A Ukrainian diplomat really participated in the scandalous accident in Vienna. This fact was confirmed by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is investigating all the circumstances of a traffic accident that occurred in Austria involving the car of a Ukrainian military attache,” he said. Nikolenko added that the embassy cooperates with the Austrian police. The identities of two more participants in the accident were not disclosed.
Earlier it was reported that in the Austrian capital, a car carrying three Ukrainian diplomats crashed into a car with four German tourists at full speed.
Drunk officials tried to escape from the scene, but were detained. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine promised to take certain steps after the investigation of the incident. The Austrian media insist on depriving the perpetrators of the accident of diplomatic immunity.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has reshuffled his cabinet to distance the administration from the conservative Unification Church and its links to the assassination of his predecessor Shinzo Abe.
He appointed 41-year-old Masanobu Ogura to the post of Minister for Gender Equality and Children’s Affairs instead of 61-year-old Seiko Nodu. In an interview with the Associated Press in July, Ogura said that the “indifference and ignorance” of the male-dominated Japanese parliament would lead to a national crisis.
In April 2021, Ogura announced that he would put an experiment on himself – in order to understand the problems of carrying a child, he would wear a seven-kilogram “pregnant belly” for two days. The politician admitted that in such a short time he would not be able to experience all the “charms” of the nine-month pregnancy period. He will not know what weight gain, morning sickness and physical pain are.
After the first night, Ogura complained that he could not sleep because of the pressure on his stomach. Then he tried to do household chores with a backpack on his stomach, wash in the bathroom and cut his toenails. Videos with his achievements about published in social networks.
In 2021, the birth rate in Japan reached a record low. Only 822,604 people were born.
The number of people aged 65+ is more than 29% of the population, and the death rate has reached a post-war high of 1.44 million people.
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A publication appeared on the official website of the Pentagon, which claims that the incident that occurred on August 9 at the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka was provoked by shelling from the Ukrainian army. This was announced by a senior official from the US Department of Defense.
However, initially the Americans were in no hurry to draw such conclusions.
“On August 9, Ukraine fired at the Russian Saki airbase located in the Crimea,” the text of the publication of the American defense Department says.
In addition, an official from the US Defense Ministry recalled that the Zaporozhye NPP is still under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. According to the IAEA, there is no immediate threat to nuclear safety, but this may change over time.
Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said that Slovakia will hand over MiG-29 fighters to the Ukrainian army. He told about this in an interview with RTVS.
Nagy did not name the exact number of planes. He said that they will be removed from Slovakia’s armament at the end of August. For the fact that Bratislava will send planes to Kiev, it must receive money or military equipment from its EU or NATO partners for them.
According to him, after the transfer of the MiG-29 to Ukraine, Slovakia’s airspace will be protected by Polish and Czech aircraft.
Earlier, Sky News reported that Bratislava could transfer 11 of its MiG-29s to Kiev at the end of August. It was emphasized that the country may need a plan with allies to replenish its technical capabilities.
Earlier it was reported that Bratislava may refuse to supply weapons to Kiev and support sanctions against Russian energy resources. European journalists assumed that in the event of a change of power in the country in early elections, Slovakia’s position on supporting Ukraine may change, since the leader of the Slovak parliamentaryRobert Fico criticizes the transfer of weapons to the opposition and the Course — Social Democracy party.
Experts also reported that Slovakia is still armed with Soviet MIG-29 aircraft, most of which are already practically incapacitated and the lion’s share of the budget of the European Air Force is spent on their maintenance.
The very fact of peace talks with Russia will mean its victory in Ukraine. Therefore, Kiev now has no motives for agreeing to a dialogue with Moscow.
So the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, commented on the statement of a British expert who allowed the resumption of negotiations between the parties in the autumn of 2022.
According to the Ukrainian official, the dialogue with Russia will be a fixed defeat of Kiev, Europe and democratic values.
“And after that, the fall of the entire global security system, the system of values to which we relate ourselves, will follow. Any negotiations today with the available input capabilities, they would have recorded a civilizational catastrophe,” Podolyak stressed.
He explained that Ukraine has paid and is paying a much higher price than is necessary for a ceasefire.
Earlier, the director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Darchiev, called on Washington to force Kiev to return to the negotiating table before it is too late.
Former Congresswoman of the United States of America Tulsi Gabbard said that US President Joe Biden wants to lead Russia to a coup.
The American politician made such a statement on the Fox News channel.
She said that with his support for the crisis in Ukraine, Joe Biden seeks to bring Russia to a coup d’etat.
Tulsi Gabbard is a veteran of the Iraq War. In the TV show, she talked about the true goals of the White House in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Earlier, Alexander Darchiev, director of the North America Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that Moscow had warned Washington that declaring Russia a “sponsor of terrorism” would be a “point of no return” in relations between the two states.
