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

[JEEP]

The irony . . . and fwiw, it is a Daily Mail article:

Afghan commandos trained by Allied forces are being recruited by RUSSIA to fight in Ukraine after they were abandoned by the West when country fell to the Taliban

• Up to 30,000 Afghan commandos were abandoned by the West last year
• Now they are being recruited by Russia to join in Putin's faltering war effort
• It is believed the shadowy Wagner Group is behind the recruitment drive

[excerpts]
Afghan commandos who had been trained by Allied forces to fight the Taliban are now being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine.

Up to 30,000 members of the elite National Army Commando Corps were abandoned by the West when the country fell to the hardline Islamist group last year.

Now, the US-trained light infantry force that fought side by side with allied troops for nearly 20 years could be joining Vladimir Putin's savage war effort.

The commandos were honed by US Navy Seals and the British SAS, with a staggering £80billion spent on their training by the US.

An ex-security official said their call-up to Ukraine would be a 'game-changer' in Putin's faltering war.

Last year, Rep. Michael McCaul warned abandoning the commandos could prove to be a costly mistake by the US as they could be recruited for adversary armies.

One Afghan ex-commando captain who is now in hiding said he helped his comrades connect with recruiters in Iran.

They were flown to Tehran and then on to Russia where their phones are switched off and they carry out their mission 'secretly', he said.

The 35-year-old said: 'We are very disappointed. For 18 years, shoulder to shoulder, we performed dangerous tasks with American, British, and Norwegian consultants. Now, I am in hiding. I am suffering every second.'

But the recruitment of Afghan troops will serve as a major embarrassment to the US, after years and billions of dollars spent on their training.

Wagner's founder is Dmitry Utkin, a shaven-headed former lieutenant colonel in Spetsnaz – Russia's special forces. He named it after his Spetsnaz code name.

Utkin is seen as a neo-Nazi and was described by one Russian newspaper as having 'an appreciation of the aesthetic of the Third Reich', complete with tattoos of the Waffen-SS on his shoulder and an eagle on his chest.

Russia has officially denied the group's existence and its origins are murky, though it first appeared in 2014 in the Donbas.

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

Details of how the false flag "attack" by Ukraine would be carried out:

Kyiv has made a dummy rocket for a provocation with a "dirty bomb" over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Kyiv made a dummy of the Iskander rocket for a provocation with a "dirty bomb" over the Chernobyl zone
The Kyiv regime has already completed technical preparations for a provocation with a "dirty bomb": specialists from the Ukrainian enterprise "Yuzhmash" have prepared a dummy rocket, which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, and then allegedly shot down over the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and announce the launch of a nuclear charge by the Russian armed forces, said RIA Novosti source familiar with the situation.
"People's specialists from Yuzhmash have already made a dummy missile of the Iskander complex, the head cluster part of which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, and then" shot down "by Ukrainian air defense forces over the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in order to announce a Russian launch of a nuclear charge," the agency's interlocutor said. . He clarified that the model of the Iskander missile was made on the basis of a projectile from the Tochka-U missile system.
"After the dummy is knocked down, the Kyiv authorities intend to show the Western and Ukrainian media fragments of the mockup and electronics of the alleged Iskander missile in order to convince the Western public of Russia's guilt," the source said.
Киев изготовил муляж ракеты для провокации с "грязной бомбой" над ЧАЭС

 

[Vulcan59]

Seems like the disruption of Starlink services in Ukraine may be due to Russian anti-satellite systems!

Until recently, Kiev thought that the failure of the Starlink satellites was on the conscience of Elon Musk. New information indicates that the reason may be the inclusion of the Russian “Tirada-2S” system.

Secret "Tirada": What Is Known About the Russian "Switch" of Satellites in Ukraine

www.stalkerzone.org

 

[anartist]

Lira, and I quote: "for shits and giggles"... yes that's what I call nuanced discussion.

I think this windbag is completely off base. Pure speculation. Here is why:

The last thing the US would want is a direct shooting war with Russia. But, A shooting war between Russia and NATO? That might be a different story. And Mykolaiv? Why would the Russians plant a bomb to stop their own advance?

If the US wants a good false flag, it has to make more sense than that.

IF the Russians would actually do such a thing, where would they do it such that the blame would have some credibility? Blowing up the Ukranian Army would make much more sense if you want to frame Russia! A bold move, indeed! But they won't do that either because the Ukies are fighting a proxy war of attrition for NATO, in a sense. I think the American Airborne to Romania is a chess move: it's the ONLY NATO country the US can legitimately can send troops close to the hottest part of the conflict without triggering a catastrophe. A strategic chess move. It's called brinksmanship in the old days. Anyway, you don't send in only 4,000 troops if you want to go to war with Russia. C'mon man...

