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

Chinese state media shared this infographic about US biolabs (apologies for the size). Xi and his friends are NOT going to let this issue disappear into the ether, never to be spoke of again.
I could not find the link for the image, but went looking. Below are some illustrations and headlines from the last few days. On the pages they have Twitter, FB, We Chat and Weibo links.

The first is the one quoted:
INFOGRAPHIC / MORE
US' bio-web
By Global TimesPublished: Mar 16, 2022 10:45 PM

Editor's Note:

US-funded bio-labs reportedly discovered in Ukraine have attracted global attention as many question the US' inconsistent responses regarding the matter, for a full clarification of its bio-military activities within and outside its borders. The Global Times lays out the spread of the US' Cooperative Biological Engagement Program and wide concerns over its labs' potential risks and safety loopholes. https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/...3-17/ce211ddd-bbe8-428b-a693-a1ac8f6d744d.jpg

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US-funded bio-labs raise public health concerns
By Feng QingyinPublished: Mar 10, 2022 10:51 PM Updated: Mar 15, 2022 07:10 PM

US-funded bio-labs raise public health concerns Graphic: Feng Qingyin/GT

US-funded bio-labs raise public health concerns Graphic: Feng Qingyin/GT

CHINA / DIPLOMACY
US obliged to clarify the concerns of intl community on its military bio-labs around the world: Chinese FM
By Global TimesPublished: Mar 16, 2022 06:03 PM
The US has the obligation to abide by the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and clarify the concerns of the international community on its military biological labs around the world, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry made the comments after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed the importance of establishing a verification mechanism as US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine have caused concerns.

For a long time, the international community has had serious concerns over the US' military biological activities at home and abroad. This is not the issue of US' labs in Ukraine alone, nor is it a new issue arising from the current situation, Zhao Lijian, spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry, said at Wednesday's media briefing.

He said China welcomes the international community's joint assessment of the documents disclosed by Russia under the framework of the BWC and the UN. And at the same time, we will hear US' clarification in a fair and just manner, Zhao said.

The international community can also take this opportunity to restart the negotiation of establishing a verification mechanism of the Convention.

"We once again urge the US to change its opposition to the establishment of a verification mechanism, and US' change will help restore the international community's confidence in US' compliance with its international obligations and improve global biosecurity," Zhao said.

For decades, the US has been constantly accusing other countries of failing to comply with their commitments and accept international inspections. The US has even resorted to sanctions against other countries over the issue. Why the US can ignore the inspection and simply say "I complied" when it comes to its own responsibility? The US can hardly be trusted by the international community based on its credibility, Zhao said.

The issue of US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine must be addressed within the framework of the BWC, Lavrov said during a briefing on Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.

In addition to over 30 biolabs in Ukraine, the United States has created "hundreds of such laboratories" in other countries, Lavrov noted.

Global Times

International voices urge US explanation for bioweapons accusations
By GT staff reporters Published: Mar 17, 2022 10:12 PM Updated: Mar 17, 2022 11:45 PM
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Screengrab of Russian Defence Ministry briefing showing US-sponsored biolabs on Ukraininan territory. Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence

Screengrab of Russian Defence Ministry briefing showing US-sponsored biolabs on Ukraininan territory. Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence
Russia is now strengthening its accusations against the US of developing biological weapons in Ukraine with documents and evidence it had detained amid its military operations in its neighboring country, and the US keeps claiming that Russia's accusations are "disinformation" even if statements from different officials of the Biden administration are contradictory, and this has caused rising international concerns over US biolabs worldwide.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an extensive speech on the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday. "There was a network of dozens of laboratories in Ukraine, where military biological programs were conducted under the guidance and with the financial support of the Pentagon, including experiments with coronavirus strains, anthrax, cholera, African swine fever and other deadly diseases," Putin said during his speech.

Putin noted that "frantic attempts" are underway to conceal the "traces of these secret programs," according to RT.

Analysts said Putin's remarks showed that Russia is very serious about the accusations against the US, and apart from providing documents it had obtained in Ukraine, and in order to further verify the accusations, Moscow and Kiev could consider inviting an international investigation team to include neutral countries like China, India, Turkey and representatives from international organizations to enter the relevant facilities to collect more direct and convincing evidence.

The responses from Washington have made the international community more concerned. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki last week called out Russian claims that the United States has secretly operated chemical and biological weapons laboratories on Ukrainian territory as a "disinformation campaign."

But Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland previously said at a hearing in Congress that the US has "biological research facilities" in Ukraine
and she said "we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops… may be seeking to gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."

The US is a country that has rejected the protocol of monitoring bioweapons to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), so all its biolabs worldwide have no transparency. Due to the accidents related to these labs in the past, and the nasty record of the US using biological and chemical weapons in Vietnam and the Korean Peninsula, experts said it's necessary for the international community to exert more pressure on the US to accept the BWC, and to prevent it from using other countries' soil for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) development.

