This is a weak argument - a reference to a month old newspaper article when you ignore the latest statement at the chemical defense briefing, with serious allegations, documented evidence and confirmed facts.  Here are the slides from this briefing.

Good question. I think the logic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" works here. At present, the status of Donbass in the eyes of Russia is the independent people's republics of the DPR and LPR, with which, at their request and on their initiative, treaties of friendship and mutual military support have been signed. Until February 21, 2022, this was an internal affair of Ukraine, in fact a civil war and genocide of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, who were forbidden to speak their native language, and when they did not agree with this, they began to shoot, kill and did it for 8 years right in the center of Europe. And the Grad attacks on Donetsk on February 22 were already the aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against an ally of Russia, to which Russia reacted with its own special operation, which we are now discussing here.

Russia is a multinational country and condemns Nazism, at the official level it is a policy of zero tolerance. Far-right nationalist groups in Russia are extremist and operate outside the law, this is working for the special services. It seems that the FSB already had questions to the head of the LPR about his public statements, I hope this will soften the intensity of the rhetoric. The community of Russian people is supranational.

If you listen to Arestovich a lot, then Ukraine is doing much better now than a couple of months ago. Buried alive in the Azovstal bunker is also a victory for Ukraine, of course.

That is, it doesn’t bother you that the president of Ukraine is a drug addict and an actor from the series about the president, doing some kind of game and all that?

I'm not sure if I understand the details of your affiliate offer correctly, for example, where will I get a huge amount of useless currency from? I have a symbolic one dollar banknote and a 2 euro coin, rather for numismatic interest. All my money is in bitcoin, some shitcoins and rubles for everyday expenses.

Не получилось добиться быстрой и безоговорочной капитуляции, а так то блицкриг вполне себе удался. За первые 72 часа операции Россия добилась следующего:
1. Взяли под контроль Чернобыль, не допустив провокаций с радиационным заражением местности.
2. Двести десантников при поддержке танкового батальона взяли под контроль аэропорт в Гостомеле (25км от Киева), который охраняло элитное подразделение ВСУ, обученное по стандартам НАТО - это отбило всё желание у НАТО к непосредственному участию в конфликте (удар Кинжалом по защищённому от ЯО бункеру был уже контрольным в голову).
3. Россия закрыла небо над Украиной, опередив НАТО (в этом деле кто первый встал того и тапки).
4. Россия отбросила ВСУ от своих границ на 100-150км, лишив возможности стрелять по своей территории самым дальнобойным оружием Украины Точкой-У со стационарных позиций. Все удары по Белгородской и Курской областям это результаты диверсионных вылазок, а не штатная работа артиллерии как например в Донецке.

После этого общий исход операции был на 100% предрешён в пользу России, и никакого смысла спешить уже в принципе нету. Чем дольше Украины продлевает свою агонию - тем хуже для неё будут условия мирного соглашения. Уже явно просматривается перспектива потерять не только Донбасс, но и выход к морю.

There is a nuance, the Nazi battalion Azov is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a regular unit. Before you publicly justify the Nazis, think twice - whether you are fighting in the wrong direction.

Gazprom's long-term contracts are concluded in the post-paid format for each billing period. The next payments for gas under some existing contracts should be made this week. In the absence of payment for gas, after the grace period of five days, gas supplies will be terminated. Very soon we will find out who has the big balls in this story and whether Europe is ready to abandon Russian gas right now.

As Zinaida Gipius said, "if you need to explain, then you don't need to explain".

Maybe you want something fresher? The 52nd day of the special operation, President Zelensky of Ukraine appears to be pretty drunk or under the influence of drugs. The video seems to be a deepfake, but the link is to Zelensky's official Instagram lol.

Meanwhile, the Voronezh special forces are returning home from Ukraine. The operation is still ongoing, but after six weeks, a planned rotation of personnel is being carried out to give the fighters a rest.

Currency markets are prone to panic attacks amid sharp geopolitical changes. Right now, the exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar and the euro has returned to the price levels "before the operation", but even more indicators are not the exchange rate on the currency exchange, but the exchange rate on Aliexpress - how much the ruble is worth in China's internal opinion. It reached 150 rubles per dollar, and right now the dollar costs 86 rubles.

I think this is a China's policy of "zero tolerance" for covid-19, brought to the point of absurdity, and maybe a little more trade war with the United States.

