[VanityFair] A Vast Burglary Ring From Chile Has Been Targeting Wealthy U.S. Households
On an icy evening—January 21, 2020—the four suspects were about to step right into it. “We had everything planned out,” says the lead detective on the case.
That’s Jesus Bonilla, of the Nassau County Police. The detective recalls the tension he felt as he waited with other officers on a residential street in College Point, Queens. For months he had been pursuing a four-member crew that included its reputed leader, Bryan Herrera Maldonado. Though only 24, he was said to be among the most wanted burglars in the New York City area. Bonilla estimates that Maldonado’s gang broke into at least 100 private homes across the country. They allegedly stole cash, jewelry, electronics, watches, and designer clothes and handbags—loot Bonilla believes amounted to millions—from mansions in towns like Bronxville, Greenwich, Hewlett Harbor, Old Westbury, and Sands Point. But that was just a fraction of the haul Maldonado was alleged to have swiped on a “theft tour” across the U.S. and in various countries around the world.
According to Bonilla, Maldonado’s was just one of about a dozen theft gangs Bonilla and his colleagues were chasing—and, in some cases, still do. But because many of the burglars are well versed in police practices, they always seem to be one step ahead of the law. Almost to a man (and, occasionally, woman), they originate in Chile before flying to a designated country, generally on a 90-day tourist visa. Once overseas, they move from city to city, committing crimes, fencing their goods, and sending home their illicit gains—before returning to Chile and, many times, heading out on the road again. “Some come here to work every day,” Bonilla asserts. In fact, one member of Maldonado’s team had landed in the U.S. just two days earlier.
Lately, violent crime has been surging in cities around the U.S. But more than a year ago, I got interested in how our globalized economy affects property crime. It became quickly apparent that many successful criminals—no different than their counterparts in aboveboard enterprises—can now move almost seamlessly between countries. Yet unlike people in legitimate businesses, thieves have to figure out where the best pickings are, how to deal with local cops, and, once they steal something, how to transfer the proceeds home without getting caught. That led me to spend months reporting on Maldonado after he became the focus of police scrutiny in the New York City region, and I learned he was imprisoned, serendipitously, several miles from where I live. He turns out to have been an unusually adroit burglar and one with a prototypical life story of a very particular type of globe-trotting break-in artist. More importantly, his story, and those of other alleged thieves I tracked, gave me a handle on the operations of a network of gangsters who have been systematically plundering wealthy citizens worldwide. Until now, that bigger picture has not been laid out in full.
Maldonado and his crew, for all their purportedly pilfered millions, turn out to be little more than bit players in a global explosion of a very particular sort of crime. (Maldonado refused to comment for this story despite repeatedly being offered an opportunity to participate.) The criminals have become so pervasive that they have earned a moniker among law enforcement officials as “Chilean tourist burglars”—although some call them South American theft groups or “crime tourists,” acknowledging overlaps with other nationalities within the crews. In the coming months, according to an inside source, federal teams are set to fan out and come down hard on the thieves, hoping to finger the shadowy figures they believe oversee the operations: Chilean ringleaders back home and in the U.S. as well as their partners—Colombian coordinators and fences, who manage to turn the stolen caches into cash.
After viewing surveillance footage of the break-ins, he tells me, “we began to develop a common picture of the burglars. They were younger and not very big. They dressed all in black, wore gloves, and carried backpacks.” Following a few arrests, he says, “we found out they tended to be Chileans.” After being alerted by police elsewhere in California to large numbers of similar crimes and learning that law enforcement officials in other wealthy Western countries were also busting large numbers of Chileans for the same types of break-ins, “a lightbulb went on.” Maher concludes, “This is truly an international crime trend.”
His task force, he calculates, has made more than a thousand arrests for what he terms “organized burglaries”; this past year, he says, “the trend has been gaining steam.” In 2019, prior to the COVID outbreak, investigators with the LAPD and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office reportedly attributed hundreds of local crimes to Chilean crews. According to Maher, during the height of the pandemic, when people remained at home, the pace of the break-ins slackened, but smash-and-grab jobs skyrocketed. Lately, the home invasions have rebounded. And back east, says Bonilla, who has become a leading figure investigating the gangs, “affluent neighborhoods are getting destroyed right now.”
According to the Los Angeles special agent with the FBI, the crime wave actually started off in 2014, when Chile joined the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) program. The 40-nation initiative grants those countries’ citizens virtually automatic 90-day visa waivers, permitting them, with just a passport, to jump on a plane to other ESTA destinations. (Chile is the sole Latin American country in the program.) Prior to COVID, more than 200,000 Chileans came to the U.S. each year. But within two years of Chile’s new ESTA status, “word of mouth,” the Los Angeles special agent with the FBI asserts, led more and more Chileans with larcenous plans to take quick vacations. The FBI agent says that “they see people come home having made thousands and even millions”—leading others to try their luck.
In January, The Washington Post reported on theft rings operating in the D.C. suburbs. According to the Post, local detectives suspect the perpetrators, after researching their quarry online, tend to home in on houses of well-to-do Asian and Middle Eastern residents due to the fact that, as the investigators put it, the “burglars believe they sometimes keep family wealth in gold and jewelry or have large amounts of money on hand because they may run businesses that rely on cash.”
Given the similarities in the thieves’ methods and their whack-a-mole routes from state to state and country to country, many police officials assert that Maldonado and the others are part of a sophisticated criminal network. “There is somebody they answer to,” Bonilla insists. “Who’s paying [for] the plane ride and hotel to start off? They travel everywhere. Montana! How the fuck do they know that affluent people live there? There is rank and structure. It’s like the mafia.”
Miami gangbuster Hague shares this view and intimates that evidence he has seen “suggests coordination, that somebody in each major city is giving [thieves] assignments.” Another person with insight into the inner workings of the operations says that few sources talk about the underworld’s tactics because they fear retribution: “The syndicate is very powerful and has the means of hurting you. If you talk, there are repercussions.”
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Some of the best crime novels / movies involve gangs that work with planners who design high stakes jobs with lots of background information and planning. It's not a new idea.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] They're screwed.
The US Attorney's Office on Tuesday accidentally published a list of alleged clients of the student prostitute in the Sarah Lawrence 'sex cult' case
DailyMail.com acquired a copy of the list of 121 names which was taken down nearly as fast as it was put up
The list, which was entered into evidence in the trial under seal, includes lawyers and businessmen and socialites throughout the Tri-state area
Alleged clients include a Metropolitan Transit Authority executive, an account executive at Amazon, and a former New York State Supreme Court judge
The Justice Department later sent out an email admitting the file was shared in error, adding: 'Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way'
Alleged cult victim Claudia Drury, 31, took the stand Friday and Monday to tell jurors how she was forced into prostitution by accused leader Larry Ray, 62
Ray is charged with sex trafficking, extortion, money laundering, violent crime in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and forced labor
The ex-convict is accused of running a sex cult out of his daughter Talia's dorm at Sarah Lawrence College
[Free Beacon] President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the board of trustees of an elite, private Washington, D.C., high school that promotes critical race theory and other progressive ideals.
Fox News reported Tuesday that Jackson since 2019 has been a board member at Georgetown Day School, which is pursuing an "antiracism action plan" and recommends to families literature on critical race theory and racial intersectionality.
The school is undertaking an "antiracism journey" with objectives including mandated antiracism training and education for staff members, and reform of curriculum from a social justice perspective. It also promotes controversial "antiracist resources," such as Richard Delgado's Critical Race Theory and Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist.
In comments obtained through Jackson's disclosures in the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Jackson in 2020 praised Georgetown Day School's progressive values.
"I have witnessed the transformative power of a rigorous progressive education that is dedicated to fostering critical thinking, independence, and social justice." Jackson said. "As a result, I truly value the ’GDS way.'"
In past writings, Jackson has endorsed critical race theory as a lens to analyze criminal sentencing and remarked on "environmental justice and the impacts of the climate crisis on communities of color."
Fox News also reported that in 2020, Georgetown Day School conducted a "segregation simulation," in which children were separated into groups throughout the day, with some given treats while others were excluded, in order to give them an experience of "privilege" and "discrimination." After the simulation, teachers had the children march outside carrying signs and signing freedom songs.
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She praised Louis Farakan and called Donald Rumsfield and George W. Bus war criminals. When asked about that yesterday she said she didn't remember saying that but she didn't mean to disparage them. Who does she think she's kidding? I trust her about as far as I can throw my thumb.
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"If you don't have a good prepared answer, just play dumb. We can sell dumb."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Guess his campaign is over that hump.
Former porn star Stormy Daniels was ordered by a federal court to pay Donald Trump $300,000 in attorney fees after it rejected her appeal
In a statement issued on Monday, Trump celebrated the news and said that 'all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me'
The ruling by the the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit followed an earlier ruling by a lower court that rejected Daniels' defamation suit In the old days, the 9th Circuit would have ruled against him as a matter of principle, then been overruled by the Supremes. What a difference a single Trump term has made.
The lengthy legal battle has set a chain reaction of appeals, with attorneys for both parties being convicted of felonies
[Washington Examiner] WARSAW — Polish security officials are seeking the expulsion of nearly four dozen officials attached to the Russian Embassy in Warsaw in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The 45 Russian officials Poland wants to banish are spies masquerading as diplomats, according to a Wednesday morning statement from Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski.
