WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

And an example of how Politico reports on the special military operation


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[Vicus]

52 countries,including Germany,Italy and Austria,voted at the UN AGAINST the annual Russian resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.A year ago there were only two of them-USA and Ukraine

"It is always ok as long as they are our Nahtsees and our terroristts"-The West

posted by Ravenlocke here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1526172

As only Latin-American poster in this Thread enjoy and comfort me to know: not one Latin-Americans country vote pro Nazi...

After common sense, the reason Number 1 is we "know" from live experiences what military regime's are about...(but today mitary uniforms are not "in " anymore...)

All of them support when not self instigated from " the empire of lies" and his minions...

Last year only USA and Ukraine were the only supporters and today all the "west" let his mask fallen...

All the decades , movies , TV shows, documental, books, etc. showing the west heroisms against Nazi Europa, and now...

I feel sadness and rage but a new hope too...all Latin-American's in one voice say: nunca mas! (never again!)

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[Mashika]

Posted by Vicus (here)
52 countries,including Germany,Italy and Austria,voted at the UN AGAINST the annual Russian resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.A year ago there were only two of them-USA and Ukraine

"It is always ok as long as they are our Nahtsees and our terroristts"-The West

posted by Ravenlocke here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1526172

As only Latin-American poster in this Thread enjoy and comfort me to know: not one Latin-Americans country vote pro Nazi...

After common sense, the reason Number 1 is we "know" from live experiences what military regime's are about...(but today mitary uniforms are not "in " anymore...)

All of them support when not self instigated from " the empire of lies" and his minions...

Last year only USA and Ukraine were the only supporters and today all the "west" let his mask fallen...

All the decades , movies , TV shows, documental, books, etc. showing the west heroisms against Nazi Europa, and now...

I feel sadness and rage but a new hope too...all Latin-American's in one voice say: nunca mas! (never again!)

Because most of the people won't even know what their country is voting for, just like a lot of other votes that go by without any news or attention by the media, and because most of the people who should know (the masses) have the attention span of a dried potato

[Mashika]

The eyes thing is something i still ponder about after years

Back when i got to Mexico, lots of my friends, specially the ones i knew from before and some of the ones that knew me since we were 8 or so and who i met in vacation and bootcamps back then, told me that my eyes were 'crazy' and i knew something was being let known by how i looked because not long after some cops would stop me on the street and tell me if something was wrong and then say that i had an odd 'look' of sorts, or that my eyes looked like i was either drugged or in danger and stressed or something like that, so they would stop me to check on me as they thought i was going through something bad or running from something. It was the same thing several times over at least 2 years until i kind of learned how to look at other people without 'the eyes'

It kind of required to put my soul and mind into a peaceful state, of "nothing is going to happen, so you don't have to be full time on alert mode or looking at everyone as if they are a possible danger to yourself" and then finally i could relax and sit at peace or walk down the street without looking like someone is following me trying to kill me and i'm running away looking like an animal in danger

It's very hard to describe, but there's something very broken that takes a lot of time to fix, if ever, and i also learned to look at some of my friends who had terrible childhoods and they also had this odd look in their eyes, it was then easy to see when compared to other friends at school who had 'normal' lives

It's so terrible for sure, i wish no one had to go through it, and it's not only the eyes, it's the attitude, the lose of feelings, of emotions and of hope that goes with all that and it's at the very root.

It carries over to other things you do in life, like if you go to a coffee shop or bar, you sit against a wall so that no one is sitting behind you, if you go sleep alone, you make sure the door is closed and locked, and i kept a knife next to me when i was alone at my apartment because i felt insecure and weak while sleeping, and i did not know if someone would just break in at midnight and attack me! Something that was ridiculous if i think about it now, but back then i "could not take the risk"

All those kids look like any kid i may have met before over there and in other places, who had a massive bad childhood and has seen violence beyond what is reasonable, i know people like that still to this day

It's most soul destructive

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[Mashika]

Posted by Matthew (here)

Posted by Mashika (here)
I'm going to skip on answering in full for now, since i don't have enough time unfortunately

So i'll just go directly to make a point:

You don't understand what truly happens in Russia and within the government, or how it works
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Ok you understood my point and you say I'm talking bollocks so fine, I trust you.

