Wednesday, April 13, 2022

ISIS-style Ukrainian video investigated - The disturbing video features a mock execution of a Russian soldier

"Russia’s Investigative Committee launched a criminal probe on Monday over a Ukrainian
social media advertisement, which called for violence against Russian soldiers. The advertisement, shot in a distinctive style resembling propaganda videos by Islamic State terrorists, features the mock execution of a Russian soldier.
 
The controversial post emerged on social media over the weekend, sparking outrage in Russia. It features a woman, apparently portraying Ukraine, delivering a hateful speech against Russians with a ‘prisoner’ in clothes resembling the Russian military uniform kneeling by her side. The actress accuses Russian “pigs” of mocking, oppressing and killing Ukrainians for a long time and states that the situation has now changed.
“Something terrible woke up the peace-loving and grain-growing nation. Something that has been dormant for centuries in the bowels of the Dneper banks. Primordial and antique Ukrainian god. And now we’re reaping a bloody harvest. Death awaits you all,” the actress states, ‘slitting’ the throat of the ‘prisoner’ with a sickle.
 
The woman also vowed revenge for the northwestern Kiev suburb of Bucha, as well as for other Ukrainian towns and cities that allegedly suffered at the hands of Russian troops. Ukraine accused the Russian military of massacring civilians in Bucha early in April after troops withdrew from the area. Moscow denied any involvement in the deaths, insisting the whole Bucha affair was a staged “provocation” by Kiev to frame the country’s military." RT

Hundreds of Ukraine marines surrender in key port of Mariupol

"More than 1,000 soldiers have surrendered in the beseiged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol....
Russia’s defense ministry says exactly 1,026 marines, including 162 officers, have waved the white flag as President Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine." NYP

Global Food Crisis: German Wholesale See Highest Percentage Price Rise in 60 Years

"As the global food crisis worsens thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, wholesale prices in
Germany have spiked, seeing their greatest yearly rise in 60 years.
Germany — along with a host of other European countries — is already experiencing chronic shortages of a variety of products, including the likes of flour and sunflower oil, with food manufacturers, in particular, struggling to adjust recipes and production methods to keep factory lines moving with substitute ingredients.
The worst is still yet to come, though, according to a report by German Federal Statistics Office Destatis which records the cost of wholesale goods as having gone up 22.6 per cent in March 2022 compared to March last year.
This represents the single greatest jump in prices since record-keeping for the statistic began." Breitbart

Pressure mounts on Germany after Ukraine snub

"Pressure was mounting on Germany to up its game over the war in Ukraine on Tuesday as
Kyiv snubbed the country's president and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was accused of a weak response to the crisis. 
On a visit to Poland, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted he had offered to visit Ukraine with other EU leaders, but Kyiv had told him he was not welcome right now. Scholz, meanwhile, was being panned for his own failure to visit Kyiv, as well as his hesitancy over providing heavy weapons to help Ukraine resist Russia's invasion." France24