Ukraine’s backers running out of available weapons

"Western nations’ military stockpiles are being depleted, forcing them to seek armaments
elsewhere to prop up Ukraine, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned. He also downplayed Kiev’s hopes of joining NATO in the foreseeable future." RT

Girl unable to enter Kyiv shelter killed in Russia attack, Zelensky demands change

"A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian
missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted. 

His comments appeared aimed at Kyiv city authorities and Mayor Vitali Klitschko, with whom he has periodically clashed during the war.

 NYP

Drones hit energy facilities inside Russia

"Two drones attacked energy facilities in Russia’s Smolensk Region.......Infrastructure in the villages of Peresna and Divasy was targeted by long-range UAVs at around 3am." RT

Zelensky Addresses Feud with Brazilian Socialist Lula: Failed G7 Meetup ‘Definitely’ Not My Fault

"Zelensky denied that he or his aides had prevented an in-person meeting between the two during their mutual attendance at the G7 summit in Japan last month, apparently blaming Lula for the snub that the Brazilian president declared himself “upset” by. The Ukrainian president also questioned Lula’s refusal to support an international tribunal for Russian war crimes, stating that, if meeting Lula in person, he would ask his Brazilian counterpart if he thinks “a murderer should be convicted and go to jail.” Breitbart

Ukrainian shelling of Russian region overnight

"Eight people sustained injuries in the early hours in Russia’s Belgorod Region as a result of
Ukrainian shelling." RT

Biden Administration Refuses To Assist American Locked Up In Ukraine For ‘Speech Violations’

"An American journalist living in Ukraine has been imprisoned for defending Russia’s

invasion of the nation, and the Biden administration is refusing to say whether it is working to secure his release.

On Monday, State Department spokesman Mathew Miller said during a press briefing that the administration is aware of the arrest of Gonzalo Lira, a writer and YouTube personality who is originally from California, but declined to say anything more.

At the briefing, a reporter described Lira’s arrest from several weeks ago and asked Miller, “Are you guys aware of this? How do we feel about our allies detaining US citizens for free speech abroad?”

“I will say in general that we’re aware of the report. We obviously support the exercise of freedom of speech anywhere in the world and I’ll leave it at that,” said Miller.

“So you guys aren’t working to get him released?” asked the reporter.

“I’m gonna leave my comments where I where I just left them,” Miller responded." TP

Chechen unit on the offensive in Donbass

"Russian forces are conducting offensive operations against Ukrainian troops in the area
outside Donetsk in Donbass..... assault detachments of the Russian 5th motorized rifle brigade and an Akhmat special forces unit are successfully attacking Ukrainian troops near the town of Maryinka.....The Akhmat unit is part of Russia’s National Guard and is based in the Chechen Republic." RT

Moscow Wakes up to Sound of Drone Strikes Against City, Buildings Damaged in Blasts

"Moscow’s war in Ukraine made itself felt at home again this morning as a wave of drones
attacked the Russian capital with air defences taking on what are described to be at least eight unmanned aerial vehicles. Moscow’s mayor said citizens woke up to the sound of explosions across the city." Breitbart

Former Biden Accuser Tara Reade Defects to Russia

"Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer to Joe Biden who accused him of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential election, has now defected to Russia. 

Tara Reade claimed that then-senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. Shortly thereafter, she detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department." Breitbart

Russians launch 62 air strikes, open fire with MLRS 54 times

"In the past 24 hours, Russian troops have launched 62 air strikes and opened fire with
multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) 54 times. Casualties among civilians were reported, as well as the damage caused to residential buildings and other infrastructure. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Air Force has launched 15 strikes on Russian personnel and military equipment clusters. The Ukrainian military destroyed four reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles." Ukrin

Citibank, Biden Family & Ukraine War

"During the Obama Administration, when the Euromaidan coup was orchestrated (Feb.
2014), Joe Biden was in charge of the Ukraine portfolio and he was a "superhawk" in that role. Mearsheimer did not elaborate much on this point, but he did note that Ukraine’s president Zelensky turned much more aggressive toward Russia and Ukraine’s breakaway regions practically from the day Joe Biden entered the White House. Recall, Zelensky was elected in 2019 by a 70% majority of Ukrainian people in the west and in the east of the country because he promised to make making peace with Russia and to respect the rights of ethnic Russians.