"With full consistency and determination, we are breaking up the agents of the Russian secret services in our country," Kaminski wrote on Twitter in Polish.
Poland’s Internal Security Agency Chief Krzysztof Waclawek publicized the request for the expulsion of "Russian special services officers and their associates," according to the agency, which asked Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau to order the Russian officials to leave the country.
"As found by the Agency, the activities of those listed in the motion for expulsion serves the objectives of the Russian undertakings designed to undermine the stability of Poland and its allies in the international arena and poses a threat to the interests and security of our country," it said.
Among those listed in the motion for expulsion is "an officer of the Russian secret services whose activity has been unveiled during an investigation that resulted in the arrest of a Polish national on suspicion of spying on March 17, 2022," Waclawek’s team said Wednesday.
Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreyev was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry on Wednesday morning, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina confirmed, but Jasina would not state the purpose of the meeting before it concluded.
Waclawek’s announcement portends the second mass ouster of Russian officials from one of Moscow’s major central European hubs in a year. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis ordered 18 Russian officials accused of working as undercover spies to leave the country as Czech officials blamed Russian intelligence officials for orchestrating an explosion at a weapons depot, reportedly in an effort to target weapons bound for Ukraine, that killed two Czech civilians.
Russia responded to the expulsion of those 18 diplomats by forcing 20 Czech officials to leave Moscow, a decision that reportedly left just four Czech officials at its embassy.
Czech officials countered by saying that Russia would lose the same percentage of staff at the much larger facility in Prague, which required Russia to withdraw dozens of officials from the Czech Republic.
"The number is quite extensive," a Czech official said at the time. "So it will probably affect some intelligence officers."
The Polish move could deliver another blow to Russian intelligence capabilities in the region at a time when NATO allies are on alert for Russian spies identifying the carefully guarded shipments of military equipment to Ukraine.
Though not overtly engaged in conflict, tensions have simmered between Poland and Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. Poland has been a top destination for Ukrainian refugees, with millions fleeing to the neighboring country, but high-profile Russian figures have slammed the former Soviet satellite as beholden to its U.S. "puppeteers."
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"an officer of the Russian secret services whose activity has been unveiled during an investigation that resulted in the arrest of a Polish national on suspicion of spying on March 17, 2022," Waclawek’s team said Wednesday.
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I would think that so many spies have come over the border with the refugees that expelling 45 would be like doing am immigration sweep at a single Home Depot in Nebraska.
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[BBC] A California man suspected of taking part in the US Capitol riots last year has been granted asylum in Belarus.
Evan Neumann fled the US after being charged in connection with the riots.
The 48-year-old first settled in Ukraine, before reaching Belarus where he asked for asylum - claiming he faced "political persecution" in the US.
A Belarusian official said Mr Neumann has been granted permission to remain in the country "indefinitely".
State officials also alleged that Mr Neumann had been forced to cross the Belarusian border "illegally" after attracting "interest from local secret services" in Ukraine.
Mr Neumann told Belarusian state-owned news agency Belta he had "mixed feelings".
"I am glad Belarus took care of me. I am upset to find myself in a situation where I have problems in my own country."
In July last year, Mr Neumann was charged on six different counts, including violent entry and assaulting police officers. He was accused of punching two police officers and using a metal barrier as a "battering ram" against police during the riots at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021.
But, according to Mr Neumann, he had already sold his house and travelled across Europe to Ukraine.
After worrying the Ukrainian authorities were watching him, Mr Neumann says he crossed the border into Belarus on foot in August. Belarus does not have an extradition treaty with the US.
In November, Mr Neumann gave an interview to Belarusian state TV and rejected the charges against him.
"I do not believe that I have committed any crime," he said. "One of the accusations was very upsetting. It is alleged that I hit a police officer. That is baseless."
He said he was asking for "government protection" from Belarus because of the "political persecution" he faced in the US, including the FBI questioning his family and using a photo of him on its most-wanted list.
A video released by Belta on Tuesday showed an immigration official handing Mr Neumann a document confirming his refugee status and the head of the Brest police migration directorate, Yuryy Brazinski, told state TV that he will eventually be entitled to apply for citizenship.
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Where else could a guy with no game,
Regardless of race, face, or name,
Ball Russian or Uke
Girls, all cooing, "Hail Duke?"
Well, outside of a house of ill fame?
First draft foreskin content redacted for family-friendliness.
[TheTimes] Ukraine has said it is fast running out of the weapons it needs to destroy Russian aircraft and tanks and urged Germany and France to honour their pledges and send more arms.
The defending forces are far surpassing western expectations by stalling the Russians’ advance and preventing them from taking key cities.
Western officials said that Ukraine was “obviously expending a lot of ordnance”, and more than anticipated. They had expected to be supporting a more limited insurgency by this stage.
The Pentagon said that Ukraine had begun to shift momentum in some areas to regain ground and were “in places and at times going on an offensive”.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, told friends last week that the military had “two weeks” before
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/\ An actual president is no longer required. We now have a consortium of oligarchs, intelligence community experts, and supporting leftest politicians.
Witless notional President and VP figureheads are now the order of the day.
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An actual president is no longer required. We now have a consortium of oligarchs, intelligence community experts, and supporting leftest politicians.
I think my late aged intelligence veteran remote relative wanted all those guys prosecuted for impersonating an intelligence agency.
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Could well be Soros is running things. The bastard's probably made another billion in the last week buying up Russian debt and rubles at basement prices. Probably kicking back 10 percent to Putin.
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#7 Could well be Soros is running things. The bastard's probably made another billion in the last week buying up Russian debt and rubles at basement prices. Probably kicking back 10 percent to Putin.
Nonsense. Russia has an outstanding warrant for Soros' arrest.
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If the Ukrainians use a lot of Russian designed/based equipment, all they have to do is pick up from the stuff the Russians leave behind, abandon, or that they don't fry when shooting up those pockets they isolate.
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Overconfidence may obscure for the Ukrainians one salient fact about this conflict: Time is not on their side. They have fought a skillful and determined defense, but have also had the advantage of home turf, interior lines and the inherent superiority enjoyed by a defender with well-prepared positions, cutting-edge weapons and clear fields of fire. The question now is whether they can pivot to the offense, with its requirement for more comprehensive planning, faster than the Russians can adapt. If not, a prolonged conflict seems likely, and in a war of attrition, the Russians — with a military four times that of Ukraine — will inevitably have the upper hand.
“They own the long clock,” a senior Ukrainian officer recently admitted. “We are calculating time not in weeks or days – but in lives.”
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The Russians are already adapting, and by doing so are narrowing the Ukrainians’ tactical edge. The one-sided culling of Russian armored columns that characterized the opening days of the war, and kept YouTube subscribers around the world happy, are a thing of the past. The Russians now lead their formations with electronic attack, drones, lasers and good-old-fashioned reconnaissance by fire.
They are using cruise missiles and saboteur teams to target logistics routes, manufacturing plants, and training bases in western Ukraine. Realizing that the Ukrainians lack thermal sights for their stinger missile launchers, the Russians have switched all air operations to after dark. It may be for this same reason that Russian cruise missile strikes in western and southern Ukraine have also been at nighttime.
Ukrainian soldiers are deeply respectful of Russian artillery, an asset that the Russians are using more frequently to compensate for their infantry’s deficiencies. Several snipers I spoke with recently agreed that the Russians’ indirect fire capability was the most concerning — a result of sheer reckless mass rather than technical skill. They told some hair-raising stories to illustrate their point, and one amusing one: Ukrainian soldiers defending Kyiv commute to the battle in their own vehicles. After a recent three-day insertion, the sniper teams returned to their extraction site to find their cars all flattened by Russian artillery – a contingency apparently not covered by their insurance plans.
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the Russian artillery units are easier to hit and kill than tanks, especially if there is no or minimal infantry perimeter
Ukraine has knocked out several of artillery units and there are videos of the wreckage.
I obviously don't know the status of the Ukraine's munitions or how many capable units they have but the fact is that this Russian 'adaption' may be thwarted.
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[Fortune] Sanctions imposed on Russia to cripple its economy may be starting to hurt its military capabilities.
The country’s primary armored vehicle manufacturer appears to have run out of parts to make and repair tanks, according to a Facebook post by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Citing "available information," it reported state-owned company Uralvagonzavod, which builds tanks such as the T-72B3, has had to temporarily cease production in Nizhny Tagil.
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Depends on what happened to the parts they were supposed to have on hand. Sent to client states? Sold for cash? Scrapped for pocket money? Never ordered to save money?
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3 million parts ordered and budgeted for. 1 million delivered with the rest of the money siphoned off from corruption.
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 26th day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 21st of March 2022 (Kyiv time).
Ukrainian forces conducted a counter-offensive in Mykolaiv Oblast and captured a number of settlements. In the north, Russian Army shelled Zhytomyr Region with missile artillery, for the first time since the invasion.
I apologize for the delayed Summary of the Day 26. The delay was caused by an issue on the side of our server provider. Go to the site. They greatly have improved the graphics presentation of the maps.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 19:20 In Ilyichevsk (Chernomorsk), Odessa region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing positions in the poultry house. All heavy armored vehicles have been withdrawn from the city limits and are located there. An artillery battery is located in the poultry house. 18:24 Regular personnel with servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ukrainian school. The footage shows how in one of the multimedia classrooms of the school, the Ukrainian army placed its ammunition depots. The moment has come when neo-Nazis are no longer shy about posting such videos on TikTok. This once again proves that they do not care about the peaceful life of people.
