Ukraine’s security service accused Russia of preparing to stage a “false flag” attack at an oil refinery in Belarus as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war.
The attack on the Mozyr refinery would be blamed on Ukrainian saboteurs but carried out by military and intelligence forces sent by Moscow to Belarus disguised as exiled Wagner mercenaries, it said in a statement on the Telegram app.
“Russia plans to accuse Ukraine of what they have done in order to try once again to draw Minsk into the full-scale war against our state,” the security service said in a statement, without providing evidence.
It claimed its assertions were based on information obtained from several sources, including a captured Russian serviceman.
Belarus is a close Kremlin ally and Moscow’s forces used Belarusian territory as a staging ground for their abortive drive towards the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv at the beginning of their February 2022 full-scale invasion.
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Wagner Group continues to recruit mercenaries in Russia despite Prigozhin’s statements
Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) continues to recruit mercenaries in Russia, despite the statement of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin about the termination of recruitment, with Africa being the main destination for the trained militants.
Details: The journalists found messages in the chat rooms saying that Wagner Group would resume recruiting mercenaries in August.
One former mercenary, who has already fought in Africa and Ukraine, told the media outlet that recruitment has resumed through the Orthodox sports club Desantnyk (Paratrooper) in Omsk and one of the PMC points in Novosibirsk.
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When the correspondent tried to get into the new “wave” of recruitment under the guise of a mercenary, the Omsk Desantnyk refused him, but the Novosibirsk veteran organisation Power Unity of Siberia, which is the official representative of the PMC, said that the new recruitment takes place on Fridays.
The journalist was offered to come to the office in sneakers and a sports uniform and pass a physical fitness test. In addition, representatives of the Wagner Group warned him that the candidate should not have a criminal record, chronic diseases and arrears on the Federal Bailiffs Service.
In addition, a potential Wagner mercenary must have a military specialty and a foreign passport since the main direction of recruitment is African countries.
Another mercenary, with whom the correspondent spoke, said that recruitment centres determine the work directions of militants after the selection.
During the conversation with the recruiter, the correspondent was offered to go to the “Special Military Operation zone” without signing a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry from the Redut PMC, associated with Gazprom. [Special Military Operation is a Russian propaganda term for the war in Ukraine – ed.]
Background:
- On 31 July 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC terrorists, stated that the company had stopped recruiting new mercenaries.
- On the evening of 23 June, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC, said that the Russian regular army launched a missile strike on the rear camps of his PMC, and because of this, 25 thousand mercenaries are going to “restore justice“.
- On 24 June, Wagner mercenaries took the military facilities of Rostov-on-Don under control, captured military facilities in Voronezh, went “to Moscow – and the Russian capital was already prepared for the defence.
- In the evening of the same day, after a conversation with the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries were returning to the field camps.
- The FSB reported that the criminal case of armed mutiny against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner PMC, had been terminated.
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Jeffrey Clark – Wikipedia
— Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Clarkjust have a scan of this. And this is just WIKIPEDIA. The FEDERALIST SOCIETY MUST BE ABOLISHED. @cnn and @Msnbc must stop interviewing members of the federalist society without asking them about a determination to destroy democracy.
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Demand for abortion drugs in Russia reached an all-time high in 2022, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday, citing data by the RNC Pharma consultancy. A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were sold in Russia last year, marking a 60% and 53% increase from 2021 respectively. “The launch of [Russia’s] special military operation [in Ukraine], [Western] sanctions, the population’s falling incomes and partial mobilization [of Russia’s military reservists] — all these factors are unlikely to have contributed to plans for building a family,” said RNC Pharma’s development director Nikolai Bespalov.
— Read on www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/02/demand-for-abortion-pills-in-russia-hits-record-high-kommersant-a82030 -
Saturday 29 July 2023
Ukraine Notes:
Wagner
Kilner, James (7/29/23) The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/29/wagner-group-mercenaries-prigozhin-poland-belarus/
- 16,000 immigrants mainly from the Middle East and South Asia had already tried to cross the border from Belarus to Poland this year.
