Pranksters Claim Chat on Ukrainian Nuclear Program with UK Defense Chief

An inspector calls, but not the one Ben Wallace was expecting... the pranksters that 'duped' him into believing he was on the line with Ukraine's PM have alleged that the UK Defence Sec. said Britain could "assist Kiev."

A teaser has been released of the supposed dialogue, which suggests Westminster could be ready to help Ukraine develop nuclear weapons.

The call reportedly took place on March 17. Wallace was said to be in Poland at the time and thought he was speaking to Denys Shmyhal - he responded that "Russia would really hate it," and would discuss the matter with Boris Johnson.

The pranksters say they will release the full video in the coming days.

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Civilians continue to evacuate the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol, passing through Russian-led checkpoints in the Donetsk region

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🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s address to the Israeli Knesset

💬 Vladimir Zelensky’s March 20 video appeal to the members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) evoked utter astonishment, to put it mildly, including among those to whom it was addressed.

The reason is the Ukrainian leader’s clumsy attempts to play upon the World War II tragedy of the Jewish people by drawing far-fetched parallels between the Holocaust and the current developments in Ukraine.

Vladimir Zelensky seems unaware of the fact that it was the Jews living in the Ukrainian SSR who felt the full impact of the blow delivered by the Nazi hordes during the Great Patriotic War. And it was only due to the adamant determination of the Red Army that it proved possible to thwart the heinous plans of the Third Reich and its satellites.

It is this memory that unites Jews, Russians and Ukrainians, who are true to their traditions and historical heritage.

📢📺🗞Mass Media of Russia about Situation in Ukraine

1. 🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Ministry announced measures against the decisions of 🇯🇵 the Government of Japan

❗Considering the obviously unfriendly character of unilateral restrictions imposed by Tokyo, the Russian Federation decided not to continue peace treaty talks with Japan, suspended visa-free travel for Japanese citizens, withdrew from the dialogue with Japan on developing joint economic activities on the southern Kuril Islands.

All responsibility for harming bilateral cooperation and the interests of Japan itself rests with Tokyo, which has deliberately chosen an anti-Russia course instead of developing mutually beneficial cooperation and neighbourly relations.

2. Briefings by Russian Defence Ministry 21.03.2022

📍Ukrainian nationalists continue to use residential areas of settlements and social facilities as a "human shield" to deploy their artillery systems and conduct massive fire on Russian servicemen.

📍The coordinates of the position of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers were confirmed by Russian reconnaissence through several channels, as well as the location of warehouse with rocket ammunition was discovered in a closed shopping centre on the outskirts of Kiev. Live monitoring and recording system clearly shows a multiple launch rocket system enters it for reloading. On the night of March 21a battery of Ukrainian MLRS and a storage base were destroyed with high-precision long-range weapons.

📍The special military operation was organized by a professional army, which actually uses cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons. They carry out precision strikes against military infrastructure and never against civilian objects. The nationalists themselves and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are hitting civilian targets.

📍The Russian Defence Ministry has analyzed the results of the destruction by aviation missile complexes "Kinzhal" with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles of the underground protected storages of Ukrainian aviation weapons and combat units for Tochka-U missile systems located in the Delyatin, Ivano-Frankovsk region, as well as large fuel depots in Konstantinovka, Nikolaev region. Missiles of "Kinzhal" complex were launched from a range of more than 1,000 kilometers. The flight time of the hypersonic missile was less than 10 minutes. Due to hypersonic speed, ultra-high kinetic energy, as well as due to its invisibility and invulnerability to any means of enemy air and missile defence the warhead was able to destroy a protected underground arsenal located in a mountainous area, built in Soviet times.

📍All the alleged "real data" about losses of military equipment and personnel of the Russian Armed Forces, including senior and superior officers is propagandistic lies.

In turn, it is necessary to draw attention to the actions of the Ukrainian Security Service, neo-Nazi formations and other so-called "special Ukrainian structures" that terrorize their own citizens trying to leave the territory of Ukraine. It is these representatives of the Kiev regime who create a stir on the border. They let children and women through. Although not all of them. As for the male population of Ukraine, they are forcibly conscripted into the army as so-called "reservists". In fact, they are used as "cannon fodder".

22.03.2022 (10:30)

☝Units of the Russian Armed Forces, developing the offensive, advanced another 6 kilometers and captured Urozhajnoe. They are fighting with units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The troops of the Donetsk People's Republic has penetrated 4 kilometers deep into the defence of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is fighting to capture Kamenka, Novoselovka II, and Verhnetoreckoe.

