Whatch it or I’ll be round to bludgeon you’re Nazi flies! 
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Russia’s KA-52 fleet continues to suffer losses:
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1533543047723634695?s=20&t=YgpVbz_nQNJHqvE2H-Wd0Q
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From the live feed:
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New rockets for Ukraine won’t have instant impact - expert
A pledge from the UK to join the US in sending long-range missile systems to Ukraine could make a difference, but it “won’t change things overnight” due to limited numbers, says a land warfare expert.
M270 rocket launchers due to be sent to Ukraine are the “crown jewels of the British Army’s capability”, says Dr Jack Watling of the UK’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme, Watling adds that these systems could “knock out” Russian artillery in eastern Ukraine. But he points out that the Ukrainians will need to be trained to use them - and adds that the UK only has so many systems to give away.
As for the threat from Russia’s President Putin to expand his list of targets if the West sends longer range systems, Watling says this would be “pretty difficult” because Moscow has already been targeting Ukraine’s economy as well as its troop positions.
Russia will respond by pushing back Ukraine frontline, Lavrov tells BBC
We’ve got more reaction from Russia now after the UK said it would join the US in sending long-range missile systems to Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says his troops will respond by pushing back Ukrainian forces further.
“The longer the range of the weapons that [the West] supplies, the further we will push back the line from which Neo-Nazis can threaten the Russian Federation,” he told a press conference, responding to a question from BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg.
Russia has claimed that it is working to rid Ukraine of Nazis - a claim that’s been dismissed by Kyiv and Western nations as baseless.
Oh, I see. So Russia have strategically only been trying to push Ukrainian forces back only ‘so far’…you know, just a little bit…
That map explains a lot! 
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“You may leave the room, maybe it is easier not to listen to the truth, dear Ambassador”
That is savage from the EC President as Russia’s UN Ambassador walks out of SC meeting
Yeh, but what’s the EC president doing there?
He was invited by the Council to speak , presumably to apply more pressure on Russia to lift the blockade in the Black Sea. Suggestions were also made about a European plan to overcome the grain supply problem by creating a land corridor to Poland’s Baltic Sea ports.
Something wrong with that ?
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I didn’t know the backstory as to why he was speaking to the UN Security Council, but thought it was interesting just how sensitive the russians are to any critisism
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He gave it to the fuckers with both barrels. Here’s what he said ; Address by President Charles Michel at the UN Security Council on peace and security in Ukraine - Consilium
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Interesting is all; the EU isn’t a member of the UNSC. The EU isn’t a member of the United Nations nor is it a State and for the purpose of being invited to make representations to the SC, can it be said that the EU has a defined position?
Doubtless that was the purpose of his address.
It does, however, have a permanent delegation to the UN. Staff in at least New York and Geneva.
To be honest, it’s about fucking time someone called it for what it is.
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Row continues over UN visit to Ukraine nuclear plant
Danny Aeberhard
Europe Regional Editor, BBC World Service
As we’ve been reporting, Ukraine’s national nuclear operator has accused the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, of lying about being invited by Ukraine to visit the Russian-occupied nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia.
The IAEA’s director general, Rafael Grossi, insisted on Monday that such a visit would take place, ideally sooner rather than later, citing fears over nuclear security at the plant
Ukraine’s nuclear operator, Energoatom, did not mince its words.
In a statement, it said it saw efforts by Grossi to visit the Zaporizhzhia plant as an attempt to legitimise Russia’s occupation of the facility.
It said Ukraine had not invited him to visit, and had refused permission previously.
Energoatom also blamed Russia for blocking the transfer of crucial data from the plant to the IAEA.
Grossi - in an impassioned address on Monday - stressed a visit was vital, saying the Zaporizhzhia plant was disconnected from safety systems.
Russian forces took over the plant - Europe’s largest - at the start of the conflict.
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No justification for Russia’s brutal disregard of law - Merkel
There is no justification for Russia’s brutal disregard of international law in Ukraine, the former German-Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in her first interview since leaving office last year.
Merkel said that “if we start going through the centuries and say which piece of territory belongs to whom, then we’ll only have war - that’s not possible at all”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously criticised Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for their move to block Ukraine’s admission to Nato in 2008, suggesting that it had been a clear “miscalculation” that emboldened Russia.
Asked about rejecting Ukraine’s Nato membership back then, Merkel said that if she hadn’t have vetoed the move, “Putin would do something that would not be good for Ukraine”.
Well, at least we’ve avoided that scenario…
NATO activity and coordination with Finland and Sweden has massively ramped up:
Also,
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