Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

[youlik]

There is a rare ingenuity in the process, which in Russian is called the division of the skin of an unkilled bear. The bear is suitable here in every sense. And as a real animal, which is very difficult to kill without risking the life of the person trying to do it, which is why he became the hero of this saying, and as a well-known symbol of Russia, which has been trying to "kill" for quite a long time with all sorts of sanctions "from hell", confiscations (I beg your pardon, now it's called freezing), etc.
A separate "thank you" should be expressed to Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, who, despite numerous warnings about such a possibility and even President Putin's public appeals many years ago to businessmen holding assets abroad to return these assets to the country with the motivation of just possible confiscation, only waved away and said: they would not dare. They dared.
It will be interesting to see if there are people willing to participate in this dubious event.

In Ukraine, they want to issue bonds for which money will be paid from Russian reparations
The Reuters news agency reported that Ukraine plans to issue "reparations bonds" and replenish its reserves with the money from the sale. The securities want to provide potential compensation for damage from Russia.

The article notes that Kiev is in dire need of money. The UK has promised to allocate $3.2 billion to Ukraine, but this is not enough to cover all expenses. The European Union and the United States are experiencing bureaucratic difficulties with continued funding. At the same time, Western countries have frozen Russian assets in the amount of $300 billion, but this money cannot legally be transferred to Ukraine.

Reuters reports that in this situation, a "backup plan" was proposed: Kiev issues and sells "reparations bonds." Securities of this type involve the return to the investor of the full value of the bonds and interest on top. Ukraine plans to return the money only if it receives reparations from Russia following the conflict.

In addition, it is separately noted that bondholders are not entitled to frozen funds of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. However, the Ukrainian authorities do not count on voluntary compensation for their losses, so they plan to use this money as the most likely source of funds. Currently, interest is accrued on the frozen amount. Kiev plans to use this income to pay both the principal amount of the bonds and interest. In this case, the process of seizing frozen assets will allegedly not be considered confiscation. Experts have yet to determine the amount of damage caused to Ukraine.

"Ukraine could find a plausible way to recover any damages awarded in the amount of the value of the reserves. Thus, it could issue damage compensation bonds worth up to $300 billion. But she would have received something similar to this amount only if the governments of the United States, the EU and other countries were ready to buy securities," the article says.

Reuters journalists believe that Kiev can claim damages for a larger amount, since, according to the World Bank, the cost of rebuilding Ukraine has already reached $411 billion, and these figures will only grow. They refer to the legal principle that a country must "fully compensate for the harm caused by an internationally wrongful act." So, Iraq compensated Kuwait for the damage after the invasion, although it took 30 years. The UN General Assembly has already stated that it is necessary to create an international mechanism for compensation for damages and asked members to make a register of claims against Russia. The Council of Europe will also create a registry.

Back in May 2022, Vladimir Zelensky called on Western states to "take patronage" over regions, cities and industries affected by the fighting in order to ensure their full recovery. "Such a patronage project can create a new historical example of interaction and partnership between the states of the free world, between regions, cities and companies of Europe and democratic countries," the President of Ukraine said.

Zelensky called his proposal an investment in "the stability of the entire center and east of Europe." He also proposed to introduce a tax on Russia's income from export operations and distribute it among the affected countries. None of this has been implemented. Since the beginning of the conflict, Ukrainian politicians have been asking for frozen Russian assets to be transferred to them. In two years, the West has not found a legal way to do this. At the same time, at the end of October 2023, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced that the EU countries had decided to use the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to support Kiev.

In November of the same year, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs supported a bill on the use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. According to the document, the president can confiscate these funds and transfer them to the Ukraine Support Fund. Russia opposes the confiscation of its assets. According to Bloomberg, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is preparing for legal procedures to prevent the transfer of its funds, part of them or income to Ukraine.

На Украине хотят выпустить облигации, по которым будут выплачивать деньги из российских репараций

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Налицо редкостная изобретательность в процессе, который в русском языке называется дележом шкуры неубитого медведя. Медведь здесь подходит во всех смыслах. И как реальное животное, которое убить очень сложно без риска для жизни пытающегося это сделать, почему он и стал героем указанной поговорки, и как общеизвестный символ России, которую пытаются "убить" уже довольно долго всеческими санкциями "из ада", конфискациями (прошу пардону, теперь это называется заморозкой) и пр.
Отдельную "благодарность" надо выразить Эльвире Набиуллиной, руководительнице Центрального Банка России, которая несмотря на многочисленные предупреждения о такой возможности и даже на публичные призывы Президена Путина много лет назад к бизнесменам, держащим активы за рубежом, вернуть эти активы в страну с мотивировкой как раз возможной конфискации, только отмахивалась и говорила: не посмеют. Посмели.
Интересно будет посмотреть найдутся ли желающие поучаствовать в этом сомнительном мероприятии.

