US President Joe Biden mixed up the names of the current and former South Korean leaders during a trip to tech giant Samsung's chip manufacturing plant in Pyeongtaek on Friday. He thanked "President Moon" before correcting himself to "Yoon," referring to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who replaced Moon Jae-in earlier this month.

Biden called the chipmaking plant, which will serve as the model for a $17 billion facility Samsung plans to open in Texas in late 2024, "emblematic of the future cooperation and innovation that our nations can and must build together."

Yoon concurred, hailing it as "a great opportunity to re-highlight the meaning of semiconductors for the economy and security" and praising the "economic and security alliance based on our partnership for advanced technologies and global supply chains."

A former FBI official delivered devastating testimony Thursday against former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann — saying he's "100% confident" the defendant denied acting "on behalf of any particular client" when he handed over since-debunked information linking Donald Trump and Russia.

"I think it was pretty close to the beginning of the meeting. Part of his introduction to the meeting," former FBI general counsel James Baker told jurors in Washington, DC, federal court.

Baker's account directly supports the sole charge against Sussmann as a result of special counsel John Durham's probe into alleged law-breaking in connection with the FBI and Robert Mueller's probes of purported Trump-Russia ties.

Russia's deputy prime minister says they have already opened accounts with Gazprombank

Approximately half of Russia's 54 gas importers have opened ruble accounts with Gazprombank in compliance with Moscow's newly introduced payment rules, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday.

"According to my information, about half [of the buyers] have already opened special accounts in our authorized bank - in foreign currency and rubles - in order to ensure the receipt of foreign exchange earnings, conversion into rubles and payment for the supplied gas in rubles," Novak said, as cited by RIA Novosti news agency. He noted that this process has been stretched over time, with the final settlements for April taking place in May.

Vovan and Lexus, Russian pranksters known for trolling Western politicians, celebrities, and other public figures, revealed Tuesday that they had tricked George W. Bush into speaking with them. The former president played an instrumental role in the second wave of NATO's eastward expansion, and the first Euromaidan crisis in Ukraine in 2004.

The United States didn't keep its word to Moscow on NATO's eastward expansion due to shifting circumstances, and the Bush administration always wanted to see Ukraine join the Western alliance, George W. Bush has revealed in a candid interview with Vovan and Lexus.

"I wanted [Russia] on the fringe of NATO, I wanted Ukraine into NATO", Bush, who served as US president between 2001 and 2009, told the pranksters, who posed as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a portion of the interview that aired Thursday at a Russian educational forum.

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic plans to instruct the country's permanent representative to NATO to block the accession of Finland and Sweden to the US-led organization, he said on Wednesday.

Refusing consent would turn the international community's attention to problems facing ethnic Croats in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milanovic told reporters. Under the current election laws, Croat representatives tend to get elected with the votes of Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks. Zagreb is pushing to revise this.

Why is Germany sending weapons to Ukraine? Don't they realize these weapons will be used to kill Russian soldiers? Don't they realize these weapons will be given to Nazi combatants who tattoo swastikas on their arms and march in torchlight parades? Don't the German people care about that?

In World War 2, the German Wehrmacht killed 27 million Russians. Isn't that enough? How many Russians have to die to satisfy Germany's bloodlust? Another million or so? 5 million? 27 million? How many?

And, how does a country with Germany's history justify the killing of more Russians today? Alot of people would like an answer to that question? I know I would.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz thinks that Germany has a moral obligation to back Ukraine in its war against Russia. In a televised speech to the nation he said, "We defend law and liberty on the side of the party under attack. We support Ukraine in its battle against the aggressor."

What Scholz failed to mention were the numerous (Ukrainian) provocations that took place prior to the Russian invasion. He failed to mention Kiev's stepped-up bombardment of east Ukraine where 14,000 ethnic Russians have been killed in the last eight years. He failed to mention the 30-or-so Ukrainian bio-weapons labs where lethal pathogens -that target specific ethnicities and spread highly-contagious diseases around the world- are being secretly developed. He failed to mention that President Zelensky had threatened to rebuild Ukraine's nuclear weapons program which would put nuclear missiles on Russia's western border. And he failed to mention that Ukraine had become a defacto member of NATO via its joint-military drills, logistical support, training and arms shipments from the Alliance. All of these have created a grave threat to Russia's national security. But Scholz failed to mention any of them. Instead, he used the entire presentation to whip up support for another US-led bloodbath.

"We cannot allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear," Scholz said emphatically. "So, we have decided to deliver arms."

"I think all the disinformation used by the US and other Western powers will inevitably backfire, as their populace will be shocked by the outcome of this crisis." - Colonel Wolf

The special military operation in Ukraine has been at the center of the ongoing information war between the political West and Russia for nearly 3 months now. Unequivocal support for the Kiev regime is an absolute must for the political and mass media elites in NATO and EU countries. Within this framework, portraying the Ukrainian crisis as a sort of defeat for Russia has been the norm. To keep this narrative, Western mainstream media spend most of their time desperately trying to twist reality. But to do that more effectively, they need absolute dominance, not just in their own media space, but around the globe.

Keeping the narrative in the political West is made possible by simply banning or suppressing any alternative source of information. In such a media climate, getting reliable information has become a laborious task. To ease the effort, we have decided to talk to Colonel Wolf.

Colonel Wolf, a retired military officer and former member of an air defense unit of the Yugoslav Army. Colonel Wolf has been in the military for 40 years before retiring and has extensive combat experience, including against a vastly superior air force, as he had fought to defend his country from US and NATO airstrikes in 1999.

What is now emerging into full view is the development of bio weapons in Ukraine by the Americans. This program has been in existence for a number of years, organised by the leadership of the Democratic Party who in turn benefited from company donations from the principal organisers of the program. These companies include Pfizer, Moderna, Merch and Gilead, all of whom have close connections with the Pentagon and all of whom are substantial donors to the Democratic Party.

What the Americans have been doing is testing new drugs in the Ukraine, all of this action being not only in secret, but also in violation of international safety standards. Evidence in support of these allegations has recently been presented by Igor Kirillov in his role as the chief of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force. The evidence presented by Kirillov demonstrates that using Ukraine not only provides opportunities for secrecy, but is also of lower cost and therefore provides further competitive advantages.

According to the evidence presented by Kirillov, the United States pharmaceutical companies worked together with the Pentagon "concealing illegal activities, conducting field and clinical trials, and providing the necessary biomaterial"

The US has been "actively recruiting" terrorists to fight in Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed on Tuesday, saying that it illustrates Washington's readiness "to use any means to achieve its geopolitical goals."

The SVR revealed in a statement that, according to the intelligence it is receiving,

"the United States is actively recruiting even members of international terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State (ISIS) group banned in the Russian Federation, as mercenaries to participate in hostilities in Ukraine."

The Russian intelligence service points to the American military base in Syria called al-Tanf, which is located close to the borders with Jordan and Iraq. According to its sources, this base and the surrounding area have turned into a kind of terrorist "hub," where up to 500 ISIS and other jihadists can be "retrained" simultaneously. SVR claimed that last month 60 ISIS militants, who had been released from prisons controlled by the Syrian Kurds, were transferred to al-Tanf "with a view to subsequent transfer to Ukrainian territory."

Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) has condemned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for stating that the US is "at war," presumably with Russia. Roy hammered Democrats and Republicans alike for deepening America's involvement in the Ukraine conflict in order to "feel good about ourselves."

In a video clip posted by Roy's press office on Wednesday, the Texas Republican took aim at Hoyer for declaring on Friday that the US is "at war," and that critics of the Democratic Party should "focus on the enemy" instead of rising energy costs at home.