When did Vova's concern over the Russians in Ukraine cause him to recommend they evacuate Ukraine because it's full of Russian hating nazis? If he cared about people wouldn't that be what happened? He might have but I can't find it. Why should people leave their homes they grew up in?! Yes I see that and I'm not sure I would in that situation either, but I don't see anything to suggest the state took that defensive position and that is a typical reaction for a state. Unless he urged Russians to leave Ukraine for their own safety stat then he's not caring so much about Russians. What's the difference between Russians fleeing Ukraine and Russians staying in Ukraine? Aside from people's safety it's the prize of the territory itself. I can't help but see this from a problem reaction solution point of view and Russia has continuity of leadership to exploit a long position like the west's leaders can only drool over.

The people in Donbass were not Russian, were Ukrainian, being ethnic Russian and being a Russian citizen are two very different things, in fact this, as i said on another post, was an internal issue within Ukraine and Ukraine separatists, and not between Ukraine and Russia, the UN was the one supposedly meant to do something about it, but they didn't for almost 9 years, no other country did as well. And there were the Minsk agreements that were supposed to create a situation in which the people of Donbass would be let free to live, as what they were all along, citizens of Ukraine, while being protected from persecution, these agreements were signed by Germany and France, and then they also ignored and never attempted to enforce them? Why do you think the people of Donbass were Russian? They never were Russian, they were born in Ukraine, and until very recently most of them remain Ukraine citizens

I don't know how you go that idea, but it is not right, there were very few real Russians in Donbass, the millions of people living there are Ukrainian and they parents, were also born Ukrainian, the only reason they are called "Russian" is because western media has made a great deal of their ethnicity and tried to play a narrative of "Russian invaders in the Donbass territory", as if the Russian government had moved millions of Russian citizens to take over the land and homes of Ukrainian citizens, while at the same time evaporating all the pre-existing civilians who lived there before.

Look, ok so there are some people who have literally been saved by Putin and on reflection I was so wrong to say he's nobody's saviour. I'm really sorry about that, to you Mashika; he saved possibly you and plenty of other persecuted Russians. But just as I didn't see things from your point of view please try for a moment to see them from mine: the UK's people have a tenancy to look to authoritative leaders for solutions; SNP or Labour, or the Reform Party... we have a national tenancy to whine and bitch that we need x leader to save us, and leader y is the problem. Russians don't have the same issue, you guys seem to have a healthy skepticism borne from historical reasons. England doesn't have this maturity. We have people who look at Putin then with their UK-ness and herald Putin as a saviour-god world hero in the same way they think x was or y was. Waving Russian flags to rebel against the focus on Ukraine seems healthy, but it easily crosses the line into hero worship. People here don't understand much about it and invest far too much good faith.

All of this is resolved if you understand what i said before about communist party being the one behind the war effort against Ukraine. But also, understanding that people in Donbass were not and are not (for the most part) Russian citizens but Ukraine citizens may help a lot


What Russians think of Putin has very little effect in how Ukrainian people from Donbass think of him, and whoever is the leader of Russia at the time doesn't change life much for the people of Donbass, if someone else comes and continues to help the Donbass people, they will continue to hope to become Russian citizens, not because Putin is at the front (from their point of view) but because they will be free from the Ukrainian persecution and will get better lives


I know a lot of people from Donbass, they are willing and hopeful to become Russians, but they are not and they don't even have the same customs in general, they are their own people, and before being Russian, they consider themselves something else, "Citizens of Novorossiya"


You should look into that, Novorossiya, it brings a total different perspective on the entire issue


If possible, and if given the chance, most people in Donbass would most likely chose to belong to a Novorossiya state instead of merging with Russia, but they do with the only options they have right now


All i'm saying is that there is a lot more going on, and a lot more complexity, than the brain dead narrative pushed by western media right now and since the past 9 years. Specially the childish explanations of why this war is happening they continually push all over the place

[shaberon]

Posted by Mashika (here)
Back when i got to Mexico, lots of my friends, specially the ones i knew from before and some of the ones that knew me since we were 8 or so and who i met in vacation and bootcamps back then, told me that my eyes were 'crazy' and i knew something was being let known by how i looked because not long after some cops would stop me on the street and tell me if something was wrong and then say that i had an odd 'look' of sorts, or that my eyes looked like i was either drugged or in danger and stressed or something like that, so they would stop me to check on me as they thought i was going through something bad or running from something. It was the same thing several times over at least 2 years until i kind of learned how to look at other people without 'the eyes'

Interesting.

