12 May, 2023 13:06

Russia won’t shoot down Starlink satellites – ex-space chief

Moscow does not target space assets because it would inevitably trigger retaliation, Dmitry Rogozin has said

Russia has the tools needed to disable hostile satellites, butrefrains from doing so to avoid escalation, Dmitry Rogozin, former head of Roscosmos space agency, said on Wednesday.

In an interview with the Moscow Speaking radio station, Rogozin was asked to comment on Russia’s capability to destroy Western satellites, including Starlink systems operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.

“If we need towhack down, physically destroy, or simply neutralize the enemy orbital constellation…we will do that very quickly. We have all the necessary means for this,” the ex-Roscosmos head, who now commands a volunteer fighting force called ‘Tsar’s Wolves’, said.

However, Rogozin cautioned thatany attackor other actions seeking to disable satellites would beseen as a casus belli. “This is a pretext for war, which will spill into space.”

Russia would face retaliation, immediately losing all of its own satellites, he said, adding that this would lead to an escalation and war.

He also said thatMoscow really needs a satellite system like Starlink, which has thousands of relays enabling users to control drones in real time and evade electronic warfare measures.

Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, SpaceX has provided Kiev with thousands of Starlink terminals to help the local population to stay connected to the internet.

In February however, as Kiev started to increasingly rely on the satellites to fight Russia, SpaceX limited the Ukrainian military’s ability to control drones, with a senior company official explaining that this technology “was never intended to be weaponized.”

Musk himself has said that he did not intend for his satellites to be the reason for the Ukraine conflict spiraling into WWIII.

In early April, the Russian Foreign Ministry also accused Kiev and “a number of foreign states” of attempting to tamper with Russian civilian satellites, warning that this is in violation of international law and could trigger “an appropriate response.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/576182-russia-space-starlink-shoot/

12 May, 2023 15:14

Zelensky ‘will end up like Hitler’ – ex-Russian president

Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the Ukrainian leader after his claims that “those in the Kremlin will come to a sad end”

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelenskycould suffer the same fate as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. The comments came in response to Zelensky’s suggestion that Kremlin officials would meet a “sad end.”

“We do not know who will meet which end,Medvedev wrote on Telegram, before comparing the Ukrainian president to Hitler, who committed suicide during the final stages of World War II as Soviet troops stormed Berlin.

The former Russian leader also accused Zelensky of “wishing death to everyone in the Kremlin.”

His remarks came in response to an interview published by the BBC on Friday, in which Zelensky stated: “Believe me, those in the Kremlin…it will end badly for them.”(Zelensky saying “believe me” is like Bidan saying it, both are always lying. Z should skedaddle while he can!)

The Ukrainian president expressed his desire for the rapid demise of the current Russian leadership, claiming thatthey “will certainly not die a natural death.”(Zelensky is so arrogant, he seems not to know what Putin & Russia are capable of. I can only imagine the Kremlin is rethinking, “they have no intent on killing Zelensky”. He has crossed the last line imo. And if Russia really takes the gloves off, it will be brutal)

The interview with Zelensky comes less than two weeks after a drone attack on the Kremlin, which Moscow described as an assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and an act of terrorism. The Russian leader was not at the Kremlin at the time of the incident.

Russia accused Kiev of orchestrating the attack and said it reserves the right to respond as it sees fit. Ukraine denied any involvement in the incident, although the attack prompted Medvedev to call for the “physical removal” of Zelensky.

Kiev’s intelligence chief, Kirill Budanov, later vowed to “keep killing Russians anywhere” until Ukraine’s “complete victory.” The Kremlin branded the statement “truly heinous,” and said it was confirmation that Kiev was involved in orchestrating terrorist attacks.

(Even with all the NATO countries involved, Ukraine will never have a total victory. This war with US and EU involvement was merely to distract from leaders of their countries killing their people and finally solidifying the NWO. And they were hoping to destroy Russia. They care nothing for the people and country of Ukraine, they want it destroyed.Z doesn’t quite grasp what a “useful idiot” he is)

https://www.rt.com/russia/576189-zelensky-end-up-hitler-medvedev/

12 May, 2023 17:27

Egypt ignored US requests to block Russian flights – media

Washington has been trying to fence in Russian military planes, but Al Sisi’s government isn’t playing ball, the Wall Street Journal reported

Egypt has ignored US requests that it close its airspace to Russian military flights, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. This airspace is avital corridorbetween Russia and its military bases in Syria.

