The UK Shell will probably not be able to pay for Russian gas this month because, unlike the rest of EU, the UK has sanctioned Gazprombank - main GBP/RUR exchange point.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/banksta/23145

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian: NATO is the Cold War product and it should have been dismissed straight after USSR collapsed. The US is the main instigator of Ukrainian crisis.

NATO performed 5-wave expantion eastwards since 1999, putting Russia up against the wall. The world doesn’t need a new Cold War, Europe doesn’t need one either.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/dimsmirnov175/31937

RINAT AKHMETOV (Azovsteel owner) sufferes Mariupol clean up. But why? Details in Bloomberg interview are cinic.

Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov dusguisting interview to Bloomberg is politicly cynic worthy of the lower circle of Dante’s Hell.

Akhmetov recalled the Mariupol inhavitants: "They are dying of thirst and cold - this is genocide". Meanwhile, no secret what oligarch is really worried about. System Capital Management Group is the major shareholder of Azovstal (Azov Steel). Nazi’s Azov guerrillas, led by the kind-hearted Mr. Rinat and now clamped down, turned out to defend not Mariupol and its inhabitants, as Kiev PRing out loud, but their assets. Assets and guerrillas are the only things Akhmetov is so worried about on the pages of Bloomberg. Nor the people of Mariupol, against whom the Ukrainian "defenders" committed crimes neither Maternity hospital of Mariupol, which had its generator taken away for example. They didn't give a damn about pregnant women and newborns. When the civil residents asked Azov for help, the top help one coud get was ignorance.

Now comes the top. "Azovstal will begin the end of the active phase. Next is a comprehensive work in the city. Capturing the Azov bandits hidden in houses and basements along with scared Ukranian regular military forces, who wasn’t quick enough or stealthy enough to merge into the flow of civil refugees. And so-called ‘defenders' are eager to leave the city even dressed as women. I personally saw women's wigs in one of the buildings where Ukrainian security forces located.

Filtration is a long and complicated procedure. You have to understand: same fighters have been living in "Akhmetov's city" for years. They have support from familes and friends. One couldn’t expect them to turn into brave Pavlik Morozov. Quite opposite. Every time a Azov or US military officer is caught, Kiev and the Western media start screaming ‘they caught a wrong guy, he is a civilian’ and everything happens is bloody terror with bullshitting about human rights. Remember a sniper sitting on the roof of a house killing everyone in his crosshairs just to live another couple of hours. No, he is not the terrorist… sure.

Of course, Akhmetov understands: with cleared Azovstal his city of power will end. Sooner or later. An interview with Bloomberg with tales of "genocide" and his heroic arrival in Ukraine (though no location is named) is just a pathetic attempt to bargain more help to Mr. Akhmetov.

Meanwhile, the people of Mariupol are wandering the streets carrying boxes with humanitarian aid, where just one letter - Z - Not leaving our own behind. This city, Rinat Leonidovich, needs another hero. Your era is ended. What a shame you have left a bloody trail in your wake.

Originally @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-31/ukraine-s-richest-billionaire-decries-russian-siege-in-mariupol

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky refused to comment on the Ukrainian Armed Forces helicopter striking an oil depot in Belgorod.

«I am not discussing my orders», he said in the US TV Fox News interview. «But too dumb to admit striking peace towns», replied his interview host ;)))

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/tv360/78126

The world doesn’t want Russia isolated - only the closest US allies and a small number of Asian countries do.

All others are against or in wait-and-see position, Foreign Policy claims.

Original @ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/30/west-ukraine-russia-tensions-africa-asia-middle-east/

Greek railway TrainOSE employees refuse to participate in the shipment of US and NATO military armoured vehicles from Alexandroupolis port to the Ukrainian border, but the company's management is putting pressure on them, the Greek Communist Party of Greece (KCG) news portal has reported.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/radio_sputnik/26646

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According to CGTN, two DGSE intelligence officers were aboard the helicopter that was shot down

https://t.iss.one/OpenUkraine/12019

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine catalyses the funeral of American hegemony.

The US hopes to use the Ukrainian crisis to pull Russia down, reaping economic and political benefits of it, and to prevent Europe's strategic autonomy, aiming at strengthening US hegemony.

