The Royal Air Force reports that Norwegian F-35 fighters were flying up to escort Russian military aircraft heading to the north of the country.
The agency clarifies that on May 26, the radar in Serreisa recorded the flight of two unknown aircraft over the Norwegian sea. By order of NATO, Norwegian F-35 fighters took to the air.
In the photos published by the Norwegian Air Force, you can recognize the Russian Su-24 and MiG-31. It is also reported that after flying over the Norwegian sea, Russian planes headed in the opposite direction.
CEO of the GTS of Ukraine Sergey Makogon said that Naftogaz appealed to the German Ministry of Economy with a request to stop the operation of the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline.
“This stream worked on an exception to ensure the safety of gas transportation to Europe, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there are no more grounds,” Makogon said.
The General Director of the GTS justified the request to terminate the operation of the Nord Stream with the desire to ensure the safety of the gas transportation system of Ukraine.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born, appointed on May 16, outlined three main priorities of her policy: health care, the purchasing power of the population and the fight against climate change.
“The first weeks of our work should be devoted to taking care of the urgent needs of the French,” Born said today after a government meeting.
With regard to the purchasing power of the population, Born noted that there should be no “forgotten” and “unseen”. She asked to pay special attention to the needs of students.
The French Prime Minister also appealed to the Ministry of Health with a demand to put forward proposals aimed at eliminating the problems of hospitals that appeared as a result of the pandemic.
Ukraine may be forced to actually merge with Poland, and then Ukraine’s statehood is threatened with complete destruction. This was stated by ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.
The former head of the country also stressed that Ukraine will have to sit down at the negotiating table with the Russian Federation.
The text of Yanukovych’s letter was posted on social networks by his press secretary Briy Cuirassier.
“No matter how painful it is for me to write about it today, but the statehood of Ukraine is in extreme danger,” writes Yanukovych. And it’s not just about the risk of losing huge territories in the south and east of the country, the ex-president warns.
A burial of Ukrainian servicemen has been found on the territory of Mariupol. This was reported by the Ministry of Health of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
The total number of buried Ukrainian servicemen is about 40 people. Fourteen bodies have already been recovered from the mass grave.
Earlier, during the cleaning of the territory of the Azovstal enterprise, a morgue of a nationalist formation was discovered, in which there were more than 300 bodies of dead and wounded militants hiding in the basements of the metallurgical plant.
The head of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus Viktor Khrenin announced the instruction of the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko to create a people’s militia in the republic. According to him, it was given at a meeting as part of the adjustment of issues, clarification of the development of the armed forces.
Khrenin added that the most important thing is that Belarus has the people and weapons for this. Now it is necessary to discuss this issue with the governors in order to determine this legislatively.
This will significantly increase the number of defenders of the motherland”. Khrenin added that in the current situation, it is necessary to peacefully show that “it is not necessary to meddle” in the territory of Belarus.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ordered the urgent creation of a Southern Operational Command in the army. According to him, “a new direction has opened, as we say, a new front”. It’s about the Ukrainian direction.
Before that, the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Alexander Volfovich, said that Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups enter the territory of Belarus when performing tasks. According to him, mining is being carried out, “the implementation of blockages”, and actions are also being carried out by “sabotage and reconnaissance groups, including entering the Belarusian territory”.
And the Secretary of State of the Security Council of the Republic expressed concern about the build-up of Ukrainian forces near the borders of Belarus. According to him, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Rivne direction of the Ukrainian direction is about 10.5 thousand people, and in Kiev – more than five thousand. In Chernihiv, it has 4.5 thousand.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the DPR has completed the investigation of a criminal case against mercenaries from the UK and Morocco. The involvement of Britons Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as Moroccan Saadoun Brahim in the fighting against Donbass has been established.
Now everyone is facing the death penalty, as stated by the head of the Department for the investigation of crimes against the peace and security of mankind of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic Viktor Gavrilov.He added that the case materials have already been transferred to one of the DPR courts for consideration on the merits.
Earlier, the British mercenary Sean Pinner, who surrendered to the Russian military in Mariupol, spoke about the attitude towards him in captivity. He stated that the good attitude there came as a surprise to him. The Briton said that he was given medical care, watered and fed. He added that he was being helped to go home. He clarified that he was in Ukraine without signing a contract and was ready to take responsibility for his life. Interestingly, later the UK reported that Pinner, in fact, was a sniper.
Another British citizen, Andrew Hill, who was captured by Russian troops in the Mykolaiv region, urged his compatriots to seriously consider whether they should go to participate in hostilities in Ukraine. Hill himself came to Ukraine from the Polish city of Rzeszow. There were seven people in the group with Hill, he did not get to know them and had a minimum of information, he could not even name the commander.
A video has spread on Chinese social networks in which Polish President Andrzej Duda allegedly announces mobilization and orders the deployment of troops to Ukraine. However, the Ministry of Defense of the country denied such information, and the video itself was called a fake.This was reported on May 27 by AFP.
According to journalists, the 32-second-long video, around which the scandal arose, went viral in early May on the popular Sina Weibo microblogging service in China and in Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok.
The footage shows Andrzej Duda delivering a speech, and the subtitles in Chinese say that he announces the readiness of Polish troops to enter Western Ukraine and organize volunteers to join the resistance. «This will allow us to reflect any danger or potential threat», — reported in the credits.
AFP journalists found out that the recording itself is authentic. It was taken from a live broadcast by the Polish news agency Onet News. President Andrzej Duda did make a speech, but he only did it in honor of the celebration of Constitution Day on May 3, 2022. In a common fragment, Duda does not mention mobilization, but speaks aboutthe brotherhood of the peoples of Poland and Ukraine and the possible “absence of borders” between them.
Earlier, the president of Poland, as part of his speech at the economic forum in Davos, said that Germany does not give his country the tanks that it promised instead of those delivered to Ukraine. Before that, it was reported that Poland supplied Ukraine with hundreds of its T-72 tanks.
The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the prophecy of the former head of the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky about the collapse of Ukraine. According to the official representative of the Kremlin, it is necessary to wait for the fulfillment of such words or non-fulfillment.
“Commenting on prophecies is not my responsibility and is not our prerogative. Moreover, we do not have such competencies. We propose to wait for them either to be fulfilled or not to be fulfilled,” Peskov said.
As previously reported by MK, Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is watching and following the Western media. However, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation believes that there is still little objective information in such media.
$ 10 million a day is spent only through Google on anti-Russian propaganda, Chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Alexander Khinshtein told MK.
“There is an opinion that the restrictions imposed on freedom of information should be temporary, that is, to act until the end of the special operation. But I don’t completely agree with that. The special operation will end, but the ideological information war is unlikely to stop.”
