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

Hungary April 3 election tie-in:
Which party will get the parliamentary majority? The war-crazy & Russia-hating Left will immediately push Hungary into getting involved in the war. Currently the Russia-friendly ruling party is holding a 41% <-vs.-> 39% majority.
So we have to vote for the 34 year old product of the CIA orange revolution in Hungary (1988) - Orban's gang - who managed to distance themselves from Soros+EU+CIA far enough to get some breathing space, while robbing taxpayers blind and using EU billions to enrich themselves and greater family via giving all of their tribe high paying jobs and Curious Fast-Tracking to Become Millionaires [while on measly ministerial salary..] Just like the Kazakh mafioso 'El prezidente'..

If Orban's Gipsy-gang wins, Hungary will have cheap Russian gas and low utility bills and Russia's favor.
If they loose the majority in the parliament, the Russia-hating Left comes to decide that Hungary suddenly hates Russia and the poor civilian Sheeple will have to pay 5x times higher bills for gas and prices of wheat will skyrocket: whatever the EU dictates. Bonus will be hyperinflation and mass starvation + looting of houses of course..

So come Sunday, I'll go vote for the Russia-friendly Hungarian Mafioso party.. to give this country a chance to remain stable for a while.
Until the fighting may spread from Ukraine to the West..
 
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Hungary April 3 election tie-in:
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While already this was news couple days ago: ministers of Ukraine denied it of course..

Ukraine accused of election meddling ​

Kiev’s government maintains constant contact with the Hungarian opposition, Budapest said.
Ukraine has been trying to interfere in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary, the country's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto claimed, on Tuesday, “A few days ago, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry [Dmytro Kuleba] called the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest to discuss the possibility of it influencing the results of the Hungarian elections,” Szijjarto asserted in a video address published on Facebook.
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There are a number of cartoons about the current conflict from China:

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So maybe, the goal of Russia is not to denazify the whole of Ukraine, only where it counts (Mariupul is after all mostly a Russian city taken hostage by the Azov nazis). The demilitarization on the other hand is necessary everywhere for the denazification "where it counts", and for the negociations with the future regime. The west of Ukraine is better left to the West to deal with since they love weirdos. It's speculation though.
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It is possible, but perhaps Ukraine will not yield to Russian requests and in the following stages they will be forced to go for more parts of this country.


The oil reserve refers to the amounts of this hydrocarbon already extracted and that are stored for emergency use in certain underground salt caves in Texas and Luciana.


US President Joe Biden has announced a massive release of the country's strategic oil reserve as the US tries to combat high prices at the pump.


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US dipping into oil reserve to curb rising gas prices​




US President Joe Biden has announced a massive release of the country's strategic oil reserve as the US tries to combat high prices at the pump.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the United States would release one million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months.
He said tapping the emergency stockpile aimed to combat high prices at the pump caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Our prices are rising because of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's actions. There isn't enough supply. And the bottom line is if we want lower gas prices, we need to have more oil supply right now," Biden said.
He said he had assurances from other nations that would also, "release tens of millions of additional barrels into the market" at what he described as, "a moment of consequence and peril for the world."

"Nations coming together to deny Putin the ability to weaponize his energy resources against American families and families in democracies around the world," Biden said.

Record release from strategic oil reserves​

Biden's 180 million-barrel release over six months is unprecedented.
"This is a wartime bridge to increase oil supply until production ramps up later this year, and it is by far the largest release of our national reserve in our history," he said.
Although oil prices dropped on reports of the move, the release was unlikely to resolve the energy crisis fully.
It won't make up for the loss of 3 million barrels per day of Russian oil which the International Energy Agency estimates will be caused by Western sanctions and as global buyers avoid the oil.


OPEC announces slight increase in oil output​

The OPEC group of oil-producing countries and Russia and its allies agreed on another modest oil output increase on Thursday.
The group, known as OPEC+, said it would add 432,000 barrels per day in May, marginally higher than in previous months.
Its decision comes despite pressure from the West to boost output.
"The consensus on the outlook pointed to a well-balanced market," the group said.
"Current volatility is not caused by fundamentals, but by ongoing geopolitical developments."
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called an emergency meeting on Friday.
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Pending future measures, perhaps they also do not want to stop the crisis completely in order to have someone to blame and continue with their agendas.

From ASB Military :
The United States will not recognize the results of any effort by Russia or its proxies to divide sovereign Georgian territory, US Department of State spokesman Ned Price said on the matter of South Ossetia
 
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Putin warns West of new migrant crisis​

The Russian president said that a global food crisis would “inevitably” be followed by a migration wave

Mar. 31, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Europe of a new influx of migrants that, in his opinion, will “inevitably” follow the food crisis.

Discussing on Thursday the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West in response to the Russian attack on Ukraine, Putin criticized the behavior of some Western politicians, who are allegedly prepared to sacrifice their citizens’ interests in order to “enjoy the good graces of their overseas master and overlord,” branding such an approach as “the opposite of populism.”

