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at 3/31/23 11:13amLast week in America…and Great Britain…as well as Germany…(and coming soon to a Financial Sector near you!...) was a casual little catastrophic meltdown of the banking system. Important, in that one comprehend even the best of us make mistakes, allow your Chagrinned Correspondent to sheepishly admit he lost a packet in the markets. And yet Avast! – because the squandered fortune and more was made back within a few days.- — Russian Ambassador to UN calls for military measures against the West
- at 3/31/23 10:27amStatements from US officials about a ceasefire in Ukraine are the pinnacle of US hypocrisy, Russia's Ambassador to UN Vasily Nebenzya said, TASS reports. "Attempts to advertise themselves as champions of peace against the backdrop of incessant arms supplies to the Kyiv regime and statements from Washington and European capitals about the inadmissibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine are a pinnacle of their hypocrisy," he said. According to him, if Western countries stopped sending weapons to Kyiv, the Ukrainian conflict would have been settled peacefully long ago.
- — Ukraine responds to Lukashenko's truce proposal
- at 3/31/23 9:45amThe proposal that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made about the need to declare a truce in Ukraine and ban the movement of military equipment and weapons is unacceptable, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine wrote on social media. According to Podolyak, any ceasefire would mean that Russia has a right to remain on Ukrainian territories. "This is absolutely unacceptable. Ukraine has the right to move troops and equipment across its territory as it sees fit. Bizarre "peacekeepers" look ridiculous," Podolyak said.
- — Ukrainian soldiers not fleeing Bakhmut - PMC Wagner founder
- at 3/31/23 7:03amSoldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not flee from Bakhmut (the Russian name of the city is Artemovsk). Instead, they fight for city at the cost of very serious losses, PMC Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said commenting on reports about Ukrainian soldiers fledging from Bakhmut. "Today we need to concentrate in the city, because this is a very huge amount of combat work, the flanks should not let us down,” Prigozhin said. Prigozhin earlier said that PMC Wagner fighters were advancing in Bakhmut.
- — Belarus ready to deploy strategic nuclear weapons to stave off Western threat
- at 3/31/23 6:38amBelarus is ready to agree with Russia on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons on the territory of the republic, President Alexander Lukashenko said in his address. “If necessary, strategic nuclear weapons will be deployed in Belarus,” he said. Lukashenko said that he instructed to immediately restore the sites in Belarus where Topol missile systems had been stored in the past.
- — Putin and Lukashenko to discuss truce in Ukraine before conflict escalates
- at 3/31/23 6:18amKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko would discuss the idea of a truce with Ukraine without the right to regroup troops. Putin may discuss Lukashenko's truce proposal at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State. "Of course, we heard the statement from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Of course, the two presidents — Putin and Lukashenko — will continue [communication] next week, there will be a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, and [this] will give the presidents an opportunity to once again talk to each other, for sure they will discuss this topic too," Peskov said. The Kremlin representative stressed that nothing was changing in the context of Ukraine yet. The the special military operation will continue as this is currently the only way to achieve Russia's goals, Peskov said.
- — Zelensky looking for salvation options as special operation verging towards climax
- at 3/30/23 12:18pmVolodymyr Zelensky may cancel the spring counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The United States wants the hostilities to freeze now. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he would have to deal with pressure from both the international community and inside Ukraine should Bakhmut fall. "Our society will feel exhausted and will push me to compromises with Putin," Zelensky said. He called those compromises unacceptable. According to Zelensky, Ukraine will win as a result of a series of "small victories" if the Armed Forces of Ukraine have Western weapons.
- — Pronews: Russia annihilated dozens NATO officers in underground bunker on March 9
- at 3/30/23 10:54amKinzhal hypersonic missiles of the Russian forces destroyed the joint Ukraine-NATO command and communications center where foreign officers were also staying. According to Pronews, a Greek website, it goes about the March 9 missile strike that came in response to the attack that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs conducted in Russia's Bryansk region. The article in the Greek publication was posted on March 12, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta said. The underground target was located at a depth of 400 feet (120 meters). There were about 300 people — including NATO officers and military advisers — staying inside at the time of the strike, Pronews said.
- — Video shows massive buildup of NATO hardware near Kherson
- at 3/30/23 10:07amThe Ukrainian forces have published yet another video showing a large convoy of NATO armoured vehicles. Russian Spring military correspondents believe that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are thus trying to show their preparations for a counteroffensive. The new video shows the recently received infantry fighting vehicles. No other details were provided, military correspondents noted in their Telegram channel. British Husky and Mastiff armoured vehicles, as well as French VAB armoured personnel carriers, were spotted in the Kherson area of hostilities.
- — Heute: Armed Forces of Ukraine to launch counteroffensive from Kherson
- at 3/30/23 9:32amThe Armed Forces of Ukraine will go on an offensive from Kherson, from where they will try to attack Russia-controlled city of Melitopol, columnist Christian Wehrschütz believes. Preparations for this step are already underway, the journalist said adding that Kyiv was clearing mines in the surrounding area. "Ukraine is currently conducting large-scale preparations near Kherson in order to be able to operate. They are clearing minefields so that they can go on sudden advance to the front line,” Wehrschütz said in an article for German publication Heute.
