The Russia - Ukraine Conflict

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Huawei shipped telecom equipment worth $15 million to Russia: Report

A new report has revealed that Huawei has just delivered a batch of telecommunications based equipment to Russia. The company had shipped these equipments to a Russian telecom operator.

The news arrives from sources close to the matter (Via ITHome). Apparently, the Chinese tech giant shipped telecommunications equipment to Russia’s VimpelCom (AKA VEON). The sources said that the deliveries were made under a previously signed contract, although, a new contract has yet to be approved. A couple of days ago, VimpelCom received a large batch of telecom equipment made by Huawei.

These are apparently worth around 15 million US Dollars, as per people close to the terms of the contract. As per the two sources, the supply contract was lengthy and was initially signed back on February 24. However, sanctions that were imposed caused issues in deliveries. As of right now, various governments across the globe has been against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. The US has banned exports of high tech products in the region, especially technology related to defense, aerospace, and shipbuilding.


Furthermore, these also included the supply of semiconductors, computers, telecommunications, and information security equipment as well. Back in February 2022, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security had also issued a clarification that the export or transfer of goods to maintain civilian telecommunications infrastructure will be excluded from this rule.

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Huawei shipped telecom equipment worth $15 million to Russia: Report - Gizmochina

 

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27 April 2022
US Wants EU to Sanction China for Its Ukraine-Russia Policy
By Paul Antonopoulos

Washington is trying to convince Europe that it has the ability to influence China’s relationship with Russia. However, Beijing’s stance on Ukraine and associated threats from the West are unlikely to deter it from deepening cooperation with Moscow.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman visited Brussels from April 19 to 22 and forced the Europeans to listen to Washington’s arguments about the possibility of imposing sanctions on China if it provided material support for Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. At an event organised by the US and EU-funded “Friends of Europe” group, Sherman again warned that China would face sanctions similar to those being imposed on Russia.

After Sherman’s meeting with Bjoern Seibert, Chief of Staff for European Commission PresidentUrsula von der Leyen, the State Department said the two sides agreed that they must urge China not to circumvent sanctions against Moscow or offer any support for Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.

Effectively, the US is instructing Europeans on the policies they must adopt to counter Russia’s action in Ukraine, making a mockery of the efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron to create a “strategically autonomous” Europe. Macron’s emboldened announcement of Europe’s “strategic autonomy” from the US was exposed as being nothing more than a buzzword with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine as Paris immediately abandoned all efforts of diplomacy after ignoring Moscow’s years-long complaints regarding Ukraine’s illegal and provocative actions in Donbass. This is on top of imposing sanctions that negatively affects the average European citizen.

For all this talk of “strategic autonomy”, Brussels has just once again demonstrated that it is obedient and submissive to Washington. However, despite the EU imposing sanctions, closing its airspace to Russian planes and delivering weapons to Ukraine, the US is clearly not satisfied and sent Sherman to Brussels to ensure that tougher policies against China are also implemented.

The US at the very minimum hopes to divide European countries as many are still unwilling to provoke China due to trade relations. In the context of the US ignoring all international communication norms and continuing its threats of sanctions against China, Beijing unlikely views this as just renewed verbal attacks.

China is using various channels to convey to its European partners its views on the crisis in Ukraine, as well as on efforts to help the conflicting parties resolve the war peacefully. It is recalled that Beijing sent a diplomatic mission led by Huo Yuzhen, China’s special representative for the China-Central and Eastern Europe Investment Cooperation Fund (CEEC). On April 25, the delegation began its European tour in the Czech Republic, with visits to Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Estonia also included.

The visit to the Czech Republic is significant since the country will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from July 1 to December 31. In this way, perhaps the comments by CzechDeputy Foreign Minister Martin Tlapa were too hasty when he made de facto statements on behalf of EU members. At a meeting with the Chinese delegation in Prague, he warned that China’s cooperation with Russia could damage its relations with the EU.

Clearly, the Czech diplomat’s desire to please and appease the US overshadowed his own obligation to follow rudimentary political submissions, or perhaps the EU has amended this principle like many other ethical and legal norms due to the crisis in Ukraine?

Although EU officials concede China is unlikely to enforce the broad sanctions imposed on Moscow by a minority of the world’s recognized UN member states, this has not deterred their efforts to lambast and shame countries for their position. Brussels falsely hoped that Beijing could influence Moscow to stop its demilitarization of Ukraine, but hopes were quickly dispelled at an EU-China virtual summit on April 1 that left Western leaders frustrated and angry that they are international pariahs on the Ukraine issue.

