MICHAEL WALSH REPORTS: Imagine because you spend a lot of money in Spain you open a Euro bank account in Barcelona. No problem as this is routine in any country. But out of the blue, the bank is told to close your account and confiscate your money.
It could take years for the UK to replace weapons that it has funnelled to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, has admitted. He made the remarks on Wednesday as he spoke before a parliamentary committee.
As many as 500 Ukrainian troops from a single brigade were killed in the city of Nikolaev, the Russian defence ministry reveals. Russian strikes on a shipbuilding plant in the Ukrainian port of Nikolaev killed as many as 500 troops on Tuesday, the Russian defence ministry claimed during a daily press briefing on Wednesday.
Former Russian President Medvedev has asked whether Ukraine will still exist as a state in two years’ time. The background to Medvedev’s statement was the new Lend-Lease deliveries from the USA, which Ukraine wants to receive. The point is that the United States is supplying Ukraine with weapons that Ukraine will eventually pay for later.
Russia is currently making a mockery of sanctions after earning what is likely record revenues from oil and gas sales. China has overtaken Germany as Russia’s largest consumer of energy since the start of the war in Ukraine, helping fill Russia’s coffers during a critical period, an independent research group at the Finnish Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air said on Monday.
Pay-back time, karma, whatever you like to call it, Washington and the Pentagon are horrified. For the first time in Latin American History, Russian military forces are to be deployed to the Central American nation of Nicaragua.
June 5, 2022, 11:53 – Public News Service – OSN: Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Ilya Kiva said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is strengthening security because he is afraid of an assassination attempt from his own military. The parliamentarian is quoted by Moskovsky Komsomolets.
State Duma (Russian Parliament) Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that the economies of the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, and Canada continue to crack under load due to sanctions against Russia.
Special Representative of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov named islandization as the most likely development scenario for the country. It is about gaining technological independence and self-sufficiency.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the United Russia party, answered a question about the particular harshness of his posts in Telegram.
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