- — Russian glider bombs become new threat for Armed Forces of Ukraine
- at 3/30/23 7:20amUkraine Air Force speaker Yuriy Ignat said that Russia's use of glider bombs became "a new threat." According to the official, Russian forces started using such bombs almost every day. "This is a new threat that we are facing now. They drop those bombs without flying into the destruction zone of our air defenses. Five-hundred-kilo bombs fly for tens of kilometers,” Ignat said speaking on television.
- — Austria's Raiffeisen Bank finds itself in unprecedented situation in Russia
- at 3/30/23 6:11amAustria's Raiffeisen Bank International considers selling the Russian division or withdrawing it from the structure of the group. Raiffeisen's "daughter" will continue running "certain banking activities" in Russia to maintain license. At the moment, the bank can not get rid of all of its business in Russia, but is striving for this to happen, RBI CEO Johann Strobl said. The RBI Group in Russia is represented by Raiffeisenbank, as well as leasing, insurance and management companies. The company's subdivisions employ over 9,000 people.
- — Xi Jinping readies China for large-scale war
- at 3/30/23 5:26amThe Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Chinese people must be fully prepared for a possible large-scale war, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the annual meeting of the Parliament, Foreign Affairs said. Magazine observers paid attention to the content of four of Xi's speeches that he delivered during a number of meetings lately. In those speeches Xi Jinping stated that he was "preparing China for war." He also said that he was urging PLA generals "not to be afraid to fight and make difficult decisions." "In the face of wars that may be forced upon us, we must speak to our enemies in a language they understand and use victory to win peace and respect. In the new era, the PLA insists on the use of military force to end hostilities,” Xi Jinping wrote in an essay that was published ahead of the March meetings of the Chinese Parliament.
- — WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich arrested in Yekaterinburg for espionage
- at 3/30/23 3:43amIn Yekaterinburg, the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) detained a correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, a US-based publication, RIA Novosti reports on Thursday, March 30. The correspondent was identified as Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old employee of the Moscow office of the American publication. It was said that the man was arrested for espionage. The correspondent is suspected of collecting state secret materials for the US about a Russian defense industry enterprise.
- — Armenia choses self-destruction by declining friendship with Russia
- at 3/29/23 10:43amArmenia is close to losing its statehood in the fight against Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, it is possible to preserve the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the Union State of the Russian Federation and Belarus. Armenia undermines the basis of relations with Russia On March 24, the Constitutional Court of Armenia recognised the country's obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as consistent with the country's Constitution. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned Yerevan that Moscow found its plans to accede to the Rome Statute of the ICC against the backdrop of the recent illegal and legally void ICC "warrants" in relation to the Russian leadership to be absolutely unacceptable.
- — Ukrainian Afterglow: German Death Throes
- at 3/29/23 7:08amWhat do the Sumerians, Etruscans and Germans each have in common? They’ll all be extinct in another century…only to be fair it’s a trick question… Germans are essentially dead already, otherwise they would not be resigned to their fate.
- — Russia ready for peaceful settlement of Ukrainian crisis but has a number of conditions
- at 3/29/23 5:48amRussia is ready for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, but Moscow has a number of conditions, Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, said in an interview with RTVI. There are a number of conditions for which a "comprehensive, just and sustainable peace" in Ukraine and Europe can be possible, the diplomat said. According to Galuzin:
- — Kremlin: It is up to Xi Jinping to decide whether to go to Ukraine or not
- at 3/29/23 4:50amMoscow can not advise the Chinese leadership which partners it is advisable for Beijing to negotiate with, Kremlin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said commenting on Volodymyr Zelensky's invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping to come to Kyiv. “We are aware of China's balanced position, and we highly appreciate it. We believe that it is up to the leader of China himself to decide the expediency of certain contacts. We are not entitled to give any guidance here,” the Kremlin spokesman said. On March 29, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian authorities would like to arrange a meeting between Zelensky and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
- — Ukraine's upcoming counteroffensive will be its last – Chechen commander
- at 3/29/23 4:22amApti Alaudinov, an assistant to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, the commander of the Akhmat special forces unit, believes that the possible counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be Kyiv's last. "This [possible counteroffensive] will already be the last call for Ukraine. This state no longer has manpower,” Alaudinov said. The Russian troops detected the whereabouts of military equipment that Ukraine had received from the West, he also said. However, Russian fighters have not had any encounters with Western military hardware on the battlefield yet, he added.
- — Patrushev: Russia will achieve its four goals in Ukraine even if opposed by 50 countries
- at 3/29/23 4:02amNikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council said that all 50 countries that take part in military exercises at Ramstein base act as a coalition. All of those 50 states are also parties to the conflict in Ukraine. "Ukrainian military personnel are being trained on the territory of NATO countries. As many as 50 countries that are part of the so-called Ramstein coalition are participating in the armed conflict on the side of the Kyiv regime,” Patrushev said, RIA Novosti reports. On March 15, as a result of the meeting of a contact group for the support of Ukraine, it was decided that Ukraine would receive more military assistance from NATO and allies.
- — Japan panics about growing alliance between Russia and China
- at 3/28/23 11:50amJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a number of trips around the world lately trying to strengthen ties with other countries, an article published Der Tagesspiegel says. This activity is not typical of the Japanese leadership. Therefore, Kishida's recent travel record clearly indicates Tokyo's concerns. "Nervous over the Sino-Russian pact: how Japan is looking for partners around the world. The Japanese Prime Minister has built so many important contacts within one week that he has never built in years. All this against the background of Xi and Putin pledging allegiance in Moscow," the article in Der Tagesspiegel said.
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