17:06 At the seaport of Nikolaev Russian troops inflicted impact, the infrastructure is significantly damaged.
16:15 Ukrainian journalist of Hromadske TV channel Viktoria Roshchina, previously suspected of conducting intelligence, was saved by the servicemen of the National Guard who maintain law and order in the city of Berdyansk.
15:21 The head of the Kiev regional military administration said that Bucha and Gostomel completely came under Russian control. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still unable to take offensive actions in this area and are trying to prevent the advance of the RF Armed Forces towards the capital.
13:01 The American television channel ABC News not only told, but also showed how Ukrainian militants take control of schools, hospitals and other peaceful infrastructure in order to equip their strongholds there. This is a very important point. Because the pro-Ukrainian propaganda likes to put pressure on the fact that the Russians allegedly hit civilian targets "just like that." No, not just like that.
11:50 TG channels write that the APU tried to apply a missile attack on the territory of Russia (Belgorod region). The video caught the moment of Russian air defense intercepting a Ukrainian ballistic missile over Belgorod.
11:20 "The Russians behaved very dignified, they were polite with us": the Ukrainian military who laid down his arms near Kiev said that he was pleasantly surprised by the attitude of the RF Armed Forces towards him. The servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were given water, food and the opportunity to clean up - the media.
10:35 Russian air defense systems shot down 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including one Bayraktar TB-2. A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28N helicopters destroyed nine Ukrainian tanks, seven infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers during night strikes. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, developing the offensive, advanced another six km and captured Urozhainy, now they are fighting with units of the 128th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:31 A total of 67 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and neo-Nazis surrendered near Kiev. We removed them "warm", literally as soon as they were brought to the rear for filtration.
04:01 Nazi Maxim Marchenko, appointed by the pan-president Zelensky governor of Odessa, ordered firing positions to be set up in schools and hospitals. He forbade letting residents out of the city through humanitarian corridors.
01:11 Chicherina removed Ukrainian flag over the city hall of Energodar. The Russian rock singer and part-time friend of the @wargonzo project gave a concert in Energodar, liberated by Russian troops. Julia sang for Russian soldiers - participants in the military operation to denazify Ukraine.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:16 The DPR reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Donetsk with five shells of 152 mm caliber.
20:52 "At the moment, the exchange of prisoners of war is at a standstill, since the Ukrainian side categorically does not get in touch. We are trying to use the sources that we had, looking for new sources of communication. But so far, unfortunately, to no avail. Those prisoners who are now on our territory are being held in accordance with all international standards. In particular, the third Geneva Convention. All their rights are reserved," – Daria Morozova in comments channel "Russia 24". 20:50 in Donetsk as a result shelling from the VFU damaged the site at the Donbass Arena stadium.
19:43 Ministry of Defense: The Armed Forces delivered a precision strike on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lisichansk and Kramatorsk.
19:24 People's militia of the DPR: the troops completely "denazified" the 36th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Mariupol.
19:12 In the Mariupol direction, the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Basurin has been completely denazified.
The DPR servicemen seized four tanks, two armored vehicles, two sets of communications of the tactical link "Harris". Specialists of the republic study documents and secret information carriers abandoned by the invaders during the shameful flight
19:10 Ukrainian troops fired eight 120mm caliber mines in Donetsk.
18:21 Enemy positions in the settlement Avdievka continue to process artillery, aircraft and missiles. There were fewer answers. However, using communications, the enemy snaps. By the end of the week, Avdievka fortified area should be encircled, and things will go much more cheerfully.
17:23 Three missile strikes on the airfield of Kramatorsk, where were based equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:01 Armed formations of Ukraine continue shelling the territory of the LPR with the use of heavy weapons: n.p. Popasnaya - Pervomaisk: artillery gun 122mm (six shells); n.p. Novotoshkovskoe - Donetsk: mortar 120mm (eight min) - JCCC.
16:33 One civilian was injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to message representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
15:03 AFU continues to shell peaceful areas of Horlivka. Fixed damage to residential buildings in the village of mine them. N. A. Izotov at the addresses: st. P. Morozova, 10/1 (photo 1, 2); st. P. Morozov, 10/2 (photo 3, 4, 5). Fortunately, the residents of the houses were not injured.
AFU continue shelling peaceful areas of Horlivka.
14:55 Shelling of the settlement Nevelskoye - Donetsk: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC DPR.
14:07 Ukrainian troops fired eight 120mm caliber mines in Horlivka.
14:06 DPR artillery destroyed American radar complex Firefinder, and then - the evacuation group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:47 Military facts crimes VFU, recorded in the liberated territories, will be of help to the future tribunal - Daria Morozova.
13:20 VFU shelled the village Dzerzhinsk (sh-ta "Yuzhnaya") - n.p. Gorlovka: fired eight mines with 120mm caliber. — SCK
13:16 Refugee from Mariupol: “A bunch of corpses are lying around the city, horror is happening ... We are trying to leave for Rostov ... We are trying to survive ...” According to him, now there is no electricity and gas in the city, windows have blown out in the houses. At the same time, the man noted that Russian servicemen helped civilians as best they could: first they gave away their dry rations, and then they brought food and medicines.
13:13 A local resident in the liberated village of Nikolsky told RT: in the Holy Assumption Nikolo-Vasilevsky monastery, a worker died from a blow and a refugee from Volnovakha was wounded. “In the vicinity of the village, some Aidar partisan purposefully hits the monastery with a mortar. I hope that the VKS will help to calculate it.
13:00 Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Rubizhne, fighting is going on.
12:23 Pasechnik said that after the liberation of their territory, the forces of the LPR will continue to participate in the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine.
12:01 The Ministry of Information of the DPR stated that by now about 50 percent of the area of Mariupol has been liberated.
11:08 The Russian Armed Forces, developing the offensive, advanced another six km and captured Urozhainy, now they are fighting with units of the 128th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A group of DPR troops has penetrated four kilometers deep into the defense of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces and is fighting for the capture of the settlements of Kamenka, Novoselovka Vtoraya, Verkhnetoretskoye, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. In the direction of the city of Kurakhovo, advancement amounted to five kilometers overnight - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
11:04 Mountains of imported weapons and equipment became trophies of the DPR units: American disposable anti-tank grenade launchers M72 LAW, moreover, produced by the joint Norwegian-Finnish company Nammo. The 11th Regiment now has many of them. AT4 is a Swedish disposable anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Well, already a classic - a bunch of Bulgarian 82mm mines and charges for LNG-9.
11:03 Accurate missile strike destroyed the Department National Police of Konstantinovka.
10:45 LPR troops have established control over four settlements and continue to destroy units of the 30th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The DPR units took control of the settlements of Slavnoe, Trudovskoy and Maryinka - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:06 As a result of the morning shelling of the village of Golmovsky, a country house on the street was destroyed. Dry Yar - Prikhodko.
09:54 VFU fired upon railway station, machine plant and utility company in the Yasinovatsky district.
09:46 Security forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired upon the town of Krivorozhye (LPR) with a tactical missile "Tochka-U". More than three houses were broken in the settlement, three schools were damaged. In the area of the hospital campus, the buildings were left without glass.
09:33 The Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on the territory of the DPR 32 times in a day, used 290 pieces of ammunition, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC said. Also, during the day, due to the shelling of the territory of the DPR, one civilian was killed, 32 people were injured.
09:08 The commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left the data of the fighters near Maryinka. Near Maryinka, the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine happened so rapidly that the Ukrainian commanders in a hurry forgot the data of their personnel in the trenches. Based on these data, it is possible to find and identify those persons who attacked the peaceful quarters of Donetsk. All this information, no doubt, will be transferred to the competent authorities and will be useful in the investigation of war crimes of the Ukrainian armed forces on the territory of the DPR — @wargonzo.
08:55 "They didn’t let us out, snipers shot at us, they didn’t even let us eat, we weren’t allowed to heat water for the children."
Residents of the liberated Donetsk village of Bezymyanny told, how the National Battalions held them, in fact, captive, did not allow them to go out into the street and attracted fire, hiding behind civilians:
"[A total of] 23 days in the basement, without electricity, without gas, without water. The entire Levoberezhny district, the whole city, 150,000 people ... small, infants: seven months, ten months, a one-year-old baby ... Mothers slept in the basement and did not let the baby go for 22 days."; "They [nationalists] relocated: then they shoot there , then there, there, they also fired pointwise at them, they smashed the whole area in general.
08:45 "We ate pigeons and drank water from the pool": residents of Mariupol, who managed to get out of the city under the shelling of the Ukrainian national battalions, spoke about the horrors happening in the city. People are forced to sit in basements and hide from shelling, and nationalists regularly come to them to steal food. To find at least some food, the inhabitants of the city had to drink water from the pool and even eat birds.
08:35 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells were fired with a caliber of 122mm - STsKK.
08:23 AFU equipped a command post right in school. Report by NM DPR from the liberated settlement of Stepnoye. Behind the school, Ukrainian soldiers placed equipment.
08:17 Evening and night blows in the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka. Obviously, she will be released soon.
Evening and night strikes on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka.