He does not say that the Russians would plant a nuclear bomb, he is saying that the Ukrainians would do so, and that is why they are evacuating Mykolaiv. How closely did you listen to what he was saying? I am not defending Lira, but if you have a disagreement it is better to disagree with what he actually said.
That said I do agree with you that it is unlikely the Americans will get involved directly. They seem to be fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, and possibly that could extend to fighting Russia to the last European(Pole, Romanian, Latvian,...) as well?

 

[Olivierlejardinier]

US satellites may be legitimate targets if used in conflict in Ukraine — Russian diplomat ​

UNITED NATIONS, October 27. /TASS/. US commercial satellites may be seen as legitimate targets in case they are used in the conflict in Ukraine, a high-ranking Russian foreign ministry official said on Wednesday.

"I would like to draw special attention to the extremely dangerous tendency, which has surfaced in the course of the developments in Ukraine. I mean the use of outer space civil infrastructure facilities, including commercial ones, in armed conflicts by the United States and its allies," Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of the ministry’s nonproliferation and arms control department, said at a meeting of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee. "Quasi-civil infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliation strike. The West’s actions unreasonably jeopardize the stability of the civil space activities and numerous socio-economic processes on the ground, which determine people’s wellbeing, first of all in developing countries.".

 

[youlik]

I'll share what I learned the other day. I don't think this is some kind of secret or military secret, but such information is not widely covered, so it is unlikely that you will read about it somewhere. I learned about this from direct participants in this activity.

We are talking about Moscow civilian bomb shelters, educational institutions and hospitals. I must say right away that I do not know and did not learn specifically about all such institutions, I know about 2 educational institutions, 1 hospital and 1 bomb shelter, but realizing that such institutions function in the system and the events I am talking about are quite expensive, we can conclude that all this is not the initiative of local bosses, but something more general.

So, the hospital is clearing basements in order to organize additional operating rooms there.

The colleges have already cleared the basements and organize shelters there. At the time of my conversation with the participant, I was informed that a supply of water had been delivered there.

Civilian bomb shelters in Moscow have long been occupied by commercial structures. I had to visit 3 such structures and car service stations were functioning everywhere there. Now work has begun on returning these structures to their original purpose, i.e. commercial structures are being removed, the infrastructure of the structures is being put into working order. We getting ready.

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Поделюсь тем, что я узнал на днях. Не думаю, что это какой то секрет или военная тайна, но такая информация широко не освещается, так что вряд ли вы где то об этом прочитаете. Я узнал об этом от непосредственных участников этой деятельности.
Речь идет о гражданских бомбоубежищах, учебных заведениях и больницах. Сразу скажу, что я не знаю и не узнавал специально про все подобные учреждения, я знаю про 2 учебных заведения, 1 больницу и 1 бомбоубежище, но понимая что подобные учhеждения функционируют в системе и мероприятия, о которых я говорю, довольно затратны, можно сделать вывод о том, что все это не инициатива местных начальников, а нечто более общее.
Так вот, в больнице расчищают подвалы с целью организации там дополнительных операционных.
В колледжах уже расчистили подвалы и организуют там укрытия. На момент моей беседы с участником, мне сообщили, что туда завезли запас воды.
Гражданские бомбоубежища в Москве давным давно были заняты коммерческими структурами. Мне приходилось бывать в 3 таких сооружениях и везде там функционировали автосервисы. Теперь началась работа по возвращению этих сооружений к первоначальной цели, т.е. коммерческие структуры удаляются, инфраструктура сооружений приводится в рабочее состояние. Готовимся.

 

[Deliverance]

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov called for a holy war on 25 October 2022.

In his view, the United States failed in their attempt to starve the Russians over the past decade. They are now setting up Ukrainians to sabotage and attack targets inside the Russian Federation, which must not be tolerated. It is a fight between Satanist forces on the one hand, and believers, Christians and Muslims, on the other.

Also, he called on all Chechens to enlist to defend their faith and their homeland.