Wang Yiwei, director of the institute of international affairs at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times on Thursday that the US needs hundreds of biolabs worldwide in the territories of its allies so that when it can't break the nuclear balance with its competitors, it needs some other WMDs to reinforce its strategic deterrence, and the biological and chemical weapons are their choices.

"The international community has already been greatly concerned about US military biological activities. They have 336 laboratories around the world. This number comes from the information provided by the US to the Conference of Parties of the BWC," Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun said at a UN Security Council meeting on March 11 on the matter of US biolabs in Ukraine. At the meeting, the US groundlessly accused China of spreading disinformation while China was just simply urging the US to clarify itself with transparency and evidence.

Du Kaiyuan, a Shanghai-based military commentator, said the US needs hundreds of such facilities around the world rather than concentrate on the research at its domestic labs because "the tests for biological weapons need live tests which might cause legal problems in the US, but it can get enough samples from other countries."

World concerns

The concerns are not only from Russia and China. Experts from many other countries, including the US, also raised their concerns over the matter.

Jeffrey Kaye, a former clinical psychologist in San Francisco, told the Global Times on Thursday in a video interview that the US needs to provide the documentation and open up to what's really being done in those labs in Ukraine.

"We need to declassify the records going back to the end of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War so that we can find out what they are doing in these hundreds of biolabs." But unfortunately, "the problem is they [the US government] won't do that," Kaye said.

Sheradil Baktygulov, a Kyrgyz independent political analyst based in Bishkek, told the Global Times on Thursday, "The formal explanations of the US authorities on more than 300 US biolabs activities around the world do not match the real situation on the ground. The truth is much darker as has been shown by many independent investigations since 2018."

"There were numerous mysterious outbreaks of human illnesses and losses of livestock in Georgia, Ukraine and Russian provinces bordering that country since 2007. Moreover, the US is keeping its bioweapons in violation of international treaties," he.

If the US is a peaceful and peacemaking country and follows democratic principles, then it has to be more transparent and open on US biolab operations around the world, said Baktygulov, noting that "Greater transparency will give mankind the opportunity to see beyond the formal explanations on US biolabs and the US might be recognized as a more trusted partner internationally."

"At this point, all humanity needs transparency, not only the people on the battlefield but also the entire world," Abdullah Agar, a security expert and academic at the Istanbul-based Bahcesehir University, said in a recent interview with the Xinhua News Agency.

Korkut Ulucan, a Turkish specialist in medical biology and genetics, said such laboratories must be accessible to international scientific committees, and their activities need to be audited by multiple independent organizations.

"To prevent a leak, these laboratories should be gradually evacuated with utmost care, under high-level security conditions and the supervision of a committee of scientists, and they must be inactivated," Ulucan, also an academic at the Istanbul-based Marmara University and lecturer at the Uskudar University, told Xinhua.

What is the US hiding in the biolabs discovered in Ukraine? Infographic: Deng Zijun/GT

What is the US hiding in the biolabs discovered in Ukraine? Infographic: Deng Zijun/GT
What can we do?

Wang said that the problem is that the current international order can't impose very effective restrictions and law enforcement on the US when it violates international laws or breaks the basic norms of international relations, or force it to be transparent on sensitive issues like WMDs.


"So if the US refuses to be transparent and be immune to accusations from Russia and keeps pretending to be blind to the concerns raised by world scientists, Washington won't pay a significant price," he said.

Song Zhongping, a military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times that the international community can keep pressuring the US to accept the protocol for monitoring bioweapons of the BWC, as this is the obligation that the US should take, so that it will abide by laws, and the difficulties for the US to continue such research worldwide will be harder.

"And those US allies who have cooperated with the US on biological research with military or CIA backgrounds should also be responsible for their own people's security, and these countries should also join the BWC and execute the right to monitor what the US is doing in their countries," Song noted.
The above Infographic about What is the US hiding can also be found here:
The US Government is becoming a target of blame that US talk will be unable to counteract. To add to the misery on March 15, there was this illustration:

CIA mind control myth
By Deng ZijunPublished: Mar 15, 2022 11:03 PM
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Remember that Mar. 10th VICE post about surplus armour being donated by the NYC Police to Ukraine? They never made it, maybe. It's a bit of a head scratcher.


From RT:

Hundreds of Bulletproof Vests Donated to Ukraine Stolen From New York Warehouse, Police Say

Mar. 17, 2022

After signing off on a $13.6 billion bill to aid Ukraine earlier this week, US President Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday another $800 million. The aid includes both weapons and humanitarian help for more than 3 million refugees.

More than 400 used bulletproof vests donated by US police forces to be sent to Ukraine were stolen from a New York warehouse on Wednesday, according to police.

Since the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian officials have sought supplies from abroad, including everything from food rations and medical equipment to MiG fighter jets used by neighboring countries. While some of these supplies have been bought by the Ukrainian authorities, including through the use of a state-directed cryptocurrency fund, others have simply been donated.

According to Coindesk, Ukraine’s crypto donation fund operated by the Ministry of Digital Transformation, its de facto crypto ministry, has received $60 million and Ukraine’s national bank has received another $280 million in fiat currency donations.

