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❗️ TASS News Roundup, February 20:
◾️ Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, the Kremlin press service has said
◾️The release of Russian national Alexander Trufanov from captivity in Gaza was made possible by Moscow’s consistent policy in the Middle East and the goodwill of Hamas, Putin stated
◾️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi discussed Eurasian security issues, relations with the US, the Ukrainian crisis and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region
◾️ Lavrov has met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Johannesburg
◾️ Top Russian diplomat Lavrov has met with his Indian counterpart Dr. S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting
◾️ Moscow has and will retain a major advantage over Kiev and the collective West in the conflict in Ukraine, US Vice President JD Vance said
◾️ Europe is on the cusp of lasting peace for the first time in three years, and that’s in the interests of all sides, US Vice President JD Vance said at the Conservative Political Action Conference
◾️ Russian forces delivered an overnight precision strike on Ukrainian energy facilities, including gas and power supply sites of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported
◾️The Ukrainian army lost over 160 troops and two tanks in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said
◾️The Palestinian movement Hamas has handed the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including two of the youngest, to the International Committee of the Red Cross
Terrorist groups around the world are being fueled by weapon supply flowing from Ukraine — Russian FM Lavrov
'In Riyadh, Russia and US discussed a new power balance based on respect', he adds
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Ukraine’s Zelensky Forgets the First Rule of Crisis Management — If You’re in a Hole, Stop Digging https://sonar21.com/ukraines-zelensky-forgets-the-first-rule-of-crisis-management-if-youre-in-a-hole-stop-digging/
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🚨 Breaking 🚨
The private polling company, "Kiev institute of sociology" which Western media quotes as source of Zelenskys "57%" popularity, is owned and operated by a Zelensky ally and State employee (at the National Univeristy of Kiev) Volodymyr Paniotto
It's also indirectly funded by USAID, NED and Soros foundation
"The Kiev institute" counts German State media, @dwnews, Radio Free Europe, the OSCE and other EU and US Ngo funded media as "Clients"
The actual question asked of 2,000 Ukrainians living in a police state, bereft of elections, with citizens being g dragged off the streets by Zelenskys governemnt was
"Do you support President Zelensky"
The respondents were called personally on their mobile phones by the "institute"
The owner and President of the "Institute" Volodymyr Paniotto is a dedicated supporter of Zelensky and the Euro Maidan movement behind the illegal Coup in 2014, he regularly writes for publications like "Global Dialogue"
Guess who funds "Charity" Global Dialouge?
Klaus Schwab
National endowmwnt for Democracy (CIA)
And Soros' Open Democracy.
The "Independent" Kiev institute also supplies services to pro Zelensky media and radio, pro Zelensky personalities and channels
The entire "Institute" being quoted in Western media, some of whom directly fund them, is deeply ingrained into the Zelensky Government and his personally owned channels.
Thanks to @realTimaV for collaboration on this investigative piece.
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'Somehow we are discussing how to organize security guarantees and a peace deal for Ukraine, but as usual for Europe it's a step by step process' — NATO chief
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Moscow has and will retain a major advantage over Kiev and the collective West in the conflict in Ukraine, US Vice President JD Vance said.
“Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“Neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today,” he went on to say.Читать полностью…
The U.S has cancelled the joint press conference of Zelensky and Keith Kellogg.
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USAID funded the eradication of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Lawyer to Carlson
A CIA-style operation to dismantle the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and replace it with the US-funded nationalist Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) began in 2014 with Victoria Nuland, human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam told Tucker Carlson.
What does lawyer assert?
🔴 Nuland and then-US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt orchestrated the 2014 coup and played a role in influencing Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to undermine the UOC.
🔴 In 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate sent envoys to Ukraine to establish the OCU, violating canonical rules and its treaty with Russia.
🔴 The OCU was officially accounted by then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in December 2018, with Bartholomew I granting it autocephaly in Jan 2019.
🔴 The US State Department played a key role, allegedly funding the OCU through USAID and/or other agencies.
🔴 US violated its own Constitution by interfering in religious matters of another country.