Kadyrov calls for holy war

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov called for a holy war on 25 October 2022. In his view, the United States failed in their attempt to starve the Russians over the past decade. They are now setting up Ukrainians to sabotage and attack targets inside the Russian Federation, which must...

www.voltairenet.org

 

[thorbiorn]

Notes from the briefing on radiation security by the Russian MoD, MoD Russia

Briefing on radiation security threats by the chief of nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
October 24, 2022

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has information about Kiev regime’s planning to commit a provocation by exploding the so-called ‘dirty bomb’ or low-power nuclear warhead.

The provocation is aimed at accusing Russia of using mass destruction weapon at the Ukrainian theatre of operations that would launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in order to undermine the confidence in Moscow.
It is to be recalled that the President Zelensky announced his intention to re-establish Ukraine as a nuclear-armed State at the Munich Security Conference dated 19 February 2022.

It should also be noted that President Zelensky has repeatedly called on NATO countries to launch a strike at the Russian Federation since the beginning of the special military operation. ‘What does NATO have to do? We need pre-emptive strikes, so that they’ll know what will happen to them if they use (nukes). And not the other way around, don’t wait for Russia’s nuclear strikes...’

Recently, in an interview to Canadian TV channels on 22 October, Zelensky urged the world to strike Kremlin if Russia launches attacks at the ‘decision-making centres’ in Bankovaya street where the Office of the President of Ukraine is located.

We would like to recall the possibility of a complicated radiation situation that can evolve around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear plant in Europe.

From 24 February until now, the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has suffered 39 fire attacks launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), including 10 launched by unmanned aerial vehicles and 29 by various artillery systems.

The attacks launched by the AFU at the plant did not cause any anxiety of the world community as, according to various U.S. experts, an impact of large-calibre artillery shells to spent nuclear fuel containers will not cause a considerable risk, and the nuclear reactors are resistible to a civilian airplane crash.

However, the forecast of our experts about the radiation situation’s development furtherly confirmed by relevant European scientific organisations has shown that the release of radioactive substances will affect almost whole Europe.

Moreover, despite the visit of the IAEA Director General R. Grossi, the AFU have not abandoned their attempts to carry out a subversive operation to capture the plant. On 1, 15, 30 September and 17 October, special units of the AFU attempted to land their forces through the Kakhovka reservoir and to take the nuclear power plant under control.

According to the available information, two organisations of Ukraine have been directly ordered to create the so-called ‘dirty bomb’. The works are at their concluding stage.

Moreover, we have information about contacts between the Office of the President of Ukraine and representatives of the United Kingdom regarding the possible reception of technologies to create nuclear weapons.

With this purpose, Ukraine has got relevant production and scientific capacities.

There are enterprises of nuclear industry in Ukraine that possess stockpiles of radioactive substances that can be used for creating the ‘dirty bomb’. These concern three operating nuclear power plants: the Yuzhnoukrainsk, Khmelnitsky and Rovno nuclear power plants with nine storage pools for spent nuclear fuel that contain up to 1.5 thousand tonnes of uranium enriched with up to 1.5% of oxide.

Over 22,000 fuel assemblies (21,284 and 1,692 respectively) are stored at the inoperable Chernobyl nuclear power plant with radioactive waste repositories, as well as products that suppose using Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239 that constitute the backbone of a nuclear charge.

More than 50,000 m³ of radioactive waste that are also apt as the backbone for creating the ‘dirty bomb’ can be stored at the recently established enterprise ‘Vektor’ designed for radioactive waste reprocessing at the radioactive waste disposal sites ‘Buryakovka’, ‘Podlesny’, and ‘Rossokha’ at Pridneprovsky chemical plant.

Moreover, the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant extracts uranium ore at two of the three shafts with a capacity of up to 1,000 tonnes per year (the plant includes three shafts for extracting uranium ore, two of them – Ingulskaya and Smolinskaya – are operable, while one of them – Novokonstantinovskaya – is currently under construction).

It is also to be emphasised that Ukraine has at its disposal a scientific base: the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. Its scientists were involved in the nuclear programme of the USSR where various testing systems are still in operation, including Uragan thermonuclear systems. The second base is the Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine located in Kiev. Its BBP-M reactor is used for research that supposes the employment of high-activity radioactive materials.

I want to recall that the ‘dirty bomb’ constitutes a container with radioactive isotopes and explosive charge. In case of exploding the charge, the container is to be destroyed, and the radioactive substance is to be pulverised by a blast wave that produces radioactive contamination at large areas, and can cause a radiation morbidity.