As I have said before, English law enforcement had a similar reaction to me. They thought I was an IRA sympathizer. True enough, but is that a crime? They detained me three times, lastly when I was going to leave the country, I thought I was going to wind up in some stinking London jail. I guess they let me go since I did not really have any bombs or chemicals, just an interest in seeing Hyde Park and a centuries-old hatred of their government.


The other day I saw a statistic explaining to us how Ireland is actually jacked up in debt more than America, nearly to 700% of GDP. Breaking down public debt, every American owes their government about $92,000, and since less than half of them are the taxpayers, then what is foisted on people like me must be at least $150,000. The rest of the contenders in "can't pay what I owe" are the G7 countries.

I saw an informal Russian poll telling us that 94% of them believe the U. S. synthesized the Covid virus.

Everything about the battles indicates that this is another western Vietnam. The front lines don't change much because Ukraine still has plenty of suicide troops to send in. This now includes some obviously black operators of the HIMARS systems, which we do not think are Ukrainians. Russia has two things on their side, time, and stuff, and well I guess physical proximity makes three. Europe, as a whole, has drubbed itself into irrelevancy, and perhaps will be replaced by Japan, who at least is not stupid enough to cut off Russian energy supplies and so forth.


I thought it was hilarious that Kim Dotcom hacked Liz Truss's messenger because the "Five Eyes" are not the only ones who can do it. But yeah, you can just blow up Nordstream nonchalantly since all of the most heavily surveilled maritime space is impenetrable, right? Like U. S. airspace on 9/11. Again, we just want the British to appear relevant by being there, so they can take the first hit when exposed.

Well, if they could just be a little more honest, such as designating the Julian and Gregorian calendars as "Anno Domini Satanas", it might at least be a discussion starter. But as we see, any type of accusation in the Security Council is permanently vetoed, everything is denied by a refusal to answer anything and to stick in double talk about "-isms" and supremacy and so forth, leading us to the conclusion that all these buffoons know how to do is to tell you what to do, including what to think. When it comes to actual "stuff", which the FIRE sector requires in order to operate, all they can do is hide, since that would mean facing facts. Upcoming, for us, now, probably a 50% increase in diesel costs, and likely outages. Of course, it takes diesel for trains and trucks to move coal to power plants, so you can see how this is not really much better than the shape of Germany right now.

Probably true that it may take intense suffering of this population before they will admit the enemy is within.

[Mashika]

Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)

Posted by Mashika (here)

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So they are doomed in several ways. But this is something most people also can't grasp or are even aware of

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Thank you Mashika. But — I am not so sure that they are doomed.

May I again refer to my AlphaGo - Sedol match model. A vast majority of people was convinced, ahead of the match, that Lee Sedol would win against AlphaGo 5-0, including Sedol himself. He lost 1-4. The way Alphago played was such that even Sedol seconded by the ten best Go grandmasters would not have been able to win (that said in hindsight, but in this case the hindsight is the only option), so "puzzling" were AlphaGo’s moves. Decisive was, probably, that each and every move of AlphaGo was the result of AlphaGo’s real-time calculation of the statistical chance that a potential move would lead to ultimate victory, and after having ranked "all" ("all" being determined by the size of the computer memory) those moves according to that probability of their leading to a victorious outcome (or, phrased otherwise, according to those moves’ probability of not impeding a victorious outcome), chose the "best" move. Lee Sedol was unable to (1) access a collection of moves so vast as AlphaGo’s, to (2) rank such a vast collection of moves according to their "victory potential". He won one of the five matches because he introduced a move that was not in AlphaGo’s database, or was not sufficiently similar to any of the moves in AlphaGo’s database for AlphaGo to run its probability engine. This move of Lee Sedol (considered a move of genius by all specialists following the match) was indeed the result of "what humans are capable of", i.e. an almost (or genuinely) supernatural level of invention. As a result Lee Sedol was, after the match, initially confident that he could beat AlphaGo if he had more time to study its weaknesses. However, that was too optimistic, because AlphaGo would not sleep after the match and went on a probably exponentially better learning curve to become “OmegaGo" as I called it. As a result, Lee Sedol – a genius of Go – tragically decided to give up competition altogether, because he guessed that "human creativity with a supernatural genius quality" would not be able to beat a future “OmegaGo”.

I think the AlphaGo metaphor teaches us a lesson.

