring “counteroffensive,” especially artillery ammunition, President Vladimir Zelensky’s adviser Mikhail Podoliak said on Wednesday. He disagreed with the US general commanding NATO forces in Europe, who told Congress earlier in the day that 98% of promised combat vehicles had already been delivered.

General Christopher Cavoli gave that statistic to the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday morning. “I am very confident that we have delivered the materiel that they need and we’ll continue a pipeline to sustain their operations as well,” Cavoli added, responding to questions about the expected Ukrainian attack.

Podoliak challenged that assessment later in the day, speaking during a telethon hosted by Ukrainian television. He said only the Ukrainian General Staff can offer accurate numbers, and that Cavoli’s statistics weren’t up to date.

In my opinion, 98% is too much, too large a number. He proceeds from certain mathematical data, things he knows today,”the adviser said, referring to Cavoli. “There should be much more equipment, there is a real shortage of shells, especially of heavy calibers. We are trying to solve this problem.”

The current rate of supply allows the Ukrainian military to take “certain actions” at the frontline, Podoliak said, adding that there is “never enough” weapons and equipment when facing an enemy such as Russia.

The much-anticipated counteroffensive may have already begun, he suggested, urging the public not to regard it as a single event but a large number of engagements on various fronts

Multiple US outlets have sought to temper expectations about the Ukrainian attack over the past week, citing anonymous government officials worried about the political fallout from its possible failure. Last Friday, the White House even warned of a possible Russian offensive taking place instead.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575400-ukraine-podoliak-never-enough-weapons/

26 Apr, 2023 21:41

Terrorist attack thwarted in Crimea

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a suspect that was allegedly planning an attack on a military hospital

Russian security services have prevented an attack on amilitary hospital in Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) revealed in a statement on Wednesday. The security officers detained a suspect and seized improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from him, the statement added.

The identity of the suspect has not been made public, although a video published by the FSB showed a bald and bearded middle-aged man being escorted by the security officers. According to the FSB, the man was in possession of at least two IEDs: one that contained nails designed to serve as “killing agents” and another one that had “an incendiary effect.”

The video showed what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail in a glass bottle, as well as a small metal can and an unidentified object wrapped in a piece of cloth with some wires coming out of it. According to the statement, the suspect planned to attack the Russian Defense Ministry’s Navy Hospital in the Crimean capital of Simferopol.

The man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack, as well as illegal acquisition and possession of explosives. The investigation – as well as “intelligence gathering operations” – are ongoing, the FSB said, without revealing if there were any other suspects in this case.

The developments come just a week after a 52-year-old Russian-Ukrainian citizen in the Crimean city of Kerch was arrested on suspicion ofintending to plant an explosive device at a power system facility. He has been charged with plotting an act of sabotage and now faces 20 years to life in prison.

According to FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, security serviceshave prevented some 118 terrorist attacksin the country, many of which were being prepared by young people and minors.

In April, Bortnikov also warned that Western and Ukrainian intelligence services had launched an “aggressive brainwashing and recruitment [campaign]” in an attempt to involve Russian youths in sabotage, extremist activities, and terrorist attacks against their own country.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575398-terrorist-attack-thwarted-crimea/

26 Apr, 2023 19:31

Zelensky’s top advisor blames US for Ukraine conflict

Mikhail Podoliak wants NATO membership for Ukraine and total victory over Russia

Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, praised a ‘Ukrainian victory’ resolution proposed by US lawmakers on Wednesday. Washington, he said, seeks to make amends for a 'historical mistake' by admitting Kiev into NATO and endorsing its war aims.

“The House of Representatives’ resolution is unequivocal: TheUnited States, unfortunately, along with other Western countries,encouraged Ukraine to give up nuclear and other weapons to ensure security and stability in the region under safeguards. This was a wrong policy that was misinterpreted by the aggressor and led to a major war in Europe,” Podoliak tweeted.

Kiev has insisted for years that the US was obligated to protect it from Moscow because Ukraine agreed to return atomic weapons to Moscow under in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in exchange for guarantees of territorial integrity. Former US President Bill Clinton offered an “apology” for that in an interview with the Irish broadcaster RTE earlier this month.

