9 Apr, 2024 13:36

Hunter Biden-linked Ukrainian company used for terror attacks in Russia – Moscow

Multiple entities, including Burisma Holdings, have been involved in funding terrorism, Russian investigators are claiming

Criminal probes into the financing of terrorist activities in Russia and abroad have been launched againstseveral private companies, the country’s Investigative Committee announced on Tuesday. The list of suspects includes the Ukrainian industrial conglomerateBurisma Holdings, linked to a corruption scandal surrounding the Biden familythat has been dragging on for years.

Thecriminal investigation stems from a complaint filed by a groupof Russian MPs and public figures in the aftermath of thedeadly Crocus City Hallattack outside Moscow last month. The original complaintidentified the US and its alliesas allegedly organizing a string of attacks on Russian soil.

So far, investigators have “established that the funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including the oil and gasconglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia,”committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said. Terrorist activities have also reachedbeyond the country, aimed at the “eliminationof prominent political and public figures, as well as causing economic damage,” she added.

The committee’s specialists have been working “in cooperation with other intelligence services and financial intelligence,” Petrenko noted. The scrutiny currently revolves around “checking sources of income and further movement of funds in the amount of several million US dollars,” and examining the potential involvement of “specific individuals from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries,” the spokeswoman stated.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/595652-hunter-biden-burisma-terrorist-attack/

>>20701426

Is Putin and Russian leaders ready to expose Joe, Hunter and the Bidan family? Finally, if so!

(These idiots are constantly provoking Russia, to get into a war, to try to steal their country)

9 Apr, 2024 12:57

More German troops arrive near Russian border

Berlin has deployed the first soldiers from a promised 4,800-strong force to Lithuania

Germany has sent an advance military team to Lithuania as part of plans for a full-strength armor brigade permanently stationed in the Baltic state, which borders Russia. Moscow hasdescribed the mission as a threat that requires “special measures” in response.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was among those to see off 21 military service members and civilian employees who departed on Monday from Berlin to Vilnius. The minister praised the Bundeswehr deployment as “a clear signal of solidarity” with Germany’s fellow NATO member.

The Lithuanian Brigade, or Panzerbrigade 45, is set to include some 4,800 soldiers and 200 civilian employees by the time it becomes fully operational in 2027. It will be hosted at the Rudninkai training ground in the southeast of the country as well as near the town of Rukla. Some German troops will be located just 20km from the border with Belarus, a key Russian ally. Lithuania also borders the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

Lithuania, which has for years been upgrading the infrastructure needed to house foreign troops, has described the German deployment as historic. The arrival of the advance team four months after the roadmap for the permanent mission was signed heralds “a new page of a deeper Lithuanian-German partnership,” Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas declared as he welcomed the troops.

Vilnius has touted the German force as a deterrent against Russia, although Moscow perceives it as yet more evidence that NATO is encroaching on its borders.

“This continues an escalation of tension, the creation of hotspots of threats to us at our borders, which will certainly require special measures to ensure our security,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Moscow has accused Washington of ignoring its concerns over NATO enlargement in Europe, which was done in breach of promises made to the Soviet leadership when it agreed to German unification in the early 1990s.

The current hostilities between Moscow and Kiev, which the US-led military bloc claims requires an increased presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, was triggered by NATO’s creeping expansion into Ukraine, according to Russian officials.

Since 2017, German troops have been part of the so-called ‘enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup Lithuania’, a multinational 1,700-strong force stationed in Rukla.

https://www.rt.com/news/595644-permament-german-troops-lithuania/

>>20701479

More provocation!

9 Apr, 2024 13:08

‘High-intensity war in Europe no longer a fantasy’ – Borrell

The EU’s top diplomat also warned that the US defense “umbrella” could soon cease to cover the continent

A full-scale military conflict in Europe has become more likely due to the standoff with Russia, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has claimed, while warning member states against relying on the US to defend them.

Several other European officials have cited a heightened military threat in recent months, with UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps saying last week that the world is moving from a “post-war to a pre-war” state due to the alleged threat emanating from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made a similar “pre-war”assessment in March.

Speaking at a Forum Europa gathering in Brussels on Tuesday, Borrell claimed that the “possibility of a high-intensity conventional war in Europe is no longer a fantasy” and that the bloc must “do everything to avoid it.

The EU’s top diplomat alleged that Russia poses a growing threat to the continent, citing the conflict with Ukraine, and accused Moscow of seeking to destabilize the union.

According to Borrell, while a military conflict in Europe is not imminent and “not going to start tomorrow,”citizens should understand that the “US umbrella that has protected us during the Cold War and after, may not be open all the time.”

“Maybe,depending on who is ruling Washington, we cannot rely on the Americans’ supportand American capacity to protect us,”he said. (They really hate Trump, the only president that made them accountable, they love Joe though)

Describing the EU as being surrounded by a “ring of fires” and instability, Borrell called on member states to become more self-sufficient with their security and to ramp up their defense spending.

He added that while NATO is as “irreplaceable” as ever, Europeans should start building their own “pillar” within the US-led bloc.

The diplomat acknowledged that Brussels’ stance on theconflicts in Gaza and in Ukraine is not fully sharedby many non-Western audiences.

Borrel’s remarks follow suggestions from numerous Western civilian and military officials in recent months that Russia could attack NATO within a few years.

Speaking in late March, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin dismissed such speculation as “nonsense.” He argued that talk of a potential Russian attack on Poland, the Czech Republic, or the Baltic countries ispropaganda coming from governmentsthat seek to scare their citizens “to extract additional expenses from people, to make them bear this burden on their shoulders.”

https://www.rt.com/news/595643-eu-top-diplomat-borrell-europe-war/

9 Apr, 2024 08:41

=•No Russian misinfo on X, but Western influence ops present – Musk==

The platform is “by far” the best place online to correct untrue information, the entrepreneur has argued

The owner of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk,has rejected accusations that Russian misinformation was widespread on his platform.

The entrepreneur, who describes himself as a champion of free speech, has been accused of making the social network vulnerable to Russian activities by changing its content moderation protocols after purchasing Twitter in 2022.

His latest denial came on Tuesday, while he was discussing X on ‘In Good Company’, a podcast. Host Nicolai Tangen suggested that Russian activity via fake accounts was “huge”in Germany.

“We don’t see a lot of Russian activity, to be frank, on the system. We see very little,” Musk responded. “We do see a lot of attempts to influence things, but they seem to be coming from the West, not from Russia.”

Tangen’s remark apparently referred to claims made by Berlin in January. The German government said that the use of specialized monitoring software had allowed it to identify an estimated 50,000 fake accounts engaged in a pro-Russian misinformation campaign on X. Local press claimed that themessaging was strikingly similarto that of theright-wing opposition party AfD.

Germany is not alone in its wariness regarding Moscow’s influence; this week US CongressmanMike Turner, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, accused some fellow Republicans of repeating ‘Russian propaganda’ in the chamber.

“It is absolutely true we see, directly coming from Russia, attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor,” the Ohio congressman told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Similar remarks came last week from House Foreign Affairs chair Michael McCaul, another Republican lawmaker.

In his interview, Musk hailed X as arguably “the best source of truth on the Internet” that, he argued, by far surpasses traditional news outlets in terms of accuracy thanks to user-driven fact-checking tools.

“A lot of people still run under the illusion that the legacy newspapers they read are actually true. There is so much nonsense in them,” he lamented.

https://www.rt.com/news/595632-musk-russian-misinformation-x/