Another point: you remember Donald Rumsfeld’s, or was it Dick Cheney’s?, telling journalists or academics, something along the lines of "you are still interpreting reality while we are already changing it". The implication being that interpreting reality is always slower than reality itself, especially when reality keeps changing in real time before the eyes of the interpreters. When the strategy of warrior A is inherently based on interpreting the strategy of warrior B, then B will win when he changes his own (B’s) strategy fast enough for A to get caught up in interpreting instead of fighting. In a way that may have been the cause of Sedol’s winning the forth match: he suddenly changed his own strategy so fast that AlphaGo was not able to reduce his move to any of the moves available for its analysis and started blundering.

The combination of both aspects leads me to surmise that our champion for freedom can only win against the "Empire of Evil" if his country’s version of AI is better than the Empire’s version.

I entertain the idea that that is exactly the case. Incidentally my quasi-certitude, or my belief if you will, is fed by my study of the great achievements of Russia as compared to the United States, in the field of artistic creativity. It is difficult to find an equivalent of Dostoyevski – I would choose Melville – but Dostoyevski is a hero of the entire Russian culture; Melville is ”too difficult” to be understood by college-level students. Russia’s great 20th-century modern composers (Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Weinberg) are played in all Russian concert halls, continuously; Ives, Carter, Feldman – to name their American equivalents, are considered "Avantgarde" composers only understood by "specialists" and hence deemed not worthy the average citizen’s interest.

There is a good chance that Russia’s AI is better. That would be our real chance. It is probably so good that it even does not consider it necessary to remote-control the Russian president when he takes decisions or explains them to the country’s citizens.

The main problem for them i think, is not if the A.I. is better or not, the main issue is the data they currently manage


See this for example, there are two separate things:


1. A database. This contains all the basic stuff we know that can be used to describe reality (what's a color, what's a molecule, what's an atom, what's a person etc)
2. A knowledge base. This is an aggregation of facts and concepts, that in turn uses the database from 1. to describe the world


There Go game, can use both the database and the knowledge base to figure out how to play the game and what the rules are, but that information had to be entered by someone first.



That's where the human error can be introduced, let's say that the rules of the Go game can be described in full, and then also we can add lots of known moves to the knowledge base so the game engine can go look for a move that works against what the human just did


But what if someone 'corrupted' the knowledge based by describing an unrealistic world or unrealistic cases that do not match reality?


Let's work this case, for example (very simplified):


1. Sky is blue (from the knowledge base)
2. Blue is a color (from the database)
3. Colors have wavelengths (from the knowledge base)
4. Wavelength that match the color blue: 420 nm


So now you can 'describe' the color blue on a simulation, and it can be factual because it is based on known facts and data that can be proven correctly


But in the case of the political and military simulations, we have a small issue, as it has been identified by other people and by what you said before, it looks erratic and random sometimes


I think the data that is being fed into the A.I. is incorrect, because if you look at what they have been saying for months, in the case of the Russian ammo stockpile, they continually say Russia is about to run out of missiles/bombs/tanks/soldiers, yet none of it happens. So how is that happening?


1. They do not know how many of the above Russia has, but they have estimates

2. They run those estimates as the real factual data and then get back bad results (because it doesn't align with reality)
3. The work their strategy around those bad results and then get bamboozled when things don't go the way the A.I. said
4. They run another simulation (but update the data fed into the A.I. engine with more incorrect data, because they say 'well they lost around 10,000 more bombs so now they have less than previously esimated)
5. They get even more skewd results, then they plan their strategy around that bad data once more, and then bamboozled time comes around x 2


With every iteration, they go even more incorrect, to the point that now they lose thousands of soldiers per week because their estimates say it should not be possible to happen. Yet once on the ground, reality (which has separated more and more from their simulations by every run until it has nothing to do with what they 'see') comes hitting them in the face with a very hard punch

So as you probably have seen, now that they are completely lost as to what's going on, they made it worse by sending soldiers to the ground, so they can check and do something about the entire (reality and the A.I. simulation are not matching) situation. They are losing it and they don't understand why, so they had to manually go there to fix things up

So there's human error, and they have plenty because they keep assuming from bad data that is so old (this is related to the continuous cold-war mentality they have, by the way) that it's useless. And like i said, there's not a lot of people who can't see the strategy proposed by an A.I. and say "this is wrong", they just don't have competent people because they shot themselves in the foot with making people dumb so they could control them at will


If someone would enter the wavelength for Red color in the Blue database entry, then the A.I. would not know any better, and it would identify the color 'Blue' as what we see as 'Red', so then if you ask it to describe what a sunny day looks like, the color described by the A.I. in the simulation will not be correct


