NATOAllied Maritime CommandApril 6, 2022
NATO Ships conclude participation in Exercise Cold Response
The ships of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) and Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1 (SNMCMG1) completed participation in Norwegian-led multinational exercise Cold Response 22 on April 1.
Over 30,000 troops, 50 surface and sub-surface assets and 200 Aircraft from […]
50 NATO warships, 200 planes, 30,000 troops end war games off Russian coast — Anti-bellum
Bucha : Why did Ukraine dump 300 victims in Mass Graves- unidentified in rubbish bags? Ignoring their Families
Who committed the ghastly massacre in Bucha?

One easy way to find out the truth was to let the families bury their dead but:“In Bucha, we have already buried 280 people in mass graves,” mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP by phone on April 2nd.
No flowers, no families, no mourning, no identification , no wreaths in the street. They scooped them in rubbish bags and dumped them in mass graves. (The western media even tried to suggest it was the Russians who buried them).
Another easy way to find the truth was just to ask their families their names.
Did they have Ukrainian names? Or ethnic Russian, as maybe suggested by many wearing the white armbands (see below) and having boxes of Russian Food Aid.

Were they really all ethnic Ukrainians? How come then that nobody demanded to bury the bodies of their relatives?
How come no mothers identified their sons lying in the street for days waiting for the Press Corps to arrive?
Why were there no flowers, wreaths or candles where they fell?
Did they even speak to the families of the dead? Just a few words would show their accents, or grammatical mistakes.
Why was there no outcry about the massacre on local social media?
Were some of them poor working class ‘immigrants’ from the war in Donbass where nearly 14,000 more have been killed by the now nazi led Ukrainian army?
Or how many of the dead were Roma, or Black, Lesbian, Gay or Trans, Immigrants or Refugees? Were any of them from the minorities the new leaders in the military urged each other to ‘eliminate’? Those earnest young men conditioned by 8 years of glorifying white-supremacist macho morons, and now banning all seven opposition parties.
Why won’t the Russians directly accuse the nazi led army of the massacre? Would that be an admission their war to de-nazify Ukraine is backfiring?

Why did they so hastily mass bury the victims, like rubbish left in the streets? Is not the first police duty to identify a murder victim? Why was there hardly any blood on the streets?
And why were many of the corpses taken away freshly killed and floppy in the photos (no rigor mortis) if they had been there at least 4 days since the Russians left. Never mind being there “weeks” according to ‘CIA supplied’ satellite photos via the New York Times.

The Bucha Atrocity: Who did it and Why? + 11 Reasons the Russians can’t be Guilty
note: We DON’T support the dictatorial Russian State, which also supports western nazis when it suits them! We support the Ukrainian people who have always voted against the nazis embedded in their State and army.
Redacción4 de abril de 2022 mpr21.info + /southfront.org
1) Russians couldn’t have done it because they left 2 days before
The massacre in Bucha near Kyivhas become the front page of the media around the world. European and American politicians talk about nothing else. That means that the provocation has achieved its advertising objective.)
Russian troops left Bucha on March 30. The next day, the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, said with a smile of joy on his lips: “March 31 will go down in the history of our town and the entire territorial community as the day of liberation from the orcs. Russians, the Russian occupiers of our towns by our Ukrainian armed forces”. Other officials spoke in a similar vein.

see the South Front videos HERE.. https://southfront.org/afu-crimes-in-bucha. The screenshot image above is one where the body seems to wake up and move when seen inn the side mirror after the jeep passes
Would he be happy if dozens of his compatriots were out on the street at that moment, shot to death? Why didn’t he say anything in his statement about the atrocities committed by the Russians? Why was he silent about the “torture, rape and murder”? Why would the Russians massacre those ‘friendlies’ wearing white armbands, probably ethnic Russians, right after feeding them?

The context: The Russians had ordered their forces to pull back and stop the partial siege of Kyiv, saying this was a ‘trust boosting measure’ after Ukraine offered to become a Neutral Country at the negotiations. But the Ukraine military, led by the Azov fascists had other ideas and attacked. In Bucha there was a hail of indiscriminate mortar fire as the Russians pulled out, abandoning equipment. Now negotiations are impossible.
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updates.. Slovakia to pay for Russian gas in rubles. Hungary /Austria say it’s ‘Impossible to leave Russian gas. India buys oil….
3 Apr, 2022 13:52 HomeBusiness News

Slovakia cannot afford to lose its major supplier
Slovakia will pay for Russian natural gas in rubles if that’s what it takes to keep the commodity flowing, Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulik has said on national television.
“If there is a condition to pay in rubles, then we will pay in rubles,” Sulik said. He stressed that Russian imports account for roughly 85% of all Slovakian gas supplies, so the country’s authorities will remain pragmatic on the issue.
“We cannot be cut off from gas,” Sulik emphasized, urging the rest of Europe to jointly seek a solution.
Nearly all of the countries of the European Union, of which Slovakia is a member, slapped Russia with economic sanctions over the past month, jeopardizing Russia’s ability to receive payments from trade partners in the European currency. In response, Russian President Vladimir…
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Updates: Accusations of Bucha massacre by Russian forces are fake news: Moscow
April 3, 2022 Aletho News shared with thanks

