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

Ukrainian opposition leader arrested

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his delight on Tuesday after Kiev's successor to the Soviet-era KGB arrested the country's most prominent opposition leader. 

The President shared a photo of his handcuffed rival Viktor Medvedchuk on social media, with the caption: “A special operation was carried out by the SBU. Well done! Details to follow."

The SBU is Ukraine's main intelligence and security agency, founded in 1991 to replace the KGB.

“I consider it especially cynical of him to use military camouflage,” Zelensky later said, mocking Medvedchuk as trying to pose as a “warrior” and “patriot” and proposing to exchange the detained politician for Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia.

Medvedchuk heads the second largest party in the national parliament, the “Opposition Platform - For Life.” He was previously placed under house arrest, last year, as part of Zelensky's clampdown on dissent, which was granted tacit approval by the regime's Western supporters." RT

Sean Penn Is ‘Thinking About Taking up Arms Against Russia’

"The Russia/Ukraine conflict could soon be coming to an end because actor Sean Penn says

he’s thinking about “taking up arms” against Russia.

 Penn has been in Ukraine filming a documentary and expressed his support for Ukraine and desire to fight on its behalf in an interview with Hollywood Authentic." PJM

Saudi TV Just Humiliated Joe Biden with a Hilarious Sketch

"Saudi state TV just ran a funny, SNL style program making fun of US president Joe Biden,

one where he attempts to address the crisis in Ukraine but then wanders away from the podium, has to be prodded by the Kamala Harris character when he forgets what he’s supposed to be saying, and even falls asleep mid-sentence. Consequently, the audience sees Harris, played by a male actor in drag, telling the President what to say and do. At the end of the clip, Biden finally falls asleep and Harris literally puppets his unconscious body, screaming, “clap for the president!” TP

Azov Battalion Alleges Russia Used Chemical Weapons in Mariupol

"It appears that Azov Battalion has enacted a contingency plan to further allege war crimes

against the Russian Federation as a means of enticing more military involvement from NATO member states. The Nazi paramilitary did so on Monday by claiming that the Russian Federation used chemical weapons against civilians in Mariupol.

Azov Battalion took to its official Telegram page to launch the claim that Russian forces used an unmanned aerial vehicle ("UAV") to deploy a chemical agent. "About an hour ago, Russian occupation forces used a poisonous substance of unknown origin against Ukrainian military and civilians in the city of Mariupol, which was dropped from an enemy UAV...The victims have respiratory failure, vestibulo-atactic syndrome. The consequences of using an unknown substance are being clarified." they stated." ZH

Why the Media’s Moral Panic Around Ukraine Failed to Reboot Biden’s Presidency

"The moment Russia invaded Ukraine, the White House, Democrats, and the corporate media saw an opportunity to gaslight the American people into a reboot of Biden’s presidency. As he continues to hit record lows, the polling for Biden looks as awful as it did pre-Ukraine. 

 

As we all saw in the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the goal of Democrats and their corporate media allies was to swamp the news cycle with hysterical, 24/7 stories about this moral outrage. The invasion was deliberately covered in an overwhelming and coordinated flood of “outrage” stories that would knock inflation/crime/illegal immigration/gas prices, etc., out of the news cycle.

Well, for one thing, no amount of manipulative news coverage can blunt the shock of rising prices, most especially gas and food. Inflation is brutalizing people. Inflation is serious and demoralizing.

Secondly, Biden blaming record gas prices on Putin and telling us to go out and buy $50,000 electric cars were as tone deaf as any president has ever been tone deaf." Breitbart

Canada Trained Nazi Fighters From Azov Battalion Despite Vowing Not to

"The battalion was created in 2014 as a ragtag unit consisting mostly of the members of

radical groups  who often used Nazi symbols in their logos and on their equipment.

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) spent over $890 million on training Ukrainian soldiers since 2014, including members of the Ukrainian battalion Azov, Radio Canada has reported, citing obtained documents and photos from several training sessions. According to the media, its fighters even boasted being capable to provide similar training based on the western military standards themselves – to other members of the battalion.

Even though the Canadian government promised that it would never be training fighters for the Azov battalion. Canada trained 33,346 Ukrainian servicemen, including, apparently, an undefined number from the Azov battalion." Sp

Putin appoints new General to lead Ukraine war

"The Kremlin has tapped Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov, who commands Russia’s forces
in the southern military district, to lead the war in Ukraine." RadioFreeEurope

Zelensky reiterates requests for arms, no-fly zone in 60 Minutes interview

"Speaking from his dimly lit, fortified compound flooded with soldiers somewhere in the capital city of Kyiv, Zelensky defended his blunt, pointed diplomatic style when requesting assistance from world leaders as his people suffer.

“When you are [working] at diplomacy, there are no results,” he told 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley in an interview that aired on Sunday night." NYP

Top Neo-Nazi commander killed in Ukraine

"A Russian recon team killed the top Neo-Nazi while on patrol about 5km south from the city of Izium in Ukraine’s Kharkov region, the ministry statement explained.

The ministry didn’t disclose the circumstances of Bobanich’s death. The social media reported that he was killed on Friday near Izium, calling him a “legendary nationalist”." RT

On Palm Sunday, Pope Calls for Easter Truce in Ukraine, Condemns 'Folly of War'

"Pope Francis called for an Easter truce in Ukraine and condemned the "folly of war" as he
led Palm Sunday services in St. Peter's Square before an audience of tens of thousands of people.

He also urged negotiations to find a solution to the conflict. In an apparent reference to Russia, he said: "What kind of victory would be one that plants a flag on a heap of rubble?" Newsmax

Russian nuclear workers freed in Ukraine

"Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear company, has announced that four of its employees who had been held by the Ukrainian authorities since late February have been freed as part of a prisoner swap and returned to Russia." RT