Despite claims from the West and its state-affiliated corporate media that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is just around the corner, the chance of a serious escalation on the Russian border remains low, the Ukrainian defence minister said on Sunday.
Russian soldiers could be sent to Nicaragua, one of the seven nations separating the US from Latin America and Venezuela under laws already in place in the Central American nation. This was the persuasive prediction made by Moscow’s ambassador in Managua.
On Friday, Bloomberg news agency published the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ only to remove it half an hour later, lamely claiming that it was a pre-written headline rolled out inadvertently.
Contrary to the propaganda of the victors of World War II the National Socialist German Workers Party in January 1933 was democratically elected to govern Germany. Within the month, the Party’s leader Adolf Hitler publicly vowed to the German people that within four years he would give the German electorate the opportunity to decide if they wished the NSDAP to continue to govern Germany or wished instead to return to the electoral system of the Weimar Republic.
Millions of Ukrainians would welcome annexation by Russia with open arms, gladly separating from the control of Kiev in the event of an invasion, one of the country’s former top army officers has declared as tensions skyrocket between the two former Soviet republics.
While Ukraine has long held ambitions to join the EU, officials in Brussels are treating spurned Kiev with contempt, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has claimed, as tensions heat up across the shared border with Russia. Speaking on the RTL TV channel on Sunday, Zagreb’s leader shared his opinions on the former Soviet republic’s relations with the 27-member bloc.
Western ideas are destructive to Russian society, Moscow officials argue. Russia’s Ministry of Culture has published a draft order setting out traditional values that it says must be protected from encroachment by foreign ideas, terrorists, and extremists amid a global crisis for public morality.
BRUSSELS: More economic sanctions on Russia would have a devastating effect on the European economic and financial sectors, politicians and pundits have told Sputnik.
The United States is helping Russia to de-dollarize the economy. This was announced on January 26 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a plenary meeting of the State Duma (Russian Parliament, Moscow).
With tensions growing on the border between Russia and Ukraine, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has announced that Zagreb will pull its troops out of NATO contingents stationed in the region should the situation spiral into a full-scale conflict. Bulgaria also says, ‘don’t include us. We’ll not be sending troops to Ukraine.’
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