Multiple American officials asked Cairoin February and March to declare its skies off limits to Russian military aircraft, the newspaper reported, citing US and Egyptian officials. Egypt has not responded to these requests, and flights between Syria and Russia have reportedly continued unimpeded.

Asked by the Wall Street Journal, a US State Department official declined to “comment on private diplomatic conversations.”

Situated on Syria’sMediterranean coast, Khmeimim Air Baseis one of Russia’s most important military facilities in Syria. With Iraq, Jordan, and Türkiye blocking most Russian military flights since last year at the US’ request, Russian aircraft must now fly south over Azerbaijan and Iran, west over Saudi Arabia, and finally back north over Egypt before landing at Khmeimim.

Without permission to fly over Egypt, Russia would be forced to seek a new and far longer route over Africa to reach its forces in Syria by air. Meanwhile, Türkiye’s closure of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to military vessels last year has complicated the movement of arms and equipment by sea.

American officials believe that Moscow is moving weapons from Syria to the battlefield in Ukraine, although this has not been confirmed or denied by the Russian side.

Discounting Ukraine, Egypt is the second-largest recipient of US military aid in the world, receiving about $1.3 billion a year from Washington. Despite only Israel receiving more direct military support from the US, Egyptian PresidentAbdel Fattah Al Sisi has not completely aligned his foreign policy with that of Washington.

Al Sisi hasdeployed troops in Libya andordered airstrikes against the US-recognized Government of National Accord, all while funding the opposing Libyan National Army, which was aided on the battlefield by Russian military contractors.

The Egyptian president has acordial relationshipwith Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the country has adopted a neutral stance on the conflict in Ukraine. According to recently leaked Pentagon documents, however, Al Sisi recently dropped a plan to supply arms to Russia and instead agreed to supply the US with artillery ammunition for Kiev’s forces. The decision was made following what the Washington Post termed “a diplomatic offensive from Washington.”

https://www.rt.com/news/576196-egypt-russia-flights-syria/

12 May, 2023 18:20

Soros partly controls human rights court – Medvedev

The former Russian president recalled recent scandalous revelations about the ECHR

American billionaire GeorgeSoros has influenced many judgesat the European Court of Human Rights, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. A former lawyer who is now deputy chairman of Russia's security council, Medvedev was speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum about the problems of the modern judiciary.

An independent investigation in 2020 revealed that22 out of 100 ECHR judgeswho served between 2009 and 2019had “strong ties” to Soros, whether through his Open Society Foundation or intermediary NGOs that received its funding.

“For many years, these judges literally ate out of his hand and, on direction from across the ocean, stamped biased court verdicts – which, by the way, have not been revised even after these corruption scandals,” said Medvedev.

Russia withdrew from all treatiesaccepting ECHR jurisdiction in September 2022, and the law declaring all of thecourt’s verdicts null and voidon its territory went into effect in March.

For all the talk of freedom and competition, Medvedev said, the West does what it wants while placing discriminatory prohibitions on others.International economic law has become “pure fiction,” as evidenced by the “lawless predatory measures” against Russian state, corporate and private property, and even the confiscation of diplomatic accounts.

Medvedev also addressed the International Criminal Court, which in March charged Russian President Vladimir Putin with “war crimes” for evacuating children threatened by Ukrainian shelling. He called the ICC’s warrant for Putin’s arrest a “casus belli,” a reason for war against any country that attempts to carry it out.

He also described theICC as a “political tool of warmongers” and a “worthy heir” to the ICTY, the ad-hoc war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which he called an “ugly form of justice that brought nothing but disaster” and discredited international law.

“There is no reason to obey the decisions of legal structures that have completely discredited or outlived themselves,” Medvedev argued. “If judiciary institutions do not function, they will be replaced by others that do.”(that should be done in US systems)

If international conventions are not applied, and the court decisions recognized by countries are not implemented, then tube and rocket artillery take their place. And even hypersonic missiles.

Russia’s patience is not infinite, and every compromise has a limit after which it becomes a threat to security and sovereignty, he added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/576195-medvedev-soros-international-law/

Soros Foundation and NGOs are contractors for our corrupt State Department. The State Department pays all of Soros functions, thats what Q was saying. Why didn’t Pompeo cut them off? Because they are the hired terrorists that work against the US and all countries, they were useful to Pompeo. Soros and the NGOs are the real Leviathan in the bible