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Washington confirms it is working with Kiev to prevent Russia from accessing Ukraine’s biolaboratories US comments on Ukrainian 'biolabs' Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies before a Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on Ukraine on March 08, 2022 © Getty Images/Kevin Dietsch Top US diplomat has confirmed that Washington has been involved in an effort to make sure no “materials” Ukraine keeps in its biolabs end up with the Russian military. “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned…Russian troops, Russian forces maybe seeking to gain control of,” US State Under Secretary Victoria Nuland said on Tuesday as she testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We’re working with Ukranians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach,” she added. The Russian military previously claimed that the Ukrainian autho...

The Ukrainian leader said he wants dialogue and rejects “ultimatums” Zelensky ready for ‘compromises’ on Donbass and Crimea Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is ready for talks on certain “compromises” regarding the breakaway republics in Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as Crimea. He made the statement during the second week of Russia’s military campaign against his country. David Muir asked Zelensky on ABC News on Monday if he was willing to concede to Moscow’s demand of recognizing Crimea as part of Russia, and the two breakaway republics of the Donbass as independent states. “I’m ready for dialogue. We’re not ready for a capitulation,” Zelensky said. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) seceded from Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia the same year. Zelensky called both states “pseudo-republics” and repeated Kiev’s long-held position of referring to the DPR and LPR as ‘temporarily occupied ...

Germany depends on Russian energy, and will not follow US and UK in banning imports, top diplomat says Banning Russian oil imports would grind Germany to a halt, minister warns Oil tanks stand on the Rhine-Herne Canal in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, March 2, 2022 © Getty Images / Federico Gambarini German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday that her country would “not be able to move” without Russian oil imports. While the UK and US announced they would cease buying Moscow’s oil, Germany is too reliant to quit. "A third of our oil imports come from Russia," Baerbock told the video channel of the newspaper Bild. “If we stopped these straight away, then tomorrow we would not be able to move in Germany anymore.” “We are trying to do everything we can to stop this war,” Baerbock continued, referring to the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, before claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently “unstoppable.” Baerbock is a member of the Green Party...

UK citizens will feel economic pain of Russia sanctions – Truss Liz Truss cautioned that the measures were necessary, as there is “no limit” to President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions UK citizens will feel economic pain of Russia sanctions – Truss UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned on Tuesday that the British people will suffer “economic costs” of sanctions against Russia, as electricity bills and the cost of living increase due to the West’s response to the conflict in Ukraine. “Of course, there will be an economic cost for British people from these sanctions, in terms of their energy bills and their cost of living, but that cost is nothing compared to the cost to the people of Ukraine of this horrific barbarism they’re facing,” Truss told the UK parliament. Despite the impact on Britain, Truss defended the UK’s response, claiming that it was necessary as there is “no limit” to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “ambitions” if he does not fail in Ukraine. The UK has, so far, introduce...

 Marty who will they blame for rising gas prices? Marty do you think they will just cancel crypto? Biden is now proposing to ban all Russian Energy sales to the West. Prices will rise sharply still and Biden is blaming Putin claiming this is the “price of freedom” for Ukraine which is all BS so governments can avoid responsibility for the collapse in the supply chain thanks to COVID and their shutting down fossil fuel and climate change.   I warned in the private blog that cryptocurrencies may end up being suspended. The excuse will be Russia and the news is out now that  Biden will sign  an Executive Order to regulate cryptos because Russia can use it to circumvent sanctions. Not only is Biden authorizing the regulation of digital currencies, but he is also instructing to move forward with a central bank cryptocurrency. Once that is done, all other cryptocurrencies will be seized and folded into the government’s crypto. There will be no competition. Money histo...

The bloc deployed thousands of troops to its eastern flank to make sure the fighting does not spill into its territory NATO works to prevent Ukraine conflict spillover, chief claims NATO must ensure the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine dose not spill beyond the country’s borders, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a joint press conference with Latvia’s President, Egils Levits, in Riga on Tuesday. “The suffering we now see in Ukraine is horrific. It affects us all,” Stoltenberg stated. “And we have a responsibility to ensure the conflict does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine.” The bloc has gathered “thousands of additional troops” on its eastern flank amid “Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine” Stoltenberg said. The alliance is ready to defend “every inch” of Latvia, as well as “every inch of all allied territory” he stressed, providing details on the bloc’s military buildup. “We have 130 jets at high alert. Over 200 ships from the High North t...

China’s foreign ministry has called on the US to disclose information on the Pentagon’s alleged biological laboratories in Ukraine “as soon as possible”. On Monday, the Russian military said Ukrainian authorities had been destroying pathogens studied at its laboratories. Moscow claimed that 30 US-financed Ukrainian biolabs have been actively cooperating with the American military. Kiev has denied developing bioweapons. According to the website of the US embassy in Kiev, the US Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program only “collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks” of infectious diseases. In 2020, the embassy called such theories about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine "disinformation." Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, however, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian claimed that, according to his country’s information, the laboratories in Ukraine are just “a tip of an iceberg” and that the US Department of Defense “co...