In the US, Ukrainian-American nonprofits have helped organize these efforts, including the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, who received some 450 bulletproof vests from New York City metro area police departments.

The vests had been decommissioned
, but according to the police officials who donated them, they are still effective at protecting those who wear them. They were intended to go to medics and humanitarian workers, not to soldiers or mercenaries fighting Russian forces.

However, the vests never got to Ukraine.
According to the New York Police Department, the vests were stolen from a Manhattan warehouse on Wednesday morning.

Surveillance video from a nearby shop revealed three different vans pulling up to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America building over the course of three hours, and several people getting out of the vans and loading them up with box after box of donated vests before driving off.

NYPD did not indicate whether they had a lead on the owners of the vans or the perpetrators of the crime.
 
Had a very interesting talk with a neighbor today. Sadly he is into the Q business. :-( On the positive side, he is not buying the Russia, Russia, Russia is evil and Ukraine the innocent victim of Madman Putin. He seems to understand a lot of what's actually going on in the area, albeit he also seems to think Trump and the "Q-team" are secretly in league with Putin to destroy the Deep State apparatus in the Ukraine. They've been planning this for years. :rolleyes:

Aside from Q-gloss disinformation, my neighbor was very pleased to read Political Ponerology - a book I loaned him. He did read it and told me he can't believe he once admired Bush and Cheney! No more. He sees through the endless war lies and has a better idea of how wars happen. He showed me this cartoon and was excited to see psychopathology used to describe how wars can start.

Psychopathologyand War.png


My neighbor said he stopped listening to Max Igin (sic?) because Max seems convinced that Putin is part of the Elites and is in Ukraine to purposely star WWIII along with the opposing team.

He and I agreed that there is a war going on between Putin and TPTB. Putin is doing what is necessary to keep his country and people safe. Putin realizes there are very evil elements in the Ukraine that need to be taken out. Bad for the innocents caught in the crossfire, for sure. We both were appalled by the recent Ukrainian media personality quoting Nazi Eichmann and using that to justify killing Russians, especially children. Yes, my neighbor got the story from one of his forums!
 
I don't know if it's possible to joke about this, but I want to offer a half-joking logical conclusion. Putin declared the West an "empire of lies." Logically, the one opposing the "empire of lies" is the "empire of truth". Now, if we recall Reagan's words about the USSR as an "evil empire" and assume that they did not become an "empire of lies" yesterday, it turns out that the USSR, and therefore Russia, as the successor of the USSR, is an "empire of good". Voila! Russia is an "empire of goodness and truth", which was required to be proved. Please don't throw slippers at me too much - it's still a joke, although there is a Russian saying - "there is some truth in every joke"

Let's get to the facts: Russia responded to Biden's attack on Putin (VIDEO)
18.03.2022 - 4:30
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky in his Telegram channel commented on the statement of US President Joe Biden.

"Biden once again made absolutely unacceptable statements about Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a "war criminal."

Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have heard boorish statements from Washington. But Biden's words sound especially blasphemous right now - against the background of the recent missile strike on Donetsk, which claimed the lives of more than 20 people, including children.

War criminals are those who gave such orders and those who cover them up!

But let's leave the emotions, let's get to the facts. In 1999, Biden, while still a senator, practically bragged that he proposed bombing Belgrade, destroying bridges and seizing oil.

Moreover, Biden is one of the sponsors of the resolution calling for the bombing of Yugoslavia. Then the NATO coalition indiscriminately beat at civilians and even foreign embassies!

But that wasn't enough for Biden. Speaking in the US Senate, he demanded to "send troops into the desert again" to overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as he allegedly possessed weapons of mass destruction. But what matters is when he talked about it. Not in 2003, not after the terrorist attacks of 2001, but back in 1998!

Of course, in 2002 Biden voted for the invasion of Iraq, but later changed his position for the sake of criticizing the Republican Bush administration. The destroyed country, the killed and maimed Iraqis did not bother him. And chemical weapons have not been found in Iraq.

On September 14, 2001, Biden voted for a joint congressional resolution authorizing the use of armed forces against those responsible for the 2001 terrorist attacks. 20 years later, President Biden decided to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, which turned into a humanitarian catastrophe.

And, of course, let's not forget that the conflict in Syria, when the United States generously supported the "moderate opposition", that is, militants and extremists, broke out during the Obama—Biden administration. This is already a separate dossier, which did not end tragically only thanks to the assistance provided by Russia to the legitimate Syrian government.

All these "democratizing" operations in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria were accompanied by the death of civilians, strikes on villages and towns, provocations. And who is a war criminal after that?