 

[drWeller]

Just a fun note to illustrate the sad reality with truth in mainstream media and the pathological lie of Ukrainian officials, whose bullshit the media eat gladly and then feed their readers/viewers.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Do you remember the story with "Ukraine shot down Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missle using Patriots"? And the Kiev's mayor Vitaly Klichko was posing with the shell, saying that it was the Kinzhal debrees?

Look here is the Kinzhal rocket on the Mig-31 jet. And the red circle shows the tail fairing, which is fired during the launch of the rocket and just falls down.



Some guy just found this thing, put it in his car and took home. Look how big it is, imagine how huge the rocket itself.



Now look again at the clown Klichko and his "shot down Kinzhal" or re-read all the "news" from garbage mainstream bins for a good laugh.

In this way, they created advertising for Patriots and at the same time calmed down their population, because it is impossible to shoot down these missiles. They are faster than any currently existing air defense in the United States. They just decided to lie as usual. Money is money you know, they need to sell the Patriots somehow.

 

[youlik]

Some guy just found this thing, put it in his car and took home. Look how big it is, imagine how huge the rocket itself.

There is no need to guess and calculate at all. The data is open and can be viewed everywhere. The length of the Kinzhal is 7.2 m, the diameter is 0.92 m. The length of the MiG-31 is 22.7 m.

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Тут гадать и прикидывать совсем не нужно. Данные открыты, их можно посмотреть везде. Длина Кинжала 7,2 м, диаметр 0,92 м. Длина МиГ-31 22 м.

 

[Evan]

I’ve been in the hospital several times for surgery since 2021, and even at the height of COVID, the patients were never required to wear a mask. Visitors yes, but patients have already been screened and tested.

Unless of course you’re trying to hide your face.

 

[Bluegazer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1746936798075408779

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Switzerland to organise a 'high-level peace conference' amid the ongoing war with Russia.

President Zelensky asks Switzerland to organise 'peace conference'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Switzerland to organise a 'high-level peace conference' amid the ongoing war with Russia.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[forest_light]

 

[Alejo]

I’ve been in the hospital several times for surgery since 2021, and even at the height of COVID, the patients were never required to wear a mask. Visitors yes, but patients have already been screened and tested.

That is very much the state of the US in one picture, an old demented man visiting the defeated and severely wounded/ill head of the military, while both of them pretend to be something they're not.. healthy, capable and strong.

 

[Ca.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1747027380986577366

Ukraine Is Losing Its Stronghold In Krynki (Videos 18+)

The Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kherson region failed. The Ukrainian military failed to expand the zone of control on the...

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Russian Defense Ministry in 2023 identified over 50 participants in US Biolabs in Ukraine
15 Jan, 15:23
In addition, Igor Kirillov revealed that, in August 2023, a training session was held in Lvov with the aim of accusing Russia of using biological weapons

MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry has established the identities of more than 50 people involved in US military-biological activities in Ukraine in 2023, a senior Russian military official said.

"Separately, I would like to note the work carried out in 2023 to identify the organizers and participants of military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine. As a result of the analysis of the documentation obtained, more than 50 people were identified, including officials of US and Ukrainian government agencies, and employees of intermediary organizations and private companies," Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Protection Troops, said at a briefing on US military-biological activities.

According to the senior military official, among the identified participants in the activities of US biolabs in Ukraine are Kenneth Myers, Robert Pope and Joanna Wintrol, employees of the US Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, as well as representatives of the companies Battelle and EcoHealth Alliance, Kevin Olival, Karen Saylors and Lewis von Thaer.

In addition, the senior defense official revealed that, in August 2023, a training session was held in Lvov with the aim of accusing Russia of using biological weapons. "The event was attended by Filippa Lentzos; Gemma Bowsher; and Irina Demchyshyna, head of the Reference Laboratories of the Public Health Center of the Ukrainian Health Ministry; as well as Darya Ponomarenko, head of the Department of Biological Safety and Biological Protection of the Public Health Center of the Ukrainian Health Ministry," he said.

Kirillov added that research on the study of pathogens of economically significant infections and mechanisms of their spread was conducted under the leadership of Denis Muziyka; as well, Viktor Gavrilenko and Alexander Mezinov were involved in the collection and shipment of materials.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1746983501700698349

Overstatement of this downing brings cheers from the NAFO crowd of Russian haters.

Ukraine Is Losing Its Stronghold In Krynki (Videos 18+)

The Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kherson region failed. The Ukrainian military failed to expand the zone of control on the...

