DON HANK—Already, the reports, videos and photos of reprisals and murders of civilians are coming in from many towns of the Kharkov Oblast – Balaklia, Izium, Kupiansk. These crimes will soon be presented by ukrop nazis and their Western propagandists as having been “committed by Russian and Republican troops”. They lie. Again, a cynical and obvious false flag, just as in Bucha, that will only be believed by the brainwashed and the brainless. It should be clear by now, beyond question to any competent person, which side is committing the war crimes and atrocities and which side is not. One side intentionally targets schools, hospitals and civilian areas with heavy (and even illegal) artillery, the other does not. One side drops illegal “petal” mines and cluster munitions on civilian areas, the other does not. One side tortures and murders P.O.W.’s and makes and publishes videos and photos of themselves doing it, the other does not.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—It’s a cold, rainy, damp morning in the deep Donbass countryside, at a secret location close to the Urozhaynoye direction; a nondescript country house, crucially under the fog, which prevents the work of enemy drones.
Father Igor, a military priest, is blessing a group of local contract-signed volunteers to the Archangel Gabriel battalion, ready to go to the front lines of the US vs. Russia proxy war. The man in charge of the battalion is one of the top-ranking officers of Orthodox Christian units in the DPR.
A small shrine is set up in the corner of a small, cramped room, decorated with icons. Candles are lit, and three soldiers hold the red flag with the icon of Jesus in the center. After prayers and a small homily, Father Igor blesses each soldier.
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DEBORAH ARMSTRONG—The source believes that the aim of these “leaks” is to widen the rift between Prigozhin and the Kremlin. Though Western media and their allies in Ukraine publish negative stories about Russia on a nearly 24–7 basis, my source believes that some of these negative stories are being fed to the press by Russian oligarchs who are losing money as a result of the ongoing conflict. The source did not provide any names, but described them as “big businessmen closely connected with the West, Western financial institutions and intelligence services.” These businessmen, often referred to as oligarchs, made their money in the 1990’s when they picked over the bones of the USSR, buying factories and other state properties for practically nothing.
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Our next goal will be Nikolaev/Odessa. Ukraine must be cut off from the Black Sea at all costs, because our Black Sea fleet is not safe, as long as Ukraine has access to the Black Sea. And we’ll have access to Transnistria. Transnistria will also be in the safety zone, we’ll protect our people there. And then, more likely than not, it wouldn’t be bad if we could perform a powerful unified advance together with Belarus from two sides, with Belarus from the North and us from the South, from Transnistria to cut Ukraine off its Western border, from Poland and Romania. In other words, to fully block Ukraine from all Western deliveries.
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REGIS TREMBLAY—Russell “Texas” Bentley with an update from the Donbass Front, comments on Mariupol biolabs, captured foreigners, and more.
