Militants of the Azov nationalist battalion blew up the Mariupol theater building, which they rigged with explosives earlier, Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.The next day, CNN bannered "Survivors emerge from rubble of Mariupol theater bombed by Russia" and reported:
The Defense Ministry debunked Kiev's accusations of an airstrike on the theater building, where civilians could have been held hostage.
"During daylight on March 16, Russian aviation carried out no missions involving strikes on ground targets within Mariupol limits. According to the verified information, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion carried out another bloody provocation by blowing up the rigged theater building," the Ministry of Defense said.
People sheltering in a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are emerging from the building after it was bombed, the former head of the Donetsk region said Thursday.
Hundreds of people were thought to have taken shelter in the theater amid the ongoing Russian siege of Mariupol.
"We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA."
"If Russia stops the gas supply to Europe, it could have a seismic impact on European energy. (Russia) has to consider the consequences if existing oil and gas supplies to Europe are halted."
"NATO is a danger to world peace, to security, so we are in the task of reaching agreements with social movements, not only in Latin America, but in all continents, to eliminate it. If nothing is done against NATO, it will become a permanent threat to humanity."Referring to the conflict in Ukraine, the former president considered that the origin of the problem between Russia and Ukraine is related to the "expansionist" and "interventionist" policies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the United States.
He noted that the documents he was presenting "have the signatures of real officials and are certified by the seals of organizations," for those journalists and experts in the West doubting their veracity.
One document, dated March 6, 2015 confirms the "direct participation of the Pentagon in the financing of military biological projects in Ukraine," Kirillov said. The US officially funded the projects through the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, according to the Agreement on Joint Biological Activities. However, the evidence shows that the real recipients of some $32 million in funds were Ukrainian Defense Ministry laboratories in Kiev, Odessa, Lvov and Kharkov.
It's also standard practice for CIA black jobs to officially send funds to a benign organization but for them to be redirected towards the actual mission: create biological weapons for use against Russia. Even the general pointed out that this is not the first time the US has engaged in such acts:The Russian general brought up the long history of US conducting banned biological research in other countries, noting as an example that in 2010 Washington apologized for syphilis experiments in Guatemala.
These facilities were chosen by the US Department of Defense's Threat Reduction Administration (DTRA), and the contractor Black and Veatch, to carry out the U-P-8 project, aimed at studying the pathogens of Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, and hantaviruses, Kirillov said, pointing to a slide with the Pentagon's request.
"From our point of view, the interest of US military biologists is due to the fact that these pathogens have natural foci both in Ukraine and in Russia, and their use can be disguised as natural disease outbreaks," the general said.
According to the evidence, the labs isolated three bacterial pathogens (causing plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis) and six families of viruses, including coronaviruses, all of which were drug-resistant and spread rapidly from animals to humans. A number of documents confirmed the samples taken in Ukraine to other countries - Georgia, Germany, and the UK.
Kirillov showed official documents confirming the transfer of 5,000 samples of blood serum taken from Ukrainian citizens to the Pentagon-backed Richard Lugar center in Tbilisi, Georgia. Another 773 biological assays were transferred to the UK, while an agreement was signed for the transfer of "unlimited quantities" of infectious materials to the Friedrich Loeffle
Comment: Europe left out in the cold? That was never Russia's intent, but may end up its policy.