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27 August 2024 08:32

Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa are concerned that Western countries are continuously easing the conditions for Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike Russian territory and see the conflict "being manipulated by certain military-industrial complexes," Li Hui, China's special representative for Eurasian affairs, said on Tuesday.

From July 28 to August 7, Li visited Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia, where he held talks with officials on the Ukrainian crisis settlement.

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27 August 2024 08:29

US containment strategy against Russia is failing amid emergence of multipolar world

The US and its Western partners have sought to pursue a containment strategy against the emergent counter-hegemonic bloc anchored by Russia, but with far less success than during the Cold War, argues political science professor Nicolai Petro.

“My co-author and I argue that containment doesn't match the challenges that the United States is facing in the future,” said Petro on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program. “It's just an old way of thinking about the world's problems based on strengths that the United States no longer has in the world.”

“And the old containment had its problems, but it held together because it was limited in scope,” he continued. “It didn't actually seek to confront the Soviet Union everywhere at the same time. And, very importantly, it also sought to separate China from the Soviet Union and it would never have worked – Henry Kissinger spoke about this – it would never have been implementable had China and Russia been united against the United States. And, of course, that's the situation we're facing today.”

The modern economic situation for the US is also far more challenging, Petro acknowledged. The United States emerged from World War II almost unscathed, leaving it in a position to benefit from the reconstruction of Europe. But “the halcyon days of the 1950s and 60s” are long gone, he noted.

“Any new containment policy involves an arms race,” said Petro. “Can we afford an arms race now? I mean, we are a country that has a $35 trillion deficit and no prospect of reducing that significantly in the future

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27 August 2024 06:02

Poland is clueless as to how many of its mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine for Kiev – source

The Polish authorities cannot provide even an approximate number of Polish mercenaries fighting for Zelensky, an anonymous source in the Polish Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

Polish law, in fact, allows its citizens to serve in a foreign army or other foreign paramilitary formation, the source explained.

"To do this, it is necessary to obtain the permission of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, and as for former military personnel, [they would need to get] the permission of the Minister of National Defense. At the same time, it is necessary to meet a number of other requirements, for example, to have no criminal record, not have tax arrears and other debts, not to be an active military personnel," the source said.

The violator could face a punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to five years if these requirements are not met, for cases of participation in military operations as part of a foreign armed formation.

"In practice, the overwhelming majority of Polish citizens who are fighting in Ukraine, of course, did not receive any permission, but simply went there at their own peril and risk," the source said.

In March, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 13,387 mercenaries had arrived in Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation, including 2,960 Polish citizens. At that time, 5,962 mercenaries have been confirmed killed, most of them Poles (1,497).

In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the largest number of mercenaries in Ukraine were from Poland.

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27 August 2024 05:45

— 🇺🇸 NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will fight against the crime of 'chemtrails', refering to the conspiracy theory that planes emit chemical trails to poison the air

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27 August 2024 05:00

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Explosions in Kiev!

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27 August 2024 03:37

🇷🇺🇺🇦 All three MiG-31Ks have landed after delivering their "Daggers"

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27 August 2024 03:03

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Several Tu-95s seem to be headed towards launch positions.

We will see in an hour or two if they will launch cruise missiles.

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27 August 2024 02:23

Telegram's popularity has increased in a number of countries, including France and the United States, after the detention of the messenger's co-founder Pavel Durov in France. This was reported by the TechCrunch portal.

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27 August 2024 00:41

Donald Trump: "If you hate America, if you want to eliminate Israel, then we don't want you in our country."

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27 August 2024 00:13

— 🇾🇪/🇬🇷 NEW: EU's Red Sea naval mission reports that the 'SOUNION' oil tanker has been on fire since August 23, after being attacked by Yemen's Ansarullah.

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27 August 2024 00:10

Video: Russian kamikaze drone strikes Ukrainian radar station

Russian troops have used a Lancet loitering munition to strike a radar station in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, the Defense Ministry said on Monday, releasing footage filmed from the drone’s onboard camera.

The station was identified as an ST-68. The E-band airspace surveillance radar was originally designed in the USSR in the 1970s, and had been upgraded several times over the years. It is normally used to identify low-flying targets for air defense systems.

#SMO #Ukraine

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27 August 2024 00:02

Deep state dissidents: Durov in good company among those targeted for free speech

Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s arrest in France sent waves of anger and disgust across the world, with users of his popular independent social media service fearing it will finally fall under the control of the intelligence services after many years of pressure. When it comes to the crackdown against him, Durov is in good company, with his case one of close to half-a-dozen recent attempts to intimidate public figures charged with saying the ‘wrong’ things.