A very uncomfortable question for Washington. But we won't stop talking about facts. As President Vladimir Putin noted yesterday at a meeting on measures of socio-economic support for the regions, no matter what resources the "empire of lies" has Of the West, "it is still powerless against truth and justice.""
https://rusvesna.su/news/1647547001

Biden called Putin a "bloody dictator and the purest thug" (VIDEO)
17.03.2022 - 20:45
US President Joe Biden has again made an insulting statement to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

"Now Ireland and Great Britain are standing against a bloody dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine," he said.
https://rusvesna.su/news/1647539118

Не знаю можно ли шутить по этому поводу, но хочу предложить полушутливое логическое умозаключение. Путин объявил Запад "империей лжи". По логике, противостоящий "империи лжи" является "империей правды". Теперь, если мы вспомним слова Рейгана об СССР, как об "империи зла" и предположим, что "империей лжи" они стали далеко не вчера, то получается, что СССР, а значит и Россия, как правопреемник СССР, является "империей добра". Вуаля! Россия- "империя добра и правды", что и требовалось доказать. Прошу не сильно кидать в меня тапками- это все таки шутка, хотя есть русская поговорка- "в каждой шутке есть доля правды"
 
Again from SouthFront

On March 5, member of the Ukrainian delegation for the first round of negotiations with Moscow was assassinated in Kiev.


The Ukrainian negotiator who took part at the first Russian-Ukrainian meeting in Gomel Kireev Denis Borisovich was killed in the center of the capital near the building of the Pecherskiy court. He was shot in his head...

From here, there is another look at this with a March 10th article with updates. A video embedded, too. this is part 2 by a Ukrainian journalist living in Canada who had been a candidate in the Communist Party of Canada (CCP), so not your average journalist. Now i don't usually look at the CCP's stance/slant (for instance the CCP, at one point, denounced the Canadian Truckers (used the right-wing schtick), but even he has a few articles on Ottawa and the heavy government hand that came with it.)

The unreported ‘battle for Kyiv’ (2)

Why was a member of the Ukrainian delegation for negotiations with the Russian Federation, Denis Kireev, killed in Kyiv? A wave of murders continues with or without reason. The war will write everything off. | DMITRY KOVALEVICH *

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Denis Kireev, © RIA Novosti, Alexander Kryazhe
(Exclusive, March 5) – On Saturday, March 5, Denis Kireev, a representative of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Belarus, was assassinated right next to the building of the Pechersk Court in Kyiv, the capital. Ukrainian media published a photo of the murdered man in the city centre. According to the deputy from the “Servant of the People” Oleksandr Dubinsky, he was killed by representatives of the special services of Ukraine (SBU) on suspicion of treason.

The information was confirmed by the deputy from Eurosolidarity Oleksiy Goncharenko.

“During the arrest, the Security Service of Ukraine shot dead a member of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation, Denis Kireev. He was suspected of high treason,” wrote Goncharenko in his telegram channel.

Even under any laws of wartime, such a murder cannot be justified. The phrase “when trying to detain” one unarmed person at the entrance to the courthouse in the centre of the capital, controlled by the security forces of Kyiv, does not hold water. Even a child will not believe that the SBU could not calmly detain a person.

Suspicion, if it is somehow justified, requires proof. Even a military tribunal, suspecting military personnel of treason during the war, is conducting a trial. And, most likely, there was no evidence in the Kireev case, which is why they went for a direct murder. In this case, we are dealing with execution without trial, although, ironically, at the courthouse. Such behaviour is usually characteristic of agonizing regimes, whose representatives have nothing to lose.

Thus, in Ukraine, a wave of murders continues with or without reason. The basis is often just suspicion. Paranoia covers not only representatives of the special services, but also ordinary citizens. However, in the case of Kireev, the redistribution of financial flows in the National Bank of Ukraine seems to be under the guise.

Denis Kireev, who was killed without trial or investigation, was a representative of Ukrainian big business. Between 2006 and 2008 he worked at SCM Finance, where he held the position of Deputy General Director. Then he worked in the Austrian company GROUP SLAV AG of Ukrainian businessmen Klyuevs , located in Vienna. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Ukreximbank. From 2010 to 2014, he held the position of First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the State Oschadbank. He was also involved in the management of the private funds, Private Equity Fund and Fixed Income Fund.

The accusation of treason and the murder were, most likely, completely neo-Nazi militants who work, including for the SBU. The accusation of treason Kireev was filed with the SBU on February 22 by an ultra-right group from among the supporters of ex-president Petro Poroshenko .

On that day, the public organization “Unknown Patriot” registered with the SBU a statement about the alleged fact of treason against Denis Kireev. This was stated by the head of the NGO “Unknown Patriot” Yevhen Strokan on the air of Channel 5, which is associated with Poroshenko.

“Kireev is an exposed Russian agent. In fact, his cooperation with the Russian Federation was leaked to the network a long time ago and has been ongoing since 2006. We, in our public organization Unknown Patriot, track such characters and try to publicize their anti-Ukrainian activities so that they do not have the opportunity to continue destructive actions against our statehood,” said Yevhen Strokan.

At the same time, Strokan said that information had recently appeared that Kireev could soon be appointed to the post of deputy head of the National Bank. According to Strokan, since 2020 they have been submitting applications to the SBU to prevent this person from holding the highest position in the NBU, but their applications have been ignored. Nevertheless, the Unknown Patriot organization announced on February 22 that it would put pressure on the authorities.

What happened on March 5 near the Pechersk Court looks more like extreme measures on the part of neo-Nazis from Poroshenko’s entourage, whose goal is to control the National Bank.