So what happens if no one is around to say "The wavelength is wrong for Blue, it is instead describing Red" and people just assume that the A.I. can't be wrong? Then we have a situation in which it leads to broken results, and no one is around to fix it? But maybe other places have it correct and remain silent just watching while this happens. That's what i see happening right now by the way, with all this war thing

The people capable of doing that hard work, are gone or will be gone soon, so even if just now they are not fully doomed, they will be in the near future, i don't have any doubt about it

And here's another example

Ukrainians were mocking the Russian army for using paper maps and old style radio calls to give coordinates across the mortar and howitzer line of defense. The way it works is more or less like this:

1. Forward observer detects the enemy position (either by sight or using a drone)
2. Calculates the approximate location

3. Calls to fire control central and tells them the enemy coordinates
4. Fire control calculates the exact coordinates and calls into the artillery and notified them were to shoot (they can and do use paper maps for this and to know where each group is located and altitude/distances etc are)

5. Artillery points their guns at the coordinates given and shoots (they do blindly, they don't know if the enemy is there or not, they just follow directions)


So this was mocked by the Ukrainians because it is not modern tech, but the thing is, this can't be disrupted like the hack they went through last week and before, they depend purely on satellite and computer networks, and if they lose that, they don't know how to work their machines or even how to figure out coordinates, because all of that was given by a drone detecting the enemy, then a computer along with a satellite would calculate it all for them and then they would just inform artillery of the coordinates given by the computer


So even if that works, if you hack into that network and skew the data just a bit, they won't know any better and point their guns at the wrong location. They have bad data, and they don't know any better, they can't figure out if it's good or not, they depend blindly on it


Any computer that is connected to a network, can and will be hacked on time


So in the end, it is not about the A.I. itself, but what data the A.I engine is working with




So yeah, even if they are not immediately doomed right now, they will be soon enough, because they have already shot themselves in the foot and there's no coming back from that

[Bill Ryan]

A sign that the tide may be turning.

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[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I believe the last few days have been quietly pivotal and provocative when you look at the new world order and at the global agenda being defined. Xi Jinping has been meeting with world leaders over the last few months but he purposely waited until the new 20th national Chinese Congress was in place and the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz put his foot (that's important) on Chinese soil before he delivered his first true global edict. Xi told Putin in no uncertain terms on a global stage not to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. The point is not that Putin was or was not going to use nuclear weapons the point is that Xi Jinping is seen around the world as the real power and Russia is now starting to be viewed as China's subordinate or China's sidekick and I am being polite in the choice of adjectives.

Xi Jinping has recently had term limits removed from the Chinese Constitution which allows him to stay in power for life. The vote was widely regarded as a rubber-stamping exercise. Two delegates voted against the change and three abstained, out of 2,964 votes. (lol)

While the reasonably new German Chancellor (Dec 2021) was in town and while Xi was on a roll to further cement his world leader status he very pubically asked Germany and Europe to “play an important part in calling for peace and facilitating negotiations.” These words are calculated and purposely chosen. China has the most to gain with the new world order and Xi (who will be turning 70 this year) is now on a mission and the clock is running out.

I find this all very comical and sad because Putin, Jinping, and Biden (Zelenskyy is a pawn) could care less about human life.

There are dozens of articles about Scholz's visit to China from both east and west new organizations but here is one from Politico.

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This might be an interesting reference: (Alexander Mercouris, just 10 mins, citing the Chinese official readout of the conversation)

Xi Jinping schools Scholz during quick trip to China

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yjYh_QmHep8

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Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
A sign that the tide may be turning.

https://t.me/intelslava/40655

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US wants official of Ukrainian descent to run NATO – NYT


The “prime candidate” favored by Washington to replace outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is Chrystia Freeland, currently Canada’s Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The bloc reportedly aims to install a woman at its helm for the first time, with other likely contenders being Estonian premier Kaja Kallas, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, former president of Croatia, who was also Zagreb’s ambassador to Washington. The “strong contenders” list provided by the NYT corresponds with earlier media reports this year.

The selection of a new NATO Secretary General, however, is still months away and “the names that surface first” may not survive the bargaining among the bloc’s members, unnamed NATO officials told the NYT. Incumbent head of the bloc Stoltenberg was set to leave his post on September 30, but his term was prolonged to late 2023 amid the conflict in Ukraine. The NATO boss might ultimately end up having his tenure extended for another year, one of the officials reportedly suggested.