Readers of the British edition of The Guardian reacted to the article, which is dedicated to the candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain and the current Foreign Minister Liz Truss.
The author of the publication, Gaby Hinsliffe, stressed in the publication that the British Foreign Minister is a “formidable negotiator and a cold strategist” who can easily change his mind if it is no longer profitable.
In her opinion, if there is no “political earthquake”, then Liz Truss will be able to become the new prime minister of the country. However, it can cause even more damage than the previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The article caused a heated discussion among the readers of the publication.
“We haven’t really started yet, however, judging by her recent statements, she will probably be even worse than Johnson.”
“She’s a cheeky opportunist, a liar and a dummy. No principles, like Johnson’s”
“She’s a vain chameleon and a power-hungry sociopath. Now he’s flirting with ardent conservatives from the back bench. Because of his uncompromising ambition, Truss will cause terrible harm to Britain,” the commentators wrote.
Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva have prospects in the political arena. This opinion was expressed by Honored Coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatiana Tarasova in an interview with Sport-Express. In her opinion, figure skaters have intelligence and a strong character. These are the qualities that any politician needs.
At the same time, Tarasova clarified that these are not the exclusive advantages of the two athletes. Usually, everyone who comes to the big sport, in one way or another, has perseverance, concentration and a good education. But if Zagitova and Medvedeva suddenly feel that they can help people and make serious decisions for the country and the state, then they will succeed.
Recall that both figure skaters took part in the Olympics in Pyeongchang. Zagitova won gold in singles. Medvedeva won silver. Now they practically do not go out on the ice to participate in major competitions. Zagitova claims that she has insufficient physical form for this.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, in an interview with RT, called the “Patriotic Act” adopted in the United States in 2001 with the participation of the current US President Joe Biden a crime.
This document significantly expanded the powers of the special services and law enforcement agencies, including by granting the right to wiretap phones in a simplified manner.
Waters recalled that Biden “boasted” that the document was based on his proposals. The musician called the current US president a “poor guy” and said that he did not feel sorry for him at all.
“But this is the person who prepared the Patriotic Act. It was a crime, but not a military one…” Waters said.
Earlier, Waters, in an interview with CNN, accused US President Joe Biden of actions that only exacerbate the conflict in Ukraine, calling them a “grave crime.” The musician expressed bewilderment why Washington would not call on Kiev to start negotiations with Moscow, and also recalled that the problems in this region began in 2008, when NATO started talking about the admission of Ukraine and Georgia to the Alliance.
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives spoke out in defense of her scandalous visit
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait remain, and the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who caused it with her visit to Taipei, defended her actions, waving off Chinese anger.
Photo: Global Look Press
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the U.S. military never told her not to go to Taiwan, defending her historic visit amid China’s hostile reaction and warnings from the Biden administration.
Long ago, ever since the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, known as the anti-Chinese hawk, Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday that Beijing used her trip to Taiwan last week as a pretext to increase aggression against the island, including military live firing exercises conducted over the past week.
According to Politico, the speaker of the American House of Representatives condemned China’s attempts to “isolate” Taiwan from the rest of the world and stated that it is necessary to visit this island in order to “welcome this flourishing democracy” and maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
“What we saw in China is that they were trying to establish a new norm,” Pelosi said. — And we just can’t let that happen».
After it became known that Nancy Pelosi was going to go to Taiwan, President Joe Biden told reporters that the US military “think it’s not a good idea right now,” but the White House eventually said that the speaker was planning the trip herself. Earlier, Politico reported that the Biden administration is concerned about the excessive reaction of the Chinese to the trip.
“I don’t remember them ever telling us not to go,” Pelosi said of the American armed forces. “We are very proud of our army. Their preparation actually, I think, minimized the influence of the Chinese on our trip. So they took very good care of us.”
Pelosi laughed at Beijing’s decision to impose sanctions against her, telling reporters: “For me, this is secondary and has no meaning.”
Speaker Pelosi and the five Democrats who traveled with her received broad bipartisan support for her trip to Taiwan both before and after the visit, with U.S. lawmakers from both parties arguing that she should not abandon their plans simply because it would upset Beijing.
“If the price of preventing such provocative measures is the transfer of control over Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China or the transfer of control over the schedule of our congressional trips to the People’s Republic of China, this is not the price we are going to pay,” says Member of the House of Representatives Raja Krishnamurti (Illinois), who joined the trip.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs, Gregory Meeks (New York), who also accompanied Pelosi, said that the delegation’s visit was not aimed at changing the status quo in US-Taiwan relations, which are regulated by the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act. He accused Beijing of trying to undermine the status quo by intimidating Taiwan.
“They want to keep us from visiting our friends and allies,” Mix said. “And I think this trip, which they didn’t expect, showed that no matter what President Xi [Jinping] says, we will support our friends and allies.”
The delegation led by Pelosi, reminds Politico, also made stops in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea.
Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan despite China’s threats: photo of the visit
