US House passes procedural vote on Ukraine aid bill
It cannot be ruled out that the House of Representatives may pass this package as early as Saturday.
The procedural vote was preceded by a short debate on these bills, which, in fact, are put together into one package. House Speaker, Republican Mike Johnson put forward a proposal to formalize this form of additional funding of the military needs of Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan from the US federal budget. On April 17, he presented the bills from the package, which showed that the aid to Kiev would be in the form of a loan. US President Joe Biden, Democrat, who had initially opposed that his administration's request for military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan would be in three bills, later supported Johnson’s initiative.
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Grossi ignores ‘elephant in the room’ in Zaporozhye nuke plant situation — Russian envoy
Dmitry Polyansky noted that the IAEA chief is being very cautious about the issue of attacks on the nuclear facility.
The diplomat noted that the IAEA chief is being very cautious about the issue of attacks on the nuclear facility. "As they say in New York, this is like an ‘elephant in the room’ that everyone tries not to notice. And Mr. Grossi is trying the hardest," he said.
Grossi had earlier proposed that the UN Security Council endorse five principles for the security of the ZNPP, namely not to allow an attack on or from the plant; not to deploy heavy weapons or military personnel that could be used to attack the plant; not to endanger the plant’s power supply; to protect all structures and systems that ensure the safe operation of the plant; and to take no actions that might undermine these principles.
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⚡️ Comment by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs M.V. Zakharova in connection with the murder of the Russian military correspondent S. Eremin
On April 19, as a result of a targeted attack by a UAV of the armed formations of the Kiev regime in the Zaporozhye region, military correspondent of the Izvestia Information Center Semyon Eremin was killed while performing his professional duties.
As a result of the deliberate repeated release of a shell from an Ukrainian Armed Forces drone, the Russian military commander was seriously injured, from which he later died.
We express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of S. Eremin, who died fulfilling his professional duty until the last minutes of his life.
We regard this purposeful and cold-blooded murder of a journalist as another confirmation of the ugly terrorist nature of the Zelensky regime, which has opened a real hunt for Russian representatives of the media, military officers, public figures, who, with their reports, comments and publications, reveal the truth to the world community, present undeniable facts about the crimes of the Kiev militants mode.
It was S. Eremin who published documentary evidence that Russian correspondents on the front line were declared priority targets for destruction by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The murder of S. Eremin, this bloody crime, cannot be considered other than an act of revenge for the honest performance of a journalistic duty.
We demand that relevant international organizations and human rights structures immediately and decisively condemn yet another brutal murder of a Russian journalist. With their habitual silence, they give carte blanche to the Kyiv clique for new, even more horrific terrorist attacks against media representatives, thereby becoming their accomplices.
❗️ In ensuring the rights of the media and safe conditions for their professional activities, “double standards” are categorically unacceptable.
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🇺🇦 Ermak paid $27 million to get into Time's top 100.
Bellingcat unearthed information about who paid Time to include them in the top 100 most influential people. Among others there is Andrey Ermak. The average bill for such a place is from 10 to 30 million dollars; it cost Ermak 27 million.
Bellingcat editor-in-chief Eliot Higgins believes that Ermak is gaining political points in order to compete for zelensky’s place, because the clown may cease to perform his duties at the end of May, including “for health reasons.”
Ukrainian trace obvious in Crocus City Hall attack — Russian prosecutor general
The law enforcement employees exert efforts to identify the instigators of this crime, Igor Krasnov said.
"The terror attack at the concert hall in the Moscow Region, which took lives of and left maimed hundreds of civilians, and shocked the global community, has become a consequence of double standards in combating crime. Of course, we take all efforts to identify all organizers, sponsors, ideological inspirers of this terrorist act and will bring them to responsibility. Punishment awaits them. But the Ukrainian trace is obvious in this terrorist act already," Krasnov said.
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(Film) Texas - Donbass Legend
My new film on Texas, and let's hope he's back with us to watch it soon 🙏🏻
https://rumble.com/v4qa503-texas-donbass-legend.html
No sources cited, though claims that Russell 'Texas' Bentley is dead are circulating on VK - Russian social media.
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Russia ready for Ukraine talks, but not with Zelensky — Lavrov
The first negotiations between Russia and Ukraine after the start of the special military operation took place in early March 2022 in Belarus, but they did not bring tangible results.