Any military action and economic chaos in the country is always a favourable time for big bankers and swindlers. Billions disappear under the guise, and the war, as they say, will write everything off. Now the National Bank of Ukraine has received huge funds from Western partners. We’re talking about billions.

The head of the National Bank, Kirill Shevchenko , said on March 3 that over the past week Ukraine has received $15 billion in financial and material assistance from the West. The slain Denis Kireev was predicted to be the deputy of Kirill Shevchenko. Two days after the $15 billion was announced, the likely future deputy head of the NBU was assassinated. And this happened after numerous and unsuccessful attempts on the part of the ultra-right from Poroshenko’s entourage to accuse him of treason.

There are no such means and methods that will not be used in the fight for billions of Western funds and governments.

Obviously, Ukraine is facing a whole wave of murders based only on suspicions and allegations of treason. This argument will be used against competitors in business or from the desire to take someone’s lucrative position. Who was the first to shout “Treason!” and fired, he was right.

Perhaps a whole chain of murders of representatives of the bureaucracy, all kinds of little-known, but well-informed assistants and deputies, who were engaged on behalf of big business and big politics in all sorts of murky and dark deeds. On the eve of surrender, many will need to get rid of unwanted witnesses of the dark machinations of the “powerful ones.” So the murder of Kireev, most likely, is only the beginning of this process.

At the same time, the murder of a representative of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks in broad daylight in the centre of Kyiv, based only on the suspicions of the ultra-right, speaks of many other things. In fact, this becomes yet another evidence that any agreements with the Ukrainian delegation will not be respected if they do not suit the ultra-right and neo-Nazis, as was the case with the Minsk agreements.

Update

An update on the situation which makes the case even stranger: Ukraine’s Intelligence Service of Defence Ministry said the killed banker Denis Kireyev was their agent. They claim: “He died defending Ukraine!” They report further about killing two other of their agents!

But it was originally reported that he was killed by Security Service because of suspicion of treason earlier today. This also looks like there is infighting between Ukraine’s services that are killing each other.

* Contributing correspondent Dmitry Kovalevich is a professional journalist, analyst and columnist for Ukrainia.ru, amongst other publications. His Facebook site is the go-to place in social media for information and discussion on Ukraine. Slightly edited for grammar and clarity.

Update

An update on the situation which makes the case even stranger: Ukraine’s Intelligence Service of Defence Ministry said the killed banker Denis Kireyev was their agent. They claim: “He died defending Ukraine!” They report further about killing two other of their agents!

But it was originally reported that he was killed by Security Service because of suspicion of treason earlier today. This also looks like there is infighting between Ukraine’s services that are killing each other.

* Contributing correspondent Dmitry Kovalevich is a professional journalist, analyst and columnist for Ukrainia.ru, amongst other publications. His Facebook site is the go-to place in social media for information and discussion on Ukraine. Slightly edited for grammar and clarity.

***

Update

Soldiers of the ‘Peacemaker’ regiment shot a car with the ex-deputy head of the SBU in Kiev and the region – journalist​

Strana (Country), the third largest online news portal, reported today (23:35, March 10, 2022):

Journalist Vladimir Boyko reports that soldiers of the Peacemaker police regiment shot at a Toyota car that did not stop at a checkpoint.

Behind the wheel was, according to Boyko, Dmitry Demyanenko, ex-deputy head of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv and the Kiev region.

This happened today around 18:00 in the Darnitsky district of Kyiv.

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Dmitry Kovalech reports “According to the police, they believed that the car belonged to Russian saboteurs. The security service especially uses ‘unknown’ and ‘unidentified’ cars.

“The war between the special services in Kyiv is in full swing. They pretend to fight against Russian saboteurs in Kiev but still it is exclusively infighting in the city.”

The Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) regiment is alternatively referred to as a volunteer, police, punitive or death battalion in the Ukrainian and Russian media and generally filled with criminal elements.

In part 1 the author writes on weapons distribution to citizens in Ukraine, with some interesting bits (don't agree with all he said):

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Russian war correspondent Alexander Kotsdraws parallels with the distribution of weapons in Libya in 2011, which he witnessed. He believes that this is why the Western embassies were evacuated from Kyiv so quickly, although it is obvious that the Russian army would not have bombed them. ”Tripoli immediately turned into a gangster freemen, in which everyone fired at everyone, there were roadblocks with armed children on the roads, and only luck and a person with the same Kalashnikov could guarantee your safety. None of them was going to defend Gaddafi, and the rebels who entered the city dealt with the bandits harshly and quickly. Thousands of guns distributed to civilians in Ukraine will not strengthen the defense of cities. But for a long time they will come back to haunt blood in criminal reports. Actually, foreign diplomats were evacuated from Kyiv not so much because of the Russian threat. The West has a lot of experience in sowing chaos in foreign states.

Political scientist Sergei Markov believes that by distributing weapons, the regime of Vladimir Zelensky is trying to hide the theft from military depots. In his opinion, the distribution of weapons also clearly shows that the authorities in Kyiv are well aware that they will not be in power in Kyiv in a few days.
 