Moscow has maintained that thearsenal wasn’t Ukraine’s to begin with, but belonged to the Soviet Union, of which Russia was recognized as the sole heir. Russia has also pointed to Zelensky’s statements about re-acquiring nuclear weapons, made in January 2022, as justification for its current military operation.

Only the “return of the occupied territories back to Ukraine, bringing war criminals to justice, and the country's full membership in NATO,” would help bring security back to Europe, he added. (Fuck that shit, its never going to happen you feral Nazis)

Podoliak's comments came in response to a resolution proposed by US representatives Joe Wilson and Steve Cohen, a South Carolina Republican and a Tennessee Democrat. Though its text has not been made public, the Ukrainian government appears to be familiar with its contents. Kiev’s ambassador in Washington, Oksana Markarova, tweeted on Tuesday that it “includes important elements” of Zelensky’s “peace formula.”

From what anonymous congressional staffers told Yahoo News, the resolution practically echoes Zelensky’s talking points, declaring the US policy to be restoring Ukraine’s 1991 borders and having Russia pay reparations and for its leadership to be put on trial for war crimes. (This will never happen, it doesn’t matter what Congress wants. Bidan wanted tge country destroyed.)

“Perhaps the most important feature of Western civilizational culture is the ability to analyze past experience and acknowledge mistakes,” Podoliak told Yahoo when reached for comment about the resolution on Tuesday. This was presumably a reference to the resolution’s claim that the US had wrongly pressured Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons.

The US continues to claim it is not a participant in the conflict, but insists that Russia “must lose” and has provided more than $100 billion in financial and military aid to Kiev over the past year.

TheWilson-Cohenresolution will need to be approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee before getting a vote before the full chamber. A companion resolution was introduced in the Senate on Tuesday evening, sponsored byDemocratsRichard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575391-ukraine-congress-resolution-victory/

26 Apr, 2023 21:28

Poland seizes Russian embassy and trade mission funds

Moscow’s envoy has called the move a “flagrant violation” of the Vienna Convention

All themoney in the accounts of the Russian embassy and trade officein Warsaw has been seized by the Polish prosecutor’s office, Ambassador Sergey Andreyev revealed on Wednesday.

“We received a notification from the prosecutor’s office that the funds from the Santander Bank accounts of the embassy and the trade representation were transferred to the accounts of the prosecutor’s office,”Andreyev told RIA Novosti.

Santander Bank then informed the embassy that it had “ceased cooperation” with the Russian government and closed the accounts, Andreyev added. There were “significant amounts” of both US dollars and Polish zlotys in both accounts, according to the diplomat.

Andreyev called the incident “a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the 1961 treaty governing the rights and responsibilities of diplomats.

The Polish authorities had previously frozen the embassy account, citing suspicions that it might be involved in “money laundering or terrorism.” When this prevented the embassy from paying the lease on a recreational facility near Warsaw, the Polish authorities terminated the lease and seized the property in November 2022.

Another property, a residence on 100 Sobieski Street, was seized last spring. Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said at the time it should be handed to refugees from Ukraine. The Polish foreign ministry said the building was “illegally owned” by the embassy as it was not being used for diplomatic or consular purposes. The embassy’s explanation, that the building was unfit for occupancy as it needed repairs, was ignored.

Poland has also sought to confiscate theembassy-operated school in Warsaw, citing the same pretext. The Russian Foreign Ministry has protested both seizures as a flagrant violation of international law.

Many EU and NATO countries have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats after the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, but most did not go so far as to sever relations with Moscow. The US and its allies have insisted they are not actually involved in the conflict, even while they sent Kiev over $100 billion worth of weapons and financial aid.

https://www.rt.com/news/575396-poland-russian-embassy-accounts/

26 Apr, 2023 20:23

Biden threatens North Korea with annihilation

A nuclear attack by Pyongyang would “result in the end” of Kim Jong-un’s regime, the US president has warned

US President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear attack on his country or South Korea would spell doom for Pyongyang. Under a new agreement between Washington and Seoul, theUS would respond to such an attack with nuclear weapons, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol added.

“A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action,”Biden told reporters at the White House.

Speaking alongside Biden, Yoon declared that“sustainable peace on the Korean peninsula does not happen automatically.”

“We can achieve peace through the superiority of overwhelming forces and not a false peace based on the goodwill of the other side,” Yoon said, adding that in the event of a nuclear attack from the north, the US and South Korea would “respond swiftly, overwhelmingly and decisively using the full force of the alliance, including US nuclear weapons.”

