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Zelensky says he didn't receive peace proposal Russia sent, Kremlin wonders why negotiators didn't inform him


RT
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:08 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Spokesman Dmitry Peskov and President Vladimir Putin. Russia puzzled as to why Ukrainian leader is unaware of proposal.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's claims that he has not received a peace proposal from Moscow "raise certain questions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

The day before, Peskov announced that Russia had sent a draft agreement to Kiev, adding that "the ball was now with the Ukrainian side." However, later that day, Zelensky, speaking at a press conference with EU Parliament President Charles Michel, said that he "hadn't seen anything" and "didn't hear anything." "I'm sure they (Moscow) didn't give us anything," he claimed.

The Kremlin spokesman, responding to those remarks, said that they "raise certain questions why President Zelensky was not informed about our text proposals." Peskov added that, nevertheless, Moscow would expect the Ukrainian negotiators' response.
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4 eye-poppers from Spygate as the Democrat cabal rushes to hide their tracks in court

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:07 UTC
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© Nat Johnson / Flickr / CC by 2.0Killary stumping in North Carolina in 2016
They hope to prevent prosecutors from accessing a few dozen documents that might further reveal their role in peddling the massive Russia collusion hoax.

On April 19, a bunch of panicked participants in the Spygate scandal rushed the courthouse to intervene in the special counsel's criminal case against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann. They hope to prevent prosecutors from accessing a few dozen documents that might further reveal their role in peddling the Alfa Bank hoax.

The motions to intervene came just one day after Sussmann also sought to keep the documents away from prosecutors. The special counsel has requested the trial court review the documents in camera to assess whether they are in fact protected by attorney-client privilege.

Here are the top takeaways from these filings.
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Nothing to see here: Priti Patel was part of CIA-linked lobby group with husband of Assange judge

Richard Norton-Taylor
Declassified UK
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:40 UTC
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UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Julian Assange
Priti Patel sat on the Henry Jackson Society's (HJS) advisory council from around 2013-16, although the exact dates are unclear as neither the HJS nor Patel responded to Declassified's requests for clarification.

She has also received funds from the HJS, and was paid £2,500 by the group to visit Washington in March 2013 to attend a "security" programme in the US Congress.

Patel, who became an MP in 2010 and was appointed Home Secretary in 2019, also hosted an HJS event in parliament soon after she returned from Washington.

After the UK Supreme Court said this month it was refusing to hear Assange's appeal of a High Court decision against him, the WikiLeaks founder's fate now lies in Patel's hands. He faces life in prison in the US.

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What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn't really know

Katie Bo Lillis, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann
CNN
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:12 UTC
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Ukrainian servicemen load a truck with Javelin anti-tank missiles.
The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that's due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground in the country -- and the easy portability of many of the smaller systems now pouring across the border.

It's a conscious risk the Biden administration is willing to take.

In the short term, the US sees the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of equipment to be vital to the Ukrainians' ability to hold off Moscow's invasion. A senior defense official said Tuesday that it is "certainly the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict." But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.

"We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero," said one source briefed on US intelligence. "It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."

Comment: Notice the US has no way of knowing what happens to these weapons systems as soon as they reach Ukraine, then goes on to say it has "not yet seen Russian attempt to disrupt the weapons transfers" inside Ukraine. If they have no such tracking ability, then they really don't know whether or not or to what extent such 'disruptions' occur.

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Will the US and Germany turn Mongolia into a biological warfare testing grounds against Russia and China?

Vladimir Platov
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownBio Hazards on the rise
The results of Russia's ongoing special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine reveal with each passing day more and more documentary evidence of the criminal activities of the US and its allies in that country. One of its activities, as the information received has shown, is the development and creation by Washington of biological weapons in closed US biolabs in Ukraine, in close cooperation with Britain and Germany.

In particular, in addition to the facts of the joint development of bioweapons by Britain and the US, which have already become internationally known, the involvement of Germany in intensive bioweapons activities in Ukraine, along with the US, has also come to light. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this, citing documents obtained by the Russian Ministry of Defense during a military special operation to protect Donbass. It has been revealed that the German government was implementing the German Biosecurity Program (GBP) since 2013, including in Ukraine, where the US has set up a network of at least 30 biolabs and where dangerous research has been carried out, among other things. On the German side, practical work in this program is carried out, similarly to the US, by military specialists, in particular from the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich), as well as from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald - Riems Island), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg) and the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin).