06:08, March 18, 2022
Mir
Zelensky was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
In the European Parliament, President of Ukraine Zelensky was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Former and current European politicians have nominated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is reported on the website of the award committee.

In the appeal, the politicians ask to extend the deadline for nominating candidates until March 31 "in the light of historical and unprecedented events." "This is necessary to ensure the nomination of President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine for the Nobel Peace Prize," the authors of the initiative explained.

Thus, European politicians want to demonstrate to the people of Ukraine that the world is on their side, the statement says.

In January, former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was again nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. The candidacy was put forward by Norwegian deputies Vervik Bulestad and Harek Elvesen for the fact that Tikhanovskaya "is a symbol of the ongoing struggle of Belarusian citizens for freedom."
Зеленского выдвинули на Нобелевскую премию мира

Actually, this was to be expected. After Obama, what is there to be surprised about. I regret that Bokassa died early, that was the most humane man. In the literal sense, including, he loved human flesh.

Собственно этого следовало ожидать. После Обамы чему же тут удивляться. Я жалею, что рано сдох Бокасса, вот самый человечный человечище был. В буквальном смысле в том числе, человечину любил.
 
Terminator says no nazis in Ukraine, Putin must be terminated "hasta la vista baby"

:rotfl:

For reference, Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was a 'Nazi Brownshirt'; wiki:

Gustav Schwarzenegger
Wikipedia
Austrian police chief, postal inspector, Nazi Brownshirt, and a military police officer. He was the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's notable that Chrystia Freeland who has been overseeing the tyrannical policies in Canada was also the granddaughter of a Nazi collaborator. She was also seen at a recent rally showing support for Ukraine.

Chrystia Freeland’s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation

Obviously just because someone's relatives were Nazi's or Nazi collaborators it doesn't mean they will have beliefs like their relatives (or that their relatives had much of a choice), but in light of the Nazification (and subsequent denazification) of Ukraine, it's worth noting, i think.
 
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A Russian battle tank near KyivThe 22nd day of the Russian military operation in Ukraine passed through the path laid down by the developments of the last days. Both Ukraine and Russia reported no major military breakthroughs in the form of capturing of large cities or offensive operations. Nonetheless, the joint forces of Russia, the DPR and the LPR once again tightened the creep on Kyiv’s forces in the region of Donbass. At the same time, Russia reinforced its gains around the Ukrainian capital as well as the country’s northeast, and reshuffled its units in Mykolaiv Region creating conditions for the advance along the western bank of Dnipro River in the south of Ukraine.As in the previous days, on March 17, the most active military actions took place in the region of Donbass.Forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic supported by the Russian military continued their operation aimed the full elimination of the grouping of Kyiv’s forces in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration. According to the Russian military, LPR troops already entered Rubejnoe, north of the agglomeration and the city of Severodonetsk from several directions. Eearlier, they de-facto cut off the groping of Kyiv’s forces there by reaching the southeast of Severodonetsk.Pro-Kyiv units there are under a direct threat of the full encirclement and now are trying to slowly withdraw towards Slovyansk and Kramatorsk under strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The main goal of Kyiv’s units remaining in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration is to buy time and slow down the advance of LPR, DPR and Russia in the region.In the sector south of the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration, Russian-led forces have been working to secure the town of Popasnaya. The town itself mostly remains in the hands of the advancing forces. Meanwhile, Kyiv’s units still have to be pushed back from its countryside.On March 16 and 17, units of the Donetsk People’s Republic were conducting offensive actions to capture the settlements of Maryinka, Slavnoe and Sladkoe in the sector of operations east of Donetsk city. No major gains were achieved. The areas of Maryinka, Peski and Adviivka are well-fortified strong points of Kyiv’s forces in the countryside of the DPR capital. The elimination of these strong points as part of the direct attack on them is a complex task that would require time. Most likely, they will fall together only with the general collapse of the entire defense line of Kyiv’s forces there.By the evening of March 17, units of the Russian Armed Forces achieved tactical successes southeast of Maryinka by capturing the settlements of Novomaiskoe and Prechistovka. This advance threatens to cut off Maryinka from the rest of units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces remaining in the sector.As to the DPR, its military authorities declared that during the advance to liberate Maryinka they eliminated 3 US military instructors.
According to the DPR statement, during the operation to liberate the settlement, DPR forces eliminated a strong point of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. DPR units reported found there foreign weapons and personal belongings of US military instructors who took part in the hostilities on the side of Ukrainian nationalist battalions. The DPR said that the found belongings allowed to identify these instructors as Captain Michael Hawker, Lieutenant Logan Shrum and Lieutenant Cruz Toblin, “who came to Ukraine to kill civilians in Donbass in 2018 ”.
On March 16, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, said that foreign mercenaries that come to Ukraine they will share the fate of those who were recently eliminated in a strike on the military base in Lviv Region.
Intense fighting continues in the city of Mariupol in Donetsk Region. The joint forces of Russia and DPR work to eliminate the remaining members of Kyiv’s forces there. According to videos and photos appearing online, recently Russian and DPR troops advanced in the northern part of the city reaching its Central District.
Russian-led forces near Mariupol:
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The previous advances already allowed DPR and Russia to start evacuation of civilians from the city. According to the Russian side, during the past day, 42,992 people were evacuated from the city. Earlier, the evacuation was sabotaged by members of Ukrainian nationalist battalions. They worked and continue to work to prevent the evacuation to use civilians as human shield. Nonetheless, the fate of these criminals are predetermined as DPR and Russian troops already reached their main strongholds inside Mariupol.
Meanwhile in Mykilaiv Region, Russian forces fully blocked the provincial capital from the southern, eastern and northeastern directions. The road towards the town of Novaya Odessa, north of Mykolaiv, remains the only more or less ‘secure’ road that links Kyiv’s forces in the city with their colleagues in the adjusting regions.
The Russian Armed Forces also reportedly secured their gains as part of the advance towards Kryvoi Rog city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In this sector, Russian forces reached the Kochubeevka, Mykolaivka, Visokopillya line close to the town of Zelenodolsk.
As to Kherson Region, the situation there remained relatively calm. Nonetheless, in the evening of March 17, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reportedly launched 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles at Melitopol city. Both of them were shot down. Nonetheless, vestiges of one of the missiles reportedly hit the local gas pipeline.
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In the northeast of Ukraine, in particular in the region of Kharkiv, the situation may be described as a tactical stalemate. Russian forces are not storming Kharkiv city. The operation to capture the town of Izum in the south of the same region is yet to be finished.
The cities of Sumy, Chernihiv and several smaller towns in these regions remain fully blocked by Russian forces. Nonetheless, the Russians do not take active actions to capture them. The attention of the Russian Armed Forces in the north is aimed towards Kyiv city. Artillery and air power of the Russians are steadily eliminating the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the sectors of Brovary and Irpen. The road from Kyiv city towards the south is intentionally kept open to allow more and more civilians to leave the city.
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that during the day, aviation and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter near the village of Belki as well as five unmanned aerial vehicles, including a Bayraktar TB-2. Russian operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 29 military facilities of Ukraine. This included one installation of a multiple launch rocket system, three command posts, including one field mobile brigade command post, six ammunition depots and 14 military equipment gathering sites.