They advanced 5 kilometers into Kurakhovo direction. Units of the Donetsk Republic captured Slavnoe, Trudovskoi, Shahta Chelyuskintsev and Mar'inka. During the day, 3 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 field artillery guns and 6 all- terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area.

Militia units of the Lugansk People's Republic have established control over Kalinovo Popasnoe, Novoaleksandrovka, Stepnoe, Boguslavskoe and continue to destroy units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. More than 40 personnel and 5 all- terrain vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.

Air-force and Army aviation hit 137 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them 6 command posts and communication hubs, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 1 anti-aircraft missile system, 8 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 101 areas of military equipment stockpile. The Russian air defence shot down 14 more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2. The group of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 9 Ukrainian tanks, 7 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers during night strikes.

In total, 230 unmanned aerial vehicles, 181 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,528 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 154 multiple launch rocket systems, 602 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,312 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

❗ The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began to investigate crimes against civilians in Ukraine and facts of violent acts in the Nikolaev region. According to the data they have, the militants of the territorial defense of Ukraine bypass houses in all large settlements of the region and force men to enroll in their ranks. And those refusing were shot on the spot.

❗ Information is spreading on the Internet that the Russian military continues to bombing civilian objects, and a shopping mall was damaged during the shelling of the Podolsky district of Kyiv. In fact, according to a videorecords the Retroville shopping mall was closed. On its territory a firing point of the Ukrainian armed forces was located. Video posted on Ukrainian social networks as well as the photos, inadvertently published by the Ukrainian police, show evidence of using shopping mall as a parking lot of military equipment. And in one of the buildings, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was organized. One of the photos shows the shell of a 2S7 "Pion" artillery system, caliber 203 mm used by the UAF.

🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Government members:

💬 I have decided to implement, in the shortest possible time, a package of measures to transfer payments (to begin with) for natural gas supplied to “unfriendly countries” to Russian rubles; that is, we will not accept any compromised currency to be used in these transactions.

Russia will continue to supply natural gas in the agreed to volumes and for the agreed-on prices as indicated in the existing contracts. Unlike some of our colleagues, we value our business reputation as a reliable partner and supplier.

These changes will affect only the transaction currency, which will now be Russian rubles.

🇷🇺 Mine clearance of farmland in Kherson region.

▫️In the south of Kherson region, the engineering troops of the Southern Military District have begun continuous demining of the area was controlled by the AFU and nationalist battalions.

▫️The actions of the sappers are complicated by the fact that the APU, when mining objects, did not mark them on the maps.

▫️Russian servicemen during humanitarian demining of farmlands in Kherson region neutralized more than 12,000 explosive objects.

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US allegedly funded neo-Nazis in Ukraine to fight Russia? Check out this report by RT from Lugansk

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🇬🇧The UK Ministry of Defense has asked YouTube to remove footage of UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace talking to Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, claiming the "Russian disinformation" in the video "creates a substantial risk of UK national security and our defense commitments to NATO and our international partners," as well as "to international unity working to support Ukraine against Russia's illegal invasion."

The prankers said they held a video call with Wallace on March 17. Before raising the minister's suspicion, they managed to discuss the status of Ukraine in NATO, arms supplies, involvement of foreign mercenaries in the conflict, and Kiev acquiring nuclear weapons.

🇷🇺🇺🇦☣️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

▫️The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.

▫️The incoming materials allow us to trace the pattern of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian bio-objects. The involvement of entities close to the current US leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of equipment to the Pentagon's bio-labs around the world.

▫️The scale of the program is impressive. The US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the military department. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

▫️All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.

▫️Please note - the registration card confirms that it was 30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 settlements that were involved in full-scale military-biological activities in Ukraine.

▫️The document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.

▫️The registration card identifies the customer of the work, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as a list of biobjects.

▫️As we have previously reported, the funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document states that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.

▫️The Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarised the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the US and its allies to export at least 16,000 bioassays outside Ukraine.

▫️Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to Hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.

▫️This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region.

▫️Document review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK, the Loeffler Institute in Germany.

▫️All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.

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📑 Documents

🎇 Briefing slides

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #NBCP #BioWeapon
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▫️One of the US customers' priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.

▫️The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of US military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analysed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.

▫️Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon's research and its true purpose.

▫️We know of examples where the US military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies.

▫️Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the US Army's Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.
The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.

▫️We continue to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. We would like to point out that such work is prohibited within the US and is carried out by the military department outside the US.

▫️Earlier mention was made of the UP-8 research, which involved more than 4,000 people. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalised.