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Flashback:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1678435904367599618

 

[youlik]

I'm seeing some posts on X claiming that Lloyd Austin was in fact killed in one of the Russian missile strikes, and now they are trying to cover up his death with this hospitalization story. I tried to find some collaboration but without luck. So, maybe it's fake news.

Sorry to post only rumours but I wouldn't be surprised if something like this did actually take place...

I take my hat off, so to speak. It's hard to argue with C's, it's too authoritative a source. That's how the most incredible things turn out to be reality in our time.

For once, I agree with the Nazi, but only on one condition. The law that he proposes should begin with Zelensky because he evaded conscription into the Armed Forces four times and it should continue for all the "elitists" of Ukropia. They're all like that there.

"Did you not serve in the Armed Forces? You should be deprived of your civil rights," Nazi and ex—deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada (VIDEO)

If you have not fulfilled your civic duty to protect the country, you should be deprived of civil rights, said Ruslan Koshulinsky, deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada in 2012-2014 and head of the secretariat of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian Svoboda Party.

According to him, people who did not go to defend the country should be deprived of the right to vote, be elected or appointed to any positions.

It is noteworthy that the only thing known about Koshulinsky himself is that from 1987 to 1989 he was a senior sergeant in the conscription service of the Soviet Army, served in the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany), was a deputy platoon commander.

"Ukrainians who evade mobilization do not have the right to live a full life," said the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim before that.

"If you're a dodger, then you don't have the right to live life to the fullest, to get high. If you're a dodger, stay at home," Kim said on Ukrainian television.

https://rusvesna.su/news/1703341331

In this case, I am a supporter of the same principle. Reward Kuleba with a shovel right now and send him somewhere near Avdiivka. Let him fight, chatterbox.

Ukraine "will fight with shovels" if the West stops giving weapons, — Foreign Minister Kuleba

The Ukrainian army will "fight with shovels" if Western countries stop supplying weapons and ammunition to the Kiev regime. This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in an interview with ABC News.

"Even if we run out of weapons, we will fight with shovels, because the existence of the nation is at stake for Ukraine," the Ukrainian minister explained.

He also said that Kiev does not intend to negotiate with Moscow until the Armed Forces of Ukraine take a "stronger position on the battlefield."

Earlier, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic Communications at the White House National Security Council, said that the United States had stopped supplying weapons and military equipment to Ukraine due to the lack of budget funds for this program.

https://rusvesna.su/news/1705386394

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Я снимаю шляпу, так сказать. С C's трудно спорить, уж больно авторитетный источник. Вот так в наши времена самые невероятные вещи оказываются реальностью.
В кои то веки я согласен с нацистом, но только при одном условии. Закон, который он предлагает должен начинаться с Зеленского ибо он четыре раза уклонялся от призыва в ВСУ и продолжаться он должен по всем "элитариям" Укропии. Они там все такие.
В этом случае я сторонник того же принципа. Наградить Кулебу лопатой прямо сейчас и отправить куда-нибудь под Авдеевку. Пускай повоюет, болтун.

 

[Evan]

“Fighting with shovels”. That sounds oddly familiar to me. I remember people saying someone was fighting with shovels somewhere just last year.

What’s the deal with shovels anyway? I’ve seen Frankenstein like 100 times, and not one of those villagers is carrying a shovel. Axes, pitchforks, clubs…maybe a hammer. Shovels. I guess. Am I still typing? Sorry.

 

[PERLOU]

François Asselineau
@UPR_Asselineau
16h
REDDITION UKRAINIENNE
90% des maigres troupes restantes d'un bataillon d'infanterie ukrainien se sont rendus aux forces armées russes. Neige,froid,visages épuisés.
Il faut que cette immolation de l'Ukraine sur l'autel des intérêts des États-Unis et de l'OTAN cesse.
Honte à Macron
Citation
Renard Jean-Michel
@Renardpaty
15 janv.
90% du 1er bataillon d'infanterie de la 4e brigade blindée des forces armées ukrainiennes se sont rendus aux forces armées russes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1746799110701601108

François Asselineau
@UPR_Asselineau
16h
UKRAINIAN SURRENDER
90% of the meagre remaining troops of a Ukrainian infantry battalion surrendered to the Russian armed forces. Snow, cold, exhausted faces.
This immolation of Ukraine on the altar of US and NATO interests must stop.
Shame on Macron
Quote
Renard Jean-Michel
@Renardpaty
15 Jan.
90% of the 1st infantry battalion of the 4th armoured brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces have surrendered to the Russian armed forces

 

[PERLOU]

