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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday, in Russia's news-media: Chemical weapons, nonsensical contradictions and cannon-fodder.
https://tass.com/politics/1424157Foreign Minister Lavrov decries that western media has too much power in defining moral standards.
"Its a war. Its a war which involves methods of information terrorism. There is no doubt about this."
(Okay, so this is war, but shelling Ukraine isn't???)
https://tass.com/recognition-of-sovereignty-of-dpr-and-lpr
No new news-articles about Donbas and Luhansk since the outbreak of the war. Only old news-articles from before where Russia calls on the West to not provoke violence in the region.
https://tass.com/defense/1424641
MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Nationalists are planning chemical attack in several Ukrainian regions in case Russian troops enter these territories, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russias National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.
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"We warn the entire civilized world and international organizations about the Ukrainian authorities cynical provocations, which, if realized, will be blamed on Russian troops as it has been done more than once," he stressed, adding that it is being done with the support from the United States and a number of countries of the European Union, which consider Ukraine as an instrument of anti-Russian policies.
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"We warn the entire civilized world and international organizations about the Ukrainian authorities cynical provocations, which, if realized, will be blamed on Russian troops as it has been done more than once," he stressed, adding that it is being done with the support from the United States and a number of countries of the European Union, which consider Ukraine as an instrument of anti-Russian policies.
https://tass.com/emergencies/1424573
FSB blames ukrainian navy for laying forbidden type of sea-mines in Black Sea.
https://tass.com/russia/1424543
The accusation that the US has made biological weapons in Ukraine is already treated as fact, even though Russia has yet to provide evidence.
In the VERY NEXT paragraph it says that Putin BELIEVES that the US made biological weapons in Ukraine.
Also, Putin complained about ukrainian artillery attacking civilians in Luhansk and Donbas.
https://tass.com/world/1424463
Belarus President Lukasheno said that the West and Ukraine DO NOT want peace. If they wanted peace, they would order the ukrainian military to give up fighting.
Lukashenko also complained that Ukraine had the AUDACITY to reject his offer of belarusian troops occupying Donbas as peacekeepers.
Also, this war is somehow Ukraine's fault but he doesn't explain how.
Lukashenko also emphasized that Belarus and Russia are so closely intertwined that they are almost one country, yet he insists that Belarus is neutral in the Russia-Ukraine-war.
"Russia is offering Ukraine the same things that are happening in Belarus, meaning Ukraine should become like Belarus, with some nuances" he said.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/15/orthodox-christian-unity-broken-by-russian-world-heresy-a76922
Foreign parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church are cutting ties with it, citing how it has integrated russian nationalism into religious belief.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/18/russia-claims-progress-in-talks-with-kyiv-on-a-neutral-ukraine-a76999
The peace-negotiations are going nowhere. Russia is demanding a demilitarization of Ukraine and a commitment to never join NATO. Ukraine demands a retreat of russian troops.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/18/kremlin-warns-against-panic-buying-as-food-prices-rise-fast-a76991
People are panic-buying supplies in Russia. Consumer-prices are up.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/17/central-asians-in-russia-pressured-to-join-moscows-fight-in-ukraine-a76957
Russia tries to recruit immigrants from Central Asia as cannon-fodder.
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Today, in Russia's news-media: Chemical weapons, nonsensical contradictions and cannon-fodder. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Mar 2022
OP
Russia's basically announcing their intent to use chemical weapons on Ukraine.
Crunchy Frog
Mar 2022
#2
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Typical Ruskie bs if their lips are moving, lies are flowing!
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)2. Russia's basically announcing their intent to use chemical weapons on Ukraine.
Igel
(35,197 posts)3. Or deter the West.
No chemical weapons unless there's escalation on the part of the West.
For which many of the "peace by any means necessary" diplomats and those who want to get on with their Really Important Agenda are willing to accept. They don't want Ukr to surrender and want Russia to lose--but more than a couple have defined Russia's accepting its gains and stopping, in exchange for concessions on the part of Ukr, to be a Russian loss.
(I consider returning to the borders from 2013, with the Ukr politics of 1/2022, to be a stalemate. A Russian loss would be Ukr flags over Taganrog and Belgorod.)