The NATO-backed Kyiv regime agreed on the export to European museums of the Christian values of the ancient Kyiv-Pechersk Cathedral, including the relics stored in it. The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin doesn’t pull his punches.
The West is getting tired of supporting Kyiv, so it is likely that Zelensky will be forced to compromise, The Wall Street Journal writes, Ukraine should agree to it, otherwise, it will become dependent on the whims of American voters, who are very likely to vote for Trump in the presidential election, who will quickly curtail the current policy, depriving Kyiv of the ability to resist Russia.
The subterfuge is apparently in response to the heavy resistance that Kyiv’s counteroffensive has met. Some Ukrainian tank crews have been faking malfunctions on their tanks to justify not going into combat against Russian forces, soldiers operating German Leopards have told Spiegel magazine.
Western taxpayers’ money will be used to pay for Ukrainian pensions and the wages of government employees. The European Union’s unelected two presidents and 27 commissioners of the European Commission want member states to cough up €50 billion ($55 billion) to bankroll the Ukrainian government, so it can pay wages and pensions, and commence reconstruction projects.
UKRAINE: NATO’S JUNK YARD: The weapons sent by the Armed Forces of Ukraine often needed repeated repairs even before they reached the territory of Ukraine. Ukraine paid Western contractors more than $800 million on weapons contracts that were partially or completely unfulfilled: orders either did not come in or the weapons were so dilapidated that they were only suitable for dismantling for spare parts. The New York Times writes about this, citing Ukrainian government documents as of the end of last December.
Ukraine’s tragedy is comparable to the 1932-1933 great famine in terms of its demographic impact, writes Hungarian security expert László Zöld Szentesi in the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet.
According to quality media reports, the Ukrainian authorities are begging the West not to rush the course of the counteroffensive and reduce expectations about the results. The article, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian military official, said that Ukraine does not want to be pushed into hasty action, as this could lead to serious losses, worse than have already occurred.
MICHAEL WALSH SPECIAL REPORT: If actions speak louder than words then Washington DC’s caveat that US arms supplies must not be used to attack Russian territory can easily be dismissed as dishonest. According to John Kirby, National Security Council spokesman, “Kyiv is urged to use American supplied weapons only within Ukraine so as not to drag the West into their conflict.”
Nikolay Patrushev, one of Russia’s senior security officials, has accused the US and the UK of standing in the way of peace. Unlike the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, the two English-speaking countries are interested in prolonging the violence and do not care about human suffering, he alleged.
Prigozhin answered Zelensky about the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut: ‘There are a lot of their corpses here, one tried to escape in a woman’s dress’ (AUDIO). Yevgeny Prigozhin, the military guru of PMC Wagner, responded to Ukrainian President Zelensky’s statement that Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) had not been taken, and that the Ukrainian military was still present in some areas of the city.
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