“People are urged to eat less, put on more clothes, and use less heating, give up on travel – presumably for the benefit of the people who are demanding this kind of voluntary deprivation as a sign of some abstract North Atlantic solidarity,” Putin said at a meeting on air transportation and aircraft manufacturing on Thursday.

He underlined that Moscow has been seeing “such questionable approaches and actions” in economic, energy, and food policies for more than a year.

"Incidentally, the food crisis will inevitably be followed by another one, another wave of migration, primarily to the European countries."

A few days ago, the risks of an “unprecedented” global food crisis were discussed at the G7 summit in Brussels. Since Russia and Ukraine are key crop suppliers in the world, the G7 leaders have blamed Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine for a looming crisis and are now discussing a package of measures to prevent food shortages.

Nevertheless, in Putin’s opinion, the West continues to make decisions that “are pushing the global economy towards crisis,” leading to the disruption of production and logistics chains, an increase in global inflation, and the aggravation of inequality, to a decline in the living standards of millions of people, and to mass famine in the poorest countries.

Putin accused the US of trying to solve its own problems at the expense of other countries and to shift the blame for its own economic mistakes onto Russia. Moreover, in the president’s opinion, the US is going to try to cash in on the current global instability, for example, by attempting “to push Europe towards expensive American liquid natural gas.”

Putin added that all the sanctions which are being imposed on Moscow now “have been prepared in advance” and “would have been imposed in any case.” They are poised, according to the president, “to curb Russia’s development,” to undermine its sovereignty and to weaken its “industrial, financial and technological potential.”

Taking into consideration the fact that the West has been imposing the restrictions against Russia for many years, there is no point thinking that this approach would change any time soon, Putin emphasized.

The West strongly condemned Russia’s military attack on Ukraine, calling it “unlawful” and “unjustified,” and slapped Moscow with hard-hitting sanctions, covering many sectors of the Russian economy. The restrictions include Washington’s ban on energy imports, an international ban for the use of the SWIFT interbank messaging system, and personal sanctions against Putin. Hundreds of companies have suspended or completely halted their operations in Russia.

In response, Moscow has included most of the Western countries in its list of “unfriendly states.” All of these countries are now subject to various retaliation measures, restrictions, and specific requirements from Russia. For example, Moscow now wants all “unfriendly” states to pay for gas supplies in rubles. Another retaliatory initiative saw the Finance Ministry requesting that Russian companies that want to work with firms from countries on the list receive government permission first.

Moscow attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
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US exempts critical Russian commodity from sanctions​

Washington aims to protect farmers from fertilizer shortages

Mar. 31, 2022

Washington has eased sanctions on Russian agricultural products, including fertilizers, placed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. The move aims to protect US farmers from a shortage of chemical products as food prices in the country continue to soar.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury recently published a new general license dated March 24, which effectively removed restrictions on the import of Russian fertilizers.

The document authorized transactions relating to the exportation and re-exportation of agricultural commodities, banned last month by Washington’s ‘Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations’.

The list of agro-related products now exempt from sanctions includes food for humans, live animals, vitamins and minerals, food additives and supplements, seeds for food crops, fertilizers, and reproductive materials.

Exemptions also cover medicine, medical devices, software updates, and replacement parts for medical devices and Covid-19-related medical components. Analysts say the EU may soon mirror the measure.
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US doesn't understand how Russia works – Kremlin​

Spokesman was responding to a report that Putin was being ‘misled’ by his own military

Mar. 31, 2022

The Kremlin said on Thursday that claims of President Vladimir Putin being misled by his own military only prove how little the US really knows about Russia.

The response came after the White House and the Pentagon suggested that officials were afraid to speak the truth to Putin about the performance of the Russian Army in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters he was dismayed by claims that advisers have misled the president.

“As it turns out, neither the State Department nor the Pentagon have the real information of what is going on in the Kremlin. They simply don’t understand President Putin, don’t understand the decision-making mechanism, and don’t understand the work we do,” he said.

According to the spokesperson: “It’s not only regrettable, but also raises concerns because such lack of understanding leads to wrong, rash decisions with bad consequences.”

The comment came after Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday that Putin “has not been fully informed by his Ministry of Defense at every turn over the last month.” He said the information has been gathered through intelligence.

A similar claim was made by White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield.

“We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership,” she said during a press briefing. Bedingfield also stated that advisers were “too afraid to tell him the truth.”

Commenting on the Russian campaign in Ukraine, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday that “the main goals of the first stage of the operation have generally been accomplished.”

Moscow attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered Minsk Protocol was designed to regularize the status of the regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
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In Belgorod, 8 fuel tanks with a volume of 2,000 cubic meters each are on fire. The head of the region said that two helicopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered Russia at low altitude and fired at the oil depot.


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Anyone know if Russians can track helicopters? I would guess yes.
 
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Blaze engulfs Russian oil depot near Ukraine border​

At least two people suffered injuries

Apr. 1, 2022

A massive fire erupted at an oil storage facility in the city of Belgorod on Friday morning, just two days after the same Russian region that borders Ukraine was rocked by a series of blasts at an ammunition depot.