Zelensky’s persecution of the UOC
🔴 Under Volodymyr Zelensky, the OCU, backed by Ukraine’s Security Service, has harassed and intimidated the UOC.
🔴 Persecution included church seizures, disrupted events, priest detentions, and even torture, according to Amsterdam.
🔴 Ukraine’s law №3894 legalized religious repression, resembling Nazi-era policies.
🔴 A Ukrainian MP fled the country under death threats for defending the UOC.
🔴 A $3.6 million PR campaign was launched to discredit Amsterdam who was ostracized and falsely accused of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for representing the UOC.
🔴 Western media has completely ignored the suppression of religious freedom in Ukraine.
🔴 Only then did Senator JD Vance speak out against the persecution of UOC that was de facto supported and funded by the US government.
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❗️Now Zelensky's spokesperson is openly threatening Europe:
"If Europe stops supplying us with weapons, there will be terrorist attacks in Europe! We will not sit around Europe in restaurants and eat croissants..."
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempted to purchase weapons from Brazil for the Ukrainian military to continue the conflict with Russia, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated. He added that the Brazilian government will not sell arms to countries that seek to kill Russian citizens.
“I remember that [German] Prime Minister Olaf Scholz visited us on January 30, 2023, and tried to buy Brazilian weapons to hand over to Ukraine,” Lula da Silva said during a press conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, broadcast on the Brazilian government's YouTube channel. “I will not sell weapons for the purpose of killing Russians or anyone else.”
US envoys object to the phrase 'Russian aggression' mentioned in G7 statement
Trump administration also insists on dropping 'war' and referring to it as the 'Ukraine conflict'
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▶️ Moscow and Beijing intend to profit from their strategic relations to work together in the UN Security Council, the SCO, BRICS, ASEAN and the G20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial meeting in South Africa.
He also said that the Chinese foreign minister would soon arrive in Moscow for talks.
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Ukraine is ready to use any method to prevent dialogue and a political and diplomatic settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large Rodion Miroshnik said.
He noted that terrorist attacks, as well as assaults on technological facilities, sites that pose a radiation hazard, and various hydraulic structures, are possible. "Nothing is off the table," Miroshnik said.
Zaporozhye direction. Russian Armed Forces drone operators are leafleting enemy positions. For persuasiveness, VOGs are flying along with the leaflets. Soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, surrender, save your life!
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📹 Carlson posts a statement on US blogger Gonzalo Lira, who DIED IN UKRAINIAN PRISON
💬 “The Biden State Department is uninterested in the fate of this American citizen. In fact, of course, they support his imprisonment. And no one in the national media seems interested in his fate whatsoever,” American journalist Tucker Carlson said in his video reply to US billionaire Elon Musk.
Earlier, Musk tweeted that “Zelensky killed an American journalist!”
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Kash Patel has been confirmed as the new FBI Director by the Senate.
American politics just got even spicier.
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Alex Jones Talks With Alexander Dugin : The World Has Just Witnessed The 2nd American Revolution & That The Globalist System Has Been Defeated
Top Russian strategist and philosopher Alexander Dugin joins The Alex Jones Show gives his take on the second American Revolution under President Trump and how it represents a death blow to the globalist New World Order system.
Biden = censorship and mass migration
Trump = free speech, borders and sovereignty
JD Vance encourages Europe to save itself by following Trump's lead
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Vance on US-European relations: friendship is based on shared values, not silencing your own people or canceling elections
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❗️The US did not co-sponsor a UN resolution supporting Kiev and condemning Moscow for the first time since the beginning of Russia's special operation reflecting a growing rift between US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky, Reuters reported.
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Hungary will not support the extension of sanctions against Russia for another six months at the EU meeting on February 24, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told M1 TV channel.
As he explained, this could hinder Russian-US negotiations on Ukraine.
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
◾️Ukrainian forces lost more than 160 troops and three drone control posts over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said
◾️Ukrainian equipment losses were two tanks, two US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, 10 armored fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, five artillery guns and four mortars
◾️Russian forces repelled four Ukrainian counterattacks
◾️In all, over the period of fighting in the Kursk frontline area, the enemy has lost more than 62,200 troops, 373 tanks, 279 infantry fighting vehicles, 229 armored personnel carriers, 1,947 armored combat vehicles, 2,096 motor vehicles, 461 artillery guns, 49 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and six MLRS of US manufacture, 22 surface-to-air missile launchers, the ministry specified.