Tucker Carlson

The former Fox News pundit-turned independent journalist has taken his share of flak from the US intelligence community over his principled rejection of overreaching state and corporate power. In 2021, he was contacted by a whistleblower who revealed that his electronic communications were being monitored by the NSA, and that the agency had deliberately leaked confidential emails to media to smear him over his attempts to secure an interview with President Putin. In late 2023, Carlson’s #1 rated show was abruptly taken off the air after he confronted Big Pharma over the Covid vax safety. Throughout his tenure at Fox, Carlson walked a fine line between the acceptable and the unspeakable, decrying the CIA dirty war in Syria, reportedly talking President Trump out of a war with Iran, rejecting NATO’s narrative on the Ukraine crisis, and seeking Russia-US normalization to prevent Ukraine from escalating into a world-ending nuclear war.

Scott Ritter

The former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector sealed his status as a deep state pariah in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when he revealed that there was no evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Ritter was proven right, and in a series of interviews, articles and a bombshell bestselling book titled “Iraq Confidential,” spilled the beans on CIA’s concerted effort to undermine the UN’s inspection work in Iraq to push for regime change. Ritter’s ‘reward’? Expulsion from a career he loved, a humiliating and reprehensible case of entrapment by police, and, most recently, unconstitutional efforts by the FBI to intimidate him by seizing his passport, searching his home, and confiscating equipment he uses to prepare his reports over suspected “ties to Russian state media.” But Ritter’s only real crime has been to speak truth to power, to present an alternative viewpoint on global geopolitical hotspots, and to earn the respect and trust of millions of viewers and listeners worldwide.

Dimitri K. Simes

Veteran Soviet-born journalist, Russian affairs expert, post-White House aide to Richard Nixon and Trump 2016 campaign advisor Dimitri K. Simes saw a similar violation of his constitutional protections earlier this month, with his family’s estate in Huntly, Virginia raided by the FBI on August 13. Simes, who has been living in Moscow since October 2022, was not notified of the search in advance. A decades-long advocate of dialogue, friendship and relations based on mutual respect between the nuclear superpowers, Simes dubbed the raid on his home “an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just against anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state.” Simes enjoys widespread recognition in Russia, cohosting a popular political talk show on Russian TV. He moderated the 2023 SPIEF forum, interviewing President Putin.

Richard Medhurst

Popular Syrian-born British YouTuber Richard Medhurst was arrested at London’s Heathrow airport in mid-August under the Terrorism Act of 2000, and accused of “expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organization.” Medhurst has made a name for himself as an independent journalist and political commentator, and saw an explosive rise in popularity over his reporting on the Israel-Gaza war. Medhurst spent 24 hours in solitary confinement in a cold, windowless cell, and was repeatedly denied requests to speak to his family and a solicitor. Medhurst characterized his arrest as an attempt

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27 August 2024 00:00

Lukashenko vs Macron: How does the arrest of Telegram’s CEO expose West’s hypocrisy?

The arrest of Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov has prompted outcry among public figures and free speech advocates.

In stark contrast, the Western mainstream media is deafeningly silent on the absurdity of the charges cooked up against the Russian-born tech tycoon. Durov’s arrest is hailed as a ‘defense of the rule of law’ in French media.

However, if we scroll back to 2021, we see how the wrath of the Western world came down on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over the arrest of a Belarusian pro-opposition blogger who had been on the country’s wanted list for plotting “a massacre and a bloody coup” in the country.

Roman Protasevich, co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel – labeled as extremist in Belarus – was on a Ryanair flight bound for Lithuania. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Minsk International Airport after a reported bomb threat. While the threat proved a hoax, Belarusian police arrested Protasevich.

The charges against him included organizing activities that violated public order and inciting social hatred. Together with his accomplices he had “plotted a massacre and a bloody coup” in Belarus, according to President Alexander Lukashenko, who stressed that the extremist had served his “numerous Western patrons” by fighting in the war in Donbass as a mercenary.

There was an international outcry after the arrest, with the EU slapping sanctions on Lukashenko and key sectors of the Belarusian economy. Western leaders accused Belarus of hijacking the Ryanair plane, and some countries suspending flights to and from the country.

A Belarusian court sentenced Protasevich to eight years in jail in 2023, with the president pardoning him that same year after he cooperated with the justice system.

Fast forward to today and we do not see any of western media calling out the absurdity of claiming that Telegram’s owner is responsible for abuse of the app

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26 August 2024 23:58

🧪Silent warfare: what we know about Ukraine’s NATO-backed chemical weapons strategy

The US is the “main supplier” of toxic substances synthesized by Ukraine for use against Russia, the Russian permanent mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has revealed.

