Russian envoy calls UN Security Council meeting on Iran strike parade of hypocrisy
"If Western missions were attacked, you would not hesitate to retaliate and prove your case in this room. Because for you, everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," Vasily Nebenzya said.
"You know very well that an attack on a diplomatic mission is a casus belli under international law. And if Western missions were attacked, you would not hesitate to retaliate and prove your case in this room. Because for you, everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," he said at a UN Security Council meeting convened in the wake of the Iranian attack on Israeli military installations.
"Today, the Security Council is witnessing such a parade of Western hypocrisy and double standards that it is even somewhat uncomfortable to watch," the diplomat said.
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World cannot afford another war — UN secretary-general about Iran’s attack
Antonio Guterres urged "all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East".
"I am deeply alarmed about the very real danger of a devastating region-wide escalation. I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East," he said. "I have repeatedly stressed that neither the region nor the world can afford another war."
Israeli Permanent Representative to the UN Gilad Erdan believes that Iran’s attack violates the UN Charter. At the same time, Iran’s mission to the UN said the attack came as a response to Israel’s attack on its diplomatic facilities In Syria and was carried out in line with the Charter’s clause on legitimate self-defense.
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense published footage of the fighting in Donbass, passing it off as an Iranian attack
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In his first public response to the overnight Iranian assault, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X on Sunday morning: “We intercepted. We blocked. Together we will win.”
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel launched a retaliatory attack on targets in Lebanon.
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⚡️ Cruise missiles were launched - the approximate time of arrival in Israel was 2:30 am.
Пошли крылатые ракеты - из примерное время прибытия в Израиль 2-30 ночи.
US ban on Russian metals worse than ‘shot in the foot’
The new sanctions could be a signal to Kiev not to engage in talks, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has suggested.
The US decision to impose restrictions on Russian metals is an unreasonable move that will only boomerang, Moscow’s envoy to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has said, suggesting that the new sanctions could be meant to tell Ukraine to keep fighting.
On Friday, the US and UK introduced restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper, and nickel. Delivery of those commodities of Russian origin to the London Metal Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange has now been prohibited. The US has also banned imports of those metals.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued that the move would “target the revenue Russia can earn to continue its brutal war against Ukraine.”
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Children killed in Ukrainian shelling
The attack damaged multiple residential buildings in Zaporozhye Region, Russia.
A Ukrainian artillery strike on Tokmak in Zaporozhye Region, Russia has killed multiple people, including three children, Governor Evgeny Balitsky confirmed on Saturday.
Tokmak is a small town 50km from the Dnieper. The river currently divides the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled areas of the region, which joined Russia following a referendum in 2022.
“As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of a Tokmak apartment district, several people were killed,” Balitsky said. He added that over the past several hours, the bodies of ten people were recovered from the rubble, including three children. Two people are listed as missing.
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The truth always comes out eventually.
We can add it to a long list of crimes committed by Germany over the years. Blaming Stalin and the USSR was always convenient, both to Nazi Germany and their NATO successors. Just like we see today's politicians in the West blaming everything from rising prices to earthquakes on Russia, so it was the case then. Nothing changed.
It also shows us how the NATO alliance is built on American and British coercion, rather than any natural mutual interests. The whole of Europe has always been at each others' throats over the tiniest of disagreements. Yet today they aspire to lecture Russia and virtue signal about their superior morals.
Convincing their "allies" that Russia is the enemy was America's greatest trick - you've been had. You Poles, you Czechs, you Latvians, you Finns and so on.
I wonder how Germans think about their Polish "allies" these days. Do they still see them as "inferior Slavic barbarians?" Probably. And to the Poles reading this - these are your supposed friends.
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According to him, officers' belongings, Polish money, personal letters and documents of the executed officers were lying near the graves. "All these things, and especially personal documents and money, were in such a form in which they could not have been preserved in the ground since 1939 (when, according to Nazi statements, NKVD officers shot the Polish officers). The money, for example, was still brand new and did not seem to be in circulation," the Pole noted.