"We are fully convinced that we need to continue the special military operation. We indicate our readiness for negotiations not just for show. This is indeed the truth, but talking to Zelensky is pointless for many reasons," he said.
The first negotiations between Russia and Ukraine after the start of the special military operation took place in early March 2022 in Belarus, but they did not bring tangible results.
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The red carpet for incredible women of Moscow 🌹
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Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF
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Crimea, Donbass to forever remain within Russia, Slovak PM tells national parliament
Robert Fico believes Moscow will win in its confrontation with Kiev.
"From the point of view of international law, each of us recognizes the territorial integrity of another country, its sovereignty and inviolability of borders. This is a good international law practice. However, I say that the Russians will never give Crimea back, nor will the Russians leave Donbass and Lugansk," the prime minister said, as quoted by the CTK news agency.
Fico believes Moscow will win in its confrontation with Kiev. In his words, both parties will have to make concessions to achieve peace.
The Slovak prime minister has long been criticizing the West’s strategy on Ukraine, emphasizing that the conflict has no military solution.
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Russia maintains constructive dialogue with both Iran, Israel — Kremlin
Dmitry Peskov mentioned a recent phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
"You know that Russia maintains close contact, we have very constructive working contact with Tehran. We are in contact with Israel, too. The contact is also constructive," he said.
"We have an ongoing dialogue, highlighting the need to ensure de-escalation as soon as possible. We also call on all countries of the region to exercise reasonable restraint," the Russian presidential spokesman stressed.
Peskov mentioned a recent phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. "Russian President Vladimir Putin also held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday," he pointed out.
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NATO is preparing for war with Russia in the High North - commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
According to him, Russia has begun to arm itself in the Arctic: it is opening new military bases and reactivating very old ones.
NATO countries need to “reliably deter” Russia from attacking the alliance and invest sufficient funds in defense
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📢 This announcement is for those who would like to learn Russian language
➡️ This link will take you to a Тelegram channel where online Russian language training is offered on a regular and free basis:
/channel/RussianlinguistsLanguage (Orthodox Russian linguists: Russian Language)
The next class is tomorrow Thursday 18 April.
We would not recommend something that we haven't looked into ourselves. It was especially exciting to do because the course is related to the Orthodox Church.
So we met the organisers of the language course. A few words about them...
The training is conducted by the missionary department of the Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
➡️ Here is information on the official website of the Diocese about Russian language courses for foreign citizens: https://missia-tomsk.ru/news/?id=487.
🔸Information from the Diocese website:
Tomsk diocese nowadays is one of 257 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church. Its canonical territory includes the city of Tomsk, the city of Seversk and seven districts of the Tomsk region. It includes 127 parishes, the Bogoroditse-Alexievsky monastery and the Tomsk Theological Seminary. The church life of believers is centred around temples and chapels, some of which have survived from pre-revolutionary times (1918), while others have been built today. Everywhere churches returned to the diocese are being restored, and new churches and chapels are being built - 36 new churches are currently under construction. Divine services and sacraments performed in temples sanctify human life, transform it. Here a person is spiritually born in the sacrament of Baptism, here he sanctifies his life in the sacraments of anointing, wedding, confession, and unites with Christ in the sacrament of communion.
❗️Note:
If you have a desire to make any donation to the Orthodox Church, you may ask about it in a personal communication during the course. The funds will be used to expand the Russian language course or, if you wish, to build new Temples. The church does not receive any funds from the state. All good deeds and construction/restoration is done by private donations only.
Success in your studies and moving to Russia!
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Head of Braiden Consulting
US House pushes ahead with $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan | House of Representatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/house-democrats-mike-johnson-foreign-aid
🇵🇱 To say that Poland has shamelessly violated all international conventions on migration issues since 2021 is to say nothing. In an attempt to resist the human flow, the Polish Republic has been using all the possible methods, including illegal ones: beatings, violence, tortures, robbing victims’ money and property confiscation, etc.
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Worth noting that Elliot Higgins and Bellingcat are tools of the Western intelligence services.
What they publish are not secrets, it's all part of the theatre
;-)
EU plans to invest first profits from Russian assets in military aid to Kiev
"I think that the decision has been taken by the member-states - all 27 have agreed that we use the windfall profits following our proposal," Ursula von der Leyen said.