Shocking accusations of massacre and torture have again appeared in the MSM worldwide. Confirming again that ‘Putin is a monster’. Here’s the other side of the story.
The bodies “appeared’ in the street 4 days later” when the international and Ukrainian press arrived. All men. Hardly any blood…..
Thr Russians ordered their forces to pull back and stop the partial siege of Kyiv, saying this was a trust boosting measure after Ukraine offered to become a Neutral Country at the negotiations.
We don’t know how or why but immediately Ukrainian forces attacked with all their forces, and the Russian had to retreat under heavy artillery fire, losing many soldiers.
The Russians responded desperately replying to the firing, and may have loosened their policy of avoiding all civilian casualties.
Nevertheless Russia claims no civilians were killed by them, that 4 days passed befiore…
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Germany’s Russian Gas contract was with now Defunct Gasprom subsidiary: The Plot Thickens
via.. https://boosty.to/cluborlov/ shared with thanks

by Dmitry Orlov
German-language media has already been going crazy lately about future purchases of oil and natural gas.
Since Germany is included in the list of “unfriendly countries” by Russia, it, like all the EU states, will only be allowed to purchase Russian natural gas for rubles, and not for euros or US dollars.
see also: Slovakia agrees to pay for Russian gas in rubles. Hungary /Austria say it’s ‘Impossible to leave Russian gas..
And now comes this bit of news, which should make the German talking heads go super-double-crazy: Germany will be left without Russian gas because its contract is not with Gazprom but with its subsidiary Gazprom Germany, which Gazprom has abandoned.

Barely a day or two ago, German officials were loudly declaring that their contract with Gazprom provides for payment in euros or dollars, and therefore Germany will not pay for Russian gas in rubles.
That ought to make everything perfectly clear. However, Germany’s gas supply contract is with Gazprom Germania GmbH, located in Berlin, and not with actual Gazprom, headquartered in St. Petersburg!
Do the German authorities even know that these are now two completely different organizations?
Gazprom Germania GmbH is the headquarters of the diversified conglomerate Gazprom Germania Group, which includes 40 enterprises operating in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and North America.
Until Friday, it was a 100% subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom. On Friday, Gazprom pulled out of Gazprom Germania and no longer has anything to do with its former Berlin subsidiary.
With that, Gazprom Germania has lost any connection to Russian gas.
Worse yet, it is believed to be insolvent and likely to go bankrupt within a few weeks, at which point it will be liquidated.

All of its customers will now be forced to buy gas from Gazprom Russia and it pay (indirectly) in… rubles. No rubles—no gas!
Having imposed anti-Russian sanctions as demanded of it by Washington, Germany has already frozen Russian foreign exchange reserves.
The country’s largest gas storage facility in Rehden (Lower Saxony) is only 0.5% full—an all-time low.
Until this Friday, this vault, as well as a number of other facilities located at key points in Germany’s energy infrastructure, indirectly belonged to Russia’s Gazprom—but not any more!
If earlier the German government threatened to nationalize Russian gas assets on its territory, now such threats have become hollow. Germany has nothing more that it can threaten to steal from Russia to force it to keep the gas flowing.
[Instead, Germany’s representatives now have to fly to St. Petersburg and negotiate a new deal with Gazprom directly, in rubles.
Except that they can’t do that either!
According to the Energy Charter and the Third Energy Package of the European Union, every single supplier of energy resources to the EU is required to be part of the EU legal system—perhaps not directly, but definitely through subsidiaries such as Gazprom Germania GmbH.
Thus, all of Gazprom’s contracts with buyers from the European Union were signed by Gazprom Germania GmbH and its other subsidiaries. It could not have been otherwise, for otherwise the contracts would be outside the jurisdiction of the European Union and the Europeans considered this unacceptable.
But now the Europeans will need to come to Russia and sign contracts under Russian law, with payment stipulated in rubles.
Of course, the European Commission will never agree to this… and now we have to wait impatiently to see just how quickly this “never” will come to an end.
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see also
Hungary’s Orban criticized for ‘neutrality’ in Ukraine war … https://japantoday.com
India, Brazil, UAE, Pakistan, Hungary, Israel and so on all deciding to remain on the fence in what actually is a huge snub to the US. Saudi’s selling oil in Yuan? (bye bye USD) India buying Russian oil in Rubles? (bye bye USD) The EU starting the paperwork to pay for Russian gas in Rubles? (bye bye USD)
Moscow’s new gas payment scheme explained