▫️The documents received confirm the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.

▫️What makes the US sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.

▫️Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the US administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the US Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities.

▫️The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.

▫️We would like to draw attention that the number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.

▫️We believe that in the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the US biolaboratories as part of the international investigation.

ℹ️ Part 1

📑 Documents

🎇 Briefing slides

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🕯 On March 24, 1999, the #US and its #NATO allies began a 78-day armed aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

▪️ NATO conducted over 35,000 air raids, dropping some 3,000 cruise missiles and over 10,000 tonnes of bombs on the country. In TNT equivalent, this is five times the yield of the nuclear bomb, which the Americans dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

▪️ Over 2,000 Serbs, including children, women and elderly people, were killed in the bombing raids. They were later cynically described as “collateral damage.”

▪️ NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 was the first armed invasion of a sovereign state in Europe since 1945. That tragic contribution to European history was made by the “purely defensive” alliance.

💬 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov: We know who created a pretext for the bombing of Yugoslavia: US national William Walker, who headed the OSCE’s Kosovo Verification Mission. There were armed clashes, and he convened journalists to tell them that they had discovered the bodies of 30 civilians in Racak who had been massacred by the Serbs. He described it as genocide and took a unilateral decision, which he had no right to do, to withdraw the mission from Kosovo. This is what triggered the bombing. They said that the atrocity in Racak was the last straw and that they would cut short the activities of the criminal regime.

Later a special group was assigned to investigate the incident. It established that the dead were not civilians but militants who were dressed in civilian clothes after they had been killed in battle. The holes in their clothes did not align with the wounds. Yes, the case was investigated very thoroughly. So, saying that NATO’s invasion of Yugoslavia had a noble purpose is wrong and unethical.

🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with students and faculty of the @mgimo_university

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🔹 Ten or so years ago, our Western colleagues began urging everyone to respect what they called “rules-based order” and to follow these “rules” instead of “international law”. No one presents these “rules” to anyone because there are none. They are created from scratch for each particular case.

🔹 There is no doubt that containing any rival is one of the “rules” that the West is eager to implement. Today, Russia is that rival, but China has been declared next in line.

🔹To be an active tool for containment, Ukraine had to become “anti-Russia,” as President of Russia Vladimir Putin recently noted. Ukrainian authorities encouraged neo-Nazism and passed legislation on de-Communisation and on glorifying winners in World War II, among which they listed Shukhevich, Bandera and all other collaborators, who should have been tried by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. But nobody was interested in this subject. The “civilised” West silently watched and even encouraged this.

🔹 At the moment, it is not Ukraine that is being used to limit, humiliate and destroy everything that is Russian. The entire world has been commanded “get ’em,” even the “educated” West. One is under attack just for having a Russian passport, walking into a shop where the owner thinks you are a Russian. Never mind what is going on in sports, our Paralympic athletes – it is a cruel joke, the doom of the Western civilisation.

🔹 If you are a Russophobe, you are allowed to do anything. This principle is evident in the daily activities of the Ukrainian authorities for the past eight years.

🔹 The Ukrainian party, although it showed understanding of the matters to be coordinated during the talks, has been changing its position all the time, rejecting its own proposals. It is difficult to get rid of the impression that their American colleagues are holding them by the hand. According to Russian and Western political analysts, the Americans do not want this process to end soon.

🔹 The attempts to present Russia as isolated or being isolated is a futile attempt. We have many friends. Just take a look at how many countries have adopted sanctions and how many have refused to do so despite the immense US pressure, which I would describe as unbecoming of a great power.

Russian Ambassador Marat Pavlov explained that Russia's special military operation in Ukraine arose from a projected “large-scale offensive operation in the Donbas area" set in March this year.

Russian Ambassador Pavlov's explanation was made during an Ambassador's Forum organized by Philippine think tank IDSI on 21 March, 2022 where the roots of the conflict in Ukraine and other areas were discussed.

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"Americans no longer masters of planet Earth" - ex-Russian president Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev has told RT he believes the "unipolar world has come to an end," as the west reacts to Russia's operation in Ukraine.

The Security Council Deputy Chairman also spoke about the EU abandoning Russian gas, and why Americans are no longer the preeminent global power. Medvedev called out increased Russophobia, which has boomed after resurfacing from behind the "hypocritical white-toothed smiles of politicians and diplomats who said one thing and did something completely different".

The full interview will be out on RT.com SOON.

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🎙 Watch Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speak on the most topical foreign policy issues and answer questions by the students and faculty of the @mgimo_university

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