"Facebook is censoring a Seymour Hersh story which accuses the
Ukrainian president of
embezzling funds by citing a pro-Ukraine
‘fact-checker’ which is partly funded by NATO. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s article, which is headlined
‘Trading With the Enemy’, alleges that Volodymyr Zelensky’s government
has been “skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked
for diesel fuel payments.” NW
"A
Russian Sukhoi-34 fighter-jet has accidentally bombed the Russian city
of Belgorod,
around 25 miles from the border with Ukraine. The bomb left a 60ft crater and caused an explosion so large it blew a car on to the roof of a nearby shop. Regional
governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said authorities had ordered the evacuation
of a damaged nine-storey block of flats as a precaution." BBC
"Kiev received the Patriot air defense system from the US and Germany, Ukrainian Defense
Minister Oleksiy Reznikov confirmed on Twitter. While Kiev will only receive a limited number of advanced interceptors." ZeroHedge
"Pakistan has placed its first ever order for Russian crude as it seeks
cheaper energy options in
the face of macroeconomic challenges, the
country’s petroleum minister, Musadik Malik, announced." RT
"The US has reportedly been warning Kiev since January that its forces
would not be able to hold on to the key Donbass city of Artyomovsk,
known in Ukrainian as Bakhmut, and has repeatedly urged a withdrawal,
The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing leaked US intelligence
documents." RT
"A group of Republicans prepared a joint letter to US President Joe Biden, in which they call
for an end to aid to Ukraine in the current format." As the war enters its second year, there is no end in sight and no
clear strategy to bring this war to close. A proxy war with Russia in
Ukraine is not in the interests of the United States and risks an
escalation that could spiral out of control," the authors of the letter
write." Pravada
