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Harnwell: The End Is Nigh — Ukraine Caught Using Pre-First World War Machine Guns In Combat

All told, theWest has contributed a staggering $350bn to Ukraineover the last 22 months.

And yet Ukrainian armed forces are now resorting to using pre-World War One machine guns to shoot down Russian drones.

__Let me repeat that. Machine guns that predate the First World War.__Given that the much-vaunted Counteroffensive turned out to be a total dud —where did all that money go exactly?Is the answer related to the fact that Washington DC’s corrupt UniParty is curiously uninterested in finding out?!

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28 Nov, 2023 16:06

NATO ‘slaughtering’ Ukrainians to fight Russia – Kremlin

The US-led military bloc was initially conceived as an instrument to confront the country, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

NATO is sticking to its plan to contain Russia by sacrificing countless Ukrainian lives, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. His comments came after the bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg argued that the alliance was trying to prevent further escalation of tensions with Russia.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov pointed out that, no matter what statements come out of NATO, the bloc was originally conceived andstructured in a way that “essentially make it an instrument of confrontation with Russia and a means of containing it.”

“So far, the alliance has not abandoned its plans to contain Russia andslaughter the Ukrainian peopleas ritual victims in the fight against Russia,” Peskov said, noting that Moscow was planning its course of action taking these realities into account.

During a press conference ahead of the meetings of NATO foreign ministers on Monday, Stoltenberg said the two main goals of the organization were the continued support of Kiev and preventing an escalation of the conflict that could lead to “a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO.”

One way the US-led bloc is preventing this from happening, according to Stoltenberg, is by sending a “clear signal” to Moscow that the alliance is ready to defend its territory by building up its armed forces on its eastern borders.

“We are doing this not to provoke a conflict, but to prevent it,” the NATO secretary general claimed.

Meanwhile, he also noted that the failure of Ukraine’s army to move the front line during its much-touted counteroffensive, despite “unprecedented” Western support, has shown that the bloc must “never underestimate Russia.”

So far, Kiev is believed to have lost as many as 103,000 troops since launching the ill-fated counteroffensive, according to the latest estimates by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

With Ukraine’s forces seemingly unable to reclaim lost territories, a growing number of Western officials have suggested that Kiev may have to seek a peace deal with Russia and concede its former territories.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has also suggested in an interview with Fox News that the conflict with Russia could be stopped if Kiev conceded Donbass and Crimea, but claimed that the country was “not ready” for such a peace deal.

Russia has for decades decried NATO’s expansion towards its borders, calling it a direct national security threat. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also repeatedly cited Ukraine’s potential accession to the US-led bloc as one of the key triggers for the military operation against Kiev.

Moscow has also insisted that the continued supply of Western weapons to Ukraine served as proof that the US and its NATO allies were waging a proxy war against Russia.

https://www.rt.com/russia/588153-nato-slaughtering-ukrainians-kremlin/

28 Nov, 2023 15:01

Network of Ukrainian-run drug labs busted in Russia

Almost 1.5 tons of the synthetic drug mephedrone and 35 tons of componentshave been seized, the Interior Ministry has revealed

Russian police have busted a major network of drug laboratories in Moscow and several other regions of the country, the Interior Ministry has said. The illegal activity was supervised from Ukraine, it added.

Officers have so far detained21 suspects, including 12 Ukrainian nationals, as part of the case, the ministry’s spokeswoman, Irina Vovk, announced on Tuesday.

“It has been established that over the past few years a whole network of drug laboratories was created by perpetrators in the Moscow, Pskov and Ryazan regions,” she said.

According to Vovk, the laboratories produced mephedrone, asynthetic stimulant drug of the amphetamine and cathinone classes. Almost 1.5 tons of the drug and some 35 tons of components to make it were seized, the spokeswoman said.

The investigation found that the recruiters sought people in Ukraine who then traveled to Russia, rented premises and obtained the necessary equipment and began making the illegal substance, she said.

The final product was placed at stash points and then distributed through dedicated websites. The Ukrainian curators coordinated their subordinates through online messenger platforms, the spokeswoman added.

“There was a clean-cut hierarchy and strict discipline within the criminal community. Those violating the rules established by the leadership were severely punished, up to physical elimination,” Vovk said.

The money earned by the network was distributed among its members and invested in further production of the drug, the spokeswoman added.

Vovk also recalled that the police had previously busted a Ukrainian-run network of laboratories in Moscow Region in 2020. More than a ton of mephedrone was seized in several locations, with 16 people, including 11 Ukrainian citizens, detained.

https://www.rt.com/russia/588142-ukraine-drug-laboratories-police/