Uranium oxide that forms part of spent fuel elements stored at spent nuclear fuel and storage pools of nuclear power plants can be used as the radioactive substance. Moreover, it concerns the radioactive substances derived from the spent nuclear fuel storages of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Kiev regime plans to camouflage the explosion of this kind of ordnance under an extraordinary effect of Russian low-power nuclear warhead that contains highly enriched uranium in its charge. The presence of radioactive isotopes in the air will be recorded by the sensors of the International Monitoring System installed in Europe with further accusation of the Russian Federation of using tactical nuclear weapons.

It is to be noted that this kind of information warfare technologies have already been used by the West in Syria when the White Helmets were filming propaganda footage about the employment of chemical weapons by the governmental forces there.

One of the most resonant and widely distributed episodes is the provocation committed by the abovementioned non-governmental organisation and their patrons on 4 April 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun.

Pay attention to the picture where the people who are taking samples of soil have no individual protection means. But it does not seem to bother anyone! Especially those who took the decision to launch a missile strike at the territory of the sovereign country.

Using this provocation as a pretext, the Americans launched the missile strike at Shayrat airbase without waiting for an investigation to begin and, all the more, a decision of the UN Security Council, grossly violating the international law.

This scenario is highly probable to be used in this case, too.

Detonation of a radiological explosive device will inevitably lead to radiological contamination covering up to several thousands of square metres.

To summarise, Ukraine has got a motive to use the ‘dirty bomb’, as well as scientific, technical and production capacities to create it.

Ukraine expects ‘dirty-bomb’ provocation to intimidate the population, increase the flow of refugees, and accuse the Russian Federation of nuclear terrorism.

The Ministry of Defence has arranged for countering possible provocations of Ukraine: the means and forces are alerted to operate amid radioactive contamination. [Source]

Attached are the images that went along with the presentation, plus a screenshot from NATO Press after Slovenia claimed to have found a picture they had taken in one of the slides, leading to NATO asserting that all was a fraud. Imagine you went around the internet and claimed every article you found with a borrowed image had no true content? In case you encounter the claim, you now know what else was said in the briefing on radiation security.

 

[Puma]

Emilios George Ades Georgiades
Vía Facebook

If we were to depend on western MSM for information on the situation in Ukraine, we'd come away believing that the "brave Ukrainian Forces" are at the Gates of the Kremlin. However, the situation on the ground, is a little different.

Where western MSM chose to interpret the evacuation of civilians from Kherson as a sign of withdrawal by the Russian forces, the truth is that Russian High Command decided on the move to protect the civilians from Ukrainian shelling and to leave the coast clear to carry out an effective, organised defence without having to worry about civilian casualties.

Zelensky's military advisor, Oleksii Arestovych, now admits that the situation on the Kherson front has changed in favour of the Russians.

The mid-term elections in the US are forcing the Ukrainians to make military decisions that they would probably not have made had they not been pressured to achieve victories by a certain deadline. Biden and his Democrats have to show results for the billions of US tax-payers' dollars. The Republicans, widely expected to gain control of both Houses, have already stated that they will not continue being "an ATM for the Kiev regime".

The "collateral damage" from the war in Ukraine, is not limited to Ukrainian civilians. European citizens are feeling the economic effects in their everyday lives. Western industry is being irreparably damaged and western governments are falling as a direct result of wrong choices made with regards to this war.

Any way you look at it, Russia is emerging the winner from this conflict, not just on the battlefield.

(Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych, or Oleksiy Arestovych is a Georgian-born Ukrainian intelligence officer, Lieutenant colonel, blogger, actor, political and military columnist. Arestovych is an organizer of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military.) A Jack of all trades and master of none.

 

[youlik]

Live broadcast of Putin's speech on "Valdai"

 

[Magnolia]