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About the influence of the Russian-Ukrainian oligarchy on the course of the special military operation


Stalkerzone
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Mykhailo Markiv/oto zagittya.com.ua/Sputnik/The Guardian/pinchukfund.org/UNIAN/decoratex.biz/ezukauskas.it/wikipedia/Nlmk.com/KJNOligarchs: Russia and Ukraine
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the official representative of the Pentagon, said that contrary to the logic of military operations, US intelligence did not record from the end of February to mid-April any attempt by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and L/DPR by any means to block the flow of American and European weapons coming to the disposal of the front-line units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"Flights to transshipment points are still being carried out, there is a ground movement of security assistance, weapons, equipment every day. We will continue to do this as quickly as possible and in maximum volumes" - John Kirby.
The main (90%) volume of Western military and material assistance to the Kiev regime, which lost over 70% of the weapons available on February 24, comes by rail from western Ukraine (Lvov), bordering Poland and Slovakia. Vulnerabilities are three bridge crossings within the range of tactical missiles and the Russian Aerospace Forces, which can be destroyed by three pinpoint strikes at known coordinates. In this case, the communications supporting the viability and military stability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the regime as a whole will be destroyed with the prospect of restoration for at least a month or two. Alternative cargo transportation by road does not compensate for the logistical disaster. However, this does not happen, as well as many enterprises of the basic economic and defence structure controlled by Kiev avoid missile and bomb attacks.

An analysis of the reasons for such selectivity in the choice of targets allows us to conclude that objects that are directly related to the material interests of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs remain outside the attention of the planners-operators of the bomb-assault and missile strikes.

Comment: Money speaks influence, no matter the time, place or country.

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US-Saudi relations nearing 'breaking point'


RT
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:16 UTC
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© Getty Images/Saudi Royal CouncilCrown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman
Washington and Riyadh officially insist everything is fine, but Wall Street Journal report suggests otherwise.

Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia - which go back to 1945 - have never been this bad, according to a report published on Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal. Insiders in Washington and Riyadh blamed the situation on a personal rift between US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Both the White House and the Kingdom have officially denied any trouble, however.

According to the outlet, the crown prince has sought recognition from Washington as the incoming head of state, which would give him immunity from prosecution for the 2018 killing of dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The Biden White House has refused, bringing up Khashoggi in the first meeting with national security adviser Jake Sullivan and treating with the prince - known by his initials MBS - in his official capacity as Saudi Arabia's defense minister.

The WSJ story opens with a description of MBS "wearing shorts at his seaside palace" and seeking a "relaxed tone" for his first meeting with Sullivan in September 2021, only to end up "shouting" at the American and telling him to forget about an increase in oil production.
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Biden to appeal court ruling striking down COVID mask mandate on planes, trains, and transit

Madeleine Hubbard
Just the News
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:09 UTC
JBiden
© Matt Slocum/APUS President Jihadi Joe Biden
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines masks to be necessary, it will appeal the Florida judge's decision striking down the Biden administration's COVID-19 mask mandate on transportation.

The DOJ and the CDC "disagree with the district court's decision," Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley wrote in a press release. The executive branch "will appeal, subject to CDC's conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health," he added.

On Monday, Florida Federal Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled that the mask requirement on transportation such as planes was unconstitutional because it exceeded the CDC's authority and the health agency did not provide reasoning behind the mandate.

Hours later, the four largest airlines in the U.S. - United Airlines, Delta, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines - announced that they were dropping the mask requirements for passengers and employees.

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NATO looks north for expansion

Scott Ritter
Energy Intelligence
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:26 UTC
nato flag
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Finland and Sweden, two long-standing neutral nations, to actively consider joining Nato. But a further expansion of Nato could only stoke Russia's concerns about its national security — concerns that underpinned the Ukraine crisis.

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both Sweden and Finland have begun to actively consider dumping their long-held neutrality in favor of joining Nato. Public support for Nato membership has almost doubled since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to about 50% in Sweden and 60% in Finland. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has assured both nations that their applications would be welcome, and Nato members including the US, UK, Germany, France and Turkey have expressed support. Finland has indicated it may formally apply in time for a June Nato summit in Madrid.

The Russian reaction has been strongly negative, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warning that Russia would have to "rebalance the situation" with its own measures were Sweden and Finland to join Nato, and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warning of "military and political consequences."
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The UN must investigate allegations of atrocities by US-led forces in Syria

Bradley Blankenship
RT
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:12 UTC
raqqa
© AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim
As we can all admit, the international order is falling into disarray, and a formal inquiry into allegations of atrocities committed by the United States in Syria must be a prerequisite to upholding international law.

According to a Tuesday report by Press TV, the Syrian government has sent letters to UN officials asking for such a formal investigation into alleged atrocities committed by the US-led coalition in the city of Raqqa.

"The time has come to shed light on the humanitarian, political, and legal aspects of the matter," Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in two identical messages, addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres and to the rotating president of the UN Security Council, Barbara Woodward.

The ministry noted that virtually the entire city was razed by US bombing runs that took place between June and October 2017, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths.
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