07:40 Shelling of the settlement was recorded. Metalist (Ukrainian Travnevoe) - n.p. Golmovsky: three shots were fired from a tank - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
07:30 Night in Slavyanskcoveredaccumulation of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the railway station.
07:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, three attacks were recorded on three settlements of the LPR. In n.p. Donetsk damaged five residential buildings, a store and a utility company - the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Ukrainian artillery hits the center of Donetsk, the school and Donbass Arena
[REGNUM] Indiscriminate fire on the center of Donetsk was opened on the evening of March 22 by Ukrainian militants, the Headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic reports.
As a result of this attack, shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine exploded near school No. 54 and near the Donbass Arena stadium. The monument to Vladimir Degtyarev was damaged.
The Donetsk News Agency notes that the sports arena was damaged. In the area of shelling, the movement of urban electric transport was suspended.
Ukrainian force blew up 22 bridges in Lugansk
[REGNUM] Retreating Ukrainian Nazis blew up 22 bridges on the territory of the LPR in an attempt to delay the advance of Russian troops, Prime Minister of the Luhansk People's Republic Sergei Kozlov said on March 22 on the Lugansk 24 TV channel.
He noted that now one of the main tasks of the government is the restoration of these vital structures.
“When the Nazi troops went north and then left our territory, they blew up 22 bridges, so one of the tasks is to restore the overpasses,” Kozlov said.
Recall that Russia, the DPR and the LPR have been conducting a military operation to denazify Ukraine since February 24.
Ukrainian artillery hits Yasinovataya and Dokuchaevsk
[REGNUM] The cities of Yasinovataya and Dokuchaevsk (DPR) were shelled by Ukrainian militants from artillery shells on the evening of March 22, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
At 19:00 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire from the village of Avdiivka, firing six 122mm shells at Yasinovataya. The city of Dokuchaevsk was attacked by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at 16:50 Moscow time, firing six shells of 122mm caliber from the direction of the Novomikhailovka settlement.
Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the village of Ozeryanovka, opening fire at 16:20 Moscow time from the village of Novgorodskoye. Ukrainian militants fired 15 shells of 122 mm caliber at the village.
At 16:40 Moscow time, Ukrainian formations fired on the village of Staromikhaylovka: 12 mines of 120mm caliber were fired from the village of Krasnogorovka.
At 17:05 Moscow time, the village of Aleksandrovka was shelled: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four artillery shells of 122mm caliber at it from the direction of the settlement Pobeda.
Ukrainian artillery strikes Donetsk
[REGNUM] Donetsk was shelled by Ukrainian armed forces on the evening of March 22, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
So, at the village of the Trudovskaya mine in Donetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired six artillery shells of 122 mm caliber. The attack was recorded from the side of the settlement of Krasnogorovka at 17:00 Moscow time.
At 18:30 Moscow time, the village of the Oktyabrskaya mine in Donetsk came under fire from 120 mm mortars: eight mines were fired from the village of Vodiane.
Another shelling from the APU was recorded at 20:05 Moscow time. Ukrainian militants attacked Donetsk from the direction of the settlement Nevelskoye, firing five artillery shells of 152 mm caliber.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 21:28 Biden will announce a new package of sanctions against Russia on Thursday, March 24, during a visit to Brussels for a NATO summit.
21:11 Yermak spoke at the Chatham House think tank in London and said that Ukraine needs offensive weapons, medium-range missiles and lend-lease to repel Russian aggression. 20:45 Poland has frozen Russian assets worth $33 million, the government said.
20:43 The proposal to exclude Russia from the G20 has received support in Washington, writes Reuters. In particular, the Minister of Economic Development of Poland said: "In the course of meetings, including with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, we came up with a proposal to exclude Russia from the G20, and the reaction was positive."
20:30 The news agency of the Ministry of Defense compared the losses of the Russian army in 26 days of the war in Ukraine and in ten years in Afghanistan:
20:26 Proposals to create a new Nuremberg Tribunal to investigate Russia's crimes in Ukraine are getting louder. From the point of view of international law, there is no ban on the creation of a new international court. Read more about this possibility in the article Special Tribunal for Putin - How Possible?
20:22 Russian occupiers began shelling Mariupol from the sea, CNBC reports citing a high-ranking Pentagon official. According to him, seven warships are shelling the city.
20:21 The Russians fired on Lozovaya in the Kharkiv region: one person died, 30 were injured, the head of the territorial community, Sergei Zelensky, said.
20:19 Zelensky was invited to the summit of NATO leaders at the end of this week. He is expected to speak via video link.
20:16 Chairman of the Akhtyrsky District Council Sergei Kirichka was released from the captivity of the Russian invaders - he was kept in the basement for a week, said Elena Shulyak, head of the Servant of the People party.
20:14 In the Kherson region, the occupiers kidnapped the headman of Staraya Zburyevka, Viktor Marunyak, said the head of the Golopristan City Council, Alexander Babich.
20:13 The European Commission has proposed to allocate three billion euros from the EU budget to the EU countries that accept Ukrainian refugees, said Ursula von der Leyen.
19:59 The United States has clear evidence that the Russian military in Ukraine deliberately opened fire on civilian infrastructure, writes CNN, citing a senior Pentagon official. Such actions of the aggressor, he said, are regarded as a war crime.
19:41 The economy of Ukraine is suffering greatly from Russian aggression: the fall in GDP could be a third of the pre-war level, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
19:23 Polish President Andrzej Duda on Russian aggression: “Poles are now saying with tears in their eyes: Mariupol is like Warsaw in 1944, when the Nazi Germans brutally bombed residential buildings, mercilessly killing civilians. Today, the behavior of the Russian army and Russian leaders is exactly the same like Hitler, the German SS and the pilots of the fascist army. These are unprecedented killings that the free world should not put up with."
19:21 At the upcoming EU summit, the creation of a solidarity fund with Ukraine is expected, DPA reports with reference to the draft final statement of the summit. The fund will be used to restore Ukraine after the end of Russian aggression and to support the current leadership of the state while the war is going on. One of the sources of filling the fund should be a donor conference.
19:15 The military administration of Kiev reported that as a result of the strike on Obolon, one person died and three were injured.
19:11 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for further tightening of sanctions against Russia.
18:49 Representatives of the "DPR" captured an evacuation convoy with employees of the State Emergency Service on an agreed route near Mangush near Mariupol, Vereshchuk said.
18:47 At the NATO summit on March 24, Poland is going to officially propose to the alliance to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, writes kronika24. The Polish Ministry of Defense is intensively working on a project according to which the NATO peacekeeping mission should have 10,000 troops.
18:41 The head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, announced a missile attack on Pavlograd, as a result of which the Pavlograd-2 railway station was destroyed. The railway bed and rails were destroyed, 15 freight cars derailed, one person died.
18:32 The KGB of Belarus today made a number of statements: on the liquidation of the "residency of Ukraine, acting under diplomatic cover"; that he saw "signs of espionage" in the actions of individual Ukrainian diplomats - eight out of 19 diplomats of the Ukrainian embassy are allegedly career employees of the special services. Also, the KGB stated that Kyiv "is closely cooperating in Belarus with the special services of Lithuania, exchanging data with the intelligence of the NATO countries."
18:29 The Pentagon has not yet seen evidence of the arrival of "volunteers" from other countries in Ukraine to participate in the war on the side of Russia. According to the US Department of Defense, only "Wagnerites" actively participate in hostilities (mainly in the Donbass).
18:21 CNN reports, citing sources in NATO, that Belarusian troops will soon invade Ukraine.
18:08 Ukraine's western neighbors actively support our country in the war against Russia: they accept refugees, supply humanitarian supplies. Hungary was no exception. However, in terms of political issues, Budapest took a special position, trying to maintain relations with the Russian Federation. Read more about this in the material Hungarian Position in the War in Ukraine .
18:06 In Mariupol today at 16:45 near the Neptune basin, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down one of the planes of the Russian invaders, which had been destroying the city in recent weeks, the City Council reports.
18:01 In Ukraine, on the border with Poland, on the way to Lviv, the first field hospital has been opened, the Foreign Ministry reports. The staff consists of 65 people - they are all Israeli specialists.
18:00 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said he intends to personally accompany the humanitarian mission to Mariupol in coordination with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer.
17:56 The Law Enforcement Committee of the Verkhovna Rada approved a bill introducing criminal liability for unauthorized dissemination of information about the movements and positions of Ukrainian troops. Now for such a video in social networks, you can get from five to eight years in prison. And if this is done by a group or for selfish purposes - from eight to 12 years.
17:50 Polish President Duda said that the founding act of NATO-Russia on relations, cooperation and security has ceased to exist and no longer binds anyone.
17:37 Normalization of relations between Germany and Russia is out of the question as long as Putin remains the head of the Kremlin, said Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the ruling SPD party and confidant of Chancellor Scholz.
17:32 German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said that within the framework of the "Marshall Plan-2" Ukraine can receive money for reconstruction after the war from a number of states. Developed countries have come to an agreement to give Ukraine money as free support to rebuild from the destruction by the Russian army.
17:25 Thousands of women and children are forcibly taken to Russia from the temporarily occupied territories , Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said.
According to her, in the settlements that the occupying troops enter, so-called "humanitarian corridors" are organized for residents to be taken to the Russian Federation. Women, children, and the elderly are searched, their Ukrainian documents and telephones are taken away, and they are sent to the border regions of Russia, where they are placed in concentration camps with subsequent transfer to settlements in depressed regions.
