You’re a brave person if you’re thinking a out buying a petrol/diesel car in the next few weeks. Petrol prices now heading for the €2.50 per litre mark in Ireland. https://t.co/4TffDW8q5B
Russia is accusing the US. of using Ukraine to carry out illegal biological weapons research on deadly diseases, including the ‘Black Death’.
Via Russian state-owned news agency Tass:
Evidence of a US-financed military biological program developed in Ukraine has been revealed during Russia’s special operation in that country, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.
“In the course of the special military operation, evidence of the Kiev regime’s hasty measures to conceal any traces of the military biological program finance by the US Department of Defense in Ukraine has been revealed,” he said.
According to the spokesman, information was received from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories that especially hazardous pathogens: plague, anthrax, cholera, tularemia and other lethal diseases infecting agents had been urgently destroyed on February 24.
According to Konashenkov, following the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian health ministry issued an instruction to all biolaboratories to urgently destroy hazardous pathogens they had.
“Obviously, after the launch of the special military operations, Pentagon became afraid that secret biological experiments in Ukraine will be exposed. We will share the results of the analysis of the documents we have received in the near future. Some of them, in particular the Ukrainian health ministry’s instruction to destroy pathogens and certificates of completion from the Kharkov and Poltava biolaboratories we are publishing right now,” he said.
…This is the latest in a frenzy of scare stories receiving major coverage in Russian media to justify the increasingly bloody war in Ukraine, where at least 364 Ukrainians have died and at least 759 have been injured, according to the United Nations.
Russia has been laying the groundwork for such claims for quite some time, according to Foreign Policy magazine. In January, a Russian-language Telegram account warned that a ‘full-fledged network of biological laboratories has been deployed’ with ‘American grants’ to study deadly viruses that were already making people sick in Kazakhstan.
In May 2020, the Russian newspaper Izvestia made similar claims. And a close advisor to Putin accused the US last year of developing ‘more and more biological laboratories … mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders.’
The biological weapons research is the latest ‘false flag’ orchestrated by Russia since it announced a ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine on February 24 to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’ its neighbor, whose president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. is Jewish.
The Kremlin has separately claimed that Ukraine was building plutonium dirty bombs at Chernobyl – now under Russian military control.
Dublin priest Fr. Fergal MacDonagh went down to the Russian Embassy in the last hour and threw a tin of red paint at the entrance as his way of protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He says it’s his way of letting Ukrainians know that he supports them.
Dilbar, a 512-foot yacht that weighs 15,917 tons, is the largest motor yacht in the world by gross tonnage
This morning.,
Via Business Insider:
The fate of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s mega-yacht is unclear. Forbes initially reported that the yacht was seized on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, but later issued a correction last night saying it was not seized.
“Three sources had told Forbes it had been seized, but a representative for Usmanov cited the statement from the ministry in Hamburg to confirm that it had not,” according to Forbes’ update. “In its statement, the ministry elaborated that the German federal customs agency is the ‘responsible enforcement authority’ and would have to issue an export waiver for the yacht to leave, and that ‘no yacht leaves port that is not allowed to do so.'”
If the globalists can steal a billionaire’s yacht with no due process, they can easily steal your home, your Prius and your savings account. https://t.co/jQwdgtUWut
— Dr. Clayton Forrester (@DrClaytonForre1) March 3, 2022
The University of Milano-Bicocca has reversed a decision to postpone a course by writer Paolo Nori about the work of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky following a backlash.
Via Newsweek:
Last night, the university released a statement on its social media accounts confirming the course would go ahead.
“The University of Milano-Bicocca is a university open to dialogue and listening even in this very difficult period that sees us dismayed at the escalation of the conflict,” the statement said.
“The course of the writer Paolo Nori is part of the writing course aimed at students and citizens who aim to develop transversal skills through forms of writing. The university confirms that this course will take place in the established groups and will deal with the contents already agreed with the writer. In addition, the rector of the university will meet Paolo Nori next week for a moment of reflection,” it said.
We highly appreciate a single, strong voice of Ireland 🇮🇪 when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its barbaric crimes which are being committed on our soil. Thank you @MaryLouMcDonald for standing with 🇺🇦 Ukraine at this tragic time. @OireachtasNews#StandWithUkrainepic.twitter.com/lZeOVVFLcw
Russian troops were in the centre of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson after conflicting claims over whether Moscow had captured a major urban centre for the first time in its eight-day invasion.
Via Al Jazeera
The capture of Kherson, a strategic southern provincial capital where the Dnieper River flows into the Black Sea, is the first significant city to fall since Moscow launched its attack on February 24.
Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv continues to come under heavy Russian shelling, with police and university buildings among the latest struck.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) says a member of its observer mission died in the shelling.
Russia denies targeting civilians although there have been widespread reports of non-combatant casualties and the targeting of residential areas.
Russia on Wednesday reported its military casualties for the first time since the invasion began last week, saying nearly 500 of its troops had been killed and almost 1,600 wounded.
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev (right) with Russian president Vladimir Putin
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev will be banned from conducting at Carnegie Hall bacause he hasn’t condemned Putin. This is apalling and is taking us down a dark path. https://t.co/NhPxphiMq6
Gergiev’s closeness to Putin, whom he has known since 1992, and his loyalty to the Russian president on the annexation of Crimea, as well as his participation in concerts in bombarded South Ossetia and in Palmyra alongside the Syrian army, have been the subject of much controversy over the past decade. But only now are they conducting the direction of his professional life.
A massive Russian military convoy consisting of hundreds of tanks, trucks, towed artillery pieces and support vehicles has been pictured slowly making its way toward Kyiv. Satellite images provided by the US company Maxar Technologies show the convoy spanning a distance of about 40 miles (65 kilometers).