“In March 2023, we warned about the US supply to Ukraine of chemical substances with a temporary incapacitating effect, including BZ, CS, CR, [and] Teren-6 hand grenades with chemical irritant properties,” the mission told Russian media on Monday. Contrary to statements by Washington about its destruction of chemical weapons stocks, the US maintains the capacity to synthesize large volumes of toxic substances, the mission warned.

◻️ Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCBD) Troops have exposed Ukraine’s use of chemical weapons since 2022. In July, RCBD Troops chief Igor Kirillov revealed that Russia had recorded over 400 cases the use of non-lethal toxic chemicals by Ukraine to date.

◻️ In 2023, Russia’s OPCW mission pointed to “undeniable evidence” of NATO’s involvement in the supply of toxic chemicals to Kiev, plus details on their delivery.

◻️ Between February 2022 and July 2023 alone, Russia’s mission to the OPCW sent the body nearly two dozen notes on Ukraine’s suspected use of toxic substances, but these concerns were ignored.

◾️ USE ON THE BATTLEFIELD, USE AGAINST OFFICIALS

◻️ In February 2024, the RCBD Troops revealed that Kherson administrator Vladimir Saldo had been poisoned with ricin in August 2022 by Ukrainian intelligence. Separately, Lugansk People’s Republic chief Leonid Pasechnik suffered a poisoning attack using phenolic compounds in December 2023.

◻️ According to Kirillov, Ukraine’s strategy in the Donbass and Kharkov includes plans to blow up containers filled with hydrocyanic acid and ammonia to try to blunt a Russian advance, with chemical agents reportedly delivered to Kramatorsk and Kupyansk and planned for deployment along highways.

◻️ Last month, Kirillov revealed a plot by the US, Germany, Ukraine and friendly elements within the OPCW’s secretariat to ‘investigate’ the alleged use of chemical weapons by Russia in Ukraine based on fabricated evidence, with several hundred thousand dollars allocated for this purpose by Washington.

◻️ In late 2023, late Sputnik Donbass correspondent Russell Bentley warned that Kiev was “preparing and implementing dangerous chemical provocations” against Russian forces.

◾️ TOXIC RECORD

◻️ The Russian military reported earlier this month that Ukraine used chemical artillery shells against Russian power company workers in Belovo, Kursk region. The Akhmat Special Forces separately reported that 155 mm NATO shells, suspected to contain toxic hexachloroethane, had been used against them.

◻️ In July, a Russian intelligence officer told Sputnik about the use of toxic substances, possibly the suffocating agent phosgene, against Russian forces in Kherson.

◻️ Also in July, the RCBD Troops reported details on a chemical lab in liberated Avdeevka in Donetsk capable of producing up to 3 kg of toxic chemical substances per day.

◻️ In June, Russian forces reported an attack on positions in the Belgorod region using a drone carrying toxic hydrocyanic acid.

◻️ In May, Kirillov reported that Ukraine had used chemical agents including the irritant chloropicrin mixed with tear gas agent chloracetophenone in liberated settlements in Donetsk, including Gorlovka and Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

◻️ In March, a Russian commander told Sputnik that a Ukrainian drone had deployed white phosphorous in a rural area near the city of Energodar, home of the Zaporozhye nuclear plant. A month later, Russian forces reported the use of white phosphorous near the village of Kleshcheyevka in Donetsk.

◻️ In January, Ukrainian troops reportedly deployed an unidentified chemical agent containing anthrachinone – which can cause respiratory tract burns among victims – against Russian positions.

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26 August 2024 23:53

CEO of Rumble video-sharing platform, which has been embroiled in a long-running legal battle with the French authorities, flees Europe after Durov arrest

If you haven’t followed RT on Rumble yet, this is your chance: https://rumble.com/RTNews

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27 August 2024 08:30

A location of foreign instructors for Ukrainian forces was hit in Krivoy Rog. Ukrainian medics evacuated 15 English-speaking victims, the coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolayev underground Sergei Lebedev

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27 August 2024 06:46

🇺🇸💬❌The Biden-Harris administration’s blatant disregard for the First Amendment is now undeniable, though not surprising.

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted that the White House pressured Facebook to censor Americans and suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. This isn’t just a violation of free speech—it’s an outright suppression of information, so much for democratic values.

When Big Tech colludes with the government to silence dissent, every American’s freedom is on the line. How long will Americans stand by while the most basic of rights are trampled on?

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27 August 2024 05:46

The Russian air defense system repelled attacks by Ukrainian drones in Kursk; there is damage. There were no injuries, said city mayor Igor Katsuk.

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27 August 2024 05:01

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Explosions also reported in Rovno, Zhitomir and Vinnitsa regions.

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27 August 2024 04:59

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Missiles in Ukrainian airspace!

