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2022-05-26 00:57:39 IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that abnormal stocks of weapon-grade nuclear material had been stocked at Zaporozhie NPP before the Russian operation in Ukraine started on February, 24.

30 thousand kilos of plutonium and 40 thousand kilos of enriched uranium, which reportedly are stocked at the largest nuclear facility in Europe, are sufficient to produce a nuclear bomb.

The Ukrainian nuclear energy operator ‘Energoatom’ dismissed IAEA claims, however it was exactly a threat of developing nuclear weapons made by President Zelensky which might have become the tipping point for Vladimir Putin to sanction the military operation in Ukraine.

The question remains, of course, why this information hasn’t been made public before, as Russian forces have been controlling the NPP for months now (albeit its operation is run by Ukrainians) and would surely allow IAEA monitors to the site.

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2022-05-25 11:34:46 There’s no surprise that those surrendered at ‘Azovstal’ are well kept, so are other Ukrainian PoWs. But it’s helpful, that it is being confirmed by sources in Kiev and reflected in the Western mainstream media.

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2022-05-24 23:24:13 Poles have been preparing this for two months already. When Jaroslaw Kaczynski spoke in mid-March about NATO peacekeeping force in #Ukraine, it was clear #Poland is the most interested party in getting boots on the ground. Then they started getting the… Open / Comment

2022-05-24 18:28:38 Russian and Chinese Air Force performed joint patrolling over the sea of Japan and East China sea.

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2022-05-24 00:38:50 The ‘Old fox’ knows it best.

98-year-old patriarch of Realpolitik Henry Kissinger said today:

"Parties should be brought to peace talks within the next two months. Ukraine should've been a bridge between Europe and Russia, but now, as the relationships are reshaped, we may enter a space where the dividing line is redrawn and Russia is entirely isolated. We are facing a situation now where Russia could alienate itself completely from Europe and seek a permanent alliance elsewhere. This may lead to Cold War-like diplomatic distances, which will set us back decades. We should strive for long-term peace."

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2022-05-23 15:48:19 ​ British journalist Peter Hitchens wrote in his article “Can anyone explain to me why this was called evacuation and not surrender?” on the Mail Online:

“The other night I shocked a distinguished Oxford academic by informing her that the lovely, angelic, saintly, perfect Ukrainians had blocked off the water supply to Crimea in 2014.

She was rightly shocked by this nasty, uncivilised act of spite, but it was far more shocking that this highly educated person did not know this important fact.

In the same way almost nobody, in education, politics or journalism, knows about the nasty, racist roots of Ukrainian nationalism, the horrible history of the vicious Stepan Bandera (now a Ukrainian national hero), or the Kiev state’s discriminatory scorn for the Russian language.

If Canada treated its French speakers as Ukraine treats its Russian speakers, there would be international outrage.”

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2022-05-23 11:07:10 After subtle rebranding foreign retailers are opening their outlets in #Russia.

Polish LPP SA has sold its business in the country to the Chinese with no right to use the brand name on the shops.

It’s been alleged though that the deal is only a cover up for the Poles to continue their operations in the Russian market.

Whatever happens, money talks.

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2022-05-23 10:02:59 Another unmasking in the United States, as former Ambassador to #Russia Michael McFaul bursts into laughter confirming that the Americans are lying because ‘it’s the real world’.

Nothing funny about it, Mike.

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2022-05-23 09:55:05 Brave and truthful intervention by a Croatian MEP, who has spoken out on what more and more people in Europe get to realize.

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2022-05-22 23:22:45 Poles have been preparing this for two months already. When Jaroslaw Kaczynski spoke in mid-March about NATO peacekeeping force in #Ukraine, it was clear #Poland is the most interested party in getting boots on the ground.

Then they started getting the ‘boots’ ready - signs of mobilization followed by massive exercise. Now, it appears that the time has come to the legal framework.

President of Ukraine today spoke about new law proposal, which will provide Polish citizens a special status on the territory of Ukraine. That allegedly will include the right to participate in the governmental and law-enforcement bodies.

Polish President reciprocated, mentioning the need to facilitate the border transparency and speed up Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.

The thing is that it looks like a part of Ukraine will indeed become a part of the EU, but… as a part of Poland.

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