When asked whether she agrees with President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde that the use of profits from Russian assets may violate the international legal order, von der Leyen replied:
"I think that the decision has been taken by the member-states - all 27 have agreed that we use the windfall profits following our proposal and if we work at the pace we are working right now, the first payments from these windfall profits that we estimate in the first year around 2.5-3 billion euros a year, might be accessible and can be invested in supporting Ukraine in the military need it had," she said.
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French president says creating Israeli-type air defense network for Ukraine impossible
Emmanuel Macron added that Europe’s resources are limited, and the European Union will continue helping Kiev keeping in mind its own reserves.
"Israel has been developing its air defense network over the past few decades, investing into it for quite a while. It will be impossible to built exactly the same system that would meet all of Ukraine’s needs," he told reporters after the EU summit in Brussels.
The French leader added that Europe’s resources are limited, and the European Union will continue helping Kiev keeping in mind its own reserves.
On April 15, Zelensky complained that Western partners fail to help his country the same way they helped Israel, although both countries are not NATO members.
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The wife of Donbass Legend Russell 'Texas' Bentley confirms his death.
Rest in Peace.
His work and legacy will live on: donbasshumaid.com
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One crew member of jet crashed in Stavropol Region killed, search for another continues
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, an Aerospace Forces’ Tu-22M3 bomber crashed after completing a combat mission while returning to the airfield.
"We have received clarified data on the accident with the Russian military plane in the Krasnogvardeysky district. We deeply regret that the third crew member died. I express my condolences to his family and friends. The search for the fourth pilot continues," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, an Aerospace Forces’ Tu-22M3 bomber crashed after completing a combat mission while returning to the airfield in the Stavropol Region. The ministry stressed that there was no ammunition on board and no damage on the ground.
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💢 A Polish man has been arrested and charged with planning to co-operate with Russian intelligence services to aid a possible assassination of Vladimir Zelensky, authorities said.
Polish prosecutors said the man, named as Pawel K, was allegedly tasked with collecting information about an airport in Poland used by Ukraine's president.
The arrest was made on the basis of Ukrainian intelligence, they added.
Authorities did not specify whether the man actually passed any information on.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68848317
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❗️ A well-known Western investor accused Ukrainian government officials, including representatives of the administration of President zelensky, of attempting to extort tens of millions of euros from his company.
Arnulf Damerau, a British-German businessman with experience advising Glencore and Trafigura, told the Financial Times that he was attacked by a group of senior Ukrainian officials.
Damerau claims that in December last year, a Ukrainian approached him in Vienna with an offer to eliminate lawsuits against his company Cosmolot in exchange for the transfer of half of its property to an offshore trust.
Damerau has been a co-owner of Cosmolot, a major online gaming and gambling site and the country's 10th largest taxpayer, since August.
Ukrainian president admits Russian troops’ advancement
Vladimir Zelensky asked his country’s supporters to provide "everything that helps to hold the frontline," including shells, military vehicles and drones.
"They are putting pressure on us at the front and are gradually moving [forward]," Zelensky said in his address to European leaders during an informal summit in Brussels.
He also said that Russia is feeling its strength in almost everything related to the armed component, including artillery, equipment and ability to operate in the sky.
Therefore, he asked his country’s supporters to provide "everything that helps to hold the frontline," including shells, military vehicles and drones.
At the same time, he reproached the EU for delays in the planned handover of artillery shells to Kiev.
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EU leaders urge to adopt proposal on using incomes from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine
The EU, the US, Japan and Canada have frozen Russian assets worth a total amount of around $300 bln.
"The European Council welcomes progress on the proposals to direct extraordinary revenues stemming from Russia’s immobilized assets for the benefit of Ukraine and calls for their swift adoption," the document says.
The EU, the US, Japan and Canada have frozen Russian assets worth a total amount of around $300 bln. Around $5-6 bln of these assets are held at US securities depositories, while the bulk of the assets are in Europe, including at the Euroclear international securities depository in Belgium.
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Ukraine turns from sovereign country into Western protectorate, Hungarian PM says
Viktor Orban noted that there should be a buffer zone between NATO and Russia and Ukraine could serve as one.
"Ukraine is not any more a sovereign state. Ukraine is now just a protectorate of the West. So, without getting the money and the weapons from the European Union and the United States, Ukraine as a state would cease to exist," he said, addressing the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels.
Orban added that there should be a buffer zone between NATO and Russia and Ukraine could serve as one. The Hungarian prime minister pointed out that Russia had repeatedly stated it would not tolerate the North Atlantic Alliance’s expansion towards its borders.
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