There is no exact data on the number of such deportees, but we are talking about thousands of Ukrainians. Attempts by Russians to create such "humanitarian corridors" were recorded not only in Donetsk and Lugansk, but also in Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kiev regions.
17:12 In Severodonetsk, as a result of shelling by the invaders of local residents who were standing in line at the grocery store, one person died on the spot, more than ten people were hospitalized, the Regional State Administration reported.
17:03 Anonymous hackers reported on their Twitter that they had hacked the Nestlé database, which refused to leave the Russian market. They released 10 gigabytes of data containing email addresses, passwords, lists of company clients, etc. to free access.
17:01 The last two journalists left Mariupol, who recorded Russia's crimes against Ukraine. It was they who distributed pictures of the maternity hospital and the city hospital after the bombing. According to journalists, there are no colleagues left in besieged Mariupol, writes Babel.
16:53 The invaders released Hromadske journalist Victoria Roshchina from captivity, who had to record a video in which she denies her claims to the Russian services that held her captive, and says that they saved her life. The recording was made under pressure from the Russian security forces, Hromadske reports.
16:41 In Mariupol, tankers of the Azov regiment destroyed four enemy tanks, several armored vehicles and infantry of the Russian invaders during a street battle.
16:15 The EU will not introduce quotas for refugees from Ukraine, as it was with the Syrians, said European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson. According to her, the states themselves indicate how many people they can accept and what their needs are.
The European Commissioner stressed that Russia will not be able to quarrel the EU countries because of the migration crisis.
16:13 The mayor's office of Paris unanimously supported the assignment of "honorary citizenship" to the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, for the first time granting such a status to the city.
16:08 The SBU assesses the likelihood of Belarus' invasion of Ukraine as quite high. Belarus can send 10,000 to 15,000 troops to Ukraine. Possible tactical targets of the Belarusian military in Volhynia are Vladimirets in the Rivne region, Kovel and Lutsk.
16:05 The European Union must be prepared for rising energy prices and grain shortages, the Greek Foreign Ministry said.
16:04 On a number of key topics related to the situation in Ukraine, elements of progress are visible, said UN Secretary General António Guterres.
16:03 Vereshchuk criticized Hungary's position on Russia's war against Ukraine. She did not rule out that Budapest might "really want our Transcarpathia", and called on the Hungarians to change their minds and not repeat the mistakes of World War II, when "Hungary made the wrong choice."
15:44 In some cities of Ukraine that are in the war zone, food is left for 3-4 days, says Steve Gordon, humanitarian response adviser for the Mercy Corps in Ukraine.
15:42 According to WHO, about 500,000 Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Poland suffer from mental health problems. At the same time, 30 thousand have "serious" mental health problems, many of them need support due to trauma.
Earlier it was reported that more than two million Ukrainian refugees moved to Poland.
15:39 About 50-70,000 IT specialists have left Russia, another 70-100,000 may leave the country soon, the Russian Association for Electronic Communications said.
15:32 The minimum punishment for looting in Ukraine has been increased from three to five years, the National Police reported.
15:30 The anthem of Ukraine was played in the Council of Europe for the first time in history.
15:12 Venediktova claims that there are spies and enemy agents in every government agency. She assured that law enforcement agencies identify them and bring them to justice.
15:08 Six people's deputies who went abroad will be held accountable, Venediktova said. According to her, since the beginning of the war, the Office of the Prosecutor General has been monitoring the movement of all top officials.
15:01 Activists on the Polish-Belarusian border have suspended the blocking of trucks heading to Russia. For seven days of protest, they managed to create a line of trucks with a length of 55 kilometers.
The protesters reported that their official permission to protest had expired, and it had become unsafe to be at the border. Now the volunteers are trying to get a new permit.
14:55 The air command of the Skhid hinted that in Chernobaevka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the Russian occupiers for the eighth time.
14:52 Well-known photojournalist Maxim Levin disappeared on the front line near Kiev. According to his friend, the last time Levin got in touch was on March 13 in the Vyshgorodsky district - he was in the combat area with a camera.
14:33 In the Vinnitsa region, a Russian Iskander cruise missile was shot down, the head of the regional military administration, Sergei Borzov, said.
14:30 Italy has declared that it supports Ukraine's accession to the EU.
14:17 The Turkish Navy issued a mine alert in the western part of the Black Sea and urged ships to exercise caution in the area.
14:15 Hungary raised fighter jets to intercept an aircraft that allegedly flew in from Ukraine and was heading towards Slovakia, Hungarian media reported, citing the Ministry of Defense.
14:00 Vereshchuk said that a large humanitarian corridor to the Chernihiv region is too dangerous: “Negotiations are ongoing with the invaders to open a humanitarian corridor. But today it has been decided, the military supports it, that it will be too dangerous. The road is mined, it is clearly visible to the enemy and you know the cynicism of the occupiers."
13:47 The network began to distribute the "order", according to which the strongholds in Odessa should be located in schools and hospitals, and the civilian population is prohibited from leaving the city along humanitarian corridors. Odesa OVA claims that this is a fake.
13:45 In Kiev, at about 13:10, a Russian missile was destroyed by air defense forces over Obolon, presumably Point U. The remains of the missile fell into the Dnieper, Gerashchenko reports.
13:32 In Russia, for lack of reserves, the prosecutor's office is purposefully looking for people who have problems with paying loans, alimony and other debts. Debtors are offered exemption from all credit obligations in case of signing a contract with the Russian army, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, such proposals have already begun to spread in the territory of Tatarstan, in Pyatigorsk, Rostov-on-Don and the North Caucasus. The "recruiting" of people who have problems with the law also continues - they are offered a full amnesty in exchange for participating in hostilities in Ukraine.
13:29 Russian invaders use tear gas in Kherson to disperse a rally of local residents.
13:28 The Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands announced that Russian assets worth almost 400 million euros have been frozen in the country.
13:13 Tikhanovskaya, in an address to the Belarusian military, stated that Lukashenko had already committed high treason by providing the territory of Belarus for Russian aggression against Ukraine, which directly contradicts the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.
She also warned that the invasion of the Belarusian army into Ukraine would become a "shameful stain" and further isolate the Belarusians from the outside world. Tikhanovskaya stressed that everyone who gives the order for the invasion of Belarusian troops into Ukraine will be brought before the tribunal. And those who refuse to carry out criminal orders or surrender will be released from liability.
13:06 Russian aviation today dropped two super-powerful air bombs on Mariupol, the Azov regiment reported.
13:01 Shoigu dismissed the commander of the 6th Army of the Russian Federation for huge combat losses, journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk reports. According to him, 2,000 servicemen were missing in this army, of which about 180 were conscripts.
12:39 Zelensky, in an address to the Italian parliament, called on the country "not to be a resort for killers": "They almost all use Italy as a vacation. Don't be a resort for killers. Block their property, support the embargo, block ports. Prevent a food crisis, help us. This war needs to end faster. And restore Ukraine."
He called for even more sanctions against the Russian Federation - "more pressure is needed on Russia."
12:35 The Italian authorities announced the freezing of assets of Russian oligarchs in the amount of more than 800 million euros.
12:28 Peskov commented on Zelensky's words about a referendum in Ukraine regarding security guarantees and the status of Crimea and Donbass: "This is a sovereign state, there may be domestic procedures, but there are also negotiations."
He also complained that Russia "many days ago handed over draft documents to the Ukrainian side as part of the negotiation process - Kyiv responded to some things, not to others."
Peskov also assured that the Russian Federation does not create "any special structures" in the "territories of Ukraine liberated from nationalists."
12:25 Zelensky talked to the Pope, told him about the difficult humanitarian situation and the blocking of humanitarian corridors by Russian troops.
"We would welcome the mediating role of the Holy See in ending human suffering. Thank you for the prayers for Ukraine and the world," Zelensky wrote.
12:07 According to the UN, 3 million 528 thousand 346 people have left Ukraine since February 24. More than two million of them crossed the border into Poland.
12:04 In the Transcarpathian region, local residents began to receive anti-Hungarian SMS messages, like "Ukraine is for Ukrainians, Magyars for knives." According to local authorities, this is the work of the Russian special services.
12:03 Russian invaders fired at a supermarket in Severodonetsk, where there were people. The number of victims is being specified, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
12:00 Arestovich predicts the cessation of active hostilities in Ukraine within two to three weeks.
11:56 A Russian soldier surrendered along with his tank. According to the head of the Kiev School of Public Administration Viktor Andrusiv, now he has been provided with the most comfortable conditions of detention, and after the war he will receive 10,000 dollars and the opportunity to apply for citizenship.
11:53 The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation reports that Russian airlines have already lost 78 aircraft - all of them were arrested abroad.
11:34 Reznikov called on residents of the occupied territories of Donbass to avoid forced mobilization by all means, and those who were taken into the Russian army to go over to the Ukrainian side as soon as possible.
"Everyone who has already surrendered their weapons is safe. We will deal with all the formalities. The main thing is to avoid the irreparable and save your life. If you have committed a crime, but want to be saved, run. Or surrender. Only very quickly. Active repentance will be taken into account", - added the Minister of Defense.