Most observers will recall Biden’s performance at the Council of Foreign Relations where he boasted about forcing President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s public prosecutor Viktor Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to his government. But Biden’s role was much more extensive than that. On the day of the Euromaidan Coup in February 2014, the same day when President Barack Obama was discussing with Vladimir Putin how to diffuse the crisis, Biden called President Viktor Yanukovich and pressured him to withdraw his security forces from Kiev and from all the government buildings. Yanukovich, who had just signed a deal with opposition, conceding to all of their demands, walked straight into Biden’s perfidious trap and within hours of ordering his security forces to withdraw, armed neo-Nazi groups stormed the government buildigns, presidential palace and Yanukovich’s private residence. Yanukovich had to flee the country to save his life.

Along with Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Biden also played the key role in coercing the Kiev Junta to launch its brutal “anti-terorist operation” in April 2014 which resulted in massacres of hundreds of civilians in Odessa, Mariupol, Slaviansk, Kramatorsk and other towns across Ukraine’s southern and eastern districts. The regime was urged by its western handlers to consolidate control of these regions as they accounted for the bulk of Ukraine’s economic output.

Barely ten days after the massacre of the regime’s opponents – all unarmed civilians – Joe Biden’s son Hunter was nominated as a director of Burisma, Ukraine’s energy giant that was owned by one of the planners of the Odessa massacre, oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy who ordered his private Dniepr-1 Battalion to help carry it out. Indeed, the corruption moneys earned in Ukraine by the Biden family was literally drenched in the blood of innocents.

So, where’s Citigroup in all this?

The pressure to consolidate control over south and east of Ukraine originated from the banking circles. On Thursday, May 1, 2014, just one day before the massacres in Kharkov, Slavyansk and Odessa, CNBC ran the headline: “IMF warns Ukraine on bailout if it loses east.” The article reported that, “‘This is something of a leap of faith for the IMF and is politically driven by key IMF shareholders to support the [Junta prime minister Arseniy] Yatsenyuk ‘kamikaze’ administration in its reform efforts...’”

IMF’s shareholders consist of the American and European financial oligarchy, the same club that controls Citigroup and other global systematically important banks (GSIBs). However, Citigroup may have had the greatest appetite for a piece of Ukrainian action which began with the 2014 Euromaidan coup, planned and organized by a cabal of western officials including a group of Neocons within the Obama administration. There’s some evidence suggesting that Obama himself wasn’t in the loop, but was dragged along with the project by a group of conspirators consisting of individuals like John Kerry, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Victoria Nuland.

Collateral is the essential ingredient powering the creation of credit by western financial institutions, primarily the GSIB’s (Global Systemically Important Banks). They stand the most to gain if western powers prevail, and the most to lose if they’re defeated. Adverse developments in Ukraine could push the sector back into a bear market and the banks that are overexposed to Ukraine could exacerbate the financial crisis, force central banks to more bank bailouts with open-ended QE, and reignite another cycle of high inflation." ZH

Russia launched 'largest drone attack' on Ukrainian capital before Kyiv Day

"Ukraine's capital was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia's war, local
officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday." Yahoo

Russia may authorize six-day week for workers without additional pay to meet war needs

"Russian state-backed media and business groups have petitioned the Economic Ministry to authorize a six-day week for workers in the face of the economic demands of the war, apparently without additional pay....Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan mooted that citizens should work for two extra hours in munitions factories each day, after their regular jobs." Ukrin

Ukraine Loses Up to 340 Troops Near Donetsk

"Ukraine lost up to 340 military personnel in combat with Russian forces near the eastern city of Donetsk in the past day.....During the same period, Russian air defenses struck down three Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, six HIMARS long-range guided missiles, and four Ukrainian combat drones in Donetsk, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions." Sputnik

Drones damage Russia oil facility

"An explosion from two drone attacks in Russia’s Pskov region near Belarus damaged an oil pipeline facility with no casualties reported." AlJazeera