Silvano Trotta Officiel

Zelensky rencontre les principaux "investisseurs" (propriétaires) ukrainiens Il s'est entretenu ce matin avec Jamie Dimon de JPMorgan Chase & Co, Steve Schwartzman de Blackstone Inc. et le fondateur de Bridgewater, Ray Dalio. Vous comprenez à qui profite la guerre en Ukraine ? La CIA...

t.me

Zelensky rencontre les principaux "investisseurs" (propriétaires) ukrainiens
Il s'est entretenu ce matin avec Jamie Dimon de JPMorgan Chase & Co, Steve Schwartzman de Blackstone Inc. et le fondateur de Bridgewater, Ray Dalio.
Vous comprenez à qui profite la guerre en Ukraine ?
La CIA formalise un coup d'Etat en 2014.
Les marionnettes US au pouvoir bombardent le Donbass depuis.
Les occidentaux ne respectent pas les Accords de Minsk.
Poutine obligé d'intervenir pour sauver les populations russophones d'Ukraine.
Les marchands d'armes US font fortune.
Les investisseurs US reprennent l'Ukraine.
Les dindons de la farce ? Toujours les mêmes : NOUS et les peuples innocents.

Zelensky meets leading Ukrainian 'investors' (owners)
This morning he met with Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase & Co, Steve Schwartzman of Blackstone Inc. and Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio.
Do you understand who is profiting from the war in Ukraine?
The CIA formalised a coup d'état in 2014.
The US puppets in power have been bombing the Donbass ever since.
The West is not respecting the Minsk Agreements.
Putin forced to intervene to save the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
US arms dealers are making a fortune.
US investors take over Ukraine.
Who are the fall guys? Always the same: US and innocent people.

 

[PERLOU]

Boris Karpov 🇷🇺 📣 Chroniques de Russie

⚡️⚡️Un député européen slovaque a appelé l’Occident à cesser de détruire le peuple slave "Si vous n'arrêtez pas de fournir des armes à l'Ukraine et de tuer les Slaves, alors nous, les Slaves, nous unirons en frères, et je crois que nous nous unirons et raserons l'Europe occidentale", a déclaré...

t.me

Un député européen slovaque a appelé l’Occident à cesser de détruire le peuple slave
"Si vous n'arrêtez pas de fournir des armes à l'Ukraine et de tuer les Slaves, alors nous, les Slaves, nous unirons en frères, et je crois que nous nous unirons et raserons l'Europe occidentale", a déclaré Miroslav Radakovsky.

A Slovak MEP has called on the West to stop destroying the Slav people
"If you don't stop supplying arms to Ukraine and killing Slavs, then we Slavs will unite as brothers, and I believe we will unite and raze Western Europe to the ground", said Miroslav Radakovsky.

 

[PERLOU]

Boris Karpov 🇷🇺 📣 Chroniques de Russie

❗️Nous avons toujours défendu nos intérêts - et maintenant nous les défendrons - Poutine ▪️L'Ukraine a échoué dans sa contre-offensive ; si cela continue, la question de son statut d'État se posera bientôt ; ▪️Si la même chose continue comme aujourd'hui, l'État ukrainien pourrait subir un coup...

t.me

Nous avons toujours défendu nos intérêts - et maintenant nous les défendrons - Poutine

L'Ukraine a échoué dans sa contre-offensive ; si cela continue, la question de son statut d'État se posera bientôt ;

Si la même chose continue comme aujourd'hui, l'État ukrainien pourrait subir un coup irréparable et très grave ;

Les gens qui se sont tournés vers l'OTAN ont trahi leurs ancêtres, les traîtres ne gagnent jamais à long terme ;

Nous avons toujours traité notre Patrie avec soin, cette tradition se transmet de cœur à cœur.

We have always defended our interests - and now we will defend them - Putin
L Ukraine has failed in its counter-offensive; if this continues, the question of its statehood will soon arise;
Si the same thing continues as it is today, the Ukrainian state could suffer an irreparable and very serious blow;
Les people who have turned to NATO have betrayed their ancestors, traitors never win in the long run;
Nous have always treated our homeland with care, and this tradition is passed down from heart to heart.

 

[Dotini]

“Fighting with shovels”. That sounds oddly familiar to me. I remember people saying someone was fighting with shovels somewhere just last year.

What’s the deal with shovels anyway? I’ve seen Frankenstein like 100 times, and not one of those villagers is carrying a shovel. Axes, pitchforks, clubs…maybe a hammer. Shovels. I guess. Am I still typing? Sorry.

I think every infantryman beginning with the Romans is issued a shovel, being essential to dig foxholes, trenches, etc. Back in the day, Americans were asked to carry a shovel and bucket in their cars to fight forest fires they may encounter along the desolate highways in the west. I've carried a small military surplus shovel in the trunk of my car for roadside emergencies, but thankfully it's never been used.