Video of fishing with a drone in Shanghai so as not to starve to death.

One of the big mistakes of the West was the imposition of sanctions without a clear mechanism for when and how they would be lifted. Therefore, Russia considers the sanctions to be long-term for an indefinite time, or, more simply, "eternal", and the freezing of its reserves in dollars and euros is a default by the West. Russia does not need foreign investment in discredited currencies.

The city is completely under the control of the forces of Russia and Donbass. The confirmed losses of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol already exceed the official losses of Ukraine in this operation, announced recently by Zelensky, and 1,462 Marines surrendered. Judging by the intercepted radio communications, the inhabitants of the bunker near Azovstal after yesterday's bombardment are in a state close to panic. There will be no deblockade and they know it. No one will climb into the dungeon to clean it up, the surviving inhabitants of the bunker will be destroyed one way or another. But those who surrender today before 13:00 will have some chance to save their lives by showing that their Nazi ideals are not worth dying for. This is a fiasco.

As far as I understand, the briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense dated April 14, 2022, based on the results of the analysis of documents related to the US military biological activities on the territory of Ukraine, did not cause much resonance in the Western media. Meanwhile, there are a lot of interesting things there, for example, that US scientists have been testing dangerous biological drugs on patients in the Kharkov psychiatric hospital for three years. Also, in laboratories in Ukraine, under the control of US scientists, the possibility of spreading cholera, typhoid and hepatitis through water was studied.

Video of the briefing, full text of the briefing, published documents.

Soldiers of the "Somali" battalion from Donbass hoisted their flag on the high-rise of Mariupol. Mariupol is taken.

More than 2000 Nazis of Azov continue to be in the bunker near Azovstal, yesterday about 40 FAB-500 bombs were dropped on the plant, today until 13:00 the ceasefire is in place - Russia gives the Nazis the last chance to get out of the bunker alive (then they will be tried in the Donbass and there is no moratorium on the death penalty). Good deal, must be accepted.

You are right, regardless of whether the default is technical or real, declaring a default will close the market for foreign borrowing in dollars and euros for Russia. It has already been closed by sanctions, without any default.

It's good that Lyusya Arestovich, the mouthpiece of Ukrainian propaganda, is a crystal-clearly honest person.

Breathe deeply, you are excited.

The situation between China and Taiwan is very different from the situation between Russia and Ukraine. But the US policy is similar as a blueprint. The United States is generally not distinguished by diversity in its foreign policy.

You are mistaken. In March, Russia spent several tranches in dollars and euros to service its external debt, under a special license from the US Treasury, and these payments were successfully completed. Then the US Treasury revoked the license, and another payment dated April 4 was blocked by the bank. After that, Russia paid in rubles to a special C-account intended for the conversion of funds. This default, even if declared, is purely technical.

Thanks, although I don't think this is the right topic for an exchange of pleasantries. Despite the abundance of fakes in propaganda messages (or maybe even thanks to them - because they affect the morale of soldiers), Ukraine deserves to have its own wall of fame in this story. I respect military prowess, even if it is the prowess of the enemy. If a soldier fights bravely and remains faithful to his oath even in the face of an obviously stronger enemy, this is worthy of a man, regardless of the outcome of the battle.

There are statements on the net that Ukraine previously purchased not 18, but 50 Bairaktars TV2, but I am not sure about the reliability of the data source. Also, the head of Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yermak, in his interview on December 24, 2021, stated that Ukraine had established independent production of Bayraktarov. However, I am also not sure about the reliability of this data source.

Perhaps because mini-Bayraktars, not only TB2, also got into the statistics.

It is curious that you started the walk of fame with a fake. On February 28, the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that all 82 defenders of Snake Island had surrendered. At the end of March, they were exchanged during one of the first prisoner exchanges to take place, and some of them were even solemnly presented with their well-deserved "posthumous" awards personally.

By the way, according to article 117 of the Geneva Convention "No one repatriated can be used in active military service".

Greece banned the broadcast of the Swan Lake ballet, and Sweden banned the performance of a local folk group in a concert in support of Ukraine, because the instruments include a balalaika. The books of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are not yet being burned in the squares, and that is nice.
In Latvia, I would also face up to five years in prison for openly supporting the operation in Ukraine. Convincing victory of democracy over freedom of speech, it's good that I'm not in Latvia.