A joint EU-US statement following Sherman’s talks in Brussels vowed to push Chinese leaders on issues such as the inadmissibility of sanctions circumvention, and “reaffirmed that such support would have consequences for our respective relationships with China”.

However, Sherman and EU foreign service chief Stefano Sanninoavoided answering a journalist’s question on what potential repercussions could be for China. This suggests that the West actually does not have a clear idea on how and why they could punish China for its relationship with Russia and instead it hopes that threats of sanctions could deter their cooperation.

This of course is extremely naïve as sanctions have never made state leaderships of Middle Powers, like North Korea and Iran, collapse or capitulate. Given this fact, there is little prospect that sanctions will achieve the West’s hopes against Great Powers like Russia and China, especially as only just days before the US-EU forum, Chinese vice foreign minister Le Yucheng assured Russian ambassador Andrey Denisov of Beijing’s aim to “deepen bilateral comprehensive strategic coordination”.

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US wants EU to sanction China for its Ukraine-Russia policy

 

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French authorities request EU embargo on Russian oil

The government of France has asked the European Union to declare an embargo on Russian oil in order to reduce Moscow’s revenues.teleSUR

 

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27 April 2022
US Wants EU to Sanction China for Its Ukraine-Russia Policy
By Paul Antonopoulos




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US wants EU to sanction China for its Ukraine-Russia policy

Good luck with that

 

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26 April 2022
EU and UK to Meet Russia’s Demand to Pay for Gas in Rubles

A scheme proposed by the European Commission will allow EU companies to pay for Russian gas in rubles without violating EU sanctions.
By Telesur

On April 1, a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putincame into force, requiring nonfriendly countries that have imposed illegal sanctions on Moscow to pay for Russian gas in rubles.

Under the European Commission’s proposal, companies will transfer their payments in euros or dollars to a bank account in Russia, from where the currency will be converted into rubles. Payments will be completed once the foreign currency is deposited in the Russian bank.

Amid sanctions imposed by London on Gazprom, the British Treasury has issued a temporary waiver allowing British companies to transfer funds to Russia’s Gazprombank to pay for gas. UK firms will be able to meet Moscow’s new demand to pay for gas in rubles through the waiver of sanctions, which will last until May 31.

The Russian ruble-based mechanism emerged in response to sanctions imposed by European and Western countries since the start of Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russia has said that this mechanism will provide the country with payment guarantees.

Similarly, the decree also followed the decision of Western governments to illegally freeze the foreign currency assets of the Central Bank of Russia held in their countries. Moscow recently promised to take those governments to court over the measure to fight for the freeing up of the funds.

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EU and UK to Meet Russia’s Demand to Pay for Gas in Rubles

 

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Ukraine should've just bended the knee. What's the point of all this?

Proxy war. NATO will sacrifice Ukraine to get Russia the fuk out here

 

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How to Survive a Systemic Breakdown Crisis


April 14. 2022

As Biden and the Brits are pouring more weapons into Ukraine to perpetuate a war the system they represent needs, a real realignment among nations is underway. On April 12, Putin declared that what is occurring is "the collapse of the Unipolar world system", and he outlined the scientific and technological breakthroughs which are possible, and can be shared by all sovereign nation states. The potential embodied by this realignment was visible in the deliberations at the April 9 Schiller Institute conference -- you can watch the proceedings at the link below, and join with us to break out of the suffocating bubble of the arbitrary Rules-Based Order of the City of London, Wall Street and the governments they control: Conference: For a Conference to Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations | The Schiller Institute

 

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WAR IN UKRAINE DAY 62: ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE SUFFER LOSSES. RUSSIAN UNITS CONTINUE THEIR OFFENSIVE

• fighting continued on all fronts in Ukraine with the exception of the blockaded Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
• The Russian Armed Forces continued targeting military infrastructure and transport hubs in Ukraine. Although the AFU, in turn, intensified strikes on facilities located directly on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces did not attack “decision-making centres”. Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces stated that they would take such actions if the AFU continued strikes on facilities located in Russian cities.
  
• The Russian Defence Ministry has reported that a fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mykolayiv Region has been destroyed
• The Russian Defence Ministry said that Ukrainian servicemen were asked to lay down their arms. Furthermore, those who did not voluntarily lay down their arms were destroyed by artillery fire.
• While retreating, the Ukrainian soldiers left small arms, ammunition and over 30 dead servicemen in their positions

• The DPR units seized several fortified positions of the Ukrainian armed forces near Avdiivka, outside Donetsk. Significant losses have been reported in the Ukrainian armed forces.
• On 26 April, Zavody, Zarechnoye and the outskirts of Yampol came under Russian control in the Izyum-Slavonic direction. The information was confirmed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff
  