He stressed that in recent days the Ukrainian army has been increasingly capturing people whom the Russian invaders forcibly mobilized and threw into battle as cannon fodder. Mobilized from the "LDNR" are not included in the statistics of the losses of the Russian army, so for Moscow they are consumables. Soon the number of killed residents of ORDLO will reach thousands.
11:25 The Estonian Foreign Ministry initiates the suspension of Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council, "because its activities in no way correspond to the goals of the Council's work."
11:14 The Russians have intensified the shelling of Kharkov and are probing the defense, said the head of the Kharkov regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.
He also said that tomorrow there will be another attempt to organize a green corridor to Izyum: "This is a critical point now. The last three times, when they tried, the occupier did not confirm to us. We have buses and the cargo is ready."
11:10 The first payments of 6,500 hryvnias through ePidtrimka have begun for those who applied on the first day. In total, four million applications were received, money was sent to almost 500,000 Ukrainians, Fedorov said.
He also warned about fraud: people receive SMS with an offer to follow a link for help. You can't click on any of those links.
11:00 The General Staff named the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of March 22:
personnel - about 15,300 people,
tanks - 509,
armored fighting vehicles - 1556,
artillery systems - 252,
MLRS - 80,
air defense systems - 45,
aircraft - 99,
helicopters - 123,
automotive equipment - 1000,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 70,
UAV operational-tactical level - 35,
special equipment - 15.
10:57 Tonight, the Russian invaders attacked the seaport of Nikolaev, the Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine reported. As a result of the shelling, the port infrastructure was badly damaged, there were no casualties.
10:55 Last night, the enemy fired at the area of the railway station in Slavyansk, Donetsk region. There were no casualties, local authorities said.
10:51 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reminded Hungary, which refused to impose energy sanctions against the Russian Federation, that "if Russia succeeds in achieving its criminal goals in Ukraine, our neighbors will become the next target."
10:47 In the Kharkiv region, a Russian tank shot down a car in which there was a family with two children. The family waved a white flag and shouted that they were civilians. Parents and a nine-year-old girl were killed, a 17-year-old boy was injured, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
10:41 The General Assembly of the European Federation of National Language Institutions (EFNIL) unanimously decided to grant Ukraine the status of an associate member of the organization. Membership in EFNIL will allow Ukraine to form a strategy for the legislative protection of the Ukrainian language as the future language of the EU.
10:39 The road from Chernihiv to Kiev is mined, Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko said in an interview with LB.ua. According to him, about 130 thousand people remained in the city, more than 150 thousand left. Because of the shelling, there has been no heat, electricity and water here for many days, there is very little food and medicine left. Chernihiv is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe and under the threat of a complete blockade.
10:36 Borrell said the EU's joint defense strategy, dubbed the Strategic Compass , includes plans to develop a rapid reaction force that would allow the bloc to rapidly deploy up to 5,000 troops for various types of crises. At the same time, each EU country will have its own army, and now we are talking about closer cooperation between them. NATO remains the backbone of Europe's territorial defense.
10:25 Finnish customs detained 21 yachts from the number of those wintering in the ports of the country. Customs officers suspect that all of them are connected with sanctioned Russians. The yachts will remain in their wintering grounds until the moment when their owners are identified, then those belonging to the Russians will be seized.
10:19 During the day, 149 saboteurs were caught in Kiev, the Kiev VGA reported.
10:14 The 128th Brigade captured a high-ranking staff officer of the 58th Russian Army - Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Koshel.
Immediately after the capture of Koshel, the Russians threw significant forces in an attempt to rescue him. Including raised aircraft, which inflicted a fire strike on Ukrainian attack aircraft. As a result of enemy fire, no one was injured, the prisoner was taken to a safe rearward place.
09:50 The personnel of the units of the marines of the Russian Federation, preparing for the assault on Odessa, were destroyed by the Ukrainian military near Nikolaev and Mariupol, said the speaker of the operational headquarters of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk. He clarified that part of the train "is still hanging out in the sea, but will go to feed the bulls."
09:46 Today, humanitarian corridors will work to evacuate Mariupol residents, Vereshchuk said. Three routes have been agreed: Berdyansk - Zaporozhye, Mangush community - Zaporozhye, Nikolskoe - Zaporozhye.
09:40 In the Ship area of Nikolaev after enemy firing the gas station caught fire. Three men were killed and one woman was injured, according to the State Emergency Service.
09:28 Zelensky on the rights of the Russian language and languages of national minorities, including Hungarian: "I believe that we can agree on such things, and they must be human. You cannot demand: look, we have such a minority. We are no longer calling minorities, but communities. And they say, for example: they had a school there, they spoke, for example, Hungarian, Russian. Questions of mirror attitude, mirror respect. We talk about such things, I think that these are normal things."
09:09 At night, a strike was made on villages in the Krivoy Rog region, Vilkul said. In particular, the villages of Malaya Kostromka and Zelenodolsk were fired from Gradov. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties.
09:03 Zelensky believes that Putin wants to seize not only Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries, as well as establish control over other countries in Europe, as the Soviet Union once did.
According to the Ukrainian president, during the negotiations, the Russian side specifically puts forward such demands that Kyiv definitely refuses them - then the Kremlin will have an excuse that Ukraine did not want to negotiate. All this can lead to the beginning of the Third World War.
08:49 Podolyak on a possible meeting between Zelensky and Putin: "When the working groups, as part of the negotiation process, develop some preliminary documents and they are handed over to the presidents, they will assess whether this is already a road map that can be discussed face-to-face "Then. Then this meeting can be. When it can be - I'm not ready to say, because some phrases are constantly heard, in two, three days or in a week. There is no specific date."
08:39 The British Ministry of Defense admits that the use of hypersonic missiles by Russia aims to "divert attention from the lack of progress" in the ground campaign.
08:17 Over the past day, according to the General Staff, Ukrainian defenders repelled 13 enemy attacks and destroyed 14 tanks, eight infantry fighting vehicles, two MTLBs, three artillery systems and four vehicles. Air defense units hit two enemy air targets. The loss of enemy personnel amounted to about 300 people. In addition, the Raptor patrol boat and the Leer-3 electronic warfare complex were destroyed in Mariupol.
08:10 In the Akhtyrsky district, about 300 invaders refused to carry out the order to conduct hostilities and left the area with 70 pieces of equipment, the General Staff said.
07:59 Russian troops have stocks of ammunition and food for no more than three days. A similar situation with fuel, according to the General Staff.
07:48 According to the Association of Sappers, in Ukraine now it is necessary to clear about one sixth of the territory - 82.5 thousand square kilometers.
07:12 The mayor of Boryspil urged local residents to leave their homes because fighting is going on around the city. He explained that, "as the practice of those cities where fighting is taking place shows, the smaller the civilian population, the easier it is for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to work."
07:01 Zelensky named two necessary stages of agreements with Moscow: at the first, the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine should be resolved, at the second, the status of Crimea and Donbass will be discussed.
"I think that this is a very complicated story. For everyone. Both Crimea and Donbass. In order to find some way out there, we must first take a step towards guaranteeing security and ending the war. At the same time, we must agree that we are resolving the issue of temporarily occupied territories. We will solve them, but only after this step," the president said in an interview with Suspilny.
He added that it would be possible to resolve the issue of Crimea and Donbass only at the second meeting with Putin, and the first one would have to be completely devoted to the topic of guarantees.
06:55 The Pentagon accused the Russian army of committing war crimes in Ukraine and said it would help collect evidence.
06:32 Ukraine will continue the transit of Russian gas as long as it is technically possible , head of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko told Bloomberg. He clarified that Russian troops in Ukraine are very careful with the transit gas infrastructure. According to Vitrenko, Ukraine now fully controls the transit of gas, and Gazprom uses the contracted capacity.
05:17 Bennett may be preparing a visit to Kiev, Israeli media write.
04:35 The head of the Kiev Regional Military District Oleksandr Pavlyuk explained that the Ukrainian army cannot yet carry out any actions either in Bucha or in Gostomel: “We need to keep the enemy in his attempts to cross the Irpin River and go on the offensive against Kiev. So far, the potential does not allow we will switch to offensive operations in this direction, only locally. We are building up potential, while the enemy's is decreasing."
02:58 Russia's accusations that Kiev is creating biological and chemical weapons are untrue and only say that Putin himself is considering using them in the war against Ukraine, Biden said.
01:09 Ukrainian troops liberated Makarov, Kiev region, confirmed at the State Headquarters.
01:06 In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the planned dismissal of officers, warrant officers and sergeants from military service has been suspended, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
00:14 In Uzhgorod, a sabotage group was detained, which was preparing crimes in Ukraine, the head of the Transcarpathian OVA said. In turn, Uzhgorod deputy Vitaliy Glagola announced the liquidation of an FSB agent who planned an assassination attempt on Zelensky.
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India’s finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India have not commented so far on the mechanism, which would let Indian exporters continue their business with Russia even after Western sanctions restricted international payment mechanisms.
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India, Russia and China will avoid SWIFT by using two existing systems. Russia’s financial messaging system SPFS will be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS.
Bolsonaro also cast the question in terms of Brazil’s need to purchase Russian fertilizer for its huge agricultural sector, which without it could experience “serious harm.” He stressed Brazil’s neutrality while adding that “the fertilizer question is sacred.”
