The shares of Netflix, which left Russia, collapsed by 25%.

The largest streaming service for the first time in 10 years lost a total of 200 thousand subscribers. The reason is the rise in price of services.

At the same time, Elon Musk, in a comment on Twitter, suggested that the reason was different. He stated that Netflix is "infected with the virus" of woke culture (protection of LGBT, racial and gender justice, etc.), and this has made the service's films "unreadable."

Netflix's decision to leave Russia cost the company the loss of about 700 thousand subscribers.

The company predicts a further decrease in the number of subscribers, in the spring they will be 2 million less.

https://t.iss.one/sputnik/1837

Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, said that he has arrived in Kiev today.

He chose an interesting date for the visit. Today is Hitler's birthday. Let him celebrate with Zelensky. They will toast the "free world."

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/RadioStydoba/17327

On Boris Johnson's low attempt to use Ukraine to deflect attention from partygate

''Human shield''
Originally @ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-brookes-times-cartoon-april-20-2022-rqr29wnlr

The Italians sent three boxes of this sugar to a refugee centre

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/oper_goblin/13839

What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn't really know

Washington (CNN)The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that's due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground in the country -- and the easy portability of many of the smaller systems now pouring across the border.

It's a conscious risk the Biden administration is willing to take.


A senior defense official said Tuesday that it is "certainly the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict." But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.
"We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero," said one source briefed on US intelligence. "It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."

Originally @ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html

Peaceful life is being restored in the village of Rozovka, which has come under the control of the DPR.

There is an employment center, people write applications for pensions from the Republic, as well as get socially significant jobs.

https://t.iss.one/sputnik/1839

BEIJING, April 20. /TASS/. China has demanded explanations from Washington over Chinese media reports saying the CIA is using a powerful platform, "Beehive", as cyber warfare, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a regular briefing on Wednesday.

"China has expressed its deep concern over the irresponsible and harmful activity on the part of the US government in cyberspace," Wang Wenbin said when asked to comment on the media reports. "We are calling on the US to provide relevant explanations and to immediately stop this activity," the diplomat says.

In recent years, the US government has repeatedly proposed that China’s neighboring countries expand cooperation in cyberspace, potentially setting a new stage for geopolitical confrontation.

Chinese experts have uncovered a global espionage system being used by US special forces, the Chinese newspaper Global Times wrote on Tuesday, citing the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center. The "Beehive" platform the system is based on was developed jointly by the US' Central Intelligence Agency and defense giant Northrop Grumman.

The platform enabled its operators to remotely scan, exploit vulnerabilities, extract files and even destroy computer systems, the Global Times reported. According to the newspaper, the CIA widely distributed equipment for operations using the "Beehive" platform in Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, France, Germany and other countries.

Originally @ https://tass.com/world/1440493

UK lawmaker offers to disband NATO for peace on the planet

Jeremy Corbyn, who led the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020 believes that military alliances like NATO must be disbanded in order to ensure peace and security on the planet.

"I would want to see a world where we start to ultimately disband all military alliances," Corbyn said in an interview for the Times Radio. "The issue has to be what’s the best way of bringing about peace in the future? Is it by more alliances? Is it by more military build-up? Or is it by stopping the war in Ukraine and the other wars [that are not being talked about much] that are going on at the present time, which are also killing a very large number of people? And ask yourself the question, do military alliances bring peace? Or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?"

Originally @ https://tass.com/world/1440623

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 14,982 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 2,940 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 894,030 people have already been evacuated, of which 163,761 are children. The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 118,810 personal vehicles including 1,843 per day.

More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are fully equipped with recreational facilities and hot meals. The refugees are treated individually and provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance.

Over the past 24 hours, the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, subjects of the Russian Federation and various public organizations received 357 appeals from foreign and Ukrainian citizens, with a total of 2,751,150 from 2,128 locations in Ukraine in the database.

Originally @ https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12418195@egNews

Biden didn't have a lot of goodwill left with the public before this week.

But the conflicting messages coming out of the White House -- and the broader Democratic Party -- make it look like there is no plan to turn things around in advance of the midterm elections, which are now just over 200 days off.
Perhaps in an attempt to address this sense of a lack of direction, Biden put out a series of tweets Wednesday morning blaming inflation on Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and urging Congress to take action. "I've called on Congress to move immediately to lower the cost of families' utility bills, prescription drugs, and more — while lowering the deficit to reduce inflationary pressure," Biden tweeted.
It's not clear that there is much desire among Democrats -- many of whom are eager to get home and campaign before the midterm elections -- to follow through on Biden's push.
It's all a mess for Democrats. And a mess without any clear -- or easy -- solutions.

Originally @ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/biden-mask-mandate-approval-rating/index.html

"The most important thing is that our children will study in Russian. It was a nighmare, literally a nightmare, the Russian-speaking population, how they tormented us".

Residents of Mariupol talk about what this operation is for.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/gramotyyaroslava/3788

🇺🇦"Don't interfere with natural selection."

The press secretary of the Nikolaev OVA reacted to the call of the head of the city to take refuge in shelters.

The comment has already been deleted.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/1905