• On 26 April, the Ukrainian armed forces attempted a counterattack in Rubizhneand Novotoshkivske. The attempt was unsuccessful, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated with losses in manpower and equipment
  
• On 26 April, a group of servicemen from the AFU’s 79th Detached Brigade Combat Team surrendered near Yampil. They surrendered weapons and military equipment.
• On 26 April, a group of servicemen from the AFU’s 79th Detached Brigade Combat Team surrendered near Yampil. They surrendered weapons and military equipment.
• The blockade of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol continues. The Russian Armed Forces have no active combat operations over there

• An aerial photo of the plant with the exact coordinates of the bunkers where the remaining Azov regiment fighters are hiding has been circulated on the Internet.
• On the morning of 27 April, a second strike was carried out on a railway bridge in Zatoka, Odessa region, Ukraine, which had already sustained damage from the first strike yesterday.

• On the morning of 27 April, an AFU Bairaktar UAV was shot down over Kursk Region, Russia.
• Over the Russian city of Voronezh, the air defence system was also activated several times
• In Belgorod, a Russian Armed Forces ammunition depot was also struck, apparently using a Bairaktar UAV.
• Two Russians with Ukrainian Nazi ideology detained in Belgorod, Russia, while preparing to sabotage a transport facility
• On the night of 27 April, a sabotage by a Ukrainian reconnaissance group was prevented in Transnistria, near the village of Colbasna, where large ammunition and weapons storage facilities are located. Several grenades exploded near the military depots as a result of gunfire contact
• Russian Defence Ministry reports that high-precision long-range sea-launched Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the US and European countries to Ukrainian troops at the Zaporizhzhya aluminium plant
• Russian air defence forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near the villages of Aleksandrovka, Balakleya, Bryanka, Zaporizhske, Izyum, Kapitolovka, Peremoga, Petrovka, Popasne, Proletarske and Trudolyubovka, including two Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs near the villages of Kolesnikovka and Krasny Liman. In addition, a Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical missile was shot down over the village of Illichivka
• According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the AFU lost 284 people killed, wounded and prisoners of war in 24 hours. The total losses of dead, wounded and prisoners in the AFU, NGU and PSCs exceeded 45,000
• According to the report of the General Staff of the AFU, it has lost four tanks, six armoured vehicles, nine field artillery guns and mortars, four long- and medium-range air defence systems, two short-range air defence systems, 21 vehicles and special equipment and 22 UAVs
• There are reports from various sources that 3,000 militants of the Turkish far-right organisation Grey Wolves have been transferred to Ukraine
• The arrival of 3,000 Grey Wolves at the Ukrainian-Polish border was first reported about ten days ago, but it has only now become known that they have already been moved to the Kharkiv and Odessa-Mykolaiv directions (three squads of 1,000 fighters each have been deployed). Convoys with Turkish fighters were passing through Zhmerenka – along with heavy equipment and artillery
• Apparently, these units are planned to be used for counterstrikes near Kharkiv and Mykolaiv or for an attack on Transnistria
• Foreign fighters and soldiers from NATO regular units are increasingly replacing exsanguinated Ukrainian army units on the front lines.
  
  The photo below shows a Finnish mercenary unit in Kharkiv.
  
  
  
  The conflict is slowly but steadily moving into the phase of full-scale war between Russia and NATO.
  

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War In Ukraine Day 62: Armed Forces of Ukraine Suffer Losses. Russian Units Continue Their Offensive

 

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WAR IN UKRAINE DAY 62: ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE SUFFER LOSSES. RUSSIAN UNITS CONTINUE THEIR OFFENSIVE



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War In Ukraine Day 62: Armed Forces of Ukraine Suffer Losses. Russian Units Continue Their Offensive

Pro-Russia propaganda if I've ever seen it.

Yes, the Ukrainians have taken losses and take losses every day. As the defender, it is expected.

However, the Russian losses due to poor tactics, shytty and outdated equipment, and utter incompetence are an embarrassment. Had this been the US they were fighting, they would've lost fully within a month.

They won't take the entirety of the Ukraine, let alone hold it. At this point, they're trying desperately to hold on to the Donbas. We'll see; but Ukrainian morale is sky high and they are extremely well-armed. They got whole units carrying NLAWs, RPG-7s, and Javelins as their secondary

 

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Russia isn't carpet bombing Ukraine so they will have more casualties .

 

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i can only view like three pages before my ip gets banned so i'm using this morning's rations to post more music vids from today

the second one's best watched on mute but the home alone drone grenade thru the sunroof

 

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I wonder if he got paid to be or did he volunteer.

i can only view like three pages before my ip gets banned

Why would your IP get banned?