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The speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi, was asked about the request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the Biden administration to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terror.
Appearing on the network MSNBC yesterday, Pelosi said: I’ve been advocating that for a while. If Russia is not listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, tear up the list. ... You have a president of a country who has turned his own soldiers into such acts of violence.
Pelosi, a Democrat, also discussed her recent trip to Ukraine, where she met with Zelenskiy: We brought our admiration and commendation to the people of Ukraine for their courage and fighting for democracy because that’s what this fight is about.
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It just ended but starts about 19:30 into the vid
So, it would seem that China is a little concerned about those pesky sanctions being applied to them
when they misbehave.
Concerned about sweeping Russia-style sanctions from the west, Beijing has ordered a comprehensive “stress test” to study the implications of a similar scenario for its economy, the Guardian has learned.
an extensive exercise began around late February and early March when western allies imposed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow. Several key Chinese government agencies – from banking regulation to international trade – have been asked to come up with responses if the west imposed the same embargos on to China.
“Those involved in this exercise use how Russia was treated as a baseline for China’s own policy response should it be treated in a same fashion by the west,” the person added. “This stress test involves a range of methodology, including modelling.”
Beijing did not specify why it had asked its vast bureaucracy to carry out such an exercise, the person said. They said that it was a “natural reaction” from Beijing given its close relationship with Moscow. A second source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that Chinese diplomats had in the past few weeks also been meeting experts to understand the trajectory of this conflict.
Russia planning to hold a 'Victory Day' military parade in the captured city of Mariupol on 9 May
Ukraine has accused Russia of planning to hold a ‘Victory Day’ military parade in the captured city of Mariupol on 9 May to celebrate victory over the Nazis in the second world war, AFP reports.
Ukraine’s military intelligence said an official from Russia’s presidential administration had arrived in Mariupol, to oversee plans for the parade.
Ukraine’s military claimed a “large-scale propaganda campaign” is under way, adding:
Mariupol’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, later told Ukrainian television there were ongoing “works” in the city, as if the Russians were preparing for something.
per The Guardian live feed
The United States says Russia has unjustly detained basketball star Brittney Griner
two months after the athlete was seized amid soaring tensions over Ukraine.
The US State Department said that her case was being turned over to Roger Carstens, the US special envoy in charge of hostages, AFP reports.
“The Department of State has determined that the Russian Federation has wrongfully detained US citizen Brittney Griner,” a State Department spokesperson said.
Calling American citizens’ safety “among the highest priorities of the US government,” the spokesperson said the State Department would “provide appropriate support” to Griner.
Animal rescuers from Zoopatro have managed to evacuate a kitty stuck inside a shelled house
Following up on a story on the ground in Ukraine, animal rescuers were able to save a cat who was trapped on the seventh floor of a bombarded building in the settlement of Borodyanka, located in the Kyiv Outblast.
Animal rescuers from Zoopatro have managed to evacuate a kitty stuck inside a shelled house in #Borodyanka. To reach the animal sitting on the sixth floor, the rescuers had to use specialized equipment.
https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1521186215814381568
Israel is pretty upset with russia but probably not enough to impose sanctions on russia
Israel has branded Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments that the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, “anti-Semitic and dangerous”.
Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid said the Russian ambassador would be summoned for “a tough talk” over the assertion, which Lavrov made on Sunday in an interview with Italian television in which he was asked how Russia could say it needed to “denazify” Ukraine, when the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was Jewish.
“It is an unforgivable, scandalous statement, a terrible historical mistake, and we expect an apology,” Lapid told the YNet news website.
In the interview, Lavrov said:
When they say ‘What sort of nazification is this if we are Jews’, well I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means nothing.
“For a long time now we’ve been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest anti-Semites are the Jews themselves.”
Guardian News feed
Well, now we know where repukes got their change history tactics from.
US marine and US citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, reportedly killed while fighting in Ukrainian
A 22-year-old former US marine and American citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, was reportedly killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, members of his family have told CNN.
Cancel was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on Monday, He signed up to work for the company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee shortly before the war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February, his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, said.
He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for, and he wanted to be a part of it to contain it there so it didn’t come here, and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn’t have to be involved in it.”
They haven’t found his body. They are trying, the men that were with him, but it was either grab his body or get killed, but we would love for him to come back to us.” she said
House passes military lend-lease bill to speed Ukraine aid
Source: AP viaSFgate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries with American equipment to fight the Russian invasion.
The measure, which passed by an overwhelming 417-10 vote, now goes to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks of New York said with unified support from the U.S. Congress, “Ukraine will win.”
The bill is the latest from Congress, which is steadily churning out resolutions and resources to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and help the country and its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fight back. The Biden administration announced Thursday it will seek another $30 billion from Congress in military and humanitarian aid, on top of the nearly $14 billion Congress approved last month to help Ukraine fight the war.
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/House-passes-military-lend-lease-bill-to-speed-17134535.php
russian monopoly money is now at a 2 year high so is this the work of artificially inflating their
currency using voodoo economics or are sanctions just not hurting their economy?
The rouble soared to a more than two-year high against the euro in Moscow trade on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland for rejecting its demand for payment in roubles on Wednesday.
By 2:18pm GMT, the rouble had gained 1.8% to trade at 75.43 versus the euro , its strongest since early March 2020.
It was 1.1% stronger against the dollar at 72.75 .
Now, I had to check this for myself by calling up the chart & its true but hard to believe.
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