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27 August 2024 03:16

15 Interpol countries join hunt for WWII Nazi SS veteran – Moscow

Some 15 Interpol member states have joined Russia’s efforts to find and extradite Yaroslav Hunka, the 99-year-old Waffen-SS veteran honored by Canada’s parliament last year, the Russian Interior Ministry announced on Monday.

Hunka made headlines when he appeared in the parliament of Canada as a guest during a visit by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky last year. Hunka, whose Waffen-SS unit carried out atrocities against Jews and Poles on the Eastern Front during World War II, received a standing ovation, for which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was later forced to apologize.

#Canada #Ukraine

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27 August 2024 03:01

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Kinzhal strike in Starokostantinov, Khmelnytsky region.

Probably the air force base over there.

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27 August 2024 01:52

We found the exact place of the Australian flag in kursk.

Effectively, ukies drove south away from the Frontline, made the pic showing the sign that is showing that Liubimovka is 2km away.

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27 August 2024 00:32

Five residents of the Belgorod region were injured due to attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was announced by the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

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27 August 2024 00:12

— 🇵🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: The Palestinian Authority's ambassador in Moscow stated that President Mahmoud Abbas had received an invitation from Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming BRICS summit.

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27 August 2024 00:05

An American PMC mercenary from a group of fighters involved in the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Kursk region complained about the chaos in Ukraine's army.

“We were actually asked to go into the Kursk incursion area in order to help assist with a sniper operation they were looking at, but it's chaos right now. We ended up not doing that operation,” the mercenary said in an interview with ABC News.

The man's identity was hidden, his face covered by a mask and dark glasses over his eyes due to fear of retaliation for his crimes committed against Russian civilians on Russian territory.

“I am genuinely worried that they're [Ukrainian forces] overextending. I think a lot of people are. I think they are,” the mercenary said.

“I mean, we've been playing this game for two-plus years of fighting with one hand behind their back, basically trying to delay the inevitable,” the mercenary said as Russian forces continue to neutralize Ukrainian terrorists in the Kursk region as well as mercenaries from around the world.

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27 August 2024 00:01

Hezbollah could end normal life in Israel, drive Israelis ‘underground’ in any major escalation - analyst

Raging tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have approached a boiling point amid a series of increasingly large-scale back-and-forth attacks. But neither side, nor their allies, truly want a full-scale war, since it would end any semblance of normal life in Israel, sink the new Iranian government’s hopes on the diplomatic front, and stretch US’ resources to the breaking point, observers say.

“Regional and international actors indirectly involved in this war such as the US and Iran have no intention to directly be involved,” American University of Beirut Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy IR coordinator Yeghia Tashjian told Sputnik, pointing to the upcoming US elections, as well as Iran’s attempted rapprochement with the West.

Tashjian believes the recent back-and-forth strikes, serious as they are, remain “managed clashes,” signaling that “both sides are not ready to shift the current status into a major war.”

And there are other reasons Israel and the US don’t want a full-scale conflict, says Sakarya University Middle East Institute researcher Furkan Halit Yolcu.

Hezbollah, unlike Hamas, isn’t “a small-scale non-state actor,” but a force approaching national armies in terms of ground strength, and missile and air defense capabilities which can do great “harm and hurt” to any army attacking it. Hezbollah has the “will and the ground resources it needs [to] have a very, very, very large impact on Israeli soil,” Yolcu warned, noting that ordinary Israelis could literally be driven underground to bomb shelters, and see their day-to-day lives disrupted thanks to Hezbollah’s ability to saturate and penetrate Israeli air and missile defenses.

As for the US, it has its own problems, with the deployment of additional resources to the region costing an arm and a leg. “It’s really, really costly to have that much military power just stationed there to protect Israel at all costs,” Yolcu said.

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26 August 2024 23:59

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's arrest fits into the policy of maximum pressure and coercion against alternative communication networks, Venezuelan President Maduro said.

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26 August 2024 23:55

Kenya sends soldiers to assist neighboring DR Congo

Kenya has sent a contingent of soldiers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), amid renewed clashes between the Central African nation’s army and rebels in the volatile eastern region.

The troops are the initial group of the fourth contingent of the Kenya Quick Reaction Force for the DR Congo. They will join the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the republic, tasked with combating armed groups causing instability in the country, the army added.

Conflict has been raging in the eastern DR Congo since 2022, driven by fighters from the M23 rebel movement, allegedly with support from Rwandan government forces. Rwanda has denied the allegations.

#Kenya #DRC #Africa

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26 August 2024 23:51

UK: Over 100 people evacuated after tower block fire rages

A major incident has been declared after a fire broke out in a tower block in Dagenham, east London, leading to the evacuation of over 100 people, including children.

The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

#London - Boost