Biden’s words echo those of his predecessor, Donald Trump, who in 2017 warned North Korea that he would respond with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if the country threatened the US with nuclear weapons. Although the north tested a nuclear bomb a month later, Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to a detente and went on to meet several times, and the north’s missile tests came to a halt for most of Trump’s remaining time in office.

These tests have since restarted and ramped up. Pyongyang has test-fired more than 100 missiles since the beginning of 2022, and this month tested its first solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile and a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone. Officials in Washington and Seoul have claimed since last year that the north is gearing up for its seventh underground test of a nuclear weapon.

Yoon’s predecessor, Moon Jae-in, largely went along with Trump’s policy of diplomatic outreach to Kim. Yoon, however, has taken a much more hardline stance on his neighbor to the north. In a speech in January, Yoon raised the possibility of his administration acquiring “our own nuclear weapons,” something that more than two thirds of South Koreans want, according to recent polls.

Bidan is not Trump, not even close. Bidan wants a nuclear war with anyone

https://www.rt.com/news/575394-biden-north-korea-nuclear/

26 Apr, 2023 17:45

Poland looking for conflict 'with all its neighbors' – Russia's top spy

Warsaw is drilling for war with NATO-ally Germany, Sergey Naryshkin has claimed

Warsaw is not just looking at taking a bite out of Ukraine, but preparing for a hypothetical conflict with fellow NATO member Germany, according to the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin.

Naryshkin pointed to a military exercise conducted at the end of March near the city of Szczecin, on the German-Polish border. The drills, code-named‘Daglezja’ (Douglas fir),involved three Polish brigades dealing with “military aggression”from an unnamed neighbor to the west.

Polish troops practiced destroying bridges, erecting barricades and mining the roads along the border with Germany, the SVR said.

This kind of military planning reflects Warsaw’s growing “anti-German sentiments and fears about possible revanchist claims of Berlin,”according to the Russian intelligence head. The “suspicion” towards the NATO ally to the west is parallel to Poland’s ongoing territorial aspirations towards its former “eastern borderlands,” now part of Ukraine.

“Today’s Poland is turning into what it was in the times of Jozef Pilsudski, when Warsaw was in conflict with all its neighbors and longed for territorial expansion,” Naryshkin said in a statement. “Such was the Poland that [British PM] Winston Churchill aptly called ‘the hyena of Europe’ on the eve of the Second World War.

Naryshkin had previously suggested that Warsaw harbored designs on Ukrainian territory, which Poland denied, accusing the Russian official of waging information warfare.

Although both countries are members of the US-led NATO, last October Warsaw demanded more than €1.3 trillion in WWII reparations from Berlin, and appealed to the UN for help in January, after Germany refused.

Visiting the US earlier this month, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki declared that Warsaw wanted to build “the strongest army in Europe”and offered to serve as a hub for the expanded US military presence on the continent.

(Trump Admin declined fiercely to place a US military base in Poland. These people have lost their minds.)

https://www.rt.com/news/575388-poland-germany-conflict-spies/

26 Apr, 2023 19:57

Russia understands Western sanctions aren’t ‘temporary’ – PM

The restrictions are meant to prevent the country from “choosing its own path,” Mikhail Mishustin has said

Russia’s leadership is well aware the nation is likely to live under Western sanctions for a long time, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Wednesday. The government is calculating all the risks associated with the existing and potential future restrictions and is ready for any scenario, he added.

“We understand that sanctions are not a temporary phenomenon. They will not be lifted in an instant. Ourformer partners have gone too farto just turn around and retreat,” he told the ‘Znanie’ (‘Knowledge’) forum in Moscow.

According to the prime minister, the US and its allies have been slapping Russia with restrictions to “disrupt the economy, hurt the people and hit their standard of living, ‘cancel’ Russia and strip it of the ability to choose its own path based on its peoples’ interests.”

The Russian economy has been weathering the sanctions push well so far and demonstrated its resilience, Mishustin said, adding that some industries still need to fully restore their production chains. The prime minister earlier told the State Duma that the downturn the Russian economy experienced in 2022 was not as drastic as had been predicted, adding that the nation is going back to economic growth now.

