"The scale of military training for children in Russia is expanding. In Belgorod Oblast alone, 500 cadet classes and about 1000 young army classes have opened for enrolment.
Quote: "500 cadet classes and about 1,000 young army classes have been opened in Belgorod and Belgorod Oblast." (Yahoo News: 17 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Mark Felton Productions : YouTube : 13 May 2020
"Russia is recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine with the promise of almost £3,000 and their sentences being annulled if they come back alive after six months.
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Inmates are being actively recruited in St Petersburg jails, according to independent media outlet IStories.
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The convicts are told they will be put on the frontline to hunt down 'Nazis' in Ukraine in an arrangement that suggests they will be deployed as cannon fodder." (Mail Online : 5 July 2022) (my emphasis)
"Vladimir Putin is deploying soldiers to the front line in Ukraine from notorious Russian prisons with a fierce reputation. Criminals from jails will bolster the ranks of the invading forces with the promise of almost £2,800 and their sentences scrapped if they comply." (The Daily Record: 17 July 2020) (my emphasis)
As Putin is recruiting imprisoned criminals, murderers, rapists, and setting up his "Youth Army", Jessica Warren and Lizzie May reports that
"Russia has lost 30 per cent of its forces with 50,000 soldiers dead or injured and almost 1,700 of Putin's tanks have been destroyed, the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff has revealed.
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Head of the Armed Forces Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has said Vladimir Putin has 'already lost the Ukraine war', with nearly 4,000 armoured fighting vehicles belonging to Russia having also been ruined." (Mail Online : 17 July 2022) (my emphasis)
As reported by The New Voice of Ukraine,
"According to the Russian Interfax media agency, without naming anyone in particular, Medvedev said that "individual exalted blood-thirsty clowns... are trying to threaten us, I mean the attack on the Crimea, and so on,” referring to Ukrainian statements on the liberation of the Crimean peninsula.
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“In this regard, I want to say that it is quite obvious that they understand the repercussions of such statements, and the consequences are obvious that if something like this happens: for all of them there will immediately come a ‘judgment day’, swift and brutal,” said Medvedev.
(New Voice of Ukraine : 17 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Ukrainian News also reports that,
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The MP emphasized that the responsibility for a possible attack will also be borne by the United States, since, according to him, the United States supplies the Ukrainian state with weapons. (Ukrainian News : 17 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Again do we have the implicit 'nuclear' threat being pushed by Putin and his cohorts in the Duma.
It really beggars belief that those Russians forever shaking the big stick of the 'nuclear' fire-power that Putin controls simply cannot comprehend that Russia, itself, will come under nuclear attack should Putin dare to "press the nuclear button".
And as Putin contiues to wield his 'nuclear' stick, Apoorva Kaul reports that,
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She has called on Germany to "take lead in Europe" in supporting Ukraine against the Russian military offensive. Earlier, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann had urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to provide heavy weapons to Ukraine. After her appeal, Germany started providing military equipment to Ukraine." (Republic World : 17 July 2022) (my emphasis)
But all eyes are on July 21st, when Germany is due to get Nord Stream1 back online.
As reported by Sergiy Karazy and Max Hunder,
"Ukraine opposes Canada handing over a turbine to Russia's state-controlled Gazprom for natural gas supplies to Germany as the move would contravene sanctions on Russia, a Ukrainian energy ministry source told Reuters on Thursday.
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Gazprom cut the capacity along the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to just 40% of usual levels last month, citing the delayed return of equipment being serviced by Germany's Siemens Energy in Canada." (The Gazette : 7 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Furthermore, as reported by Teresa Gottein Martinez,
"In 2020, gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.6 percent before jumping again by 2.9 percent in 2021.
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At the beginning of the year, Mr Habeck announced a growth of 3.6 percent for this year. But after four months after war broke out in Ukraine, not much of that is left.
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The latest forecasts from the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the Leipzig Institute for Economic Research consider only 1.5 percent to be realistic – and only if gas from Russia returns. (Express : 11 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Angela Merkel has left German industry with a legacy of dependency on Putin's gas, which is now coming to haunt her and the German economy.
"Today large parts of Merkel’s legacy are in ruins. Ukraine is fighting for its survival under a Russian artillery onslaught. Nord Stream 2 is effectively dead. Russia has turned its energy leverage not against Kyiv but against Germany and Europe, threatening one of the country’s worst economic crises since the Second World War. (The Times : 16 July 2022) (my emphasis)
Putin is now desperately attempting to gain concessions from the West by re-shaking his 'nuclear' and 'gas' sticks, and releasing murderers, rapists, and sundry criminals to re-supply his fallen soldiers on the front in his war against Ukraine, but to no avail.
He continues to flail politically, and in his war strategy against Ukraine, as his downward descent in the apocalyptic abyss continues.
STOP PRESS : 19 JULY 2022
Jens Stoltenberg, General Secretary of NATO, chastises those in the EU dragging their feet over FULLY supporting Ukraine.
EPP Group : YouTube : 18 July 2022
(to be continued)
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