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• Probation for drunk Texas wealthy teen driver who killed four sparks backlash
• Two men lose their legs after drunk driver rams into them outside strip club
• Drunk Moscow driver crashes into bus stop, kills '5 disabled teens, their teachers'

• 'All results were negative': FIFA anti-doping probe exonerates Russian football players
• Ukraine chess sisters facing expulsion for refusing to sign anti-Russian letter
• That didn't take long: The first lie about Moscow meeting
• Zakharova: IPC's suspension of Russian para athletes decision is filthy and inhumane
• Putin apologizes to Russian Olympic athletes over politicized doping bans
• Putin aide debunks CNN propaganda on Russians hacking White House - "Accusing Russia is now a sport"
• Geopolitics before sport: Russian athletes were punished for being Russian
• Putin calls banning of Russian athletes in Rio Olympics 'an instrument of geopolitical pressure'
• Politicizing sport: All Russian track and field athletes barred from competing in Rio Olympics
• New Cold War wind blowing for ostracized Russian Olympic team

From watching all the videos that Lira has put out, he was clearly against the official narrative Zelensky and the corporate media have been peddling about the Russia invasion as a whole and in no way could I find he was pro Putin as well. He was simply reporting what he was seeing on the ground and this was not ok with the powers that be. You can see below Lira was well aware of the danger he was putting himself in with the knowledge he was sharing.

© Gonzalo Lira/Twitter

This is where the Daily Beast comes into focus. "Journalists" Mark Hay writes a 4200 word plus hit piece on Lira comparing him to Russian shills and spreading "conspiracy theories" like the Ukraine Biolabs story. The moment I see excerpts like this about the biolabs red flags immediately go up because everyone knows, who's paying attention, the lab story is very real. This is basically one gigantic hit piece to smear Lira.

This is where the story takes a turn. The twitter account @Anabel_Villeroy writes,

Daily Beast "journo" Mark Hay @GoraLadka doxxed Gonzalo Lira by creating a hit piece and "gave" it to the Ukrainian government under the guise of "request for comment." One look at his primary beat and he can "hardly be described as a political heavyweight in journalism..."

The Daily Beast used the "reach out for comment" practice as a proxy to hand over their information on Lira and his location to the government of Ukraine which then you have to consider, this same information ended in the SBU's hands as well. Do you see how dangerous this is? A screenshot of the communications between Daily Beast and Lira is provided below.

© Mark E. Hay/Telegram

The other connection that we have with the Daily Beast is Michael John Cirillo now known as Sarah Ashton-Cirillo who is a trans pro-Ukraine journalist.

An article titled " This Undercover Operative Says She Recruited the Proud Boys for the GOP" written on June 3, 2021 talks how she infiltrated far right group Proud Boys and tie them to a Vegas-based GOP consultant.

"In the months leading up to the 2020 election, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a self-described progressive activist, embedded herself in GOP circles as part of her research for a book on right-wing extremism. What she found was a Republican consultant desperate to team the Proud Boys up with the Nevada GOP in order to challenge ballots and flip the presidential election."

Sounds like a fed-boi/ informant to me.

Why does this matter? Cirillo is boots on the ground in Ukraine as we speak and she was celebrating the supposed capture of Lira.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published a video in which detained Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk asks Russia's and Ukraine's presidents to swap him for the "defenders and residents" of Mariupol.

"I, Medvedchuk Viktor Vladimirovich, want to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the Ukrainian side exchange me for the defenders and residents of Mariupol, who are there today and are unable to safely get out through humanitarian corridors," says Medvedchuk in the video.

Medvedchuk, a lawmaker and leader of Ukraine's second-largest party, 'Opposition Platform - For Life', was detained by the SBU on April 12 after being charged with treason, as his party was recently banned by Zelensky for "collaborating with Russia."

After his arrest, Ukraine's interior minister adviser, Vadim Denisenko, suggested Medvedchuk be "swiftly tried, given a prison term, beaten into providing certain testimony and then exchanged," - a statement that was blasted by a number of Russian officials.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova mocked the suggested plan for Medvedchuk's prosecution, saying, "It's a British scheme: Hold a swift trial, give a prison term, and then extract testimonies. Works every time." She warned that Kiev's idea of exchanging Ukrainian opposition politicians with Russia was a "very dangerous tendency" as there are a lot of opposition-leaning politicians and public figures in Ukraine.

Moscow commented on the idea of swapping a Ukrainian opposition leader for any of Kiev's soldiers captured during the ongoing offensive, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov arguing that Medvedchuk was not a Russian citizen, had nothing to do with Russia's military operation in Ukraine and might not even want Russia to play any role in his fate.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Russian national security council, responded to the Ukrainian interior ministry adviser's suggestion by saying that people supporting such ideas "should pay attention to their surroundings and keep the door locked for the night not to get added to the list of individuals eligible for a prisoner swap themselves."

Meanwhile, Oksana Marchenko, Medvedchuk's spouse and a Ukrainian actress, has been pleading with several world leaders to help save her husband, stating in a press conference on Friday that she still has no information about her husband's whereabouts and raising concerns that he is being tortured by the SBU.

"On one of the photos there are no signs of trauma, but on another picture you can clearly see bruises and hematomas which they tried to cover up with hair. This means that the pictures were taken before and during the interrogation. There is no doubt that he was being beaten up during the first hours of his detention," she said.

The current Ukrainian government's Nazism, and the torture of Russian POWs

She has been asking to make every possible effort to release her husband, insisting that she does not believe in a fair process for her husband and that the trial against him is a "vivid example of unlawful reprisal against an undesirable politician for his consistent, principled and open position."

Marchenko has issued public addresses to Zelensky, Putin, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, asking to exchange her husband for two British mercenaries who were reportedly captured in Mariupol last week, and has stated that her husband "gave his consent to be exchanged and transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation if the Russian and Ukrainian sides reach the relevant agreements."

The two captured mercenaries - Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin - have recently appeared on Russian state TV and have asked Boris Johnson to do what he could to exchange them for Medvedchuk.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed hope that Boris Johnson will give a prompt response to Marchenko's proposal, while the Kremlin stated on Monday that it has no comments at the moment, telling journalists that, "If there is a reaction from the president, we will inform you about it."

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine's failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow's eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.