“Ukraine – Russia”

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on a diplomatic offensive in Egypt, has dismissed claims that Moscow caused the global food crisis.

In a speech to Arab League ambassadors in Cairo, he said Western nations were distorting the truth about the impact of sanctions on global food security.

He accused Western nations of trying to impose their dominance over others.

He’s right. Assholes like Trudeau are using the Ukraine crisis as cover to implement their lunatic green-scam and deny farmers fertilizer. Look no further than Sri Lanka to see what’s in store for Canada’s agriculture sector.

A militant anti-Ukrainian motorcycle gang run by a friend and vehement supporter of Vladmir Putin was one of many hit by a round of sanctions from the EU this week – though its boss dismissed them as having ‘no meaning.’

The Hell’s Angels-esque biker group, The Night Wolves, has more than 7,000 members – and have staged rallies and protests in support of the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Members have also been said to have fought alongside pro-Russian militants in the ongoing war, and participated in attacks on the conflict’s eastern front.

#Ukraine: A Russian BTR-80 armored personnel carrier didn't not withstand a meeting with a Ukrainian FGM-148 Javelin missile, reportedly in #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/lAGfuNvVGD

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 24, 2022

The two Mi-8 helicopters tore across enemy territory early on the morning of March 21, startling the Russian soldiers below. Inside were Ukrainian Special Forces fighters carrying crates of Stinger and Javelin missiles, as well as a satellite internet system. They were flying barely 20 feet above ground into the hottest combat zone in the war.

Ukraine’s top generals had conceived the flights as a daring, possibly doomed, mission. A band of Ukrainian soldiers, running low on ammunition and largely without any communications, was holed up in a sprawling steel factory in the besieged city of Mariupol. The soldiers were surrounded by a massive Russian force and on the verge of annihilation.

The plan called for the Mi-8s to land at the factory, swap their cargo for wounded soldiers, and fly back to central Ukraine. Most everyone understood that the city and its defenders were lost. But the weapons would allow the soldiers to frustrate the Russian forces for a few weeks more, blunting the onslaught faced by Ukrainian troops elsewhere on the southern and eastern fronts and giving them time to prepare for a new Russian offensive there.

KYIV — Two Americans, a Canadian and a Swedish citizen were killed this week when a Russian tank opened fire on them during an hourslong battle at the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region, their commander confirmed exclusively to POLITICO.

Ruslan Miroshnichenko, the foreign fighters’ commander, said Saturday that the Americans killed were Luke “Skywalker” Lucyszyn and Bryan Young. He said they were killed alongside Emile-Antoine Roy-Sirois of Canada and Edvard Selander Patrignani of Sweden on July 18.

Here is the second video. According to Ukrainian sources, this can be effective with 125mm HE-FRAG projectiles at up to 10km range. Usually, concealed positions are used.

Some further information on this tactic: https://t.co/GU7BRroJL1 pic.twitter.com/Umq7qsAnB8

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 23, 2022

Two Americans have been killed while fighting against Russia in Ukraine.

Officials confirmed to ABC News two US citizens have died in the ‘Donbas region of Ukraine.’

Their identities have not been released ‘out of respect to the families’, and no further details on the circumstances surrounding their deaths have been shared.

The former boxing champion turned mayor of Kyiv has become the hero of Ukraine – and second only to Volodymyr Zelensky as a target for Kremlin assassins

On a vast table in the mayoral office, where the team marshalling the defence and morale of Kyiv gathers, sits a small jam jar of pennies. Vitali Klitschko lifts the jar in the same giant hand that once knocked out opponents in the ring, elevating him to world heavyweight boxing champion.

#Ukraine: Azov SSO (SOF) recently formed a new tank unit near Kharkiv, including captured tanks- most notably a quite rare T-90A.

Only eight of these are known to have been recovered by Ukrainian forces, and are among the most modern tanks used by Russian forces. pic.twitter.com/5M4Zjls9WO

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 21, 2022

… In the hopes of persuading authorities within Justin Trudeau’s leftist government to relax sanctions against Russia enough to allow the export of an essential energy pipeline part, German authorities reportedly told their Canadian counterparts that, without the component in question, Germany would be forced to fend off internal “popular uprisings”.

While authorities have since tried to play down their own statements on the matter, these claims made by German authorities are consistent with previous statements from ministers, with one decrying the possibility of so-called “right-wing extremists” gaining popularity should the country’s government be unable to manage the country’s energy situation.

This is all about keeping the green-scam agenda alive.

From the CTH perspective, if we accept the scale of the approaching U.S. economic pain that is clearly visible on the horizon, this narrative shift from the Associated Press and NPR, about a balancing act for U.S. policy and a corrupt Ukraine government, seems very predictable.

The average U.S. worker, and the middle class in general, is in trouble. The visible reference of bailing out the people of Ukraine to the tune of $60+ billion is legislative salt in an open economic wound caused by Biden policy. A shift is needed.

Pivoting away from Ukraine to focus on financial subsidies for Americans requires using a particular arm-distancing toward Zelenskyy from the politicians.

Look, corruption.

Something seems to be afoot. In the last few days there have been negative stories on Ukraine men fleeing rather than fighting in Germany’s DW and elsewhere on the risk of donated weapons finding their way into the black market etc.

ISTANBUL (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were due on Friday to oversee the signing of a key agreement that would allow Ukraine to resume its shipment of grain from the Black Sea to world markets and Russia to export grain and fertilizers — ending a standoff that has threatened world food security.

Last week, the sides reached a tentative agreement on a U.N. plan that would enable Ukraine to export 22 million tons of desperately needed grain and other agricultural products that have been stuck in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports due to the war. The unblocking of the grain stockpiles will help ease a food crisis that has sent prices of vital commodities like wheat and barley soaring.

Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns criticized the Russian government on Wednesday for attempting to purchase drones from Iran, suggesting that the move was an indication of the poor state of Russia’s armed forces.

“It’s true that the Russians are reaching out to the Iranians to try to acquire armed drones,” the CIA director and longtime U.S. diplomat said during his remarks at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado—confirming earlier reports that Russia had attempted to purchase drones from Tehran. Some Western experts had treated these claims with skepticism, noting Russia’s traditional role as an arms exporter to Iran rather than the opposite.

There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said.

There has been increasing unconfirmed media speculation that Mr Putin, who turns 70 this year, may be suffering from ill health, possibly cancer.

But William Burns said there was no evidence to suggest this, joking that he appeared “too healthy”.

The Kremlin has again dismissed the reports of Mr Putin’s ill-health as “nothing but fakes”.