Roman Kovalsky, a prisoner of war who also served in a workers' battalion and visited the mass grave in the Katyn forest, added in his testimony that "it was clear from most of the corpses of those shot that these were very recent victims." "In the published lists of Polish officers shot in Katyn, many of our workers' battalion found among the names of their acquaintances killed, arrested even earlier by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps in Germany," he stressed.
Both Poles claimed to know about at least seven cases of Nazi executions in Smolensk of those who spoke about the USSR's non-involvement in the murder of the Polish soldiers and officers.
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Ukrainians attack Lugansk, presumably using two Storm Shadow missiles
Today’s attack has been the first on the city since May 2023.
"According to preliminary data, Ukrainian troops fired two Storm Shadow missiles on Lugansk," the officer said.
Earlier on Saturday, a TASS reporter said that explosions had been heard in a Lugansk neighborhood and that several apartment buildings were damaged. Emergency services are working at the scene.
Three civilian residents of Lugansk were injured in the attack, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said that, on Saturday morning, Ukrainians had fired several missiles on a local machine building plant about to be launched. Adjacent apartment blocks were damaged, too, he added.
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A Russian was the only civilian who dared to fight back the attacker at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center in the east of Sydney, Australia; the man detained the attacker on the escalator using a fence post, reports the Australian TV channel 7NEWS, citing eyewitnesses of the incident.
ABC previously reported that the large Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center was evacuated in the east of Sydney, Australia, after reports of several people being stabbed. According to eyewitnesses, shots were heard in the building.
Australian police later reported six deaths as a result of the attack. The Russian Embassy in Australia told RIA Novosti that it does not have information about Russians among those injured in the incident.
https://ria.ru/20240413/7news-1939820320.html
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❗️The moment a brave member of the public corners the knife wielding Bondi mall attacker using a bollard as an improvised weapon. 👏
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President Putin reacts to Switzerland’s plans to host a Ukraine peace summit without Russia’s participation.
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Istanbul treaty can serve as basis for dialogue with Ukraine — Kremlin
Dmitry Peskov pointed out that any political and diplomatic search of the solution "can only be based on negotiations".
"This return to negotiations is possible only in the form of dialogue, readiness for dialogue. Our readiness for negotiations was confirmed yesterday by the president [Vladimir Putin]. As a rule, negotiations are still based on something. It was said that, among other things, we could rely on this document [the Istanbul treaty - TASS], but, of course, a lot of changes have taken place since then. We have new subjects in the Constitution, which was not the case two years ago. Therefore, there are indeed a number of new realities that we cannot abstract from, but at the same time this (treaty - TASS) could be a certain basis for the start of negotiations," the spokesman said.
Peskov pointed out that any political and diplomatic search of the solution "can only be based on negotiations."
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The highest-ranking official who met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the airport during a three-day visit to China was the deputy mayor of Chongqing
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 The British publication The Sun published an article about how the Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to destroy the Crimean Bridge by mid-July
The publication claims that this will require F-16s, 20-30 Storm Shadow missiles and naval drones.
Israel Reports Light Damage After Iran Launches Large Strike
Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel overnight.
The U.S. military shot dozens of them down, but most were intercepted by Israel’s military claims The New York Times
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🇮🇱🚨🇮🇷 Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv.
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“Bye suckers”
— Netanyahu
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✅🇮🇱 UAVs and missiles are now being launched into Israel from:
🟡🇮🇷 Iran
🟡🇸🇾 Syria
🟡🇾🇪 🇾🇪Houthis from Yemen
🟡🇱🇧🇱🇧 Hezbollah from Lebanon
🟡🇮🇶🇮🇶 Hashd al-Shaabi from Iraq.
🇮🇶🇮🇶 The Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah also announced the start of an operation against Israel.
Сейчас по Израилю запускают БПЛА и ракеты:
Иран
Сирия
хуситы из Йемена
«Хезболла» из Ливана
«Хашд аш-Шааби» из Ирака.
Иракская «Катаиб Хезболла» тоже объявила о начале операции против Израиля.
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An appeal of Alexander Korobko, head of the media company "The Russian Hour", to Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu regarding the disappearance of Russell Bentley, call sign "Texas".
Source: /channel/TXDPR/13455
Ukrainian paratroopers surrender in Avdeyevka area - Russian Defense Ministry
Nine Ukrainian paratroopers of the airborne platoon of the elite brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces seized the opportunity to surrender near Vodyanoye, turned to Russian soldiers and laid down their arms, the ministry said.