The Russian government’s head also warned that the “sanctions war” ultimately led nowhere and only impeded global economic development. The world is now dominated by developments affecting every aspect of life, the prime minister said, naming the rapid development of information technologies used in various fields as one of such processes. “They [IT technologies] are now an important condition of long-term quality economic growth,” he said.

Last week, the head of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the Western sanctions Russia had to face last year were worse than “even the most pessimistic scenario.” Although no one could have predicted anything like that, both the Russian people and the country’s businesses demonstrated remarkable adaptability in the face of this new reality, she added.

The US and EU have introduced a total of ten rounds of sanctions over the conflict. In December, the EU, along with the G7 countries and Australia, introduced a price cap on Russian seaborne oil, set at $60 per barrel.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575393-western-sanctions-not-temporary/

26 Apr, 2023 17:16

Moscow reacts to Xi-Zelensky call

Ukraine has so far rejected every reasonable peace proposal, the Russian Foreign ministry has said

Ukraine’s “unrealistic” demands are standing in the way of peace negotiations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated. She made her comments in response to a question about the phone call between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The leaders spoke on Wednesday for the first time since Russia launched its military operation in the neighboring state in February 2022.

Zakharova praised Beijing for its efforts to help restart meaningful negotiations. She said Russian and Chinese visions for a path to peace were “broadly in tune” with one another. “The problem lies not with the lack of good plans,” Zakharova said.

The Kiev regime has so far not been receptive to any reasonable initiative aimed at a political and diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.Its occasional agreement to hold negotiations is being tied to ultimatums with obviously unrealistic demands.

The spokeswoman blamed Kiev for the eventual breakdown of negotiations last spring when Russian and Ukrainian teams held several rounds of meetings. Kiev, meanwhile, has repeatedly said that negotiations can resume only after Russia surrenders its recently incorporated territories. Moscow has called such demands unacceptable.

Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia in the wake of the 2014 coup in Kiev. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, did the same after holding referendums on the matter in September.

In October, Zelensky signed a decree that declared the “impossibility” of conducting negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Beijing, which unveiled a 12-point roadmap for peace in Ukraine in February, has maintained that the conflict can only end through dialogue. China, unlike many Western countries, has also refused to condemn Russia for its actions.

China named diplomat Li Hui its special envoy to Ukraine and “other countries” on Wednesday. Xi said that the envoy would be tasked with conducting “in-depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.” Li was China’s ambassador to Moscow from 2009 to 2019.

Zelensky, meanwhile, has appointed former strategic industries minister Pavel Ryabkin as the country’s new ambassador to China.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575377-russia-ukraine-unrealistic-talks/

>>18758948

So he’s bucking the system while he can. He should do this 5-6x a day until he has to negotiate with “them”

>>18758842

I love this, its a concerted attempt to point out to Congress why they are still allowing Swallowell is even there. MTG last, more incoming

>>18758967

5.8 million now

Look at Tuckers number now

>>18759159

Is that 200,000 every two minutes or more?

>>18759167

>>18759176

He’s at +9,000,000 tonight

>>18759189

10,000,000 more than his show ever got

>>18759113

notablethe younger they are, the more open to knowledge they are

>>18759083

Wow

>>18759083

Are you saying Mel’s father was a satanist. I have a hard time believing that. Do you have sauce

>>18759257

Tucker at 12,100,000 views now. He released it at 8:01pm on twitter

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753?s=20

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753?s=20

Fuck!!!!

https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1650946535327162369?s=20

SPLC attacking a Mexican American

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1651314489848115204?s=20

>>18759270

Tucker up to 13,300,000in 10 minutes

Holy Shit he never had more than 4.5 million on TV, I hope this warms his heart

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753?s=20

>>18759320

I meant, 10 between what Posted before and now

Pentagon always wanted us dumb and checked out

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1651229737618923522?s=20

I hope the payoff to Murdochs and Ryan was worth it, because they will be joining No Name in a very hot and torturous place, until they are cast in the Lake of Fire

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1651193934381748225?s=20

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1651218128120999936?s=20

>>18759403

I’m of the opinion that Tucker got a heads up from some chatter, andhe spent the weekend on how not to get boxed in by Fox, with some sage advice from a successful business man!

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1651214189375913985?s=20

>>18759425

Wait a minute, there are no Palm Trees in Maine!