Still, Freeland is believed to be the “prime candidate” for the post of NATO chief, favored by the US itself.

“Where any of the candidates come down on support for Ukraine in the war against Russia will be a critical factor,” the paper writes.

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Freeland, whose mother was Ukrainian, is known to have a strong pro-Ukrainian stance. She is the granddaughter of Michael Chomiak, described by the NYT as a “grateful immigrant to Canada” who was during World War Two a “younger man involved with a Ukrainian nationalist movement that saw the Nazis as useful foils to counter the Soviets.”

The paper didn’t mention, however, that Chomiak was a prominent Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and the editor-in-chief of a Ukrainian-language propaganda daily Krakivs'ki Visti. The outlet, published between 1940 and 1945, was funded directly by Nazi Germany and described by Canadian historian – and Chomiak’s son-in-law – John-Paul Himka as a “vehemently anti-Semitic” publication.

Freeland has been extremely ambiguous on her ancestry, not only refusing to condemn her maternal grandparents but somewhat endorsing them instead. In 2015 she wrote an essay called “My Ukraine,” stating that her Nazi collaborator grandparents “saw themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine.”

“That dream persisted into the next generation, and in some cases the generation after that,” Freeland wrote in the essay.

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Kiev official urges strikes on Iran

Iranian drone and ballistic missile plants should be destroyed, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has stated. This comes after Tehran acknowledged it had handed over military drones to Russia, though it’s insisted that this was before the Ukraine conflict broke out in late February.

“I believe it’s necessary to not only impose sanctions and embargoes, I believe that it could be possible to launch strikes on drones and ballistic missiles manufacturing facilities [in Iran]. Such a state cannot continue doing this with impunity,” Mikhail Podolyak stated on Friday, speaking live on local TV. The official did not elaborate on who, exactly, should launch such strikes against the Islamic Republic.

Allegations around purported arms deliveries from Iran to Russia surfaced in recent weeks, after Moscow began using new kamikaze drones en masse in Ukraine. Kiev insists that the drones, known as Geran-2 (Geranium-2), are actually Iranian-made Shahed-136 UAVs. The alleged drone deliveries have left a major dent in ties between Iran and Ukraine, with Kiev downgrading its diplomatic relations with Tehran.

Iran says it supplied drones to Russia before Ukraine conflict READ MORE: Iran says it supplied drones to Russia before Ukraine conflict
Both Moscow and Tehran have repeatedly denied arms deliveries have taken place amid the conflict. On Saturday, however, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian admitted that his country had indeed “provided Russia with a small number of drones months before the Ukraine war.” He also denied claims that Iran had supplied Moscow with missiles.

Podolyak commented on this admission, expressing doubts that such an explanation was actually true. “That is, instead of destroying our critical infrastructure, [the drones] have been laying in warehouses for eight months?” he said.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

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Serbia Rejects German-French Settlement Plan for Kosovo

BELGRADE (Sputnik) - Serbia has rejected a peaceful settlement plan on Kosovo and Metohija proposed by France and Germany as it implies that the breakaway province will become a UN member without a formal recognition by Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sunday.



"Its starting point is that the independence of Kosovo is already a done deal, but we do not accept that," Dacic told the Vecernje novosti newspaper.
The initiative suggested that Belgrade would get a fast-track to EU membership in exchange for Kosovo's accession to the UN, the report said.
"The conclusion of National Security Council is that this proposal is unacceptable for us and we all voted 'yes' for this conclusion… And while recognizing it or not in a formal sense, agreeing that Kosovo is a member of the UN is very difficult for us," the foreign minister said.
Tensions between Belgrade and Pristine flared up in August. The Kosovar authorities have required that local Serbs re-register their car plates, demanding that they feature the EU-standard letter code of RKS (Republic of Kosovo) instead of KM, the Serbian identifier for the disputed region of Kosovska Mitrovica on the border. The deadline for the re-registration was pushed to October 31.
On Saturday, representatives of the Kosovo Serbs decided to pull out of all structures of the self-proclaimed Kosovar authorities — including the parliament, government, courts and police — due to Pristina's decision to remove the Serbian police chief for refusing to issue written warnings to local Serbs regarding car plates. Later, Kosovo Serbs scheduled a demonstration on November 6 in the North Kosovska Mitrovica municipality.