- Wagner training camp in Belarus is near Brest in southern Belarus to train Belarusian special forcer.
- Poland has relocated 1,000 soldiers to its border.
- Wagner Telegram channels have reported 10,000 Wagner mercenaries may relocate to Belarus.
- “In 2021, Belarus flew thousands of migrants to Minsk before moving them to the border in Poland.
- Last year, Wagner fighters in Libya helped to launch boats full of migrants toward Italy.”
- Wagner Telegram has released a recording of Prigozhin praising the coup in Niger.
- Wagner has extensive contacts in Mali which neighbors Niger, where government is fighting the Islamic insurgency.
Almond, Mark (7/28/23) The Telegraph.
- Africa “this conference is part of a revolution in African geopolitics that represents one of the biggest threats to European and American geostrategic interests in the modern era. “
- “…Sub-Saharan Africa has become an arena of Russian intervention against Western allies and interests. To take one recent example, this week’s military coup in the Sahel by army officers in Niger toppled a pro-Western elected president who had hosted the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken just months ago. As in neighboring Mali, the military junta’s supporters appear openly sympathetic to Russia.”
- Prigozhin boasted about the coup against “colonists.”
- (Note: Questions whether US will ignore orders to get out, or remain in the region to counter Wagner).
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www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/31/ukraine-russia-war-moscow-drone-putin-zelensky/
A Russian official accused of war crimes has admitted to relocating more than 700,000 children from Ukraine.
In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova, accusing them of “illegal deportation of children” from Ukraine.
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United Russia party sources in the Urals region told Verstka website they had shredded pro-war campaign leaflets.
“There is not a single person here who supports the war. There are no Z-machines here,” the source in Putin’s party said. “If you support the war, you will not be elected.”
Western analysts have said that more than 200,000 Russians have been killed or injured in the war. This week, another Russian opposition website reported that overworked doctors in regional hospitals were resigning because of the stress of having to treat so many mentally and physically broken soldiers.
“There are almost no doctors left, and now the last ones are leaving because of unrealistic requirements on them,” a source in the Kemerovo region of Siberia told the New Tablet.
Citizens are also feeling the economic pain. This month, the Russian Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in a year, warning of inflation linked to a sharp drop in Russia’s labour force.
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www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/international-world/oppenheimer-nuclear-bomb-cancer.html
Excerpts
It does not explore in any depth the costs of deciding to test the bomb in a place where my family and many others had lived for generations.
There were more than 13,000 New Mexicans living within a 50-mile radius. Many of those children, women, and men were not warned before or after the test. Eyewitnesses have told me they believed they were experiencing the end of the world.
New Mexicans who may have been exposed to radioactive fallout from Trinity have never been eligible for compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a 1990 federal law that has provided billions to people exposed during subsequent tests on U.S. soil or during uranium mining.
Oppenheimer” leaves out other stories, too. The Manhattan Project and the nuclear weapons industry used the promise of a better life to entice thousands of people in the Southwest into the uranium mines that supplied the Manhattan Project. The miners went to work each day without adequate safety gear, while supervisors wore it from head to toe
I wept during the scenes in the film leading up to the detonation and during the test itself. I could hardly breathe, my heart was beating so fast. I thought about my dad, who was 4 years old that day. His town, Tularosa, was idyllic back then. After the test, after radioactive ash covered his home, he carried on as he always had drinking fresh milk, eating fresh fruit and vegetables that grew in the contaminated soil. By age 64, he had developed three cancers that he didn’t have risk factors for, two of which were primary oral cancers. He died at the age of 71.
we are left with a film that declines to bear witness to our truth.
This, too, is the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the government he worked for. I will never be able to forgive them for wrecking our lives and walking away.
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www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/state-of-evangelical-america.html
Trump has transformed evangelicalism far more than evangelism has influenced Trump.
