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16Feb

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Europe, Russia

Trade between Russia and EU tumbles

The volume of commerce has been decreasing dramatically, according to a deputy PM © Getty Images / Thierry Dosogne Trade turnover between Russia and the EU fell by a third in April-December 2022 amid Western sanctions on Moscow, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov has revealed. Russia’s commerce with the EU has been declining significantly, the official said. “At the same time, trade turnover in the eastern and southern directions is growing,” Belousov said on Wednesday. The deputy PM highlighted that during the period of April-December of last year Russian trade turnover with Türkiye, Egypt, and the countries of the Persian Gulf nearly doubled, while volumes with Southeast Asian countries and China rose by more than 17%. O...

US training Ukraine to conserve ammunition

16Feb

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Ukraine, USA

US training Ukraine to conserve ammunition

As Western stockpiles dwindle, Kiev’s forces need to ration artillery rounds, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery gun at Russian positions in Donetsk Region, Russia,December 16, 2022 © AP The US and its European allies are training Ukrainian troops to use less artillery ammunition, American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on Tuesday. Kiev has received millions of shells from the West, leaving NATO stockpiles depleted. “We’re working with the Ukrainian soldiers in various places throughout Europe to emphasize additional training on maneuver,” Austin said after a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. “As they place more emphasis on maneuver… there’s a good chance that they’ll require less ar...

16Feb

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Europe, Ukraine

EU parliament member rebukes Zelensky

The Ukrainian leader is “feeding his people into carnage,” MEP Mick Wallace said FILE PHOTO: Mick Wallace delivers a speech in the European Parliament. © Frederic Marvaux / EP Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his Western supporters are not interested in seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Russia, Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament from Ireland, said on Wednesday. “Zelensky has been making the rounds begging for more weapons, but not one word to say about peace. How many of his own people must he conscript and feed into the carnage before he sits down to negotiations?” Wallace said during a parliamentary debate. The MEP described Russia’s military operation as illegal and “unforgivable,...

Zelensky decorates military unit with ‘Nazi’ title

16Feb

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Ukraine

Zelensky decorates military unit with ‘Nazi’ title

A Ukrainian mountain brigade will now be called ‘Edelweiss,’ a moniker recalling a German unit involved in mass atrocities during WWII FILE PHOTO. An Ukrainian serviceman in Svetlodarsk, Donetsk Region. © Manu Brabo / Getty Images Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has awarded one of the country's combat units an “honorary title” that harkens to a notorious Wehrmacht division that was involved in numerous war crimes during World War II. In a presidential decree published on Tuesday, Zelensky granted the name ‘Edelweiss’ to the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade due to “exemplary performance of assigned tasks during the protection of the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine” amid Kiev’s conflict with Moscow. The newly ...

US official deletes tweet honoring Nazi collaborator

16Feb

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Ukraine, USA

US official deletes tweet honoring Nazi collaborator

The Helsinki Commission’s Paul Massaro posted an image glorifying WW2 Hitler-ally Stepan Bandera © Twitter/apmassaro3/screenshots A prominent American foreign policy official was forced into a climbdown on Wednesday after he tweeted in appreciation of a notorious 1940s Nazi collaborator. Paul Massaro posted a a photo of a patch bearing an image of Stepan Bandera, the leader of a Ukrainian nationalist group which butchered Poles and Jews, in collusion with Adolf Hitler's forces. Following a storm of protest, he later deleted the tweet. Massaro works for is the US Helsinki Commission, officially known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. “Hey, look what I've got,” the grinning Massaro tweeted around 9:30 in the morning, showin...

16Feb

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Iran, USA

US shoots down ‘Iranian-made’ drone

The unmanned aerial vehicle was downed over a US-held natural gas field in Syria © Twitter / CENTCOM US forces illegally occupying a natural gas field in northeast Syria have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the Pentagon claims was an Iranian-made drone conducting reconnaissance of an American military base. The drone was brought down on Tuesday afternoon over the Conoco gas field, home of Syria’s largest gas-processing plant, according to a statement by US Central Command (CENTCOM). American troops have occupied a large swath of Syria, containing most of the war-torn country’s oil and gas resources, since seizing the territory from Islamic State terrorists in 2017. CENTCOM did not specify how it identified the drone as Iranian-made. The US has hu...

16Feb

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

More Nord Stream ‘bombshells’ to come

The legendary reporter slammed the mainstream media for ignoring his story, which pinned the act of sabotage on the US A Swedish Coast Guard photo shows escaping gas following the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, September 27, 2022 © AP / Coast Guard of Sweden Journalist Seymour Hersh has promised to reveal more incriminating information linking the US to the demolition of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. President Joe Biden ordered the lines destroyed to prevent Germany from resuming the purchase of cheap Russian gas, he claimed. In a post to his Substack page on Wednesday, Hersh slammed the mainstream media – singling out the New York Times and Washington Post – for refusing to “run a word” on the pipeline story, ...

15Feb

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Russia, USA

Blinken warns against seizing Crimea

The US will not encourage Ukraine’s attempts to take the Russian peninsula, Washington’s top diplomat was quoted as saying US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at an event in Washington, DC, February 3, 2023. © AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a group of experts that Washington is not “actively encouraging” Ukraine to seize Crimea from Russia, Politico reported on Wednesday. The outlet cited four people familiar with a Zoom call involving the top diplomat, who apparently said that such a move would be “Kiev’s decision alone.” According to the report, the remarks came after a person on the call asked Blinken if the US would help Kiev retake the Black Sea peninsula, which Ukrainian and Western officia...

15Feb

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NATO

NATO reveals new space project

The US-led military bloc seeks to use commercial satellites to improve intelligence gathering © Getty Images/Thamrongpat NATO has announced a new space project that aims to create a fleet of spy satellites. The initiative, which NATO applicants Sweden and Finland are also taking part in, involves not only national but also commercial assets. The project, which is called ‘Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space’ (APSS), was unveiled on Wednesday, with a total of 16 current member states expected to chip in. According to a statement published on NATO’s website, the project will “help streamline data collection, sharing and analysis among NATO Allies and with the NATO command structure.” Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, though thei...

15Feb

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Russia, Ukraine

F-16s useless in Ukraine

It’s unclear what the US-made jets could achieve considering Russia’s vast network of air defense systems, the PMC’s member claims F-16 Fighter jet. © Getty Images/CT757fan While Ukrainian forces are quickly incorporating munitions supplied by the West, it will take time and effort to effectively use Western fighter jets such as the US-made F-16, experts from the Wagner Group suggest. Speaking to RT on Wednesday, one of the PMC’s aircraft specialists commented on the potential deliveries of Western-designed military aircraft to Ukraine’s armed forces, as Kiev has repeatedly asked the US and its NATO partners for increasingly advanced weaponry. The Wagner expert pointed out that there would be a lot of problems with establishing repair centers and supplying ...