The incident happened in the administrative capital of the Belgorod region, located about 35km (21 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border. Photos and videos of the blaze started making the rounds online around 6am local time.

Two employees at the facility were injured, but their wounds are not life-threatening, according to the regional head, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

“Emergency services are on the scene. We’ll know the cause of the events later,” Gladkov said in a statement on Telegram, announcing that residents of three nearby streets were being evacuated as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze.

Gladkov later claimed that the terminal was struck by “two Ukrainian military helicopters that have entered the territory of Russia while flying at low altitude.” The exact details of the incident are yet to be clarified.

Earlier this week, an ammunition depot in the nearby village of Krasny Oktyabr was rocked by several explosions, which caused no civilian casualties but reportedly injured four Russian servicemen. While some Ukrainian media claimed the warehouse was struck by a missile, the Russian authorities dismissed the allegations, blaming the Tuesday night incident on likely “human error.” However, the exact cause of the blasts remains unknown.

The series of incidents in the western border region comes as Russia continues its military operation in Ukraine. Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in late February, following a seven-year standoff over Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements and end the conflict with the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

Russia demands that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two Donbass republics by force.
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Moscow responds to Ukraine's Black Sea mine claims​

Russia’s defense ministry has denied placing the explosives in the region, blaming Ukraine for their placement

Mar. 31, 2022

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky lied to Norwegian lawmakers when he accused Moscow of deploying mines in the Black Sea to block foreign civilian ships from leaving Ukrainian ports, the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday. It instead accused Ukraine of being the culprit.

The rebuke came in response to Zelensky’s Wednesday address to the Norwegian parliament, during which the Ukrainian leader accused the Russian military of “creating the worst threat to international security since World War II” through its “insidious” operations in the Black Sea.

“About a hundred ships cannot leave to the Mediterranean. Some ships have been simply seized in acts of piracy aimed at stealing the cargo. Some ships were attacked,” Zelensky said.

“But the blockade of the ports was done by Russia not only through use of naval forces. They have deployed mines in the sea. And now the mines set up by the Russian forces are drifting in the sea. They pose a threat to anyone, to ships and ports of every nation in the Black Sea region.”

Mining its shores and territorial waters has long been part of Ukraine’s strategy of defending against a Russian attack from the Black Sea, which it started implementing after the hostilities broke out. On March 5, its armed forces warned residents of the Odessa region to stay away from the sea because of the mines being deployed by the military.

“We call on fishermen and owners of boats not to move near the shore of the Odessa region to avoid the risk of being fired upon or contacting mine barriers,” the message said.

According to the Russian defense ministry, Ukraine deployed some 420 old YaM-1 moored naval mines along its shores, including 370 in the Black Sea. About ten of them went adrift after their cables snapped during a storm earlier this month, the Russian military believes.

At least two apparent mines were reported found and have since been destroyed: one by the Turkish military and one in Romanian territorial waters. “Nobody knows where the rest of them are drifting,” the Thursday statement said, adding that Kiev’s mining operations created a major threat to shipping in the Black Sea.

The Russian ministry said that the second charge voiced by Zelensky during his video address was likewise “a lie”. The reality is that Ukraine is preventing 68 foreign ships from sailing from its ports of Chernomorsk, Odessa, Nikolaev and Yuzhny, while the Russian Navy is offering daily opportunities of safe passage to them.

“Crews of the ships radioed us and said any attempt by a foreign vessel to depart the Ukrainian ports is banned by the authorities under a threat of immediate sinking,” General Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the defense ministry, said.

Zelensky is currently on a virtual tour to whip up support for his nation, with addresses made to various Western nations each day. On Tuesday, he told the Danish parliament that transition to renewable energy is a moral imperative for the EU, because otherwise it would not be able to punish Russia by stopping buying its energy.

Ukraine earns billions of dollars each year in gas transit fees. Only a few months ago, Zelensky's government for asking for the arrangement to be extended for another 15 years.
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Anyone know if Russians can track helicopters? I would guess yes.
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Of course, there are technical possibilities, but there are also questions about the organization of this activity. Yesterday, near Mariupol, 2 helicopters left with impunity, today 2 entered the territory and struck. Obviously, we have a leaky system.

Governor: there will be no shortage of fuel after a fire at an oil depot in Belgorod
April 1, 2022, 08:38

"There was no shortage of fuel, there is not and will not be," Gladkov wrote in his Telegram.

He noted that in connection with the fire, work is underway to change the logistics supply chains of fuel at the gas station.

On the morning of April 1, Gladkov reported that a fire had occurred at an oil depot in Belgorod.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified that fuel tanks are burning at an oil depot in Belgorod.
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Технические возможности конечно же есть, однако есть и вопросы к организации этой деятельности. Вчера под Мариуполем 2 вертолета ушли безнаказанно, сегодня 2 зашли на территорию и нанесли удар. Очевидно дырявенькая система у нас.
 
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