Bolsonaro’s likely rival in this year’s presidential race, Luiz Ignacio Lula de Silva (Lula), and Brazil’s Left generally did not go as far as Bolsonaro’s inclination towards Russia, but definitely agreed with his position of neutrality. Lula said: “The great powers need to understand that we do not want to be anyone’s enemy … We are not interested in a new Cold War.” His former foreign and defense minister, Celso Amorim, never a friend of the United States, said that “denouncing Russia would be submission to Washington’s agenda."
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Not a very favorable alignment for the US I'm afraid:
Pro-US: the EU nations, Japan, Australia, Canada Switzerland, Israel, the Baltic states, New Zealand. Maybe 1 billion people.
Not pro-US, neutral or Pro-Russia: China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa, Turkey, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and nearly all the other nations of the non-Western world. Over 5 billion people.
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So is Brandon gonna start talking about an axis of evil and making new enemies that we don't need?
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axis
That's not an "axis," that's practically the entire globe.
It's bizarre to think that Russia can be punished by the West alone, when over 80% of Russia's export markets remain open and eager to buy from Russia.
This is like the Cold War except now it's the West vs the Rest, and the rest includes China plus two other huge and wealthy nuclear-armed powers.
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Breaking news: Russian Stock Market to Partially Reopen
Russia will allow limited trading on its stock market on Thursday for the first time since it was hit with punishing Western sanctions.
Russia will be trading again with China, India, France and another 100 partners from around the world. It's probably a good time for the Biden administration to think about Plan B
The BRICS nations are working on a block chain payments system. They already have their own economic alliance designed to help them reduce dependence on the West's banking system, their own common New Development Bank which is capitalised and operational. It's like a nascent IMF but without the punitive heavy handed American taint.
The next step for the BRICS is to create a blockchain-based international transfer system like the ones Visa and MasterCard have. These bypass SWIFT and can achieve the goal of reducing vulnerability to Wesyern sanctions.
It will be fun to watch the BRICS leapfrog over SWIFT with new blockchain based fintech.
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The BRICS nations are working on a block chain payments system. They already have their own economic alliance designed to help them reduce dependence on the West's banking system, their own common New Development Bank which is capitalised and operational. It's like a nascent IMF but without the punitive heavy handed American taint.
It'll never work because it is controlled by governments, which carries with it greater costs than the new system can handle to be productive.
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From the FX markets: Ruble soars, up 10% as Putin demands payment in rubles for Russian oil and gas.
The ruble has already made up more than half of the ground it lost after the initial western investor panic. Investors are returning to Russia as companies around the world ignore US sanctions.
Ok I'll give you a rough answer (you can look it up yourself in the CIA Facebook or other published reports).
The West is the smaller of the two, and shrinking every year. The US growth rate was OK under Trump, and Canada and Australia have done well thanks to the commodities boom, but Europe is anemic and India and China leave them in the dust.
The BRICS economies had a slightly larger GDP ($23T) than the US in 2020. China has had extremely high growth but India is now growing even faster. At some point in the next two decades the three dominant economies in the world will be China, the US and India.
If India sides with China and Russia against the US, the global economic order will be much less favorable to US growth and prosperity and power than it was in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
As to the other nonaligned non-western economies (Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Mexico etc), their GDP is roughly comparable to that of Japan-EU-Canada-Australia-Israel-Switzerland.
Of course, as with India and China, the non-Western economies are growing at more than twice the rate of Japan and the EU, so within another decade or two the West will have something like only 40% of world GDP.
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So most of the rest of the world is siding with Russia against the Ukraine and US - tells you who everyone thinks is going to win (and I can't disagree with them.)
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#3 cybercoins
#11 The BRICS nations are working on a block chain payments system.... create a blockchain-based international transfer system to bypass SWIFT. It will be fun to watch the BRICS leapfrog over SWIFT with new blockchain based fintech.
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The ruble has already made up more than half of the ground it lost after the initial western investor panic.
Well, lemme think about that. Should I buy rubles? Nah, I think I'll buy some rental property in Kiev instead.
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If you think the sanctions will force the Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, Argentines, Egyptians, Turks etc to stop buying Russian oil wheat potash etc, then sell rubles. If you think these sanctions will do fuck-all to stop the world from trading with a partner that has stuff they want and need at below-market prices, then buy rubles.
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Wow, you've really made me enthusiastic about the future of the Russian economy. If I flew to St. Petersburg do you think I could find anyone willing to swap their rubles for my dollars?
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A call to make the digital ruble a reserve currency has been issued in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament.
Only a fool would believe Russia is worth a shit. China would starve without American grain.
Asian countries now have $380 billion of local-currency swap lines, which allow importers and exporters to pay in their own currencies rather than in US dollars in case of need. The balance of trade would then be settled by transfers among central banks in any acceptable reserve asset, including US dollars or gold. These swap lines remain inactive, as an emergency backup system. But Asian central banks have been eager to expand them. Japan’s central bank is a strong advocate of swap line expansion, according to Asian government sources.
Politically, the activation of the Russia-India swap line is a clear statement from New Delhi that it will pursue its own foreign policy backed by its own financing arrangements. India has remained neutral on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and abstained from voting on UN Security Council resolutions condemning Russia.
[DW] "Change through rapprochement" was the slogan with which the Social Democrats once advocated more detente with the Soviet Union. In the face of the Russian war in Ukraine, it looks like it has failed.
Admitting you were wrong is never easy; doing so publicly as a politician is even less so. That's why a speech recently given by Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Lars Klingbeil in commemoration of the 100th birth anniversary of party legend Egon Bahr seemed noteworthy.
Bahr is considered the architect of Chancellor Willy Brand's "Ostpolitik", the detente policy that resulted in treaties with the Soviet Union, Poland, and the communist East Germany (GDR). As early as 1963, Bahr advocated "change through rapprochement," which outraged many in the still young Federal Republic of Germany only two years after the construction of the Berlin Wall and in the midst of the Cold War. But the SPD strategist believed that the hardened fronts could not be dissolved by even more pressure and counterpressure.
The policy was based on recognizing the status quo and the assumption that economic openness would lead to political and social openings, as well. For Egon Bahr, successful diplomacy was the sober balancing of interests. "International politics is never about democracy or human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... ," he once told schoolchildren. "It is about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what they tell you in history class."
Until his death in 2015, Bahr argued that even the increasingly authoritarian Russia should be integrated into the European security order, finding many supporters among Social Democrats. That was a mistake, according to the SPD's current leader Lars Klingbeil. "'Change through trade' was the order of the day," he said at the commemorative event at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. "This concept has failed."
Were people in the SPD too naive? "In retrospect, of course, we have to ask ourselves whether we should have assessed the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or the Russian contract killings in London and Berlin differently," Klingbeil asked self-critically. "Whether we misjudged the signs of the times."
Those who have consistently had an excuse and explanation for Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's actions have often been called "Russland-Versteher" (Russia understanders). Those same people have brushed aside concerns about Germany's ever-increasing dependence on Russian energy. There were many in Germany who held such views — especially in the eastern German states that constituted the territory of the former GDR.
WARNING AGAINST NORD STREAM
But the biggest "Russia-understander" was and is the SPD's Gerhard Schröder, the former chancellor who governed Germany from 1998 to 2005. Together with Putin, he was instrumental in driving forward the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which connects Germany and Russia directly through the Baltic Sea, making other gas pipelines that run through Ukraine and Poland less important. "We always warned against Nord Stream," says Ukrainian Lyudmyla Melnyk, a research fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin. "We said that if the pipeline was built, Russian troops would come to us."
There is now contrition in the SPD. Nevertheless, the party does not want to forget the successes of its Ostpolitik. Bahr and Brandt, many insist, lived in a different time and were far-sighted strategists and reconcilers. Moreover, they understood that rapprochement and cooperation require their own strength, emphasized Klingbeil. "In Willy Brandt's time, the defense budget represented well over three percent of our economic strength," he said.
POLITICAL TURNING POINT
In recent decades, Germany has never met the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -agreed target of spending 2% of its gross domestic product on the military. That is now set to change. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken of a "turning point" in foreign and security policy and announced an extra €100 billion ($110 billion) for arming the German military. In addition, energy dependence is to be reduced, new suppliers for gas and oil are to be found, and renewable energies are to be expanded.
At the commemorative event at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Scholz said he wondered what Brandt and Bahr would advise in the current circumstances. Despite the war, the chancellor said that he still considers Bahr's statement that peace in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is only possible with and not against Russia, to be true.
"But, at the same time, we must recognize that the current policy of the Russian leadership is a real threat to security in Europe," the chancellor said. "That is the regrettable starting point of a Russia policy that must begin with a sober look at reality, entirely in the spirit of Egon Bahr, but which does not stop there." He added that anyone who wants peace must be prepared to negotiate. "We, too, keep channels of talks open and use every possibility of mediation," he said.
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN PUTIN AND THE RUSSIANS
It is quite important for Scholz not to equate Putin with Russia. "It was not the Russian people who made the fatal decision to invade Ukraine," he said. "This war is Putin's war." This differentiation, he underlined, is important "in order not to jeopardize the reconciliation between Germans and Russians after World War II." But in his view, it is also important for those demonstrating in Russia against the war and Putin.
During his visit to Moscow in mid-February, Scholz also spoke with representatives of Russian civil society. One of them told him: "You know, democracy grows out of us people," the chancellor recalled. This was a realization that Bahr and leading West German Social Democrats struggled with when the Wall fell.
