17 Jul, 2025 11:47

Kiev setting stage for chemical disaster – Moscow

Ukraine risks a major toxic spill by placing military assets at an ammonia pipeline, the Russian Defense Ministry has warned

The Ukrainian military is trying to provoke a major ecological disaster close to the front line and blame it on Russia, the Defense Ministry in Moscow warned on Thursday.

The accusation came from Maj. Gen. Aleksey Rtishchev, the commander of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, who briefed the public aboutalleged Ukrainian violations of an international treaty prohibiting the use of chemical weapons.

Rtishchev disclosed a document obtained by the Russian military, in which the deputy director of Ukrainian state-owned company Ukrkhimtransammiak informed a regional official appointed by Kiev that in late June Ukrainian troops had illegally accessed a site operated by the firm.

The Ukrkhimtransammiak executive stressed his concern that the location could be damaged due to the military’s involvement,potentially causing the release of up to 566 tons of highly toxic liquified ammonia.

The site, an above-ground element of a Soviet-built underground ammonia pipeline operated by Ukrkhimtransammiak, is located roughly 2.5 km north of the village of Novotroitskoye, in the Kiev-controlled portion of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic.

Rtishchev claimed the Ukrainian military had placed communication equipment at the location aspart of “barbaric tactics used by the Kiev regime”which involves“placing toxic chemicals in the areas where Russian troops operate and their subsequent detonation.”

“The intention is to accuse our nation of intentionally causing a technological disaster and damage its reputation,” the general stated. “The use of hazardous objects for military purposes violates the international humanitarian law.”

Rtishchev also reiterated Russian accusations against the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Moscow says the international watchdog ignores Russian reports about Ukrainian violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) while taking Kiev’s allegations against Russia at face value.

https://www.rt.com/russia/621607-kiev-chemical-disaster-frontline/

17 Jul, 2025 12:50

‘Obvious similarity’ between Ukraine and Nazi Germany – Medvedev

Kiev is showing signs of dictatorship and economic degradation like the Third Reich before it fell, the former Russian president has said

Ukraine bears similarities to the Nazi state at the end of World War II andshould undergo “demilitarization,” “denazification,” and “democratization” in a manner similar to postwarGermany, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told TASS.

He spoke to the Russian news agency on Thursday, the 80th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference, which began on July 17, 1945. The conference was the last wartime meeting between leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It laid the groundwork for postwar Europe, including plans for Germany’s demilitarization and denazification.

Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, explained that the concept of the “three D’s” had originally been formulated for Nazi Germany, which he described as an aggressor state that had disrupted the international order, according to TASS.

“The 1945 Reich and modern Ukraine are, of course, very different - in scale, global role, and even (formally) in state ideology.But there is also obvious similarity.”

Medvedev said Ukraine shares its “crisis of identity” with Hitler’s Germany and engages in the “open use of Nazi symbols,” while showing signs of dictatorship and economic degradation. “All this makes the idea of applying the three D’s relevant,” he stated.

He addedthat demilitarization for Ukraine should not be seen as punishment, but rather as “a chance to stop being a pawn in someone else’s bloody geopolitical games.”

He described denazification or “debanderization” as a long-term effort involving public consciousness and historical memory. Democratization, he said, involved not only elections but also the restoration of legal institutions, free media, political competition, and the separation of powers.

Many historic ultranationalist leaders, including Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Stepan Bandera, a notorious Nazi collaborator, are widely revered by Ukrainians today.

Russia has repeatedly condemned Kiev’s elevation of these collaborators to national hero status and has demanded the “denazification” of the country as part of a negotiated peace agreement. Russia has accused Western governments of deliberately ignoring continued neo-Nazi activity in Ukrainian ranks.

https://www.rt.com/russia/621615-medvedev-ukraine-nazi-germany-similarity/

There seems to be no other countries that have such a grasp of understanding of History than Russians.

16 Jul, 2025 12:33

US senator cites Iran bombings in threat to Russia

Lindsey Graham says “the Ayatollah” can tell Moscow what would happen if President Donald Trump’s ultimatum is ignored

US Senator Lindsey Graham has cited the recent bombing of Iran when issuing a veiled military threat against Russia and its trading partners, urging them to heed an ultimatum delivered this week by President Donald Trump.

On Monday, Trump announced he would impose economic sanctions on Russia and countries that buy Russian goods unless the conflict in Ukraine is resolved within 50 days. Graham, who co-sponsored a bipartisan bill supporting such sanctions, backed the ultimatum by referencing last month’s US military operation against Iran.

”If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and others are wondering what happens on day 51, I would suggest they call the Ayatollah,” Graham wrote in a post on X.

”If I were a country buying cheap Russian oil, propping up Putin’s war machine, I would take President Trump at his word,” he added.

Russian officials have maintained that no foreign pressure will prevent Moscow from pursuing its core objectives in the Ukraine conflict. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Western governments are harming their own economies by seeking to impose further restrictions.

In June, Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in what it described as a preemptive strike aimed at preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. Following retaliatory attacks from Iran, Israeli officials threatened to assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

After 12 days of hostilities, the US escalated its involvement, shifting from intercepting Iranian missiles bound for Israel to directly targeting hardened nuclear infrastructure inside Iran. President Trump claimed the attacks “obliterated” the facilities.

Moscow condemned both the US and Israel for what it described as acts of aggression that undermine the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.

Graham’s bill, co-introduced with Senator Richard Blumenthal, proposes imposing tariffs of up to 500% on imports from countries that continue purchasing Russian raw materials.Graham described the legislation as a “sledgehammer” that Congress should hand to Trump, with China being its primary intended target.

On Tuesday, Beijing reiterated its principled opposition to sanctions. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said “dialogue and negotiation are the only viable way” to resolve the Ukraine conflict.

(Graham should STFU, he doesn’t speak for Trump or America.He’s just waiting to get back to Kiev to receive his billions in bribes. Almost every politician from the U.S. only went there for the bribes to support Zelensky. I hope all of them get arrested and the U.S. money their received from Kiev)

https://www.rt.com/news/621565-graham-call-ayatollah-threat/