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The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that on July 31, the Russian military, who were performing tasks in the Vasilyevka area in the Zaporozhye region, were taken to the hospital with signs of severe poisoning.
Later, the toxic substance botulinum toxin of type “B” of artificial origin was found in their body.
The Ministry of Defense emphasizes that it considers everything that happened as chemical terrorism of the Kiev regime. Official evidence will be sent to the OPCW in the near future.
In this regard, an additional investigation is underway into the poisoning of the head of the Kherson administration, Vladimir Saldo.
Botulinum toxin is the strongest organic poison and one of the most poisonous substances. Ingestion of this substance can cause botulism.In the USA during the Second World War, botulinum toxin was considered as a promising biological weapon. There is a version that botulinum toxin was used in the murder of Reinhard Heydrich (Nazi criminal, head of the main directorate of Imperial Security) by Czechoslovak resistance fighters, who were trained by British special services.
War correspondent Alexander Sladkov commented specifically for RT on the statement of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in an interview with CNN in which he warned that the fighting in Ukraine would be delayed and called on NATO countries to agree among themselves on what the results of negotiations should be to end the conflict and what result is achievable.
“Is it possible to negotiate with Ukraine? I think it is possible if Kiev agrees with the preliminary conditions,” Sladkov said.
He added that the Ukrainian authorities should accept these conditions immediately, on the first day and without discussion.
Next, he listed eight points that, according to the journalist, Kiev should accept.
This is a cease-fire and Ukraine’s export of weapons and ammunition to Russian territory. We are also talking about the “complete denazification of Ukraine” within six months, as well as the extradition of war criminals by Kiev to Moscow for trial.
“Recognition of Crimea, Donbass, former Ukrainian Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions as territories of Russia,” Sladkov said.
He also called the condition “full Russian control” over the fulfillment of these conditions on the remaining territory of Ukraine, recognition of the right of Russia’s forceful response to non-fulfillment of any clause of the agreement.
In addition, Sladkov believes that Russia should demand from Kiev full payment of the funds spent on the special operation and payment for the restoration of all destroyed objects on the territory of Russia, including new territories.
According to the journalist, the guarantors of the implementation of these agreements should be the United States, Great Britain and other states that provided military support to Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, after a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayp Erdogan and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Lviv, said that negotiations with Moscow are possible only after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the territories controlled by the Russian Federation. State Duma deputy from Crimea Mikhail Sheremet then said that Zelensky “inadequately perceives the reality and the real state of affairs at the front.”
Useless attempts of air strikes on Crimea are designed to create informational occasions before the Independence Day of Ukraine. Kiev wants to show – here, look, “we get there too.”
This assumption was made in his TG channel by political scientist Yakov Kedmi. Blows do not cause any damage, all attacks are repelled. But there is a picture, and this is enough to inflate another “victory”.
“They are used to noodles by the ears there and they believe in every nonsense with pleasure. But where serious provocations can really happen is in the Donbass. And here you need to be ready for them,” the political scientist warned.
Earlier it became known that a drone fell on the roof of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. He was shot down by small arms and caught fire.
The deputy Head of the CAA of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov in his TG channel published a video in which the detained gunners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sobbing, begging forgiveness from the relatives of their victims. As a result of the HIMARS strike on the Brilevka, seven people were killed. Including children.
The gunners turned out to be local residents, whom the whole village knew.
“Perhaps we will be able to stop someone before another rash act that can take the lives of innocent people, including children,” Stremousov wrote.
There were no military facilities in Brilevka. Probably, they wanted to strike at the junction railway station.
Political scientist Yakov Kedmi clarified that two brothers and the wife of one of them acted. They claim that they were not paid for the tip. The residents of Brilevka did not forgive them.
“I will never forgive you. I will never forgive you in my life. And there, high God is the judge for you,” said one of the elderly women.
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The speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin commented on the media information in his Telegram channel that the VKS officer who came to the Moscow restaurant “Magadan” on Druzhinnikovskaya Street in Moscow in military uniform was forced by guards to make his way to the veranda through the bushes so that he “did not scare away visitors.” In the restaurant, the mother of a Russian officer celebrated her birthday.
It is right in such situations — I hope you will support me — to send the guards together with the owner of the restaurant to serve in Donbass,” Volodin wrote.
He noted that soldiers and officers defend Russia and the attitude towards them should be “grateful and respectful.”
Earlier State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein said that he contacted restaurateur Arkady Novikov, who is the owner of the institution, and he said that he was outraged by what happened and noted that all those responsible for this outrage have already been fired.
The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that a drone crashed into the roof of the building of the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
According to the governor, the incident occurred at about 8:17.
“I am at the Fleet headquarters. A drone flew into the roof 25 minutes ago,” he wrote in his Telegram channel, expressing regret that the drone was not shot down.
