Ukrainian Forces Release Video of ‘Street Fight’ with Wagner Mercs in Bakhmut

"Ukrainian forces have released what they claim is video footage of a “street fight” between the State Border Guard Service and Wagner Group mercenaries in the key battleground city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast.

The footage, uploaded to video sharing website YouTube by the Ukrainian border guard and highlighted by state media, shows Ukrainian troops firing rocket launcher-like devices from the shattered yard of a residential building while a dog mills around them nonchalantly." Breitbart

Leader of NATO Bulgaria Says No Warplanes, Missiles, or Tanks for Ukraine

"The leader of Bulgaria, a European Union and NATO member-state, says his country will not
use its arsenal of Soviet-era warplanes, air defense missiles, and tanks to bolster the Ukrainian war machine.

President Rumen Radev says “Bulgaria does not support and is not part of the general order for the supply of shells to Ukraine” he said in reference to an EU joint procurement program." Breitbart

Iran-Backed & US Occupation Forces Currently Battling In Eastern Syria

"US forces occupying Syria's northeast are in a high state of alert, and there are reports of
ongoing gunbattles with Iran-backed militias into the night hours. It's being widely acknowledged as the most serious fighting involving American forces there since 2019, with some of the latest rocket launches targeting Omar oil field, which has long been held by US and Kurdish forces.

US officials have acknowledge to the Times that there was some kind of failure in the base's anti-air systems: 

Two U.S. officials said the main air defense system at the base was “not fully operational” at the time, raising questions about whether the attackers had detected that vulnerability and exploited it, or just happened to send the drone at that time, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation." ZH

Deutsche Bank Bloodbath Reignites Global Bank Crisis Fears

"Last night, amid the Fed's H.4.1 report, we noted an unprecedented surge in foreign official Repo ($60 billion) under the Fed's new FIMA repo facility, which means that the offshore scramble for dollars was alive and well, and someone  really needed access to USD. The assumption was that it was Credit Suisse (or UBS) shoring up some shortfalls, but with the action of the last couple of days, others are worrying that there is more afoot in the EU banking system.....Deutsche Bank stock has crashed to 5-month lows.....Deutsche Bank CDS is soaring (Commerzbank is also rising rapidly) - now higher than at peak of the COVID lockdowns....other Deutsche Bank AT1 bonds have plunged in price...." ZH

Gazprom Invited to Recover Object Found Near Nord Stream Pipeline

"Denmark has invited Russian energy giant Gazprom to help recover a mystery object that was spotted near the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline six months after sections of it were sabotaged....experts believe that the object could be a signal antenna to activate an explosive in that part of the pipeline." MT

Notorious Australian neo-Nazi joins Ukrainian forces to fight Russia

"Daniel Newman, ....extremist and a violent criminal, has flown from Australia to Ukraine to join the fight against Russian troops, Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) newspaper reported. 

The development coincides with efforts by Canberra to prevent violent extremists from traveling to the war-torn country to gain combat experience, SMH said.

Newman first traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and then to Europe in February, before arriving in Ukraine this month, the report claims, adding that the man had supposedly told his associates he was planning to take up arms against Russian forces.

Newman is a member of an international extremist group named Combat 18, or C18. Founded in the UK in the early 1990s, it then expanded its network to other nations in Europe and beyond. The group’s members have reportedly been linked to several murders, including in the UK and Germany. In 2019, Canada put C18 on its terrorist list.

Newman himself was previously jailed for violent offenses in the Australian state of Victoria. He then helped Australia’s neo-Nazis forge connections with prison gangs as well as set up a cell in Tasmania." RT

Estonia Expels Russian Diplomat Engaged in Undermining Security and Propaganda

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia announced on Friday that it is expelling an
employee of the Russian Federation embassy from the country.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the diplomat took an active part in undermining the security and constitutional order of Estonia. "The diplomat in question has been engaged in directly and actively undermining Estonia’s security and constitutional order, spreading propaganda that justifies Russia’s military action and causing divisions in Estonian society," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated." Pravada

US launches airstrikes in Syria

"American forces have carried out retaliatory strikes in Syria in response to a deadly drone
attack on a US-led coalition base in the northeastern part of the country, the Pentagon has said.

One US contractor was killed while five American troops and a contractor were wounded after “a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle” struck a maintenance facility near town of Hasakah around midday, the Department of Defense reported. “The intelligence community assesses the UAV to be of Iranian origin,” it added.

In the same statement, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said he had been directed by President Joe Biden to authorize “precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).” RT

Ukraine's Security Service detains 2 Russian agents, including design engineer of Motor Sich plant

"The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) says that its cyber specialists have exposed two
agents of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) who conducted reconnaissance and subversive activities in Kyiv Oblast and Zaporizhzhia.....n early February 2023, the Ukrainians were recruited by a career employee of the FSB Department for the Altai Republic. Recruitment took place via a Telegram channel, where the suspects periodically published their pro-Kremlin comments." Pravada

Occupiers retreat from Nova Kakhovka

"all units of the occupying army deployed in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson
Oblast have left the town".

As the General Staff states, this was preceded by searches in the houses of the local population with the aim of looting. The occupiers "confiscated" a large quantity of household appliances and electronic devices, jewellery, clothes and mobile phones." Pravada

Seymour Hersh: CIA Planted Nord Stream Cover-Up Story

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on Substack that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit.

The cover-up story was created to shift blame from the US after Hersh’s bombshell report published on February 8 that said President Biden ordered the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. "It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story," Hersh was told by a source within the American intelligence community.

Hersh said that the CIA was ordered to come up with a cover story after President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on March 3. Scholz’s visit was very brief and did not include the routine joint press briefing that usually follows a meeting between the president and another world leader. Hersh was told that his report detailing how the US took out Nord Stream was discussed by Biden and Scholz." ZH

Russia to Introduce Benefits for Children Wounded in Ukraine

 "Russia will introduce special social security benefits for children wounded in the war in
Ukraine...." MT

US Moves Drone Flight Paths Further From Crimea On Russian Threats Of "Countermeasures"

"Russia is putting the US on notice after last week's drone intercept incident which resulted in an American MQ-9 Reaper drone crashing into the Black Sea. The Pentagon said it intended to continue patrolling international territory despite the Kremlin asserting it had closed down some airspace over the Black Sea as part of its 'special operation' in Ukraine.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in a new warning has said Moscow will take "countermeasures" against any further US or NATO drone flights over these parts of the Black Sea where the intercept incident occurred.

"We warn them against trying to play on their nerves, testing our patience," Ryabkov said, according to RIA Novosti. The US drone "was in a zone where we introduced a special regime associated with conducting military exercises," he said." ZH

Explosion rings out in Khmelnytskyi

"An explosion rang out in the city of Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine after an air-raid warning was issued in Khmelnytskyi Oblast...... Air defence systems were activated in Kyiv and Zhytomyr oblasts following a Russian attack." Pravada

Crimean naval base attacked by drones

"At least three naval drones were involved in an early morning attack on Russian warships
stationed at the port of Sevastopol.....The Russian Navy’s assets were not damaged but the windows of several buildings near the coast were shattered by blast waves from the destroyed drones." RT