In 1989, at which point tens of thousands had long demonstrated in the streets of the GDR, the SPD still clung to the ruling Socialist Unity Party as its preferred dialogue partner in East Berlin. Bahr later described that as a mistake. Too little attention had been paid to the burgeoning opposition, East Germany's civil rights activists.
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Ask the people of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Egypt, Turkey, the U.A.E.
All of those countries have rejected US pressure to stop trading with Russia. The Saudis are selling off their dollar holdings for yuan. They're pursuing their own interests just like India, China and every other non-Western nation. Why would anyone expect anything different?
It's really hard to know what the Biden people are thinking (do they think?)
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Y’all wanted Joe Biden as the American president instead of Donald Trump. One hopes you fully appreciate the irony of getting what you wished for.
[DW] Russia's invasion of Ukraine has expedited the "Strategic Compass" security strategy, which allows the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to form a rapid reaction force. Germany has offered to provide the "military core."
EU defense and foreign ministers on Monday adopted a new security strategy, known as "Strategic Compass."
As part of the new strategy, the European Union will create a force of as many as 5,000 troops, an overhaul of the EU battlegroups that have existed only on paper since 2007.
Golly. Finally President Putin drives them to keep promises deliberately ignored for decades, then refuted with mockery when President Trump called them on it.
The joint response forces are to be operational by 2025.
German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht told news hounds ahead of the meeting that "Germany can provide the military core."
The move gives the European Union the "necessary toolbox" to become a "real geopolitical defense and security player together with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ," Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said on Twitter.
WHY IS THE EU OVERHAULING ITS SECURITY STRUCTURE?
The plan for an overhaul of the European Union's security strategy came in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on August 14 of last year.
Having never been deployed, EU battlegroups have lacked sufficient soldiers in the past, though in theory the concept provides for two units with roughly 1,500 soldiers to always be kept on standby. Every six months, the policy vision saw a rotation between various EU member states.
Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner said: "We need to become faster, in particular as we are faced with such a challenging situation at the moment."
WHAT IS THE STATE OF DEFENSE POLICY IN THE EU AND GERMANY?
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine forcing a rethink to the 27-nation bloc's approach to continental security, which is largely buttressed by NATO and national armies.
The European Union has sought to create Permanent Structured Cooperation, known by the acronym PESCO, though in practice it is not a force on the ground. Not all member states of the EU are NATO member states and nearly a quarter of PESCO members are not members of NATO.
As PESCO is not a standing force yet, the question of how to integrate into NATO has not been addressed.
To confront the new reality of war in Europe, Germany announced a huge spending bump of €100 billion($110 billion) for its military, known as the Bundeswehr, this year. It marks a massive shift in the country's post-World War II national security policy.
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Pure (biased) opinion (marxist) piece. Not really news or reliable source.
From "About the author" my late father who was a prolific writer, author, and Marxist intellectual and thinker who introduced me at a young age to dialectics as a matchless intellectual tool to analyse the material world and decode politics. ... half of the 3 decades of my diplomatic career was devoted to assignments on the territories of the former Soviet Union and to Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
#2
Conservative PM Modi and the Indian business community share the view that India should not side with the US and should increase, not cut off, trade with Russia. The Indian government just announced they'll import another 3 million bbl of oil from Russia: Russian oil sale to India complicates Biden's efforts
They're also purchasing Russian air defense systems in defiance of US sanctions. No one in India supports the HS on this issue that is all about India's independence and freedom of maneuver
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If they are buying Russian military equipment at this point they are stupid. Russia will cancel shipment if they need that equipment themselves and currently most Russian equipment hasn't been living up to the marketing prose.
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India is in a weird political position. They have always been very friendly with Russia and bought a lot of their military gear from them and developed a hypersonic missile with them.
But they hate the Chinese.
So they will most likely straddle the line. Soft/friendly with Russia and help an anti-China push in the pacific and south China sea.
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So they will most likely straddle the line. Soft/friendly with Russia and help an anti-China push in the pacific and south China sea.
I've yet to see a single overseas Indian deployment that involved combat. My feeling is that India will play along while contributing nothing when push comes to shove. I can't get too worked up about this, though. It's the same game they played with the Russians during the Cold War. If the Chinese ever come calling on India's borders, we should certainly supply them with the equipment they need. But via loans, not grants.
#6
India and China plus the rest of the nonaligned and pro-Russia nonwestern world will make the sanctions toothless. Russia's markets currency and economy are already starting to show signs they can brush off the sanctions. When 80% of the world's markets for your stuff are on your side, economic sanctions are just a paper tiger.
#8
I dunno. I want to say the Soviets didn't have Joe Biden, but they probably did....
Hmm. Rephrasing:
The Soviets back then didn't have _President_ Joe Biden, talking out of all four sides of his mouth on both his faces, keeping his foot on the neck of the American energy industry while talking about how he's going to sanction Russia and help Yukraine. They do now.
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BTW, ZF, I've enjoyed your recent posts over at Free Republic. It saves me from having to go to twitter, which is venal as well as difficult for me to read these days.
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India is in a weirdan enviable political position.
India is the belle of the ball, courted by both sides.
Putin wants India to continue busting the sanctions, buying millions of barrels of oil and Russian arms. Biden desperately wants India to join in the sanctions but needs Indua's support vs China as part of the Quad and cannot pressure India in any meaningful way.
And India and China have started to repair relations. Each senses what the Biden doofuses can't grasp: this is China and India's moment, one of the great turning points in modern history. An inflection point: their time to rise, as the West begins a swift decline.
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Each senses what the Biden doofuses can't grasp: this is China and India's moment, one of the great turning points in modern history. An inflection point: their time to rise, as the West begins a swift decline.
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Fu@k India. One popular commenter here openly states they hate the US. They just hate politely. Next time China wants a piece of India I say let them have it.
Dron####, you know who you are.
#15
This is more American ignorance and wishful thinking on display. Indians deeply resent America for siding with Pakistan for decades during the Cold War. At the same time the Indians have a large reservoir of goodwill toward Russia.
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The US didn't side with the Paks. Only tolerated. In the meantime India did nothing in Afgan. They still purchased Soviet/Russian arms thereby earning the lack of US trust. If India was worth a shit the US would not have been in Afgan.
The poor man is playing both good cop and bad cop, in the hope that one or the other will work.
[IsraelTimes] Following Knesset address in which he admonished Israel for not aiding Kyiv or joining Western sanctions, Ukrainian president says Jerusalem is ’the right place’ for peace talks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky late on Sunday changed tack and thanked Israel in his nightly video address, after criticizing Israel bitterly in a speech to its politicians earlier in the day.
"Of course, Israel has its interests, strategy to protect its citizens. We understand all of it," Zelensky said in a video he posts daily to social media.
"The prime minister of Israel, Mr. [Naftali] Bennett, is trying to find a way of holding talks. And we are grateful for this. We are grateful for his efforts, so that sooner or later we will begin to have talks with Russia, possibly in Jerusalem," he said, according to a translation by Rooters.
"That’s the right place to find peace. If possible," Zelensky said.
"Russian propagandists have a tough task today," he added, "because for the first time in history, a president of a foreign nation spoke on video recording in the Knesset and to the whole nation of Israel... the president of Ukraine, who is accused of Nazism in Russia."
In a caustic address to Knesset members on Sunday evening, Zelensky repeatedly invoked the Holocaust — comparing the plight of Ukraine under Russian assault to that of European Jews under the Nazis — and criticized Israel for failing to arm his country, impose sanctions on Russia, and open its doors wider to refugees.
Israel has long maintained good relations with both Ukraine and Russia, and has been seeking to use its unique position to broker an agreement between the two sides, as it tries to walk a tightrope maintaining its ties to both countries.
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Jesus... Talk about chutzpah. This little dork tries to blackmail everyone he meets. He talks shit to the Germans, then to the Israelis, and tells US reporters that "world war three has already begun." He's a "poor man" but he's a multi-millionaire puppet of Ukraine's wealthiest man. He boasts ngnabour "taking back Crimea" and pushed for NATO membership as essential to his country's security, and now he says it's not important and he's dropped it entirely.
We're told he represents liberal democracy's greatest hope, but he's outlawed all rival political parties, shut down media and made himself the dictator of a one-party authoritarian state. What an absurd little shit
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/\ .....but he's outlawed all rival political parties, shut down media and made himself the dictator of a one-party authoritarian state. What an absurd little shit
All of which makes him a darling of the deep state. Zelensky is a very useful bacteriocin. Arming and supporting competing regimes against one another is a classic Klington tactic.
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pushed for NATO membership as essential to his country's security, and now he says it's not important and he's dropped it
Now I'm confused. I'm reading that Zelensky is once again demanding to be admitted into NATO. Which is it?
#5
It may also help by letting them discuss the event disassociated from the emotional baggage. No anxiety, no fear -- and maybe the rest of the brain can realize there's no cause for fear NOW.
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i did my own test in the 90's skid. I will conclude it does relieve anxiety. If anyone here can point e in the direction of grant money it would be much appreciated.
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It may also help by letting them discuss the event disassociated from the emotional baggage.
I think this is right. The disassociation is a normal process which sometimes fails into what we call PTSD. Counseling, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, journalling are all ways to process the event so that one can recall it without reliving it.
#8
The 'normal' process of moving survival situational sensory data from working memory to long term indexing and storage is impeded by the adrenal feed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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