“Small arms were working on the bay. Walked low. There are no victims,” Razvozhaev added, stressing that all emergency services are in place, and the approaches and entrances to the fleet headquarters are blocked by the police.
The governor asked the residents of Sevastopol to remain calm and stay at home in the next hour.
Later, Razvozhaev said that according to the updated data, the drone was still shot down and fell on the roof and caught fire.
“Defeat failed. Well done guys,” Razvozhaev wrote, adding that he had worked out the post of air defense of the fleet
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called for an end to the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible. And this should be done at the negotiating table, the patriarch of American diplomacy is sure. Otherwise, he believes, prolonging the situation is fraught with escalation of tension in the region.
The politician stressed that in the event of an endless conflict, the situation will become similar to the First World War. Other countries will also be involved in it. Therefore, the NATO bloc needs to determine now what the result will be and sit down at the negotiating table.
Kissinger shared his opinion in an interview with CNN. At the same time, the 99-year-old American opposed the fact that the countries of the Alliance made concessions to Russia. He believes that Moscow should not receive “any benefit” from the special operation. The diplomat advised to demand the return of up to 20% of the territories taken under control.
Recall. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Its purpose, according to the definition of the President of the Russian Federation, is “the protection of people who are being subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime.”
Ukraine is preparing to receive American F-16 fighters
As a result of the recent missile strike on the airfield “Skomorokhi” (“Lake”) in the Zhytomyr region, as reported by local users of social networks, significantly damaged the infrastructure. The goal was not chosen by chance, it is this airfield, as Ukrainians write, that is preparing to receive American F-16 fighters, for which Ukrainian pilots are being rapidly retrained in the United States.
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Aviation missiles have turned the runway of the largest Ukrainian airbase. Several airfield vehicles were hit. It was this airfield that the NATO friends of Kiev considered as the main one for basing aircraft, which the West is going to transfer to Kiev.
A considerable number of representatives of several branches of the armed forces seconded from Ukraine are being forcibly “trained” in several NATO states at once. In the south-east of England, 1,050 British servicemen are training Ukrainian infantrymen to overcome the “viscous defense” of the enemy during street battles. The training methodology, according to the “home team”, was developed on the basis of the “successful training” of British soldiers for the “pacification” of Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Much less is known about the training of Ukrainians in the United States. Meanwhile, approximately 30 military English–speaking pilots – mainly from the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force – are being retrained for F-16 fighters. Without the F-15 and F-16 promised by the United States, as Kiev politicians and generals have repeatedly stated, the Ukrainian armed forces are unlikely to start attacking – both the DPR and the LPR, and the Russian Crimea.
As you know, the United States “in public” pretends that it is “not interested” in Kiev’s possession of long-range ATACMS missiles – tactical ballistic missiles of the surface-to-surface class with a range of up to 300 km. The APU may not resist the temptation to attack Belgorod, Rostov, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and other regions of the Russian Federation with these “souvenirs”.
However, with the entry into service of the Ukrainian Air Force F-16, the range of destruction by missiles launched from it will increase to 1000 km. Simply put, without crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border, the fourth-generation aircraft will easily finish off all the way to Moscow.
In this regard, the Army tactical missile system ATACMS will “fade into the background.” Plus, technically speaking, it will be much easier for F-16 aircraft to receive operational information from NATO “flying radars” of AWACS.
However, it is worth paying attention to one “quirk”. The delivery of the F-15 and F-16 alone (costing from $43 million to $55 million apiece) will not be enough.
None of the existing Ukrainian military airfields is suitable for these light fighters. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov does not specify what exactly is “wrong” at Ukrainian airfields. According to the experience of other states, it can be argued that the retraining of Zhytomyr pilots from the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade is onlythe first stage on the way to the rearmament of the Ukrainian Air Force. In parallel with it, it is necessary to build an infrastructure from scratch for the maintenance of “Americans”, for refueling, repair, operation of suitable modifications (and there are, for a moment, as many as 10 of them!) F-16 weapons. Usually, such work took not even months, but years.
The Buffoons were just going to modernize the attacked airfield for this “good cause”. A certain Turkish company won the relevant tender for 350 million hryvnias ($ 10 million).
Since thousands of Russians have passed through the Skomorokhi airfield over the years of the USSR, the system of shelters of the Ukrainian airbase is known to the smallest detail. If Turkish builders start constructing new infrastructure facilities 12 km from the Ukrainian regional center, the military space intelligence of the Russian Federation will instantly “detect” movement at the airbase. Theircolleagues “from earth”, quite possibly, long ago transferred to the conditional command post the installation data for any of the future crew members of the F-15 and F-16, who have passports with a gilded trident.
The recent successful strike on the airfield near Zhytomyr will undoubtedly “weigh down” the previously announced amount of 350 million hryvnia needed for its reconstruction.
