Eva Bartlett reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine forces used scorched earth tactics”

Originally@ https://mronline.org/2022/04/28/eva-bartlett-reports-from-mariupol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eva-bartlett-reports-from-mariupol

Wołyn 1943, someone has written over the Ukrainian flag street mural in Poland.

Wolyn refers to massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during WW2. Regardless of age or gender Poles were tortured and then murdered. The massacre claimed lives of 50,000-100,000 people.

The Poles remember.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/SergeyKolyasnikov/33040

Confirmed: the ones behind the water blockade of Crimea were the Kiev authorities, ex-mayor of Kherson said.

"As for the levee, there was a governmental decision. The regional administration carried it out. At that time, as I understand, it was Andrei Putilov (now the former governor of the Kherson region)", he stated.

Nikolaenko clarified that this decision was made in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) while Putilov had to fulfill it.

"We talked about Ukrainians living there. There were a lot of discussions about this, nevertheless the decision was made", the ex-mayor added.

A criminal case on the water blockade of Crimea has been initiated, the defendants are identified.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/ukraina_ru/68613

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/596

Turkish drone manufacturer Bayraktar suffers large reputational losses due to the conflict in Ukraine, the prospects for new contracts are very vague

We have already written that the drone company belongs to President Erdogan's son-in-law. After the conflict in Karabakh in 2020, where the Azerbaijani army successfully used Bayraktar TB2 drones, the videos of their strikes were spread in the Internet, many believed in the invulnerability of these drones. The aerial vehicles themselves became sort of "super weapons" in the minds of the Ukrainian public.

Ukraine also fell for the Turkish advertising bait and was one of the buyers of Bayraktars even before the launch of Russia's special operation. And, it is worth noting that in the first days of the special operation, videos of strikes on Russian columns really began to appear on the network, but subsequently there were fewer such videos, and by the end of March they were completely missing.

The next blow to the reputation of Bayraktar was the decision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to use them in raids on Russian border cities. Today, social networks are simply littered with photos of downed Turkish drones in the Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions. This is definitely not the content that Selchuk Bayraktar and his father-in-law Recep Erdogan would like to see.

Ukrainian President Zelensky added fuel to the flame. At first he refused to comment on the significant losses of Bayraktar drones. Then, at a press conference he even said that these drones practically do not affect the course of hostilities.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/readovkaru/423

🇷🇺🇯🇵66% of Japanese companies have already felt the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions.

The relevant data are provided by a survey of the Teikoku Databank research center.

▪️50,4% of respondents said it was difficult to purchase the materials necessary for production.

▪️46,9% of companies want to "shift the price increase to consumers".

▪️20,4% of entrepreneurs said they would "look for an alternative" in materials that have risen in price due to anti-Russian sanctions.

In total, 9061 enterprises took part in the study. It was held from April 15 to 25.

These are how the sanctions against Russia work .

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/RadioStydoba/17500

"P" - pain and pointlessness

Russian Ministry of Defence said it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/sovetnikvmir/2221

🇺🇦🇷🇺And everything is calm in the liberated Melitopol.

The Pobeda cinema has reopened there today.

And no crowds of "terroboronets" with tying "looters" to the poles.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2771

It's already happening...

Originally @ https://youtu.be/KK2PSkV1AN8

Marilyn Monroe arrived in Munich in April 1945 to support Germans

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/verysexydasha/5556

Russian soldier teaching children how to tie shoelaces

Somewhere in Mariupol area

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/iikhu/11227

Uraza Bayram - a holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide.
Today in Moscow, near Moscow Cathedral Mosque

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/bumaznayaZmeya/7906

🇷🇺#Russia Ruble became the second fastest growing developing states' currency in April 2022, and the only currency in the world that rose against dollar.

📍Such a strengthening of the ruble is due to the huge influx of export earnings to Russia, which for the last 2 months has not fallen below $ 1.7 billion per day.🤔

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/buyanTime/7884

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/643

🇷🇺Russian foreign minister Lavrov in an interview to Italian Mediaset🇮🇹

Key points:

❗"Russia has never stopped dialogue to avoid World War"

❗"'Italy in the front row against us, a negative surprise"

❗"We attack the military targets to deprive the Ukrainian radicals and the Ukrainian regime of strengthening their war position"

❗"ultrasonic weapons were developed because US missile shield will be aimed at Russia and China"

❗"pace [of the military op] depends on the need to minimize the risks for the civilian population and for the Russian military

❗"there are Western mercenaries and officers in the ranks of the Ukrainian radicals"

❗"[about so called Bucha massacre -] it is so evident that it is a fake that any observer can understand it from the first glance"

❗"Zelensky can bring peace if he stops giving criminal orders to his Nazi battalions and forces them to stop hostilities. We don't want him to surrender, we want him to give the order to stop hostilities and leave all civilians, our aim is not regime change in Ukraine, this is an American specialty, usually they deal with this all over the world. While we only want to ensure the safety of the people in the East of Ukraine so that they are not threatened by Nazification of this country and that no threats to the Russian federation come from Ukraine

❗"European countries importing Russian gas, such as Italy, have to pay for it in rubles because they have stolen" Moscow's dollar and euro currency reserves deposited with European banks by imposing a freeze under sanctions. You will still pay in the currency stipulated in the contracts but the supplies will be considered paid when these sums have been converted into rubles, which cannot be stolen. For the buyers, nothing will change, they will pay the same sums foreseen by the contracts"

Originally @ https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/mondo/lavrov-in-esclusiva-su-zona-bianca-russia-non-ha-mai-smesso-dialogo-per-evitare-guerra-mondiale_49548127-202202k.shtml

Honor guard duties 🇷🇺
Originally @ https://t.iss.one/kremlinprachka/18720

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/645