"Servicemen of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces have surrendered as a unit to Russian troops from Battlegroup Tsentr (Center) in the Avdeyevka area. Nine Ukrainian paratroopers of the airborne platoon of the elite brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces seized the opportunity to surrender near Vodyanoye, turned to Russian soldiers and laid down their arms," the ministry said.
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"One of the leaders of the Poznan SD (Reichsfuhrer SS security service), Sturmbannfuhrer Gepner, had a conversation with the commission, in which he warned that their trip to Katyn had propaganda purposes and that upon their return from there they should declare that they had personally seen 12 thousand corpses of Polish officers. After returning, the SD obliged the members of the commission to address meetings of Polish workers with propaganda reports about the trip to Katyn. The summaries of the reports were pre-edited by the Board of Directors," the archival documents say.
Smetala recalled that in Katyn, the Germans showed the commission two Russian citizens, calling them "witnesses" to the murder of Polish officers. "As a former judicial officer, it was clear to me from the behavior of these "witnesses" that they were specially trained by the SD," Smektal said. He also noted that the corpses shown to the commission did not look as if they had been in the ground for several years: "The clothes did not rot, on the corpse of the Polish military commander, General of the Bronislaw brigade, Bogatyrevich has preserved the lower part of his face with a mustache and beard."
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The FSB declassified the archive about the Nazi executions of Poles and the falsification of the "Katyn case"
The archive includes information, intelligence and special reports of the Smersh counterintelligence dated 1944-1945.
For example, a native of Poland, Eduard Potkansky, who served in a workers' battalion formed by the Germans from Poles in a camp at the Krasny Bor station in the Smolensk region, said that in the summer of 1943, the Germans decided to show the participants of the workers' battalion the graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest. Potkansky recalled, "According to the Germans, there were up to 12 thousand Polish officers who were shot, and up to 3 thousand more people are in another place, and these graves have not yet been opened."
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💥 OPEN APPEAL BY LYUDMILA BENTLEY TO THE INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITIES OF RUSSIA, DPR
Source: /channel/TXDPR/13454
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❗️Australian federal authorities confirm five victims have died from a knife attack at Bondi Junction in Sydney
The key assailant has not yet been identified but was also killed.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on X that Australia’s “hearts go out” to victims.
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🇬🇧 The defeat of Ukraine would be “a catastrophe worse than Vietnam” for the West, Boriska Johnson said.
If Putin “captures” Kiev, NATO will be defeated in a European war for the first time in 75 years, The Telegraph quotes the former British Prime Minister as saying.
Johnson added that he is “praying” that Republicans in the US Congress will stop blocking $60 billion in aid to Kiev.
Minsk to respond harshly to Ukrainian attempts to attack infrastructure — Lukashenko
The Belarusian leader stressed that Minsk does not intend to attack Ukraine itself.
"Our fugitives (Belarusian opposition abroad - TASS), yours (Russian - TASS) and ours, I was informed yesterday, are shouting to the Poles and others: let's hit the Mozyr oil refinery (which is several dozen kilometers from the Ukrainian border - TASS), they supply the 'aggressor' with fuel for military needs, this is our (Ukraine’s - TASS) legitimate target," he told reporters in the Kremlin.
Lukashenko said that in response to these threats he "called his military officers and said: 'Put everything we have in position.'" "And then we will respond with an iron fist," the Belarusian leader said.
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Russia pounds Ukrainian energy, military-industrial sites in precision strikes over week
Russian forces gained advantageous positions and repulsed 23 Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Donetsk area where the enemy lost over 3,000 troops and three tanks in the past week, the Defense Ministry reported.
"On April 6-12, the Russian Armed Forces delivered one massive and 47 combined strikes by air-launched, seaborne and ground-based precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian fuel and energy and military-industrial sites in retaliation to the Kiev regime’s attempts to inflict damage on Russia’s oil and gas industry and energy installations. In addition, the strikes targeted maintenance bases and temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian special operations forces and foreign mercenaries," the ministry said in a statement.
"All the designated targets were destroyed," it stressed.
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