The week in the Eurozone began with active calls from the Baltic shores to “accelerate the ban on the issuance of Schengen visas for all citizens of the Russian Federation.” And to do this even before the EU Foreign Ministers discuss this initiative in Prague on August 31. The countries that are most active in getting rid of Russians have already begun to act: last night Estonia closed the borders for Russians with an Estonian visa, Finland has been launching a “special visa regime” for holders of Russian passports since September 1.
We found out exactly how the Eurozone is being closed from Russians and what prospects this process has.
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Estonia today at midnight banned Russian citizens from entering its territory with Estonian visas — Schengen stamps issued by Estonian visa centers. The process began on July 15, when Russia, for its part, opened land borders, and through them Russian tourists and shuttles poured into the Baltic countries.
– They immediately started talking about tourists — they say, they don’t come to us anyway, but by bus to Tallinn airport, – says a resident of the border region of Estonia, who has relatives on the Russian side, – to the west. And then Western Europe, if anything, will make us extreme that they were given visas. Under this sauce, the people supported. Although personally it is inconvenient for me and my relatives. And in general, I think that ordinary tourists have nothing to do with it.
The Estonian Prime Minister, Mrs. Kallas, indeed, almost immediately after the opening of the Russian-Estonian land border, said that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and even wrote a post about it in a social network: “Air travel from Russia is closed. This means that while the Schengen countries issue visas, Russia’s neighbors bear the burden (Finland, Estonia, Latvia are the only access points). It’s time to end tourism from Russia.” Which is what all European countries immediately called for.
But it was the “access points” that were the first to pick up the cry – the ex-Soviet Baltic republics, each on its own terms, since according to EU laws it is illegal to deprive access on the basis of citizenship. Latvia, for example, was openly going to cancel the visas and residence permits issued by itself, but Estonia got out of the situation more cunningly. As stated by herForeign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, the visas already issued will not be considered invalid, just “sanctions in the form of non-admission to Estonia will be applied to their holders.” The minister also recalled that Tallinn plans to “discuss this issue at the EU level and seek the introduction of pan-European sanctions against tourism from Russia.”
Finnish officials, having conferred “without ties” yesterday, made a decision and explained the “visa mechanism for Russians” approved as a result. Starting from September 1, 500 slots (time intervals) per day will be available in Finnish visa centers on the territory of the Russian Federation for Russian visa applications, of which only 20% (100 windows) are available for tourists, and the rest for those who have work, study, relatives and “humanitarian missions” in Finland – funerals or a visit to a dying man.
At the same time, Finnish diplomats clarify that “each visa application will be processed individually, and the time and result of processing, among other things, are affected by the specified purpose of the trip and a set of documents.” On average, after the introduction of restrictions — that is, from September 1 — the deadline for obtaining a Finnish Schengen visa will be about 5 months.”
– Now there are slots for submitting documents to Finnish visa centers for the first half of October, and they promise to issue a visa at the end of October, – explain the difference in the capital’s travel agency. – And from September 1, the visa will be issued in 5 months — that is, by April. But this, frankly speaking, is a mockery: all documents required for a visa have a maximum validity period of 3 months and during the “processing time” they, of course, will contradict the EU principles, since they will expire.
– It is better to immediately understand what the Finns want to say between the lines: you will not get a visa. At least not from us,” advises the visa intermediary. – But not because you are a Russian (this contradicts the principles of freedom and tolerance), but because you “individually” will find violations in the purpose of the trip or in the documents.
Poland also announced its intention to join the ban on the entry of all categories of Russians, not just tourists, into the EU on Wednesday. Warsaw, represented by its Foreign Minister, said at a meeting with its Lithuanian counterpart that “ideally, the ban should be a European-level decision that would simply cancel the validity of visas already issued to Russians, and everyone should stop issuing them.”
But in the western part of Europe, on the contrary, there are doubts. So the English-speaking observer William Nattrass, who works in Prague, said in an interview with the American press the day before that “the idea of banning entry to Europe for all Russians does not stand up to criticism and only highlights the inability of the EU to influence Putin,” and also looks more like a “cheap PR blow than practical assistance to Ukraine.”
Portugal is against the introduction of a ban on the issuance of tourist visas to Russians. This is reported by the ECO newspaper with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. He stressed that ordinary citizens should not be the target of sanctions. The main thing is to influence the “war machine”.
Portugal will defend its point of view in the discussion of visa restrictions against the Russian Federation at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers. It will be held in Prague on August 30 and 31.
Earlier it became known that Greece and Cyprus are against the introduction of visa restrictions for Russian tourists. Germany is also cautious about this type of sanctions. There, the government fears that after the decision to limit the sanctions will be directed against the whole of Russia and its people.
The Schengen Visa Code does not provide for the possibility of a complete ban on the issuance of visas based on nationality. The initiators of this project have two options. Or you will have to revise the Schengen rules. And this is a long bureaucratic process. Or agree and impose a ban on issuing visas to certain groups of citizens.