The US are trying to build an anti-Russian coalition, but have temporarily united their traditional allies, such as European countries, Japan and Australia only, constantly shaping the "Russian threat" and waving the slogan "democracy against authoritarianism".

Less than 50 UN member states participated in sanctions against Russia. Most of the world's countries are to maintain their independence from the US and its allies in policy-making, and beware of US attempts to draw them into its impact, indicating a reduction in the power and influence of the US.

The existence of NATO and US leadership will face a more significant test in the medium and long term.

Originally @ https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1257421.shtml

Special Forces of the RosGvardia prevented terrorist’s action at a humanitarian aid distribution point in Kiev Region, VESTI24 said.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/vestiru24/29716

While the Russian Army brings first aid and food cargoes to the civilian Ukranians, Britain bans Ukraine of closing any agreements with Russia, and US reports of $350m military tools package delivered to Kiev.

Guess, who wants this war? Britain and the US are the main lobbyists for the war.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/kremlinprachka/18207

🇺🇸 The Hill: Washington must cancel anti-Russian sanctions to prevent US economy crash

▪️The US awaits a vast economic crisis due to anti-Russian sanctions, says US The Hill

▪ «Price hike» in energy, extraordinary food prices and highest record of inflation are alarming signs of imminent economic downturn, says the publication

▪️The White House have to cancel anti-Russian sanctions, de-escalate international conflicts and diversify fuel supplies to "keep the US economy alive", suggests The Hill

The «Growth Crystal" previously cited the opinion that the US and its allies have driven themselves into a trap with their anti-Russian sanctions, along with the logic of the Public Chamber of Russia Deputy Secretary Alexander Galushka, that "Russia has every chance of winning the economic war".

Source: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3256117-history-shows-high-energy-prices-could-drive-us-into-recession/

More thoughts on the Zelensky regime:

1. The people around Zelensky are becoming more and more extremists, because with NATO’s failure to join this war — and what has happened in Mariupol — these extremists know that they have no one who will come to save them and no way out: It’s either death or be captured by the Russians.

2. Thus the extremists around Zelensky are in essence suicidal — so they will be willing to sacrifice as many innocent Ukrainian lives as they need to order to survive for a little bit longer.

3. Any general who opposes the needless loss of life will be (if he’s lucky) fired and driven away. If he’s not lucky, he’ll be shot on the spot.

4. That’s why we are about to witness the complete annihilation of the entire Ukraine armed force. At least 50,000 men, and possibly as many as 75,000 men, are about to die for no reason whatsoever.

5. If Zelensky tries to stop this senseless slaughter — by surrendering, which is the only way out at this point — he’s a dead man. He is a hostage to the extremists around him. They only keep him around — and keep him alive — because he has been so good at the PR game with the West that they look at him like some latter-day Winston Churchill. If he were to suddenly disappear or be outright killed, the entire Ukrainian regime would collapse.

6. The Russians want Zelensky alive because they need him for after the war, to give legitimacy to the partition of Ukraine.

7. The more fighting goes on, the more it is inevitable that the Russians will absorb the lands that they had to fight for. The entire coast of the Black Sea east of Crimea will become part of Russia — that is inevitable. If resistance continues in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kiev, then those cities will also become a part of the Russian Federation.

8. Thus the sooner the surrender, the more the territory Ukraine will get to keep. But since the extremists know that they cannot surrender, the Ukraine that remains at the end of this war will be a rump state, with Lviv as its capital.

And this is what I think at this time. What do you think.

This anon nails it.

People in the West do not understand how the atrocities committed by Ukrainian forces against the Russian POWs has completely changed the war.

Putin now has over 80% approval rating, and this calculated by an anti-Putin organization. Russians I talk to all say that many people were against the war initially — but even anti-Putin Russians are now in favor of the war.

Ukraine will be taken apart. This is now inevitable. The Russians are going to deliberately annihilate the Ukraine Armed Forces: First at Kramatorsk, and then if the AFU is still standing and still resists, wherever else they assemble, likely Kharkov.

If at the start of this war Russia was interested in having a land bridge from the Donbass to Crimea, now they want the entire coast of the Black Sea, including Odessa.

Russian media was very strict about calling this a “special military operation” — but now, Russian commentators are openly calling it a war.

It is now a war of conquest.