Excerpts from speech on Intel Slava Z

Putin started his speech
Topic of Putin's speech: "The world after hegemony: justice and security for all"
Putin: The world is witnessing the degradation of world institutions, the erosion of the principle of collective security, the substitution of international law for "rules"
Putin talks about "global power" that came up with "incomprehensible rules"
Putin, speaking about changing the world: Shifts have already happened
Putin: The game of the West is bloody, dangerous and dirty
Putin: There is no unity in the West
Putin: He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind
Putin: Events are still developing according to a negative scenario - they have grown into a large-scale crisis
Putin: The West always plays for escalation: incitement of war in Ukraine, aggravation of the situation around Taiwan, intensification of the energy crisis and destruction of gas pipelines
Putin: The new centers of the world order and the West will still have to start a dialogue, better sooner
Putin: Power over the world is what the West has staked in their game. This game is definitely dangerous.
Putin: Fundamental environmental challenges have not gone away, they are only growing. It is important to preserve biodiversity, but no less important is the preservation of cultural and civilizational diversity
Putin: The West is characterized by, as Solzhenitsyn said, "a continuing blindness of superiority"
Putin on the West: Confidence in one's infallibility is a very dangerous state
Putin: The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture
Putin: The culture of cancellation does not allow the development of alternative thought. In the West, any alternative point of view is declared subversive
Putin: You can’t blame everything on the machinations of the Kremlin
Putin: Let's think about the meaning of the word "cancel", even at the height of the Cold War, it never occurred to anyone to cancel culture
Putin: History will put everything in its place
Putin: The Nazis went as far as burning books. Now the Western fathers of liberalism have reached the ban on Dostoevsky
Putin: Liberalism has changed beyond recognition, to the point of absurdity, when alternative points of view are declared
Putin: "I have always believed and still believe in the power of common sense"
Putin says he is convinced that sooner or later the new centers of the world order and the West will have to start a conversation about a common future
Putin: The West claims all the resources of mankind
Putin: Every day the Western order multiplies the chaos and becomes more and more intolerant, even towards the Western countries themselves, which are trying to demonstrate independence. The proposals of the same Hungarian deputies to consolidate Christian values were perceived as sabotage
Putin: They killed Soleimani - an Iranian general. They killed and said yes, we killed him. What is this? Where do we live?
Putin: No one will ever be able to dictate to our people what kind of society and on what principles we should build
Putin: The US has nothing to offer the world but its dominance
Putin on gay parades and gender: They should not try to implement them in other countries
Putin: Russia did not and does not consider itself an enemy of the West
Putin: Losing supremacy, the West is turning into a minority on the world stage. If Western elites think they can inject trends like gay parades and dozens of genders into their societies, they can do what they want, but they have no right to demand others to follow in the same direction.
Putin: Russia paid a huge price for destroying the terrorist nest in the North Caucasus, which was fueled by the West. We tried not to look back, to build relations even with those who actually worked against us, to develop relations with everyone who wants it - both with the leading countries of the West and with NATO. The message was: "Let's live together, have a dialogue." In response, we received "no", ever-increasing pressure and the creation of hotbeds of tension at our borders
Putin: Russia is not challenging Western elites, we are not going to become a hegemon
Putin: Russia has not been and will never be able to be destroyed and "brushed" off the geopolitical map
Putin: The West "tap-scratch-pocketed" our gold and foreign exchange reserves
Putin: The world economy and trade must become freer
Putin: Russia in other countries does not build enterprises, but creates industries
Putin: It is worth thinking about changing the structure of the UN Security Council so that it reflects the world's diversity
Putin: Western civilization is not the only one, the majority of the population is concentrated in the east
Putin: The most dangerous and unpredictable decade is ahead of us
Putin: The collapse of the USSR destroyed the world balance and became the reason for the strength of the West
"The period of undivided dominance of the West in world affairs is ending"
Putin ended his speech
Putin about Western companies that left Russia: “they sell business for a dollar to their management and whisper in their ear - we won't be long, we'll be back soon”

 

[Ben]

Priming everybody for the loss of Bakhmut to Russia, which will now apparently be a purely 'symbolic' victory.

Ukraine war: Russian tactics on eastern front 'crazy', says Zelensky

Russia has expended huge resources in the town of Bakhmut despite a looming battle in Kherson.

www.bbc.co.uk

What's crazy, Zelensky, is keeping your forces defending a town which is going to be surrounded, risking death or capture, purely for optics which are unlikely to turn out favourably. Have you forgotten Mariupol already?

At this point, I'm so sick of that man and his squealing

 

[mabar]

If Russia wants to self-destruct, there are easier ways and without so much expense, such as continuing to obey the EU and the US.