One of Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs downed in Ukraine:
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According to the Russian side, since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian forces have destroyed: 182 aircraft and helicopters, 177 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,393 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 134 multiple rocket launchers, 523 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 1,182 units of special military vehicles.
On top of this, Russia released more details on the military biological program of the United States in Ukraine. Documents (link) and the full speech (link) of the Chief of the Nuclear, Biologocal and Chemical Defence Troops of the Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on this matter was published on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry:
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study materials received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories on the implementation of military biological programs of the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine.
Western mass media and some biologists, who most often have a second American citizenship, express doubts about the reliability of the materials published by us. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the documents have the signatures of real officials and are certified by the seals of organizations.
We believe that components of biological weapons were created on the territory of Ukraine.
Here is a document dated March 6, 2015, confirming the Pentagon’s direct participation in the financing of military biological projects in Ukraine.
According to established practice, American projects in the field of sanitation in third countries, including in Africa and Asia, are funded through national health authorities.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the agreement on joint biological activities was concluded between the US Military Department and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. However, the real recipient of funds are the laboratories of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence located in Kiev, Odessa, Lvov and Kharkov. The total funding amounted to $32 million.
It is no coincidence that these biolabs were chosen by the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the contractor company Black & Vitch as the executors of the U-P-8 project aimed at studying the pathogens of the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis and hantaviruses. The corresponding request of the Pentagon to involve Ukrainian laboratories for the implementation of the project is presented on the slide. From our point of view, the interest of US military biologists is due to the fact that these pathogens have natural foci both on the territory of Ukraine and in Russia, and their use can be disguised as natural outbreaks of diseases. That is why this project has received additional funding, and the terms of its implementation have been extended.
A study of the documents in the part of the P-781 project on the study of ways of transmitting diseases to humans through bats showed that the work was carried out on the basis of a laboratory in Kharkov together with the infamous R. Lugar Center in Tbilisi. The total costs of the Pentagon for its implementation in Ukraine and Georgia amounted to $ 1.6 million, most of which was received by Ukraine as the main contractor.
The documents received by the Russian Ministry of Defence indicate that research in this area is systematic and has been conducted since at least 2009 under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States within the framework of projects P-382, P-444 and P-568. One of the curators of this activity was the head of the DTRA office at the US Embassy in Kiev, Joanna Wintrall. Maybe journalists should talk to her?
During the implementation of these projects, six families of viruses (including coronaviruses) and three types of pathogenic bacteria (pathogens of plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis) were identified. This is due to the main characteristics of these pathogens that make them favourable for the purposes of infection: resistance to drugs, rapid speed of spread from animals to humans, etc.
It is necessary to note a number of documents confirming the transfer of bioassays selected in Ukraine to the territory of third countries, including Germany, Great Britain, Georgia.
Here are official documents confirming the transfer of five thousand samples of blood serum of Ukrainian citizens to the R. Lugar Center affiliated with the Pentagon in Tbilisi, 773 bioassays were transferred to the reference laboratory of Great Britain. An agreement has been signed for the export of unlimited quantities of infectious materials to the Leffler Institute in Germany.
An analysis of the information received indicates that Ukrainian specialists are not aware of the potential risks of transferring biomaterials, are being used essentially blindly, and have no real idea of the true purpose of the research being conducted.
I would like to draw attention to outbreaks of economically significant diseases on the territory of the Russian Federation. In 2021 alone, the damage from highly pathogenic avian influenza exceeded 1.7 billion rubles, and 6 million heads of poultry were destroyed. At the same time, in European countries, the losses of the agricultural industry from it amounted to about 2.0 billion. euro.
