Author: Steven Sahiounie

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Su-25 attack aircraft have destroyed military warehouses of the Ukrainian forces overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on Thursday.The ministry has released footage of the aircraft destroying the Ukrainian military infrastructure. The Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian army infrastructure at night by Su-25 attack aircraft “The crews of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed warehouses with weapons and ammunition,” the ministry said in a statement. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February in response to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics…

While the Ukrainian officials made a bet on the informational warfare, the ongoing military operations in Ukraine unveiled their complete incompetence. All the main provocations aimed at blaming the Russian military of inhumane actions against civilians and used by Zelenskiy as the pretext for yet another plea for more military supplies from the West were revealed before Mr Zelenskiy released his daily video appeals to his Western counterparts. Even superficial analyses are sufficient to reveal the lies spread by Kiev, even by the Ukrainian top officials. Sometimes, there was even no need of any analyses, as the “actors” involved in…

The video belo shows the actions of Ukrainian military or foreign mercenaries in the Kharkov region of Ukraine that led to the destruction of a Russian military truck. A civilian car, probably an LC-200, drove past two already damaged Russian Armed Forces trucks, then the driver saw a Russian Ural coming towards him. The driver decided to move out of the line of sight into the footway and then turn into the nearest alley. The driver and passengers of the truck did not pay attention to the civilian car’s manoeuvre. Then the AFU soldiers stopped in the alley, put a…

Russia denies that “significant progress” has been made in talks with Kiev The Kremlin has said that a report in the Financial Times about a supposed 15-point draft peace plan with Ukraine was false. The sides held several rounds of talks after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, later switching to regular discussions via video link. Replying to a reporter’s question on Thursday if Russia and Ukraine were close to sign a peace deal, Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, said: “No, the work continues [on the matter].” He added Russia will inform the public of any breakthrough in the talks. The statement comes…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – More Americans would understand the reasons behind the current crisis in Ukraine if they learned more about NATO expansion eastward and the 2014 change of power in the country, US human rights activist and coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign Phil Wilayto told Sputnik. “Most people here in the US don’t know anything about either the NATO expansion or the coup. If they did, they might be able to understand why we are in the present crisis. Even so, it’s clear there is no appetite here for direct US involvement in the war,” Wilayto said. The activist…

Russia says neo-Nazi “Azov” militants blew up building where they were holding hostages Responding to claims by Ukraine that an airstrike destroyed a theater in Mariupol and killed civilians sheltering there, the Russian Defense Ministry said there had been no such strikes against ground targets in that city, and accused the neo-Nazi “Azov” battalion of killing its hostages. The Russian military was aware of reports that “Azov” militants had kept civilians inside the theater as human shields, and did not consider the building a target for airstrikes for that reason, Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement. “Previously, it was…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A secret project to study the ways bats can transmit diseases to humans has been carried out under US control at a laboratory in Kharkov, Ukraine for many years, Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday. “I want to emphasise that according to the documents, these studies [on the ways bats transmit diseases to humans] have been carried out in Kharkov on a systematic basis and under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States for many years,” Konashenkov told reporters.The Russian defence ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories…

Earlier, Joe Biden labelled President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” over Russia’s operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, launched on 24 February to defend the predominantly Russian-speaking people of the two breakaways, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR), against deadly offensive attacks by the Kiev regime. A video has resurfaced on social media, where then-senator Joe Biden, speaking at a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in 1998, say he suggested bombing the peaceful city of Belgrade and sending American pilots to destroy all the bridges on the Danube in 1999. After Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”,…

Human samples from a Kharkov lab were evacuated to the UK and other European countries, the military claims The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday it will soon release additional documents pertaining to the operation of Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Moscow believes they have been involved in bioweapons research. Russian military specialists in weapons of mass destruction are analyzing documents obtained from staff members of the Ukrainian labs, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a daily briefing. He claimed they detailed “implementation by the US in Ukraine of a secret project to study the ways humans can be infected from bats,” which…

In a speech before the Munich Security Conference on 19 February, just days before Russia and its Donbass allies began the military operation in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky threatened to renounce Kiev’s non-nuclear status.Ukraine’s desire to create a nuclear weapon constitutes a severe threat to Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said.”Statements were made by Kiev authorities about their intention to create nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. This was a real threat. Already in the foreseeable future, with foreign technical assistance, the pro-Nazi regime in Kiev could get its hands on weapons of mass destruction. And the targets…