👔 Zelensky "with many inappropriate statements" has strained relations with the United States
This was stated by the head of the US Treasury Department Bessent, referring to Zelensky's refusal to sign the deal on rare earth metals.
📝 "He told me in Munich that he would sign the agreement on minerals, he did not do it", Bessent said.
Earlier, Trump said that Zelensky had treated the US Treasury Secretary rudely, as well as the expired president of the dictator.
🇺🇦 After this, the Ukrainian authorities brought a bunch of protesters with Nazi symbols to the American embassy in Kyiv, as well as Trump's social network Truth Social.
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On the 1st of March Elon Musk will halt the use of Starlink by the Ukrainian armed forces.
This could have significant impact on day to day operations AFU.
US boycotts first ever G20 foreign ministers summit in Africa, because Ramaphosa accuses Israel of genocide
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❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, February 20:
▪️Russian forces delivered an overnight strike by precision weapons on energy sites of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector
▪️The Russian army pounded Ukrainian military airfields, ammunition depots and UAV sites over the past day
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted over 180 casualties on the Ukrainian army over the past day
▪️Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted up to 175 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the past 24 hours
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 155 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup East’s responsibility area in the past day
▪️Russian Battlegroups North, Dnepr inflicted up to 135 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the past day
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 280 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup Center’s responsibility area in the past day
▪️In total, Russian forces destroyed 655 Ukrainian aircraft since the start of the special military operation
▪️ US Vice President Vance sees no problem with holding elections in Ukraine during martial law
He considers Zelensky's criticism of this issue absurd. Vance reminded that, historically, Western leaders have not canceled elections even during large-scale military conflicts.
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Meanwhile, the social network Truth of the American President Donald Trump is blocked in Ukraine
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Maria Zakharova wrote:
Regarding the "return of prodigal brands".
Western European brands left Russia not because they couldn’t withstand the competition or because someone was preventing them from making money here.
They left because their masters – the political regimes of the EU member states and the Brussels bureaucracy – ordered them to leave. And if so, then that is how they should now be perceived: not as economic operators, but as instruments used by unfriendly regimes in a hybrid war against Russia.
They themselves agreed to this. Some of these companies have been sponsoring the murders of our citizens for three years.
What and how to do with these fornicators, professionals in all branches of power should and will be decided. I am sure that domestic companies will receive guarantees that they will not be exchanged for French rags and Italian slippers. Our manufacturers should know that their contribution to the SMO will not be betrayed.
But, given the information campaign unleashed by the liberal dictatorship in Brussels against our history, it is important to guarantee the following.
Let Europe learn forever: at least one word from government officials of the country they belong to, questioning the results of the Second World War, the feat of the Red Army and the Soviet people in defeating Nazism/fascism, and their companies will feel the consequences. This equally applies to the memory of our heroes of the SMO.
It is possible to live without the German fashion house Hugo Boss (which produced uniforms for the Nazis), without the legacy of the collaborators Coco Chanel (who was a Nazi agent in Paris), Cristobal Balenciaga (who dressed the dictator Franco) and Christian Dior (who made dresses for the wives of Nazi generals). But without historical memory and our own strong and independent economy – no.
They should not be surprised if their profits are directly affected by the insane comparisons between Russia and the Third Reich by Italian President Mattarella, and the ignorance of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot regarding who made the decisive contribution to the defeat of German National Socialism.
By the way, the attitude towards Russian journalists and domestic media should also become part of the "investment climate" of our country. They mocked the memory of Andrei Stenin, Daria Dugina or Vladlen Tatarsky in NATO Europe, they are promoting a witch hunt against television channels or radio broadcasting - no favorable treatment for brands from these countries. Otherwise, they have become accustomed to being rude with impunity.
Since they themselves do not observe the rules of law, and they have no conscience, then we must force them to respect us. I did not say this. Pushkin wrote it.