Within the framework of the FLU-FLYWAY project, the Kharkov Institute of Veterinary Medicine studied wild birds as vectors for the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza. At the same time, the conditions under which spread processes can become unmanageable, cause economic damage and pose risks to food security have been assessed.
These documents confirm the involvement of the Kharkov Institute in the collection of avian influenza virus strains with high epidemic potential and capable of overcoming the interspecific barrier. The activities of this institute should be the subject of an international investigation.
Information continues to be received about attempts to destroy biomaterials and documentation in laboratories in Ukraine.
We know that during the liquidation measures in the laboratory of veterinary medicine in Khlebodarskoye, working employees (citizens of Ukraine) were not even allowed into the building! . . This laboratory cooperates with Anti-Plague Research Institute named after Mechnikov in Odessa, which conducts research with pathogens of plague, anthrax, cholera, tularemia, arboviruses.
In an attempt to cover their tracks, biological waste from the laboratory in Khlebodarskoye was taken 120 km away towards the western border to the area of Tarutino and Berezino settlements. All these facts are recorded by the Ministry of Defence for subsequent legal assessment.
It is necessary to mention the emergency destruction of documents in Kherson biological laboratory.
One of the reasons for such a rush may be the concealment of information about the outbreak of dirofilariasis, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, that occurred in Kherson in 2018. The question arises why four cases of infection were detected in February, which is unusual for the life cycle of these insects. In April 2018, representatives of the Pentagon visited local healthcare institutions, where they got acquainted with the results of the epidemiological investigation and copied medical documentation.
However, no documentary evidence has been found concerning this outbreak in Kherson laboratory. Proceeding from this, we believe that the urgency of destroying such documentary evidence is explained by the desire to prevent them from getting to Russian specialists.
In addition, attention is drawn to the fact of a sharp increase in cases of tuberculosis caused by new multi-resistant strains among citizens living in Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics in 2018. These data are confirmed by specialists of Rospotrebnadzor. During the mass outbreak recorded in the area of Peski settlement, more than 70 cases of the disease were detected, which ended in a rapid fatal outcome. This may indicate a deliberate infection, or an accidental leakage of the pathogen from one of the biolabs located on the territory of Ukraine.
In accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, the participating States submit to the UN information about objects and ongoing biological activities.
These are Confidence-building measures that are published in order to monitor the implementation of the Convention. Since 2016 – the moment of the beginning of the implementation of the projects mentioned by us (including UP-4, UP-8 and P-781), the USA and Ukraine have been deliberately silent about them in international reporting, despite their obvious military-biological orientation.
Such secrecy is another reason to think about the true goals of the Pentagon in Ukraine.
I would like to remind you of the historical facts when such irresponsible activities of the United States outside of national jurisdiction ended only with formal apologies from the American administration. So, in October 2010, US President Obama acknowledged the fact of conducting illegal research on Guatemalan citizens who were intentionally infected with syphilis and gonorrhea pathogens with the approval of the White House.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly called for the publication of data on the military biological activities of the Pentagon on the territory of third countries, but the collective West, led by the United States, consistently blocks this initiative, preferring to conduct research bypassing international obligations with “someone else’s hands”.
We will continue to study the evidence and inform the world community about the illegal activities of the Pentagon and other US government agencies in Ukraine.
These developments came amid even growing hysteria of Western diplomats and MSM over the Russian military operation in Ukraine. US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin “murderous dictator” and claimed that Russia is “waging an immoral war”. Apparently, NATO and in particular Washington are very unhappy to see the collapse of the anti-human regime in Ukraine that they created, funded and supported in the previous years. Despite official declarations that NATO is not going to participate in the conflict, NATO member states are openly supplying Kyiv with weapons, intelligence and mercenaries, as well as remain in the permanent state of search for other tricks that they can use to meddle.
Inspiring by these actions, Kyiv is actively sabotages a potential diplomatic settlement of the conflict via talks with Russia in Belarus. Instead, Kyiv’s authorities make ‘victories statements’ and send threats to the Russians. In these conditions, the reaching of the diplomatic solution of the current situation remains under the big question. This forces Moscow to continue its military operation and predetermines the fate of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 

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