Many, thousands will believe this nonsense,though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1585648658191630337

 

[Alix]

Excerpts from speech on Intel Slava Z

Putin started his speech
Topic of Putin's speech: "The world after hegemony: justice and security for all"
Putin: The world is witnessing the degradation of world institutions, the erosion of the principle of collective security, the substitution of international law for "rules"
Putin talks about "global power" that came up with "incomprehensible rules"
Putin, speaking about changing the world: Shifts have already happened
Putin: The game of the West is bloody, dangerous and dirty
Putin: There is no unity in the West
Putin: He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind
Putin: Events are still developing according to a negative scenario - they have grown into a large-scale crisis
Putin: The West always plays for escalation: incitement of war in Ukraine, aggravation of the situation around Taiwan, intensification of the energy crisis and destruction of gas pipelines
Putin: The new centers of the world order and the West will still have to start a dialogue, better sooner
Putin: Power over the world is what the West has staked in their game. This game is definitely dangerous.
Putin: Fundamental environmental challenges have not gone away, they are only growing. It is important to preserve biodiversity, but no less important is the preservation of cultural and civilizational diversity
Putin: The West is characterized by, as Solzhenitsyn said, "a continuing blindness of superiority"
Putin on the West: Confidence in one's infallibility is a very dangerous state
Putin: The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture
Putin: The culture of cancellation does not allow the development of alternative thought. In the West, any alternative point of view is declared subversive
Putin: You can’t blame everything on the machinations of the Kremlin
Putin: Let's think about the meaning of the word "cancel", even at the height of the Cold War, it never occurred to anyone to cancel culture
Putin: History will put everything in its place
Putin: The Nazis went as far as burning books. Now the Western fathers of liberalism have reached the ban on Dostoevsky
Putin: Liberalism has changed beyond recognition, to the point of absurdity, when alternative points of view are declared
Putin: "I have always believed and still believe in the power of common sense"
Putin says he is convinced that sooner or later the new centers of the world order and the West will have to start a conversation about a common future
Putin: The West claims all the resources of mankind
Putin: Every day the Western order multiplies the chaos and becomes more and more intolerant, even towards the Western countries themselves, which are trying to demonstrate independence. The proposals of the same Hungarian deputies to consolidate Christian values were perceived as sabotage
Putin: They killed Soleimani - an Iranian general. They killed and said yes, we killed him. What is this? Where do we live?
Putin: No one will ever be able to dictate to our people what kind of society and on what principles we should build
Putin: The US has nothing to offer the world but its dominance
Putin on gay parades and gender: They should not try to implement them in other countries
Putin: Russia did not and does not consider itself an enemy of the West
Putin: Losing supremacy, the West is turning into a minority on the world stage. If Western elites think they can inject trends like gay parades and dozens of genders into their societies, they can do what they want, but they have no right to demand others to follow in the same direction.
Putin: Russia paid a huge price for destroying the terrorist nest in the North Caucasus, which was fueled by the West. We tried not to look back, to build relations even with those who actually worked against us, to develop relations with everyone who wants it - both with the leading countries of the West and with NATO. The message was: "Let's live together, have a dialogue." In response, we received "no", ever-increasing pressure and the creation of hotbeds of tension at our borders
Putin: Russia is not challenging Western elites, we are not going to become a hegemon
Putin: Russia has not been and will never be able to be destroyed and "brushed" off the geopolitical map
Putin: The West "tap-scratch-pocketed" our gold and foreign exchange reserves
Putin: The world economy and trade must become freer
Putin: Russia in other countries does not build enterprises, but creates industries
Putin: It is worth thinking about changing the structure of the UN Security Council so that it reflects the world's diversity
Putin: Western civilization is not the only one, the majority of the population is concentrated in the east
Putin: The most dangerous and unpredictable decade is ahead of us
Putin: The collapse of the USSR destroyed the world balance and became the reason for the strength of the West
"The period of undivided dominance of the West in world affairs is ending"
Putin ended his speech
Putin about Western companies that left Russia: “they sell business for a dollar to their management and whisper in their ear - we won't be long, we'll be back soon”

Thank you so much, Magnolia, for gathering this for us. Putin speaks truths that TPTB do not want the world to hear.

 

[Adobe]

Weapons sent to Ukraine appearing on black market – Putin​

"Putin claimed that “cross-border criminal groups” were actively involved in smuggling weapons to other regions and that it wasn’t just small firearms. “There is a persistent risk of criminals getting hold of more powerful weapons, including portable air defense systems and precision weapons.”

"CBS News also reported that some 70% of weapons supplied to Ukraine never make it to the front lines as they have to pass through a network of “power lords, oligarchs and political players.”

“There is really no information as to where they’re going at all,” Donatella Rovera, a senior crisis adviser with Amnesty international told the outlet, adding that it was “really worrying” that the countries supplying these weapons do not find it necessary to put in place robust oversight mechanisms."

Weapons sent to Ukraine appearing on black market – Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns black markets forming in Ukraine may result in high-precision weapons falling into the wrong hands

www.rt.com